Baiser Fou Cartier for women

This is gorgeous and I don't understand why it's not more generally loved (oh well, more for me :). As I wrote on Fragrantica about "Baiser Volé Parfum" the recent (2022) release, I love following Mathilde Laurent on her fragrant journeys, trying to understand her intention, what she was / is aiming for with her works. I find her a really impressive perfumer, and even with the attention she gets I think she's underrated. Baiser Fou is my realization that I ADORE orchids, the way they look, the name, the fantasy way they smell. This is divine.

Baiser Vole is a perfume that I love. Its lily note and green aspects conquered me from the beginning. I bought Baiser Fou because I had heard that it had some similar DNA to Baiser Vole but with a very predominant raspberry note. I imagined an exquisite combination. However, at first I didn't like it and it took me a while to wear it.

To like this perfume you have to enjoy the combination of a prominent and very sweet raspberry note that appears in a sea of greenish notes and an unlisted lily. This background gives the perfume an acidity that causes a perpetual struggle between both facets of the fragrance, which I think is what I found unpleasant at first. I even considered selling it.

Certainly I still find it a somewhat uncomfortable struggle at times, although it has ended up awakening my interest and perhaps that is what makes this perfume now seem stimulating to use on specific days. There is also a certain hint in the background that may remind you of somewhat creamy white chocolate, although to my nose it is by no means the protagonist.

As for its similarity to Baiser Vole, for me it is in the fact that it shares the lily note. Both perfumes are more similar towards the drydown.

Spring is the season most recommended by other users to wear it and I agree with them that it is the time when I learned to appreciate it.

It has a moderate sillage and lasts about 8 hours on my skin.

If you are not attracted to the combination of sweet and acidic in fragrances and to the raspberry note, I would say that it is a perfume with high potential to cause a headache and I would not under any circumstances recommend its blind purchase.

Scent 6/10
Duration 8/10
Sillage 7.5/10
Quality/price 6/10
Versatility 4/10
Packaging 8/10
Would I buy again? Probably not

Candied violets ( I presume that’s the raspberry), vanilla, and something sharp. Starting to remind me of raspberry hard candy too. Synthetic Raspberry that is. A smidge of cotton candy…Not an expensive smelling fragrance. Smells like it could be from BBW.
Or the body sprays you used to get from Walmart.
I’m surprised it’s a Cartier fragrance.
I’m getting a tad bit of smokiness in the dry down.
If you are someone who loves raspberry, give it a try.

Very interesting combination of raspberry, white chocolate and vanilla. I can't find any orchid in this. it is playful, yes, but stays very closed and restrained on my skin. Pity. Quite unique though.

Sulfur. Rotten eggs. Yet somehow the rotten fruit-notes work really well with a tropical-floral backdrop.

Fun to wear, deserving of its name, but a bit much. I wanted to love it, but it's tiresome to wear.

Beautiful bottle.

I tried to run from myself to get away from this horror of a scent. Nasty, foul, body decomposition in a field of dead orchids. Wth? What IS this??

This perfume garnered a like for its beautiful dry down, I love the light airy fragrance of vanilla mixed with white chocolate. Although the raspberry note deserves a mention, it smells a little too chemical for me..

Literally, the worst perfume I have ever smelled

I’m so glad I only bought the sample of this instead of blind buying, because I dislike it completely. It smells nothing like it’s described (It’s more citrus than floral and sweet for me,) and it’s chemically.

Coming back at a later time, this smells like the cheap deodorant that I currently have sat on my desk!! Don’t waste your money on this, just use your spray deodorant as perfume.

13/08/22: well I gave this another chance and I found that it combines quite well with Carolina Herrera’s Good Girl!

Very cute, likable and appealing fragrance, just like its cute bottle. Nothing special or unique about it. Very easy to like it.

Just received this from mercari and I purchased it because of the good price and because I came to like the vole version recently. This was a blind buy.

The reviews had me intrigued but a little afraid but so far seems to have turned out ok.

I finally sprayed it on my skin an hour ago and im liking it so far. Very different and eclectic. This seems like it'd be nice for an early evening into evening date night. Maybe outdoors like a seaside outdoor elegant restaurant. It has a very elegant feel. I picture a woman with fitted jeans and a slinky tank top with an oversized blazer, low pumps, hair pulled back and feminine and unique statement earrings like floral shaped or dangly sleek gold ones. Her makeup is feminine and sleek, minimal with a fuschia or deep red bold lip.

I love when scents evoke a vibe and this one is giving a clear vibe. Wow im loving it and glad I got it. The bottle is so beautiful also. I could see taking this on vacation, a cruise ship or somewhere near the water. Lovely💕

I don't know what's wrong with this fragrance, perhaps it was because it was left in my letterbox on a hot day and it got spoiled but I barely smell any raspberry. It smells burnt, like a crackly fire... somewhat smoky, and I can't ever tell if it's something I like or don't like. Thank goodness it was just a small bottle/sample I received for a fragrance subscription. I would be very disappointed if I had a huge bottle.

"Baiser Fou" on skin is simply horrendous: metallic and fishy, before flattening out into a nondescript floral-fresh nothing.

(and no, not the wonky smell you heard people talk about on Mugler's Womanity, this is the smell of a dead fish that's been left outside the fridge a few hours too long)

But, the magic starts if applied on fabric. I was transported to a fantastical world straight away, which is the hallmark of a great fragrance in my book. In the fantasy, you're having tea in a greenhouse. Jasmine and orchids are blooming. The tea is made from precious black tea leaves that have been wrapped inside a lily flower a day prior to absorb its fragrance. The smell of tea and lilies fill your nostril, interwoven with the occasional wafts of vanilla from pastries. This scentscape stays with you for hours after you left the greenhouse tea party. I hope Cartier would re-release this as a pillow fragrance.

Opening is a blast of cheap smelling aromachemicals. Dries down to an orchid scent that reminds me of a mid-priced candle. Barely radiates to arm's length after 10 minutes. Nicest thing I can say about it is that it's a safe scent for the office as it is unlikely to offend and if anyone notices it you could believably claim it's your shampoo or lotion.

