# Fragonard — Tilleul Cédrat

> Tilleul Cédrat is the linden-and-citron entry in Fragonard's 2013 Le Jardin de Fragonard collection: an affordable, sunny Provençal floral built around the smell of linden trees in bloom. A green-citr

## Essence
Tilleul Cédrat is the linden-and-citron entry in Fragonard's 2013 Le Jardin de Fragonard collection: an affordable, sunny Provençal floral built around the smell of linden trees in bloom. A green-citrus opening gives way to a honeyed linden-blossom heart and a soft white-cedar drydown, and its quiet reputation rests on capturing that true-to-life linden character with uncommonly good staying power for the house.

## Scent Profile
The opening is bright, green, and citrusy — violet leaf with lemon and mandarin carrying an herbaceous, astringent zing. A surprising amount of cedar shows up early, enough that several wearers describe a distinct cedar presence at the top alongside the citrus.

The heart is the centerpiece: honey-sweet linden blossom, often described as nectar-like, almost sweet enough to tickle the throat, supported by a notably refined orange blossom that reads heady without turning headache-inducing, and a quiet jasmine underneath. Opinions split on what dominates — some get a lush honeyed-linden floral, others read it mostly as violet leaf, orange blossom, and cedar.

The drydown is clean and soft: white cedar and white musk settle into a fresh, lightly powdery woodiness, with a faint patchouli- or coriander-like nuance from the violet leaf and cedar. After the citrus burns off it stays reasonably linear.

## Performance
By Fragonard standards, longevity is a recurring point of praise, since many of the house's scents are known to fade quickly. Wearers report better-than-expected staying power and, importantly, that it holds up in heat — described as standing up to hot weather and remaining pleasant through it. It is not a projection monster: expect moderate sillage and a clean, skin-friendly radiance rather than a booming trail. Given its inoffensive freshness, generous spraying is fine.

## Wearing Context
This is a spring and especially summer daytime scent, the kind wearers reach for on hot days as a cooling refresher. It is casual, fresh, and clean — well suited to the office, daytime, and warm-weather everyday wear, and out of place as a cold-weather or formal-evening statement. Despite the feminine catalog label it wears as a genuine unisex, with only a minority reading it as distinctly feminine or, on some skin, sharper and more masculine.

## Comparisons & DNA
The most-cited reference is L'Artisan Parfumeur's La Chasse aux Papillons, which shares the warm honeyed-floral-with-citrus vibe closely enough that wearers treat them as kin. Goutal's Provençal florals come up as similarly heat-resistant relatives, and the orange-blossom facet has drawn a comparison to a softer Elie Saab Le Parfum. Within its own collection it is the fresh-citrus-floral counterpoint to its incense, gourmand, and jasmine siblings. As a linden specialist it sits in the small tilleul soliflore genre alongside scents like D'Orsay's Tilleul, but no exact dupe or designer clone is cited — it is best understood on its own DNA.

## Reception
Reception is quiet but affectionate. Wearers praise it as a beautiful, refreshing, natural linden-citrus that captures linden-in-bloom realistically, with better-than-expected longevity, strong heat resistance, excellent value, and a giftable bottle. It earns signature-scent loyalty from several wearers, some of whom discovered it at the Fragonard museum in Grasse. Criticism is mild and consistent: a few find it slightly too sweet, with the nectar-like linden able to tickle the throat, and some get mostly cedar and violet leaf rather than linden. Within the collection, opinion splits on whether it is the standout. Given the low price and broadly inoffensive freshness, it is widely treated as a low-risk, even recommended, blind buy for linden and citrus lovers.

## Versions & Reformulation
This is a single composition with no known reformulations. It launched as one of four EDPs in the Spring 2013 Le Jardin de Fragonard collection, alongside Encens Fève Tonka, Héliotrope Gingembre, and Jasmin Perle de Thé, with matching soaps, candles, and diffusers; the line was later extended with Rose Ambre in 2014. No perfumer attribution is documented, so none is asserted here.

## Acquisition Notes
This sits in the affordable Grasse-house tier — it launched at around €28 for 50 ml and currently sells in the neighborhood of $65 to $74 for the 50 ml depending on retailer, the standard size, with matching soap and home products available. It is sold mainly through Fragonard's own boutiques, including the Grasse and Paris perfume museums, the Fragonard website, and a handful of authorized stockists, since the house's direct shipping is limited in some regions. Counterfeiting is essentially a non-issue at this price and distribution.

## Notable Facts & Lore
- Le Jardin de Fragonard launched in Spring 2013 as a quartet of "olfactive journeys," with Tilleul Cédrat as the linden-and-citrus entry.
- The house frames it around linden trees, with luminous lemons "embraced by violet leaves" in the shade of the linden.
- Fragonard was founded in Grasse in 1926 by Eugène Fuchs and named for the Grasse-born painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
- The house built its model on selling scented products directly to Riviera tourists, which is why many of these bottles are travel souvenirs.
- The collection was later extended with Rose Ambre in 2014.