Fusion Sacre Clair is an amber spicy unisex fragrance that was created by Bertrand Duchaufour in 2012. It features top notes of coffee, rhubarb, coriander, black currant, clementine and bergamot; middle notes of tuberose, gardenia, bread, fig nectar, clove, orange blossom and jasmine; and base notes of vanilla, Canadian fir, tolu balsam, benzoin, heliotrope, musk, patchouli, cedar and ambergris. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
MAJDA BEKKALI FUSION SACRE CLAIR REVIEWS
Fragrantica: Columbian coffee enveloped in pretty white florals. Fusion Sacrée Clair emits a beautiful green veil that captures the senses from the beginning. Heliotrope and vanilla gives a delicate touch of warmth and a sweetness similar to marzipan. As the fragrance progresses, it gives me a vintage 90s vibe down to the frosted bottle. Feminine, powdery and lavish. I personally would enjoy this on a woman.
Fragrantica: Stunning, stunning, stunning. This perfume literally has everything, probably one of the most extensive (and varied) note profiles of any perfume in my collection, and somehow it all co-exists and works in complete harmony. Powdery-leaning, vanillic florals typically do not work with my skin chemistry (it's why I almost never reach for my bottle of Shalimar, sad face) but the creamy tuberose and gardenia keep it from getting too heady. I get just a peek of the juicy clementine and fig, and just a hint of the coffee and clove, but if you asked me to pick out individual notes without reading what's on this page, I couldn't do it. It's just too well-blended for that. After about an hour, once this really heats up, the vanilla and amber emerge from where they've been lurking and the whole thing goes nuclear. (I mean that in the best way possible, btw.) I even get a bit of yeastiness from the bread? Seriously, HOW does this all work? How? A worthwhile investment if you're looking for something feminine and effortlessly sophisticated. It's beautiful, and you will feel feel beautiful wearing it.
Fragrantica: Is it possible to not love this? I cannot imagine that. This was one of the first perfumes I sampled on luckyscent, and I immediately fell in love, and I am still in love with it. Elegant, sweet and tender, it is so smooth blended - the creamy white flowers, the honeylike sweetness, the subtle green. The genius of this is the whipped tuberose and gardenia, beautifully supported by rhubard, black currant and coffee notes. Pure magic! I don't like the musk in the dry down, but there is no question - it is absolutely gourgeus anyway. And even though this is a mighty one (careful with the sprays), it still manages - because of its pure elegance - to give you a sense of privateness, and I love that. Absolutely full bottle worthy and my favorite perfume. I usually go for unisex fragrances, but in my opinion this is femme, and the most feminine fragrance I own. It is just too good to pass, even for a a pretty androgynous minded woman like me. Try it!
Fragrantica: Fusion Sacrée Clair is a masterpiece that puts most other allegedly complex perfumes to shame. It opens with a deliciously snappy and crisp green gardenia and sweet mandarin (almost like the kind in the can—a guilty pleasure of mine, especially eaten cold out of the fridge) made tart by black currant and rhubarb, that slowly (probably due to the perfume’s density—it wears almost like a pure parfum) dissolves, like a movie scene, to a sleigh ride in a winter forest chock with evergreen trees laden with snow so white and sparkling that it would be blinding if you didn’t have your trusty oversized Chanel shades on. Underneath your hood, you’re wearing gardenias in your hair like Billie Holliday, tucked around your earmuffs, and your feet are snugly wrapped in boots and extra blankets with warming irons underneath. You’re wrapped in plush layers of pure cashmere, warm but nearly weightless, with a thick muffler tucked under your chin, and in your thermos you have a billowy steaming hot white chocolate mocha, possibly fortified with a shot of Kaluha to keep you extra warm. You’re wearing a dab of your favorite tuberose and amber perfume behind each ear, and your muffler smells like the sensual myrrh and benzoin incense you sometimes burn on chilly nights. The fresh, cold, bracing air carries up the occasional wafts of your perfume, your gardenias, your incense, and your coffee as you sip your drink and snuggle into your blankets and cushions. The horses’ manes jingle cheerily, winter sun peeks through the fir branches, and icicles sparkle around you. Once you’re back home, you unwrap your layers, rearrange the gardenias in your hair, and relax on a chaise in front of the fire, whose warmth lets your perfume bloom into a soft, creamy cloud next to your skin. You take a clementine from a nearby bowl and peel it, leaving the peel in a flat wicker basket where other peels are drying and filling the house with their sunny, cheerful fragrance. There’s hot coffee brewing somewhere in the house, possibly hot cider too (with cloves), and the fragrant, almondy scent of sugar cookies fresh out of the oven. Someone brings you a cup of hot cider, its tart and fruity steam joining the other delicious scents on and around you. Wearing this perfume is like experiencing all this, on an continual loop, with all of its elements moving into focus and then fading to the background as it goes.