What dominates this scent is a metallic vibe... I guess you could read it as the tube the lipstick is encased in, as well as how tart berries feel in your mouth. It stings a little, like the raw roof of the mouth after eating too much sour candy. Not something I associate with raspberries, but interesting. I wouldn't call it green either... Just moist, metallic, bloody, pulpy... There is some sweet, soft creaminess in the end, but not for long. It mostly reminds me of lipstick only when sniffed of the sprayer. On skin it's not that so much.

I purchased this fragrance in winter and I am happily wearing it at home, but to wear it out in winter seems pointless because it is more of a late spring and summer scent. I am excited for summer to come so that I can wear this with a sexy spaghetti strap dress and long loose curls.

The fragrance smells like a ripe raspberry. A previous comment stated that it smells like a raspberry milkshake, and that is a perfect description. It does not smell synthetic and the scent, on my skin, is linear. The orchid note can be smelled, but raspberry is the star note. The fragrance is very simple which is what makes it beautiful. Baiser Fou is backup-bottle worthy. I will be purchasing a second bottle while I still can because Cartier no longer makes it.

Update:
Finally had the opportunity to wear it in summer during a trip to Vegas. I've seen reviews that say it smells rank on skin; I did not have that experience. I did notice the scent did not last as long on skin when it was hot, but that was expected, so I spray my clothing in the summer. I sprayed this on during a warm Vegas morning, and I could still smell myself 14 hours later. Anyone who is familiar with Vegas, knows that women there tend to wear very loud fragrances, at least that has been my experience, this fragrance was not over powering, and was not loud but could still be smelled, and I still love it. It meshed well with my chemistry - it may not be that way for everyone.

Kind of a small update but I loved this stuff then had a period of 'do I really want to smell like fruit'. Ended up buying a ton of other perfumes with lots of vanilla cause I love vanilla but somehow circled back to this.

I really like it. I think there's beauty in the simplicity of this stuff. It has something addictive. I also find this quite balanced, its fresh but not too much, its sweet but not too much. It must be the orchid, because its the third perfume I adore with orchid in it.

Anyways if you smell fish, contact the store you purchased from and explain it. I've seen rogue baiser vole bottles, so I'm assuming there might be rogues/fakes of this bottle circulating too.

This does not smell like fish or anything remotely close to it. It smells like a raspberry milkshake. This is very creamy and fruity with a hint of a green undertone . I think this is a very sophisticated fruity gourmand scent. I feel pretty wearing this. On me it lasts around 8 hours .

I can understand the negative reviews of this fragrance because when you first spray it on there is a blast of aroma-chemicals that is quite offputting. I gave the fragrance a chance and let it fully dry down on my skin. While it's not one that I want to own, the drydown is a nice raspberry scent with white chocolate and vanilla. It's got that praliney goodness in the drydown and it is a good deeper fruity floral for fall in my opinion.

DO NOT BLIND BUY. There's something very wrong with this perfume. The only way i can describe an ingredient that comes out is something close to dead fish.

Correction to my earlier review:
Luca Turner and Lana Sanchez correct names are Luca *TURIN* & *TANIA* Sanchez
[I tried editing it and deleting it, but it still shows when not signed in.]

Edited Review:
Love, love, *LOVE* it!!! And I'm not even fond of sweet fragrances! But Baiser Fou's sweetness is not headache-inducing or throat-scratching. The fragrance is unique, which I also love because I *never* want my scent to be the same as every other woman's everywhere. It's mood-lifting, too. :) It's whimsical, carefree and reckless, but not loud about it. My reaction to it was, "Oh, I want to live in this world! Reality is so overrated!" :)

Me and two of my closest friends tested this on our wrists with Chanel Chance Eau Tendre (which I also enjoy, but it's too common) on our other wrists. All three of us preferred Baiser Fou to Chance Eau Tendre (one of us didn't come to her preference until they had a couple hours to settle).

My adult son and adult nephew both think it's nice, as well. Guess we have the same refined taste for perfume as Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez who gave it 4 stars. ;) No. I take that back. I guess our tastes are *more refined* 'cause we would have rated it higher! lol ;)

Beautiful scent. I want to love it so badly but it's so weak!!! For such an expensive edp it lasts like a body spray. Womp womp

So here's my take on this perfume. Its like the raspberry itself, you first get a soft outside, bite into the raspberry and while sweet, you also get a bit of that sourness coming through. You get a hint of white chocolate but it makes the perfume more cold and not warm. Its not vanilla centric and I think most people expect that when looking at note breakdown.

Unlike other raspberry perfumes its not overtly sweet, not overtly synthetic, not shampoo like. It just is a pure, refreshing raspberry.

Personally I've found my signature perfume in another flanker of this line and I definitely suggest you to try them all since they're lovely!!

Baiser Fou smells like rhubarb, very green stems, blue-tinged orchid accord, and those little white chocolate wafer-chip things you use when you DIY chocolates and melt them into molds for baby showers. Really weird, but also really pleasant. Baiser Fou is not as crisp or elegant as Baiser Vole, and it is more than a little eccentric with it's gourmand tang. I don't know what they were trying to accomplish here... but I like it!

A subtle perfume for springtime, with a gargling, green grassy opening, which quickly turns into an intense orchid odour. This one smells like multiple (orchid) flowers that have a sweet scent of white chocolate with just a hint of raspberry. Warm, fresh yet creamy, inoffensive, light & comfy womfy. It has great lasting power. Star signs: Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Pisces

This was a blind buy that just didn’t capture my heart, unlike Angel Muse which kick started a ridiculous love affair with all things Mugler.

This is delicious but flat. It’s all raspberry and lychee in the opening; in fact it opens very bright in a beautiful way. The problem for me is that it disappears before it goes anywhere. It’s almost like a lychee mist vision- refreshing for a few seconds before it vanishes into the ether, never to be seen again.

