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Dans Paris is lovely. I hate to keep reducing my reviews down to this smells like... X.... but in this instance it was immediate and striking association for me with L'Occitane Eau des Baux. Not a bad thing to smell like at all, in fact something of a community darling and sort after (I think discontinued right?) fragrance. You could say... Booooo! Celine charging top dollar for what is a clone of what was quite an affordable and unique fragrance, but I think all that does is to speak to the quality of L'Occitane really and just how good their products are. The difference here being a softer, very slightly more refined vanllic/powdery/smooth effect but it's only very slight because I get that wholly resinous, herbal amber which I associate with REAL, NATURAL vanilla materials anyway, but there's something of spiced, herbaceous, tonic to the Eau de baux accord, it's very medicinal to me, but the kind of medicine you might get in medeval times and I don't know if it's because of the chic packaging and the fact I know it's a Celine that I don't quite get that rawness. It's actually to it's detriment because I'd say Eau des baux is marginally better and obviously the innovator in this olfactory space, but frankly it's nice to see this represented at any price point and if you bought this fragrance I wouldn't blame you, you'd be getting a really good perfume.
Everyone seems to agree that this is light and performs badly, I find the opposite to be true, it's a beast-mode fragrance on me, but does have a delicate vibe. On card I immediately thought playdoh, and loved that, then on skin I get more complexity, with the coriander balancing the sweet vanilla beautifully. The bergamot gives it that sheen or shimmer I normally associate with Chanel Les Exclusifs. This is definitely one of my favourite Céline perfumes.