Grain de Soleil by Fragonard starts with a thin, ethereal, peculiar sweetness which is like the type of ylang ylang sweetness trimmed down to something without any of the ylang-ylang-ness. Somehow, this reminds me a lot of the beginning of Givenchy's Ange ou Demon Tender.
Surprisingly that I'm not that surprised that Grain de Soleil develops, for the time being, really similar to the way Ange ou Demon Tender develops. At this moment, Grain de Soleil has more of a lightly nutty, sweet, slightly powdered modern-chypre-influenced swirl of jasmine added in.
As the scent develops further, it simply gets tamed into something nutty, pale-non-sweet-vanilla-y concoction, which is really similar to Auge ou Demon's dry down; also, this type of non-creamy-cake type of nutty vanilla is quite a reminiscent to Dior Hypnotic Poison.
Nice scent, but I'm disappointed again by Fragonard, for this scent doesn't have much unique-ness I would expect from a rather exclusive house. However, it is not Fragonard's fault judging that Grain de Soleil was launched long before Ange ou Demon, and if anything, it is Givenchy who's coping Fragonard. However, pity...that not many people even know of this French house.
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