Cartier’s La Panthere is a monster with enormous sillage and eternal staying power, and Baiser Fou couldn’t be further from that. Perhaps I got a rogue bottle? Who knows.

An elegant gourmand like only Cartier can do. In the opening I detect a green note in this fragrance that tames down the sweetness of the raspberry and vanilla . It is still very sweet, even dense (I’m guessing from the white chocolate) but very well blended. Nothing screechy or loud here. It feels like a delicate raspberry vanilla blanket on the skin . In terms of longevity it lasts about 7 hours but it does stay close to the skin.

The more that companies stop listing all of the notes in their fragrances, the more I will stop blind buying. This would have been a better seller if it wasn’t for the pink pepper note! This smells terrible honestly. Who TH approved of this release? It’s not well blended at all. Blind buy fail :(

That green, dewy and rosey opening: lovely!
I even thought there were a few freshly cut rose de mai somewhere but no: that spring garden impression happened to come from the raspberry!

Unfortunately, drydown is too tart, similar to Lalique Amethyste: sour berries and pepper.
Btw, both frags are neither sweet, nor gourmand, or candy fruity, which I really appreciate.

The orchid note is nearly exactly the one from Alfred Sung Pure, it wraps you snugly like a soft and dense body lotion.

However, I cannot smell the white chocolate in Baiser Fou. It seems to put together the whole composition; no creaminess though.
Same remark regarding the white chocolate in Tous' Happy Moments, can't detect it.

Overall, I would have bought that frag, save for that persistent sour note.

I’m wondering if I got a bad bottle because Baiser Fou smells absolutely nothing like the list of notes. If you enjoy minty, grassy and very green smells then this would be lovely for you. However there’s no raspberry sweetness (unless that’s what’s making this smell so sour?) or white chocolate and vanilla creaminess here. I was expecting an elevated sort of sweet fragrance but there’s literally not even a hint of anything that reads as gourmand or sweet in any way on me. Would love to smell this on someone who enjoys this because we’re getting totally different things here.

EDIT: I sprayed a napkin because I felt like I was going crazy and yes, the tart raspberry is definitely coming through. On me though- sour wheatgrass.

I have to agree with IndigoEye! There is something about this frag that keeps it from becoming too sickly sweet; something strange and beautiful about it. I definitely took a moment to warm up to it at first expecting something as immediately intoxicating as the orginal Baiser Vole which is an all time favorite for me. Baiser Fou is clearly Cartier's offering to the younger generation but something about it keeps drawing me in. The description on the back reads "a mischievous orchid with balmy and colored facets." "Colored facets..." hmm...
Though I've never smelled an orchid I've read they range from putrid to pleasant. This perfume is definitely pleasant to me even though it is higher on the sweet spectrum than my general liking. Again, it straddles the line there but something makes it work. Perhaps the foody white chocolate note is what is rounding it out for me. Something bubblegummy about this one to me - I don't want to eat it but I kind of want to chew it. Interesting! Overall a solid like that grew on me. I most likely will not buy a second bottle like I have with Baiser Vole but will definitely have fun using it up.
The bottle itself is really lovely and pleasant to hold and I'm a sucker for a bulky bottle.

This is great! Cool white florals (to me, lily) and a lipstick-y chilled white chocolate. Now, normally that description would not induce me to spray a perfume on my skin - I'm not much into florals or sweet scents. But there is something else going on here that I cannot quite identify - one of those curious disruptive top notes: is it smoke? rubber? hairspray? In any case, it works, and transforms this from being a girly lipgloss disaster into something more interesting.
I like this for spring days at work - it reads as cool and interesting.

At first they’re sour, then they’re sweet.... sour patch kids, sour, sweet, gone”.

Baiser fou is a sour patch kid.

Starts off with a metallic screech of green: stems ala tart, juicy, dewy wet, cold. A raspberry litchi sherbet... after awhile it melts down to something creamy smooth and fruity vanilla sweet. Wait for it, the white chocolate note does come to give you a hug, and a kiss, while she’s at it..

This is for the eccentric. The mad hatter on a flirting spree....

Longevity 8+ on me... Me and Baiser Fou are cool. She’s a weirdo. I’m a weirdo. We fit.

Edit: one word- UNDERRATED!!!

The perfume gods are laughing at me, again.
The other day I received two perfumes, one that I was certain I would adore in a life altering way (instead, I can barely smell it 2 minutes after application) and this one which I was prepared to dislike but surprisingly love against all odds.
This basically smells like early 2000’s Lancome Juicy Tubes. Typically, not my type of scent at all. I’m not a fan of anything overly sweet with megadoses of vanilla, but the sweetness here is balanced by a medicinal tang that is absolutely addictive. There is a plastic/waxy lipgloss note that at times reminds me of Gucci Rush. This is giving me serious Y2K flashbacks. Maybe that was the point.
I can see how this is polarizing but at the same time I’m surprised that it isn’t more popular given the recent spate of lipstick and lipgloss scents. I think this fragrance is just misunderstood.
I love this!

I almost bought a full 100ml bottle of this because I was SURE I was gonna love it. The white chocolate, raspberry and greenness sounded right up my alley. I decided to get a travel spray first just for shits and gigs and wow do I hate this. This smells like straight up rotting pickles on my skin! I am SO glad I didn’t buy a bottle omg. I’m so sad I dislike this so much.

Just sprayed my new decant and the first thing that came to mind was (don't laugh)... sitting on the porch with my grandmother in the evening stringing green beans fresh from the garden. I am so intrigued with this green note! It's fleeting, though. Now on to exploring the dry down.

A fantastic grouping! Bitter raspberry, sweet orchid, white chocolate. Extremely satisfying. This smells much different on skin compared to paper.

One of my favorite fragrance notes is raspberry. This is not a sweet juicy raspberry but rather a tart sour raspberry. Very pretty spring/summer fragrance. It comes across very sharp floral with some tartness. I don't really get any sweetness from this fragrance. It is very nice and I am happy to have it in my collection.

