Frederic Malle Perfume Comprehensive Guide

Frederic Malle perfume has been around since slightly before 2000. Founded on a philosophy of giving the perfumer a very broad idea of what they wanted, then letting the perfume create it. Then, the almost always unseen, unknown perfumer got his/her name slapped on the bottle. Everything about this idea was perfect. We also have gotten a body of perfume work from Malle that is impressive. Malle was sold a couple of years ago to Estee Lauder, and there have been reformulations to bring them into compliance with IFRA. I am not in a position to compare pre-reformulation with current. Are there differences? Of course. You can’t make the exact same perfume when you have to sub in some other things. All of us would prefer to have the original, but that isn’t possible. Whew, evaded that topic.