L'Air de Rien Miller Harris 2006

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7.5 / 10 253 Ratings

According to EssenceVitae Research Team A popular perfume by Miller Harris for women, released in 2006. Furthermore The scent is powdery-earthy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Neroli

Heart Notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Base Notes

Amber

Musk

Vanilla

Perfumer

Lyn Harris

Ratings

Scent

7.5253 Ratings

Longevity

8.0191 Ratings

Sillage

6.7189 Ratings

Bottle

7.5163 Ratings

Value for money

7.320 Ratings

Submitted by Seglein, last update on 12.05.2024.

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Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/28/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Amylovesyou
6 Reviews

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Amylovesyou

Top Review 41

Security

Nothing allows us to experience more humanity on both sides than to feel not only a helping hand in a moment of complete helplessness, existential neediness and highest need, but also to experience security.
These are the lines that come to mind when I spray "L'Air de Rien" on my skin, when it connects to something that gives me an indescribable feeling of security, that makes me feel something like basic confidence while at the same time being completely "naked". It may sound crazy, but it is. I have never before experienced anything like this in such an intense, already really intimate way with any other fragrance. There are too many scents in your head, pictures, memories unwind in your inner eye, but here it's just a feeling that I can't relate to conscious experiences. For a long time I puzzled what I was feeling, I only knew that it was beautiful and to put it into words was incredibly difficult for me.
L'Air de Rien is an unbelievably "skinny" fragrance. After the short nerolistart, which gives the fragrance a beautiful shine, an unbelievable emotional triumvirate is set on my skin. Patchouli + musk + oakmoss. All very loose, whipped like a mousse au chocolat. Slightly vanilla sweetish, dark, a little earthy, warm and soft like skin warmed by a fireplace. So the fragrance is already after a few minutes and it stays that way for hours until it is gently ambered - patchoulig finishes.
It is a rather moderate fragrance from the Sillage, which doesn't bother me here, because I only wear it for myself so far. Without distraction. Very intimate The bottle is kept entirely in the Miller Harris style, simple and of high quality. He is adorned with a sunflower and a naked woman with wings as well as the hand-written lettering "L'Air de Rien by Jane Birkin" which co-created this fragrance.
A fragrance that has touched me like no other, whose beauty is not revealed to everyone and probably never in the same way and should I keep only one fragrance of my collection so it would be with absolute certainty this one.

02/20/2024

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Midnights
9 Reviews

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Midnights

Top Review 29

All that remained

When you went away
Kiss-scarred skin
Ashy body parts, soiled by touch
Soundlessly formed letters on the lips
All that remained

A scenario of longing in three chapters. Waking up, still in the intermediate world between dream and reality, cautiously hopeful. Realizing that none of it was a dream. Perceiving the scent between rumpled sheets that is not your own and being pushed to the floor by the harsh realization that you have been left behind. Peeling yourself out of bed in a daze, stumbling over your own feet, searching for balance, only to find the last life raft a few steps further on the kitchen chair. Gaining time, procrastinating, smoking two cigarettes and letting the coffee get cold. Forming syllables with your lips, giving up letters of a name that can no longer be pronounced. Go to the bathroom, examine what is left of the self in the mirror. Mend the kiss scars in a makeshift way, look at the still glowing ashes on the skin, dissociated, where glowing touches have crumbled to dust. Go back to bed, press your face into the familiar pillow, wait. When a nothing left behind becomes an everything. At some point it will pass.
Oh yes, the fragrance: a small pinch of neroli, lots of oakmoss and patchouli, a sweet, humanizing base. Secondary matter. Fragrance-turned-fragile urgency, fueled by intimacy, longing, despair and the memory of the one spot on another neck where one's own face has always found refuge.

With longing thanks to the heart shooter @Jeob for this melancholy world in D minor. It should have been a statement, but didn't want to be limited to 1000 characters.

12/03/2018

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Tanninaz
11 Reviews

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Tanninaz

Top Review 15

No breath of nothingness

After reading some comments and blog reviews, I definitely felt that this could be a fragrance for me - I like to have something animal in the base note as well, but it shouldn't be too overwhelming. After all, I want to be able to wear the perfume to work without bothering my patients.
L´Air de Rien actually begins extremely musty, which is probably due to the oak moss. The Nerolinote also doesn't look fresh at all, but dusty, as if you had forgotten the whole thing in an old handbag or box and pulled it out again years later.
The first hour of the session, it looks like a stale oriental perfume and actually has a certain charisma. At this stage, my boyfriend's pretty up his nose.
After the initial phase, however, the fragrance becomes clearly more cuddly, still slightly musty and slightly powdery. Somehow has something of the smell of the old favourite aunt, who used to be a hot sweeper. In addition, there is a slightly unwashed musk note, as if one smells on the scalp of one's dearest, who has taken a shower in the morning but has just completed a working day. Not really sweaty, but also not fresh...
All in all a really unconventional fragrance, which I personally think is really great. Has quite stuff to the signature smell

05/21/2018

Cafeliberte
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Cafeliberte

Very helpful Review 9

Janes scented bag

This is the first fragrance I've tested that leaves me completely confused.
And I almost bet I liked it...