5 sprays

around 6 hours of longevity at around arm's length for the first half of the time,then closer to the skin.

update- I finally get the sweetness. It takes about an hour after first spray but it is there. The opening is still a tart floral scent but then the vanilla and maybe the white chocolate come thru. Not super sweet and the tart floral fades slightly into the background. That sharpness softens. Very beautiful and I love how it evolves during the day.

The raspberry facet here includes that natural tartness - there is a very green note here that makes it smell so fresh - like a real raspberry - not a candy syrupy raspberry. I sometimes go to this distillery that has two types of raspberry liquors. One is raspberry brandy - it is very syrupy, thick and has that candy like flavor. That isn't the one I order. I order the other raspberry liquor that is chilled and called raspberry brandywine - this liquor is thin and literally tastes like "summer in a bottle" - it's fresh and delicate juicy. Not sweet. That is the raspberry of this perfume. It has this green spring fresh quality which after about an hour quiets down into a soft white floral that is rounded out with a buttery white chocolate warmth - there is a touch of dryness here that occurs in high quality cocoa bean powder and I get that here with a bit of vanilla to round it out. The vanilla here plays a quiet supporting role just holding it all together but this is by no means a vanilla bomb. And there is no syrup here either. I don't get a lot of powder in this. This perfume morphs into a smelling like a beautiful, finely milled french beauty soap. So many facets to this - I have a closet full of perfumes and this has become my signature scent and I can't let go. It has all of the green stemmy, tart, berry, floral and soapiness that rocks my perfume world. I am so in love I already bought a back up bottle.

I feel slightly guilty calling this the wild little sister or cousin of Malle’s Lipstick Rose but the same idea and vibe is there. Both hark back to days of lipstick and powder mingling together-a certain kind of nostalgia for a certain generation. I love Lipstick Rose so I love this as well, that flowery powder scent that Guerlain does so well in their makeup line that never quite translates to their perfume. I can see how this could be polarizing, especially with generations that have no nostalgia for this mix but I found it beautiful and long lasting with complex changes over 4-5 hours.

Браво на Cartier Страхотна изненада. Наистина не знаех какво да очаквам при този състав и отзиви. Браво и на мен за поредната покупка без тест:) според мен това не е гурме, това е една елегантна свежо откъсната малина, включително зелените листа. Има закачка, когато ароматът започва да се развива и отнякъде се появява червило:) шоколадът не е сладкарски,не разчитайте на това. Просто поредното бижу на Cartier.

Complexity. Please don't insult this masterpiece if you don't understand it. To me yhis is like the Kingdom perfumerie, whether I like it or not, I respect its magesty. Different from everything out there. Marylin Monroe would prob wear this.

I agree with hedward on the fun fair machinery, what a great association! To me, it is that rare thing of an abstract gourmand, the coup being the combination of green and sweet milky caramel (well plus the crazy raspberry of course) which reminds me of 70s style galbanum and vanilla/amber combinations and instead of peach (thinking of Halston) there is raspberry on the top. I don't think it borrows from Angel, to me, it has more to do with Bernard Chant's creations. For myself I came up with calling Baiser Fou a 'Chypre-Gourmand'. It is actually more chypre than gourmand and more chypre than most of the 'pseudo-chypres' around these days. It has a protective and calming quality too: I like wearing it on airplanes for overnight flights sort of as a protective shield (against people, smells etc.). It is independent and purring like a kitten, and it's a firecracker.

Terminator raspberry ★★★★☆

Baiser Fou or ”Crazy Kiss” was aptly named because it is indeed somewhat of a maniac in both good and bad. For a man in mid-twenties such as me fruity florals is the fragrance territory that I visit the least for which I blame the brainwash that made me think that men are of wood and leather and women arise from petals and ripe fruits. In the past twenty years or so there have been fragrances that combine these aspects with great success, such as the fruity smoke of Aventus, but like in all of perfumery only a few possess a sense of humour. Smelling Baiser Fou for the first time made me instantly recall Le Feu d’Issey as they both have an aspect of healthy self-ridicule and a big dose of mischievous glee. Le Feu is an oriental and BF is a fruity floral but they’re connected via a delightfully perverse milk note. Another fragrance that I was happy to think of while trying Baiser Fou was Grojsman’s 100% Love by S-Perfume, which I like to think BF is a mainstream homage to. Both provide an otherwise harmless fruity affair turned bi-polar by a sickly background of all things unsuitable for humans. 100% Love achieves discomfort with the extremely bitter cacao-milk that results in a trigger heavy vomit-esque accord. Baiser Fou, while less aggressive, corrupts the cute fruits with boldly unnatural notes of sulphur (elemental yellow sulphur, not the rotten egg smell of hydrogen sulphide), firework smoke and metallic shine of heavy machinery. In fact, this combination of tart fruits with sulphur and metal gives me the mental image of a funfair. Angel was created to remind us of the confectionery and ice cream stalls of such childhood funfairs but Baiser Fou, whether intentional or not, opens up the same memory but situates me at the queue that makes way next to the giant humming motor of that Top Spin or ferris wheel. That anxious and excited wait you make before hopping onto the giant machine is heightened by the metallic scream of gears and neon coloured plastic theming of the ride. All this perfumed by artificially flavoured slush drinks and melted ice cream while lights flash and a cheap techno beat fills the air. This memory has been dormant for quite a while and I didn’t expect a perfume to active it as it contains a lot of not-suitable-for-perfume-scents but little did I know. Baiser Fou is perhaps somewhat hard to wear but it is tremendously fun and will surely elicit both high smiles and low frowns upon its wearer. I’d give this five stars but it is a bit too short lived and linear to compare with the likes of Le Feu, 100% Love or Angel. Baiser Fou is best enjoyed on a smelling strip, where the gleeful mid-section stays the longest.

Soundtrack: Mat Zo - Vice

I always say a fragrance can choose you and I am sure some have that experience with this because it is so unusual. On me though...it is positively repulsive.

