Montale Sweet Flowers
3.8
Overall
Accords
sweet
powdery
woody
white floral
vanilla
fruity
Notes Pyramid
Top
Cotton CandyWhite PeachGingerPepperBergamot
Heart
TuberosePatchouliJasmine SambacViolet
Base
Madagascar VanillaWhite MuskSandalwoodOakmossCedar
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ Vanilla, cotton candy and a slight lemony/citrussy bitter note- maybe the ginger? Not overly sophisticated and not as strong as it could be; fancy shower gel in a fancy hotel might leave your skin.smelling like this. Not bad, but lacks the personality and potency I expected from this combo of notes+this house. UPDATE: to be fair to this frag, while the kind of mildly 'nice but not wow' review I wrote above is still true, this has actually turned out to be one of my most worn fragrances as it is very likable, very sweet, very long-lasting and a complete no-brainer to spritz and go when in a hurry. It has very much been worth the money to me through 2021, and I'm still wearing it about once a fortnight into 2022 despite having a large fragrance wardrobe to choose from. Pretty candyfloss and ginger is just such a nice pick-me-up. Sweet, luxe, cheerful and easy-to-wear and in truth what's wrong with that?
- ✅ At this point there's no denying: I am a full blown 'gourmie'. Love the sweet confectionery fume's; and these day's; the market is rife with them. They churn 'em out; but finding one with enough quality & complexity for 49 year old me to plausibly wear; is no piece of cake. (abominable pun, sorry!) Sweet Flowers is the sybaritic cotton candy treat I've been waiting for. Buoyant top notes of spun sugar; vivid jasmine; (ala' Kuumba M.) peaches in syrup, and a fresh punch of ginger give way to powder as it drys down, but reads cotton candy throughout. That, Maison Margiela, is how you replicate fun. Tasteful projection, and long lasting; as you would expect from Montale.
- ❌ I love these notes in perfume: peaches, violets, sandalwood, oakmoss, vanilla, bergamot and ginger! How excited was I? And this ombre bottle speaks to the depths of my girly-girl soul. But.. Montale SWEET FLOWERS should be titled DYING FLOWERS. The smells are overly ripe, fruit-fly infested, bruised mealy fruit with petals falling from their stems. It's too ripe, and it's also Flowerbomb-esque. You know, when flowers are past their prime, like old sunflowers or rotting fruit. No. This scent is missing vibrancy.
- ❌ The Montale Fruits and Vanillas sample collection only lists cotton candy, vanilla, white peach, jasmine, and tuberose in the scent profile… seeing the full list of notes here explains why there was a sharp fuzziness I really dislike, thanks to the patchouli/moss combo. This is a really basic perfume, ie. it could probably be mistaken for any pink-bottled perfume that came out over the last 15 years; more or less all of the combined smells at Sephora.
