Fragrance Reviews by taliaseki

To tell the truth. Candy is the top note and tangerine is the middle note. It is simple and nice. But has nothing special to rise among similar ones.

After the rosy start which is the best balanced period of this scent; the violet gets more sweet and dominant over iris. Nice but not very bright.

This is one is a straight and sweet violet scent. It is much like the Violette colognes in the first half of last century. It is nostalgic and cute but disappearing very fast.

A nice floral opening, reminding me oleaster flowers (i do not know osthmantus itself). But in the middle notes to much citrus makes it sour and hard to enjoy. Too much sour dressing does not only spoil a salad but a scent as well.

Starting with a smoky cardamom coffee and continues with a surprisingly nice curry. Not long living and definitely masculine. I am not an spice lover and this is not appealing to me but i must admit that it is good work.

The very first note made a flash scent memory from childhood. The old sewing machine of mum; the lubricating grease combined with the leather strain on the metal wheel you run with foot. In ten minutes you notice leather but synthetic and metalic note stays over leather for half an hour. beside being very chemical to my nose the leather note in it is not the soft alluring note of tabac blond or daim blond but the cloying and masculine note in the royal english leather by creed.

So charming... It is very earthy and lively. Well blended layers of flowers apricot and musk is staying very near to skin and seductive at the same time. It is a love at first sight for me. The only drawback could be the strong apricot which made the dear tresor boring for me after several use. but now all thumbs of mine are up.

A woody lemon cologne is a man's cologne. I cannot smell anything feminine in it. Reminds me of some masculine creeds, himalaya, green irish tweed on the dry down and erolfa at the end; probably because of the lemon and ambergris.

I do not know the smell of hawthorn, and acacias around have very faint smell mostly green. So does the Aubépine-Acacia; green fresh gentle... compared to the only acacia scent i tried which is Acaciosa by Caron, this one is very natural and much more nicer. It will be the only creed in my wish list.

It is really young and charming with the misty rose and fruits. Very enjoyable but i prefer lady Vengeance which is strikingly bold and gorgeous.

Spicy rose is not so appealing to me. If you like rose but not florals (in an unique position with this dilemma) you can like it.Of course it is not so simple but this one has not the magic which the other "juliette has a gun"s does.

It is greens over balm. Violet very natural comes after fifteen minutes, and adss up a sweetnes to scent. A nice balm is dominant in the scent. on the drydown it becomes soapy and more ordinary.
Though not my style i found it enjoyable and wearable. A green lover may be fond of it.

This is the second rose scent i liked after romance. the rose in both of them are similar; dusty smooth. I can take a hint of jasmin with vanilla from it. very womanly very smooth very nice. I will buy one.

I liked it. It s surprisingly good. The top note is tobacco which is not to dry and intense with lemon. I remember how i felt when i first tried bulgarian rose of creed. It is lemon with rose. Putting two common cologne scents together is like putting sausage between bread slices. Yes an old trick but very impressive if you are the first to do it. This one is also delicious. In half an hour mixed with some woods all notes dissolve in each other and becomes a very inspiring scent. It revives a rainy autumn day in front of wardroom of the city library. Scent of wet coats and umbrellas and the wood boards and dusty bookshelves. Really nice.

Amber, sandalwood and incense. It is really nice but shouldn't it be Samurai Brown? Amber and sandalwood lover men should try that.

The first ten minutes of it is a disaster. some kind of medical and resin notes which are very strong gave me a headache. Then it becomes a powdery aldehyde. I put it into a group of harsh scents i hated like dana, Bal à Versailles, (for the top) and Je Reviens by Worth (for the heart). I can find no femininity or any piece of grace in it.

The sacred tuberose in the first minute is really great but when jasmin which is not the best quality is added scent becomes somehow metalic. The second quality jasmin oils have this side scent; so does the ylang ylang and violets; a kind of bitter and disturbing metalic like note. Also the final scent is sour on me.

Cedarwood and coffee flash is reminding me A man pure coffee. But this one is better blended and more successful though these greens do not make a nice back ground to exhibit a coffee note.

Well, i have never handled a piece of patchuli nor have been between hippies overusing it. so this is the impression of an alien about the scent. It is a grassy bushy monocrome scent which is appealingly green in first minutes but then grow out to be dull. It is just boring.