In fact, it is the first in a long time to make me border on a headache. The opening is best described as spiky and not in a punk rock or sexy heels way, but burrs-in-your-socks spiky. This continues for a few hours until it settles down a little and turns into something resembling an antiseptic cleanser like Lysol trying to mask what it is with a overwhelming fragrance. This does not smell like any lipstick I have ever owned and I have owned them at all price points over the course of many years. At the very end (5+ hours) it becomes a skin scent and smells like a boozy version of vanilla. Nothing chocolate or powdery ever turn up on me. It's even vaguely unpleasant at the end, when it's no longer overtly spiky.

I will congratulate it on its nod to the past. Something about it does remind me of Magi Noire (the original formula). It is probably the berry described here in the notes. It is obviously not as complex as Magi, but I can see women who wear that well carrying this one off well too.

This is definitely not a blind buy scent. Thankfully, it was gifted to me and the person who gave it to me will understand why I will part with it.

A very original, complex fragrance that took me by surprise. Baiser Fou is an amalgamation of so many different things: bright greenness, powdery florals, tart fruitiness, smooth white chocolate, and even a little bit of a plasticky-vinyl thing going on. It's an artistic and challenging fragrance (definitely a little crazy too, hence the name!) so it will absolutely not be for everyone. But Baiser Fou could be signature scent-worthy for the right type of eccentric, fashionable person who marches to the beat of their own drum. I think it's great.

This is different and quite complex as I find myself smelling my wrist often and noticing new nuances. I don’t have anything like this. I read a professional review on a website that said this smells like YSL Lipstick. Agreed! Sweet but tart, fruity with a bit of powder, but not cloying. At first spray I could smell a lot of green and some lily which reminds me of Baiser Vole, but this soon settles and appears only faintly in the background afterwards (I sometimes think Cartier doesn’t reveal all of the notes they add to a fragrance). Then the raspberry takes the stage. The Fragrantica odor profile for orchid says it is powdery, sweetish and clean, and I do find this fragrance all of those things. After about 3 hours the dry down is a very light skin scent. The raspberry is gone and I can finally smell the vanilla and white chocolate. A very lovely and enjoyable fragrance to wear!

With Baiser Fou, you get a smell that is pretty similar to what is described in the press release: lipsticky-smelling orchids, raspberries and white chocolate. I only felt drawn to try this because I adore the luscious lilies of Baiser Volé. The raspberries here are tart and while not particularly realistic, not candy-artificial either. The orchids aren't sharp, but not so realistic like the flowers in Baiser Volé, but you do get something kind of lipstick-inspired, that vaguely smells like pink flowers. That quickly transitions to a convincing white chocolate gourmand, fairly straightforward, maintaining a faint hint of berries/pink flowers to keep the fragrance from smelling gourmand. Sweet but not quite edible. While I like this OK, I sent the decant back to exchange it--this just isn't special enough. If the flowers were more striking and spring-fresh I would really enjoy it. Even with white chocolate being kind of a sweet note to wear, balancing such a note with a lively flower could be brilliant. Nevertheless, worth trying.

Après 30 minute ces similaire au baise vole régulier

After 4 hours it gets beautiful. You just have to survive the perverse raspberry and the orchid monster. Then you can finally enjoy the white chocolate note.
I think I will buy it and wear it at work so that I can scare my colleagues off and enjoy the chocolate at the end of the day.

Jokes aside, it‘s an interesting and beautiful perfume and I really like it. It‘s weird but in its weirdness lies its beauty and better weird than boring like all new perfumes that are being released in the last years. The raspberry and the orchid notes are really crazy but the trick is just not get too close to your wrist! The drydown smells like expensive face cream. It makes me feel like an eccentric English heiress.
Definitely not a blind buy!

I think this is quite interesting, but ultimately not something I would get for myself.
I can smell all the sweet notes listed - raspberry, white chocolate, orchid, and also vanilla (which might be a facet of white chocolate and orchid). But I also get some of the green floral stem and lily DNA of Baiser Vole from Baiser Fou and light musky and peppery notes. I'd say Baiser Fou is warmer, sweeter, more girly than the ladylike, cold Baiser Vole.
It's sweet in a cosmetic, powdery way, bordering on cloying in warmer conditions. But I could imagine it being a beautiful scent on a snowy day, preferably worn with something white or light pink, with glitter or fake fur. I associate it with a kind of cute ice princess vibe, if that makes any sense to you.

This isn’t anything like Baiser Vole. I finally found it today to test, and it is simultaneously reminding me of three things:

1. That pink antibiotic liquid they prescribe for kids

2. Something green, astringent, bitter

3. An old-fashioned lipstick.

Not blind-buy safe!!! It’s not *bad* per se, it’s just not how I personally want to smell. Plus, I have a feeling that it might smell better on a 20-something young lady, as it’s fairly sweet on my skin.

Weird opening...yes...tart/sour black currant-ish..green..Baiser Vole-ish w/o the lily...then fruit cream...rises and falls...rises and falls....no white chocolate !!...At first you may think borderline "gourmond" but then it "falls again and sits into a light vanilla-ish powder...???....The beginning and middle "had me"....then the end....failure,sad to say.
BTW....fruit?...yes, but I did not "feel" raspberry..?

Well, just HAD to re-try this ...one..more...time....AND...I am now REALLY liking it !!! I should always follow my own advice: Let the fragrance get to know you, and you get to know the fragrance...and also...be patient with the notes...let them develop...wait for the drydown...final results....Voila!!! It worked out with this one....1.6 oz bottle is on the way in the mail....

This has to be my worst blind buy ever. And I buy a lot of them on the heat of the moment. It smells aggressively sour sweet, like a bad lollipop. I hid it somewhere out of my sight, behind all my perfumes. Got it out one evening and told my daughter (elementary school): they say it smells like raspberry. She wanted to try it of course. After sniffing, she burst into laughter and couldn't stop and she said: but mom, this smells like parsley, fresh cut parsley. And yes, she was sooo right.
There, honest review. Elementary, Watson :)

I just tested this in a perfume shop. I don't like sweet scents, But this is an exception. It's the same as baisers volé, but better as baisers volé is too rough even for a floral lover like me. This perfume is long lasting as well. Over all this wins over the original perfume.