Fragrantica: I'm so in love with Fusion Sacrée Clair!! I'm no expert but it seems very well balanced and is just a joy to smell. I love a coffee note (actual coffee bean, not coffee-sugar-milk) that supports like this does, rather than taking over. No one note takes over here at all, but I can smell them all like they are components of an autumn symphony. Sacred Fusion is a perfect name for this! Fruits, white florals, spices, woods all combine to create a comforting warmth within that somehow also gives an aura of cool, zingy freshness up top. A very lively perfume that dries down sweet but never too sweet. Gorgeous bottle, and long-lasting to boot. Thank you to Bertrand Duchaufour and Majda Bekkali for making this!!!
Fragrantica: Fusion Sacree Clair to my nose is a wall of gardenia syrup and coffee, and despite never experiencing a scent quite like this specifically, it still makes me feel extremely nostalgic. The heavy white florals take me back to my childhood visiting my grandparents in rural south Georgia. I remember sitting on the front porch swing on warm humid evenings and the air would be thick with the scent of gardenias, magnolia and climbing Confederate jasmine. All this would mingle with the smell of black walnut bushes, fig and pecan trees, and topped off with the smell of the after dinner coffee the grown-ups were drinking. This is rich, heady stuff! After a couple of hours though the sticky gardenia starts to fade and I get a warm, sweet vanilla-patchouli that lasts out the evening. Beautiful.
Fragrantica: Aaaahhhhh!!!! What a beauty!!!! Oh I love Fusion Sacree For Her - it's exquisite!!! Such wonderful things in it!!! I love the rhubarb, it's brilliant, and gosh, everything!!! It's lovely and sweet and gentle, quite thrilling really. It's amazing. So many lovely ingredients! Beautiful coffee, gorgeous clementine!!! Gorgeous gardenia, tuberose and jasmine!!! And vanilla, and figs, black currant, heliotrope!!! Many many things, but so well-blended, I have to look for the individual notes. It's just a gorgeous smell!!!!!
Fragrantica: Gleaming and acidic; a double-edged blade dipped in rhubarb and citrus and passed through the thick, acrid smoke of burning resins. A thundering of hooves as sunrise gilds the horizon, white petals crushed into the stone beneath them. Arresting and triumphant, like a mythical queen wearing a crown of hammered gold and nothing else. Smouldering, symphonic, and eternal. It's very sweet, very strong, a bit cloying, a little weird; it's too much! But it's also intoxicating, and absolutely worth owning for me because it's the only thing I have smelled in perfumery that reminds me of the Aloysia virgata (sweet almond bush) that I had at my old house. That shrub is said to smell like vanilla almond, but that isn't quite how I would describe it- a friend once told me it smelled like Smarties candy, and he was right! Smarties and dense white flowers. The scent traveled far and wide on the breeze, and drew you toward it. It was very sweet, very strong, a little weird, and a bit too much. And I adored it! This isn't a replica of that flower, but it's got a lot of similarity and tickles the same place in my brain. I got a great deal on a gorgeous bottle and could not be happier! Oh, and performance is crazy. Go easy on it. Strong and lasts forever!
