La Fleur By Livvy Puck’s Potion

A few weeks ago, I entered a local store and I was greeted by the inebriating aroma of Easter lilies. They were all beautifully arranged in pretty vases looking fleshy and pristine. As I shopped, I went back to sniff their petals several times.

The scent of lilies is heady and buttery with bitter and spicy nuances. As I thought about lily fragrances, one in particular came to mind: La Fleur By Livvy Puck’s Potion. The creation interprets the note in a way that playfully conjures the beauty and soul of nature, spring, and forests.

I have talked about the La Fleur By Livvy’s fragrances before and this is another gorgeous creation by Olivia “Livvy” Larson, the line’s founder and natural perfumer (read my reviews of TOSOM, A Walk in Giverny, and the Fleurs and Travel collections).

Puck’s Potion is an all-natural fragrance named after Puck, the mischievous sprite from A Midsummer’s Night Dream, one of Olivia’s favorite Shakespeare’s plays.

She created this fragrance with several materials in mind.

Olivia, like Shakespeare before her, loves lilies, so she used a favorite lily oil. This same oil was also included in another of her creations, Forbidden Love.

Love-in-idleness flowers (wild pansies) were added by Puck in his love potion, so she decided to represent them by including violet leaf in the composition.

Olivia also enjoys crème de cassis, the sweet, dark red liqueur made from blackcurrants and, thus, created a cassis accord that would nicely blend with the floral and woody notes.

She mentioned to me this is a simple and straightforward composition based on a few key raw materials, evoking a vivid image in her mind: the naughty fairy, Puck, making a quick magic potion in the woods.

Spraying Puck’s Potion indeed takes you to a dreamy forest surrounded by fragrant flowers and fruits, the damp undergrowth swarming with playful elves and fairies hopping and sprinkling pixie dust.

The fragrance opens with the aroma of oakmoss, calling to mind moss-covered tree trunks, moist shrubs, and soil drenched by the summer rain. The spicy scent of lilies peaks through the leafy and mossy bed, while dashes of cassis pudding and tonka bean meld into an ambrosia-like brew that creates an enchanted woods vibe.

On my skin I detect oakmoss as the central accord, with lily adding a creamy floralcy and cassis a fruity sweetness to the composition. Together they uplift the fragrance’s woody and earthy character so that it is a soulful yet bright companion throughout the day.

Puck’s Potion is a natural fragrance and is part of La Fleur By Livvy’s Travel Collection. Through this fragrance, Olivia wants to transport us to Stratford-upon-Avon, the city in England where Shakespeare was born.

A note from the brand:

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, ACT 1 SCENE 1, William Shakespeare

Notes: Oakmoss, cassis accord, tonka bean, violet leaf absolute, lily absolute.

I reviewed Puck’s Potion from a 50 ml bottle I won thanks to a giveaway hosted by Olivia Larson.

See more about La Fleur By Livvy’s fragrances and other products on the line’s website.

Puck’s Potion was a top judges’ selection (silver) as part of the Artisan Fragrance Salon Awards held in San Francisco in 2015.

Photos are my own.