I love this one also so very pretty.. I'll be enjoying this s/s 2018

A successful blind buy. It starts with an odd cough syrup vibe, but it settles down to a quite lovely fruity sweet - but not too sweet - subtle scent. It's not at all what I expected - it's pretty and feminine without being too girly or cheap smelling.

I don't get the white chocolate note, just a creamy fruity earthy smell. I have tried a few of the other Baiser scents, I like this one the best. It's quite different from the others - less floral and sharp. It's more of a spring/summer scent.

This is a nice everyday fragrance - good projection and longevity.

I agree with everything malinkonija wrote. Additionally, I did not think this was anything sweet or berry or chocolate. I got green, mossy, musky and absolutely UNIQUE. LOVE!

I adore the whole baiser vole line, however I'm starting to think I dislike gourmands, as this was a total no from the outset for me.

This baiser truly is "fou" or "crazy" as I really don't understand why it has been included in this line!

I love the essence which has boozy overtones, but not this. It's not the traditional lilly of the Baiser line, nor (to my nose) is it floral at all.

It has none of the green notes that accompany the rest of the line (apart from the essence) and to me it is a cacophony of notes.

A distinct No from a lover of the line.

Bright, juicy berries after a weird? (but tolerable) opening. I didn’t know what to make of the fragrance at first as it was sharp, but this is brisk and the pretty, sparkling raspberry note is what accompanies you for most of the duration that it clings to your skin. I get what most of the reviews are saying, the fragrance is somewhat reminiscent of lip gloss, but it personally doesn’t bother me, and it isn’t artificial or plasticky at all. It really is quite unique. I have yet to try this during warmer weather but it smells lovely now in the winter.

This is a great example of a grown up fruit. Not too sweet and very real. It smells like my favorite Talenti Sherbert Roman Raspberry. I probably appreciate this more than others because I like minimalist fragrances.This is nowhere near as bad as people are making it seem. Or maybe my taste is weird. I hate many popular fragrances but I just may get a full bottle of this raspberry goodness! And side-note, this is nowhere near the same caliber as celebrity fragrances. You should be sent to the fire chamber for saying some mess like that.

Baiser Fou is a strange one for sure. White chocolate? Raspberries? Really? Where are they?

This is a very green take on orchid. Almost a soliflore. Nothing gourmand about it. In the dry down there is a slight amount of raspberries giving this fragrance a juicy and lipglossy aroma with minimal sweetness. But chocolate? - No. And I actually appreciate that. Every new release is a generic toothache and I can hardly tell them appart, they are all the same. This is different, I am not sure if I even like this, but I appreciate it being different, and it was an interesting one to test.

I don't know any other orchid soliflore, especially together with crushed petals and green leafs. Baiser Fou does to orchid the same thing Baiser Vole does to lilies. Except for, I much prefer lily as a flower.

*Thank you Perseia for sending me a sample.

Sharp, cold blackcurrant sherbet. Sweet and sweet...and more sweet. All the imagination went on the story (and that's not even spectacularly imaginative). Very stylish bottle, though.

This was a very successful blind buy. Here is yet another fragrance that I don't understand the down votes. It's beautiful! Raspberry and Orchid with the right amount of white chocolate. I think some people are trying too hard to "understand" a fragrance, or they don't find them "complex" enough. Why not just enjoy a scent for what it is, and in this case, a very nice scent.

I sampled this and I found this to be utterly intoxicating in the worst way possible.. Very artificial, plasticy, and cheap smelling. All I can really get from this is this overly tacky floral and gross lipsticky odor. Pretty expensive for liquid rubbish if you ask me.

Very interesting scent. Lot of berries+exotic flowers. Definitely raspberry. Sweet base but not tacky sweet as La Vi Est Belle or Black Opium. I sniffed many perfumes that day at Macy's (department store in USA), this one stands from the crowd. Unusual. Worth trying. Not unisex, feminine.

Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse

Beautiful perfume!! Starts greenish and tart (hommage to Baiser Vole edt), then fruity (hommage to Baiser Vole Lys Rose) and creamy vanilla (hommage to Baiser Vole Essence). Novelty are scents of orchid and white chocolate, melted in beautiful musk note,slightly resembling the one in La Panther. So, Baiser Fou is vivid fruity lipgloss scent, but elegant and refined in the same time. It has unusual combination of gourmand notes with fresh, green,fruity toneswhich make the scent fresh and not heavy. This is the only gourmand scent I can tolerate because it's not sickly sweet. Modern touch is accomplished by this plastic note which so many people disliked,but in my opinion it blends well with the composition and wears off rather quickly. The perfume is long-lasting, I smell it the next day, when only beautiful, creamy scent plus gentle chocolate remain. It is very feminine and boldly reinterprates current sweet gourmands by adding sour fruits and touch of green feminine fragrances from 70's. Pure love from me!

The reception this perfume is getting is honestly surprising me.

The first time I tested it I was convinced I'd be smelling it on everyone within a month: it just seemed so cute and likeable!

Instead it seems to have repulsed many people, and left the majority indifferent... Oh well: the more for me!! :P Just hope they don't discontinue it before I can get a few bottles.

I'm always on the lookout for a good, grownup fruity fragrance, and this one is just perfect! It's like a summer version of Armani Sì, a higher than heaven, jammy raspberry on a sweet, powdery background that radiates beautifully.

What really made me fall in love with it was that it has this sort of bitter, florist shop greenness that freshens everything up nicely.

It's like the gorgeous little sister of Calyx, and I love it!

(PS: the comparisons to lipstick are spot on: this totally reminds me of one of my mom's YSL lipsticks from back in the day)

I got a sample of this and have tried it once. It smells very similar to my Batiste cherry dry shampoo. I'm hoping that's not all there is to this scent so I'll have to try it again.