It's the third Miller Harris I've been allowed to test. I found both Cassis en Feuille and Figue Amère very interesting and idiosyncratic, but I don't want to wear both.
I have the first positive impression because of the wonderful name, I think L'Air de Rien sounds dreamlike beautiful, and also the relation to Jane Birkin I find promising.
The scent is allowed on the wrist, and I expect something so fragile, transparent that I press my nose much too close to the skin. My first fragrance impression is that I can't smell anything out of it, let alone assign anything to it, except that it feels very skiny very quickly.
I don't have the scent pyramid in my head at first and look only later - I wonder about my so dear and familiar Neroli, no molecule of it makes it into my scent sensation, I search in vain.
I have an urgent impulse to wash dishes quickly. But I have a job to do and use the time until I get home to explore this scent, I want to know why it confuses me so much and I absolutely can't classify it.

As has already been mentioned here several times, the mouldyness comes to light very quickly with me too. No, it's not sweaty, and neither is powder or talcum. It is sweetish, but not synthetic or flowery-sweet, but a mature sweetness. It smells very physical. That's the only word I can think of.
Slowly, the scent reminds me of the little scented bags that older ladies often hang for decades in their wardrobes between pastel-coloured ensembles, flowery blouses with small golden buttons and fine cardigans. Lavender or rose. Only that the scented bags have not smelled of it for a long time, but with the fine silk ribbon they hang so nicely decoratively between the well-kept and well-kept clothes. Even a few mothballs, which haven't done their job for a long time, are behind the sweaters.
And yet L'Air de Rien by no means smells like grandma or old lady.

But I feel immature with the scent, as if I had not gained enough life experience to be able to do justice to this very adult perfume as a wearer. Through this physical in it, I must also think of a certain sexual maturity, of a self-confident handling of one's own body.
But the smell on my wrist also makes me feel somehow unshowered in my skin. I don't get a person in my mind who can imagine this scent. Then I remember Jane Birkin again, with her concise tooth gap, the casual erotic charisma, as she stands at Serge Gainsbourg's side self-confidently in crocheted mini dress and straw hat. No, it is the mature Jane who has suffered strokes of fate, the mother, the singer, who has lost nothing of her charisma.
I am satisfied with this association, and perhaps I understand the fragrance a little better now.
But now I really need to wash it off because I long for freshness.

09/20/2014

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 9
Scent

MasterLi
375 Reviews

MasterLi

Top Review 9

The smell of Jane Birkin's favourite things...

So the story goes that Jane Birkin, 60's fashion icon, actress, muse, singer and sex idol never liked the smell of most perfumes, and for that reason, rarely wore fragrance. One day, she was introduced by a friend to Lyn Harris, creator and perfumer of Miller Harris, to see if she could make her a custom fragrance (in the 60's she wore Shalimar but never really liked it on her, preferring later to only carry small sachets of pot-pourri in pocket when she went out). What she told Lyn Harris that she hated the smells of hyacinth, tuberose and lilly-of-the-valley in female perfumes... and that she instead loved the smells of her brother's hair, her father's pipe, floor polish, an empty chest of drawers, and old forgotten houses. The result? A perfume called L'Air de Rien or "a hint of nothing", a perfume which wasn't meant to smell like perfume. An "anti-perfume" basically.

Here, Lyn Harris managed to (quite cleverly in my opinion) conjure up some of Jane Birkin's favourite smells by using notes such as Neroli, Patchouli Oakmoss, Amber, Musk & Vanilla. What I get from this is the Oakmoss smell, which was the perfume ingredient Jane Birkin loved the most. A lot of people say that the Musk is quite animalic in here, and what I would say is that, to my nose... there is a hint of something that smells a little like horses here... but I think that it comes from the combination between Patchoulli, Oakmoss and Labdanum (Vanilla & Amber) in the base.

I find this a very intriguing perfume, very unisex in fact. It smells like books and old paper, wood, warm human skin, even stables. But in a very good way! Not offensive at all... just very soft and warm and sensual. It's almost like the smell of a person's warm skin. I find this creation very clever. It's also very "adult" to me. I think you should be a little grown up and experienced to wear something like this. It is quite flexible, but I would suggest sampling first and testing on skin, not paper. It's warm, inviting and passionate. A real "love" fragrance. It reminds me of the smell of libraries and bedrooms... and clothes and warm people. Love it!

L'Air de Rien is definitely one to go out and try. A wonderfully "modern" creation from Lyn Harris, which doesn't smell like perfume but like life itself! full of warm, interesting, passionate people. Try it!

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4 short views on the fragrance

Ch03np 19 days ago

A thick, dense molasses that sits close to the skin. Antique and “brown”. The sweet smell of old paper and dust. Your mother’s worn clothes.

Gavarrus 5 months ago

I remember this as smelling like sweet saliva. No dusty old books. Just saliva

Manonlescaut 2 years ago

10
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

So uniquely beautiful!The sense that this "nothing"(rien)is everything...

Omardo 4 years ago

to me, tested only on paper, umbearable, but one of the most astonishing experience in perfumery. smells like my grandma sofa. time machine.

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