Reviews of Carnation (2006)
by Mona di Orio

I wish I could like Mona di Orio's Carnation, I really do. But I just don't. Carnation is an oddly depressing old fashioned smell of leather and powder, but not in a good way. Two of the three times I tried this, I got the smell that you smell when you are near the rack of rental leather shoes at a bowling alley. Not foot odor but the smell of worn leather shoes. I was mystified as to how it could be called Carnation when it bears absolutely no resemblance to that flower's spicy smell. Then I read on-line that it is called Carnation because it is meant to be reminiscent of a "bloom on a maiden's cheek". Sheesh. What will those marketers and copywriters think of next??

Here are Carnation's notes, per The Perfumed Court: top notes of bergamot, clove and geranium; middle notes of ylang ylang, violet, jasmine and precious woods; and base notes of musk, amber and styrax.