I was waiting for baiser fou since it's release.I'm a fan of la panther line and also baiser vole line so I was very excited about this new member of cartier family.raspberry,white chocolate,vanilla and orchid are among my most favorite perfume notes,I also love sweet and powdery scents and the idea of smelling like lipstick was a great one IMO but baiser fou was a big dissapointment for me.Im glad that I didn't commit mistake of blindbuying it
To my nose it has nothing to do with listed notes.there are not much white chocolate scents out there(not as much as I'd like)so I was really looking forward to enjoy it here but I can't detect anything even related to it.also no raspberry,no orchid.on me it's a tropical fruity,summery scent which I would never guess is a cartier.it smells like a sweet,watery melon/guava milkshake.it lasts like that for hours just that a handful of sweet berries are thrown inside the shake.when it's a faint skinscent I can feel it smells like slightly powdery vanilla-raspberry which I can associate a bit with fruity lipgloss or lip balm but it probably wouldn't come to my mind if I was not waiting for it.longevity and sillage are moderate
It's drydown is nice,nothing special to justify it's price tag but at least I like how it smells.if it was like that from first perhaps I would persuade myself to buy a bottle but I can't tolerate four hours of bland and boring watery fruity shake to reach the pleasant drydown.I won't compare it with celebrity perfumes as I have many and almost all of them are better
For a white chocolate-vanilla-powdery flowers-slight hint of fruity,raspberry-like treat,I will stick to my beloved fantasy nice remix of Britney Spears and for smelling like a raspberry lipgloss/lipstick I will go for miss dior absolutely blooming
I wish cartier not to start launching different versions and flankers of baiser fou.instead of baiser fou edt,baiser fou essence,baiser fou eau fraiche,baiser fou lys rose and whatever baiserfou they're thinking of,I wish to see a new perfume with the real quality and complexity of cartier
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شروع آبکی،میوه ای شبیه به آب طالبی بستنی که در ادامه میوه های دیگه باهاش میکس میشن و شبیه میلک شیک میوه ای میشه.بعد از چهارساعت میشه کمی تمشک و وانیل پودری حس کرد..اگه دنبال شکلات سفید،تمشک غالب یا ارکیده غالب یا بویی شبیه رژلب هستید ناامیدتون میکنه
بشخصه ترجیح میدم برای رایحه ای شبیه به رژلب تمشکی برم سراغ میس دیور ابسولوتلی بلومینگ و برای ترکیب شکلات سفید-وانیل-گلهای پودری و یه ته بوی میوه ای که خیلی بیشتر از کارتیه بایزر فو شبیه تمشک هست ترجیح میدم برم سراغ فنتسی نایس ریمیکس بریتنی اسپیرز

I absolutny don't believe in the notes added to fragrantica.
First its reminds me a jewerrly cold store... but not a Cartier...Cartier has an int-imitate scent :)

To me this scent don't have to exist.
Nothing new, nothing spectacular... definitly...past was better for Cartier ad Perfumes...

Its a very synthetic, smells like cheap celebrity scent.

Imagine stumbling across a huge raspberry munching on white chocolate and talking to with you rotten berry breath. Sorry, but this one, unfortunately, hits all the wrong notes for me. One of only a handful of fragrances that have the (dis)honor of making me actually dry heave upon first smelling and I can't even begin to try and get through that opening to see what the end might smell like. For those who can pull this one off, I salute you!

At first I smell synthetic banana. More specifically, the banana flavored Amoxicillin I would have to take when I was ill as a child. You know the one. I don't hate it. The tart raspberry notes give fragrance a tropical feel. If you were to tell me there was mangosteen in this I'd believe it. I wish those raspberry notes would last longer because it smells like rich, delicious tropical fruit. Mixed with the white chocolate its almost like a creamsicle. The adventure ends clean and chocolatey. Short life but very enjoyable.

It first it's very intense and also spicy like some oriental notes were unlisted. However, later it softens a lot and it's quite pleasant, chocolate-like.

It seems me fun, but maybe a bit weird too. You should smell it before buy it.

Addictive.

Baiser fou is, in my opinion, totally different from Baiser Vole. Its opening is an explosion of sweet raspberry combined with orchids. Never smelled such composition before. It dries down to a subtile fruity/flowery praline combo. The white chocolate gives just enough "gourmandise" to this perfume, without overwhelming it.
I also found the name well chosen. It is a "crazy" scent. I literally got crazy in love with this one. If I should associate a perfume to the notion of "fou d'amour", that would it be.

It's magic.

Baiser fou is the windbreeze that you feel when you stand in front of your ex-lover's flat in the house floor and realize that everything is over...bitter-sweet.

As for the perfume: I think this fragrance is well done as it manages to transport this mainstream sugar theme in an unusual and sophisticated way!

Those of us of a certain age will remember the days when people inexplicably thought that dumping pot pourri in a bowl to gather dust and insects in the living room was an interior design triumph.

Baiser Fou smells just like the fruity mix.

Drydown: strawberry cream lollipops. Not really lipsticky, but rather sweet as the drugstore lip glosses sometimes.
Very sweet, foody, a true gourmand.

Opens bitter and rotten; I don't know how they managed to create such a perverted raspberry, but oh well there could be more notes, it's grassy for a quite some minutes. When the herbal opening is over, you have a plain sweet fruit. The orchid needs time to develop and you might not even pay attention to when white chocolate has settled.

Linear and boring, nevertheless blended well. A safe scent. Layer friendly. Maybe we can layer it with Baiser Vole? Personally I don't see the "crazy" in here; to me this is a "young kiss" or a "joyful kiss" not crazy most certainly. For a crazy kiss I need a crazier blending of notes.
BUT, since a more unique scent would not sell, Cartier chooses to, and I totally understand it, they are right, cater to the sweet-girly-gourmand audience. This is an amazing blind-buy for them.