When i tried it on paper and on my wrist i have enjoyed many sparkling flower and citrus notes. I was planning to buy one when my sample runs out. But then i wore it on a hot day and i got too much pepper note which would make you think i ate too much chilis and sweating paper aroma. I could not believe to my nose at first try and retried. Result same. have to forget about it.

I agree with the all comment made before me. The coffee note is coffier than many real coffees. It is is really impressive with the wonderful smoky coffee lavender composition. İ really admire but is it wearable for me. No it is not. But i cannot stop myself saying "Great... "

The first notes sweet fig leaf, and a bit floral made a good sense but with the rise of coconut which is really very artificial the magic disappears. Without coconut it would be amazing. Still appealing though.

Every note in it except coffee is nice. Coffee note is not very successful but not disturbing either. Main problem is coffee is not integrated with the rest; stands in the front like a brown spot.

That is really amazing. I have never expected it to be realistic. Fleur de Figuier has exactly the smell of green small ripe male figs we collect to make jam. And of course the big coarse fig leaves and the milk it runs out when you cut a leaf or ripe fruit. It is really very nice and realistic. but it would be a male scent more than a female i think. (May be because the scent is of a male tree... the fig trees do not carry male and female flowers on the same tree like many other fruits. If you want to grow fig you have to have many female trees beside a male tree. While female trees gives the yummy big fruits, male tree has green small unriped unseeded fruits that are tasteless but has that wonderful aroma. So they are collected for candies and jams.) well i advice it to gentlemen who likes sweet greens.

Top notes are cedar and vetiver very green, very dry. Feel like they are burning my eyes. When the cardamom is added in ten minutes you can hardly define the leather note in the middle. It is an attractive leather note but obscured by the mentholly green cedar and cardamom. After a while comes very near to vetiver by guerlain except the cardamom.

Overdried herbs in th opening are over powered and repelling but it grows into a softer sweeter and mature scent. Reminding me many other herbal pine nose burning masculine scents which i do not like. If you like M7, yatagan etc. you can like it too.

Quickly fading soapy lilacs over the champagne base. Nice but poor silage and longevity makes it unfavorable.

The top note has an affect on my nose like burning, like menthol does. But menthol has its aroma. This one is rather like naphthalene. It reminds me the old chests full of old lace dresses, mothballs and a rag with few drops of bergamot on the top. O.K i know no one would use naphthalene note in a scent ; it must be the pepper which must be very hot one i think.
In the middle when florals rise the scent becomes more modern and debonaire. But with that sandalwood naphthalene (pepper) bergamot oil accord it is impossible to get that old chest out of my mind. I have to try it sometime later for a final decision.

It is supposed to have pink peppercorns, orange blossom absolute, lily of the valley, heliotrope, magnolia, peony, rose petals, patchouli, sandalwood, musk, vetiver & ambrette seed notes. But briefly; It is a cute floral with a limited silage and longevity.

With so much honey and cinnamon in it is hard to enjoy florals and champagne in it. That is why i do not like spicy scents. spices are too strong so spicy is only spicy and cannot be have any other colors. the base contains some woods and that is the best part of it.

This is a surprising scent. The very top note is menthol mint something. Then comes water lilies or lilies left in much water and began to decay. Base notes are fresh nice florals which lily is not very heady, well balanced and nice. The only problem is these well balanced nice florals have become so crowded in the market that i began to see them like penguins and have troubles in remembering which is which. I will give it thumbs up but as a am not hit at heart by the top note surprises i would buy a cheaper penguin instead of it.

Very best quality ocean scented fabric softener smell; then comes fresh and smooth flowers. Longevity poor. stays close to skin and that would be good for perfume- timid ones. It is nice but not striking.

Spicy lemon turns to a nice and ordinary aquatic. Not bad but not to fall in love with...

One friend of my mother had gifted it to me with a winter white cashmere coat when i was at collage. They were not truly gifts as she tried and disliked them both. Both were much for my age but i enjoyed wearing now and then them when i wanted to feel grown up rich womanly... Glorious is a really rich and sophisticated fragrance with strong silage and longevity. My brother drove both of us to collage and kept the car in the afternoon suffered from it so much as my smell stayed in the car all day. I cannot belive how cheap it is now. I wish i could find it one of the internationally shipping online stores.

