Am wondering what everyone thinks of these perfumes? They are quite different to eachother but both appeal in different ways. L'Air du Temps is a perfume brought back from europe for me when I was 7 years old (26 years ago) that I loved as a little girl, it seemed so grown up to me, then when I finally acquired it again recently it was like being 7 again. I absolutely adore it.
Lush perfumes however, appeal to my more natural side. I particularly love karma (in spray and solid) and potion solid perfume. The flying fox temple balm with jasmine fragrance is also devine as a perfume. Lush indeed.
Do you guys have a huge gulf between the types of fragrance you like? Havn't read much about either of these so am interested in your thoughts.

I don't know KARMA or FLYING FOX TEMPLE BALM.


But LAdT ha been my mother's "signature" fragrance since my earliest childhood. Definitely my "Mommy's going out" infantile memory of the 1960's.... A classic spicy floral with a urinaceous musk foundation. People usually feel it I has a carnation signature, but every written pyramid description I've seen lists the spiciness as clove, not carnation. Traditionally, it's just one of those grand, dressy, complex French perfumes with an enormous sillage and great emotional style. Of the kind few girls and young women seem to prefer today...

Of course, all of us here at POL are pretty unanimous that it's been spoiled terribly in recent formulations.

I definitely have a huge gulf between the types of fragrances I enjoy. I like lighthearted, happy, occasionally soapy florals. And then I like hot, wet, sexy florals. I like complex vanilla like Shalimar, then I like spicy woody things like Black Cashmere and Tabu. I don't know L'Air du Temps, but I do like Lush's Karma for its happy orange note, and the ambery patchouli drydown. I like Flying Fox shower gel a lot, but the temple balm tends to go mothball-poopy on my skin and I can't be having that.

I really like L'air du temps. A good friend wears it amazingly and I run and buy a bottle each and every time. It is OK on my skin, but nothing like on her.

Yes...I have vast differences in what I like...some days Chypres are fabulous; musk and powdery stuff....it's all over the map.
I have narrowed down my "lust of stuff" to 3 Guerlains and feel good about that.

L'Air du Temps is really pretty...smells like carnations and powder to me.

Thanks for the replies guys. I can see what people mean about L'Air du Temps smelling like carnation, however to me it is reminiscent of daffodils or narssisis. Anyone else get that?

Hi Potion and welcome! I am a huge Lush fan and absolutely adore Karma! What a perfume! I have the soap, the solid perfume and the body cream (I have not yet the spray perfume but love it also). The first time I tried Karma was with the soap and did not believe how good it smelled. My bathroom was filled the whole day with its spicy orange-patchouli-incense scent. I have never smelled a so fragranced soap.

I like also Flying Fox temple balm and use it as a solid perfume when I need a scent of... tea! Yes, to me, Flying Fox smells like jasmine tea. I love ylang-ylang and there is a plenty of it inside Flying Fox.

Regarding L'Air Du Temps: I don't have a bottle but like the perfume. I have samples of the edt and realised that it was very similar to Fidji (Guy Laroche). Do you know this fresh chypre? It's absolutely beautiful in summer and has a different scent in winter on my skin (great too).

I wish I loved Karma. Somebody gave me a Lush Karma gift set a few years ago and it nearly choked me. I think I threw everything apart from the perfume into the bin. I still have the perfume but I never, ever wear it.

Flying Fox, on the other hand, is just about my favourite shower gel ever. The bathroom always smells divine after I've been using it

L'Air du Temps, to me, is a slightly soapy and buttoned-up Sunday carnation with a graceful figure, and i can see the narcissus connection. I'll have to think about that the next time I put some on.

I didn't enjoy the semi-vintage I have nearly as much until I smelled and applied from a few much older bottles in both EDT and parfum. They shocked me: I could not believe that the sexiness coming out of the crook of my arm was LdT. It must be the heavy dose of nitromusks--maybe musk ambrette in particular?--that it used to contain. Now that I've experienced that a few times, I appreciate my other bottle more, even though it's way toned down in sass.

I worked for Lush for a while, did not enjoy it, and will leave it at that, but I do like the Flying Fox scent, especially the balm. Karma sounded good on paper and did not work for me in practice...

PP, Eden Botanicals carries a jasmine absolute 10% in fractionated coconut oil...from your liking FF I assume you enjoy a deep indolic jasmine kick as a pick-me-up (I sure do!): it's a lovely thing to carry around with you against the evils of the world. And inexpensive!