I'm on the fence about it: obviously I cannot wear such a typical gourmand but at the same time I just want to layer the heck out of it; so many ideas!

It's got the nice peppery hothouse/greenhouse edge of original Baiser Vole, but sweet, with a touch of raspberry milkshake.

I love the original, not so keen on sweet fruity florals, but this is nice, as they go..

I get none of the notes listed, except for perhaps orchid. To me this is predominantly blackcurrent and blackberry- those are the main notes I smell. It is not synthetic- it is very thick heavy deep and rich sticky smelling blackcurrent/blackberry, hence it still has that luxurious smell like all other Cartier fragrances- this is not simply a generic synthetic fruity scent- it is sweet and rich smelling but not synthetically so.

I do like this one, but it is not me, I tend not to like sweet smells that much- it does not match my personality,
Because it is so sweet and rich I would not say it makes for a safe gift either.

However I would say this could be perfect for women 20-50 year old because it is neither mature or immature it does not fall into either category for me.

I think the bottle should have been deep berry fuschia purple because it smells like deep fuschia purple- if that makes sense.

Thus, this perfume is not complex or unique unlike a lot of scents from the Cartier house but it still has that luxurious high end quality- so is definitely worth the money if sweet rich heavy sticky blackcurrent is your thing.

It is strong when you first spritz however on my skin it quickly absorbed within 30 minutes.

I bought Baiser Fou blind as I got 25% off on a selling site. It's not the usual gourmands I go for it's definitely got a lipstick vibe. It's powdery and quite fruity it's a rather unusual fragrance. If you like to step outside the box then maybe you should try this. I'm glad I bought it for a good price and I like smelling different at times. I wear fragrance for me and I'm not too concerned with garnering compliments. It's definitely different give it a try.

Baiser Fou punches my nose with a chaotic, artificial tropical fruity cloud. Like previous reviewers, I too am reminded of litchi and guava fruit, plus some peach. But on my skin, extra sugar is dumped into this tropical fruit salad. There's also a subtle bitter cacao powder note during the first 30 minutes. But because of the plastic texture of the sweet fruity scents, the bitterness of cacao powder didn't manage to provide an interesting twist of which Baiser Fou is desperately in need; instead, it only enhances the overall cloying, synthetic feeling.

The fragrance does improve by tiny steps after 4 hours. The aggressive, tacky plastic texture of the sugary fruits finally calms down, although it never really leaves entirely, always lurks beneath like a hungry, calculating shark planning for the next assault. As the fragrance becomes a bit smoother, I do get the white chocolate accord. The fruits also develop more acidity to counterbalance the plastic sweetness. But overall, it's still very much a typical saccharine gourmand fruity fragrance to my nose.

Baiser Fou has a heavy to moderate sillage, and it lasts at least 8 hours.

Sniffing Baiser Fou is a shock to me. It's such a radical departure from the elegant, brilliant Cartier fragrances that I know and love: Baiser Volé, La Panthère, Le Baiser du Dragon, Eau de Cartier, etc. that I felt kind of lost upon smelling Baiser Fou. Reading the PR release after smelling the fragrance, as a hindsight, I do see the "lipstick" reference, probably to be achieved by the plastic feeling to evoke the waxy texture of a lipstick. Unfortunately, with the over-the-top artificial fruity sweetness, I perceive it as a low-end, artificial-smelling lipgloss rather than a luxurious, high-end lipstick. Personally, I think there are far more interesting and more refined fragrances depicting lipstick or orchid. Therefore, I would not particularly recommend this fragrance.

Definitely a departure from the other versions...first sniff wasn't convincing to me, I detect kind of a tropical fruity vibe, like guava!?then maybe some white chocolate!? and not sure , maybe the orchids..all in whole, for my taste, not the best combination...then, there is a certain spiciness, light, nothing harsh, like spicy orchids!? Like spicy lilies to my nose...in the heart it is more like the Edp, and edt..I know the scent is supposed to emulate the smell of cosmetics, and it gets there, half way..there is that lipstick vibe somewhere in there, the drydown is very nice, sweeter too.
I wasn't a huge fan of the Baiser volé line, I thought this would work for me, and I am not convinced yet..orchids just have that distinctive scent, might not be for me..I won't say it isn't an interesting scent, it is...I need to wear it more!! Then will update...

Cartier isn't keen on revealing all the notes in their perfumes, but I found out today that this one also contains white chocolate. ;) That's probably what is making it so crazy kissable.

Wow !
Great work around this beautiful orchid. I get something that evokes litchi and guava fruits, it's really gorgeous. So for me this is fruity but not sugary at all,

Bravo.

Post scriptum : does not share anything with baiser volé. No lipstick here. Be aware.
Update : After a few hours, may recall toilets freshner spray. I'm really sorry but i do get that. Perhaps this would not appear if used on the skin instead of a paper strip. I hope so...

Gorgeous floral vanilla scent. Very luxurious and instantly satisfying. It'll put you at ease immediately.

As the ingredients suggests, it has been developed around the subtle fragrance of the Cymbidium orchid that has delighted us for centuries. As an avid horticulturist myself, I know how delicate and short lived this scent is on the natural plant, so I take it, the perfume lab had to recreate it artificially with secret chemical compounds as well as some other floral natural oils.

The end result is a faint rosy smelling orchid with a hint of vanilla and peony.

Cartier have long been making extraordinary good fragrances for a jeweller. This one is no exception.

Verdict: 9/10 for a solitaire floral. Wished it had more development. Excellent blending of floral-sweet-fruity without being cloying at all.

I smell a lot of litchis in the top notes. Later on, still the same litchis but the smell becomes somewhat artificial. That's pretty much all I can say so far, need further testing!

Omg! Omg! I adore the Baiser Vole line! I can't even deal with how excited I am! Eeeeeeeee! Yes, I'm a fragrance dork. Lol! I. Can't. Wait! ^_^

It was launched in 2017? Back to the future!

Beautiful bottle!!!Nice name! Looks classic, I want it!