Dates. Oversweet, sticky dried dates... so loud, so high. Top note is nothing but only and clearly dates that you can almost feel the taste on your teeth. After ten or twenty minutes rises a curry like spice scent. At the base there is amber musk and woods. The sweetness of dates stay there somehow. But at the base notes it can be confused with mapple syrup.
The scent looks like a weird suit designed by a good designer, as an adaptation of the long dresses arabic men wear. you can see it on the stage and congratulate the designer for the creative work but never wear it and never congratulate any friend for wearing it.

Reminds me of Davidoff with basil, floral top. It is nice and ordinary.

I do not like over masculine spicy woods. But this one is good. Ginger and woods come to stage strong and clear. Blue Cedarwood is nose burning strong but some how still nice.

When i was a child one of my mothers friend, a showy lady when compared to my mom, used to wear it. Then she gifted a bottle to my mom and i thought it was a treasure about being showy. Everyone did not wear it here; it was produced so far away and goverment did not used to let luxury things like perfumes to be imported by then. Now i bought one online as it is not still on sale here. It is even nicer than i remembered. A powdery aldehydic jasmine; very wearable after so many years.
With the musk base shares the same trick with alien, infusion d'iris. the flower changes sambac iris and jasmine but aldehyde to musk or amber has something common. A proved to be successful template. Of course charlie does not have the shining quality of the other two.
Any way charlie is showy and sexy. In many instances cheaper dresses are more sexy than the designer ones.

I enjoyed the anise greenness at start and the lavender drydown is modest. Not so sure to like it or to be neutral.

Too much chocolate. to sweet. On the dry down you expect to have alittle peace but pachuli with chocolate makes a syntetic note that not dusturbing but not charming either. But do not listen to me as a am not a gurme scent lover. The only high calorie scent i can enjoy rarely is L from lolita lempcika.

It is a misty, powdery iris with aldehydes; and somehow sweet. It has the rubber eraser like note as in Bulgari black. And though the aldehydes in chanel 5 strikes a headache on me this does not. This is a special scent which happens to be both modern and fairy (iris). I do not plan to buy one now but can make addiction if i try a few times more i am afraid.

Top Notes: Green violet, neroli, tuberose
Heart Notes: Jasmine, orange blossom, daffodil, broom
Base Notes: Tuberose, woods

I have bought it blind in sake of tuberose mentioned here. If anyone ever mentioned about the neroli, (or i have checked the notes like i have done a minute ago, just after i have tried perfume and my eye began to twitch nervously because of the neroli) i would even not try it. But i am happy i have tried (not happy to have bought yet though). First this neroli is an modern version and better than the old; bloody killer of other notes. This modern version is civilized enough to let tuberose come to stage in ten minutes. And it is less bitter, spicy more sour orange and sunny. It does not kick the nose so harsh and after half or one hour leaves the show. When jasmine and orange blossoms come, only a sourness is left from neroli. These two are like two middle aged over weight cancan dancers that shake stage when they jump. I like both but here you feel them heavy and over powered. (do i exaggerate, because of the nasty affects of neroli on my nervous system? possible, because neroli old or modern has an affect on perfume, like neon-guava painted walls would do to home decoration. ups i have to cease fire.)
For the first three hours blonde is an versace women; bold and showy, big blonde hair, 5 inch pumps and crystal figures on the denim. It can pump you up without pumps bother your feet. But the best part is the base notes. Tuberose makes a suprise and comes back with some ylang ylang and stays really long.

this is for pure perfume. Sweet cloying and nostalgic with violet Jasmine sandalwood and oakmoss. I do not anything green. I do not prefer to wear these old style, old lady scents but this one is better than many.

It sounds good; mango peach then the flowers... but it does not happen so. No sweet delicious mango peach, but spicy bitter bergamot even more dirtied with coconut makes a muddy unpleasant mass with the flowers. Amber sandalwood base is nice after half an hour.

Caramel crunch with almonds over the chocolate cream cake. Yummy... Simple and nice like the others in this line. But my favorite is the zestini, which is a fresh lemon and mango. I have a mini set of them. Their poor silage and longevity, together with their colorful plastic mini bottles make me think them as a part of a barbie set. I think i will give them as gifts to some little girls of my friends.

Pineapple, mandarin with a pinch of rose. when it heats up i got woods more than amber or musk. And a side product note, may be pralin makes this effect but i got barely smell of wet cake there. You mix the cake and if you smell it before putting into oven you got that wet sugary starchy aroma. Nice and young.

Rasperry tangerine opening is good work. So does the violet vanilla fade down. But all these body shop scents seem like Barbie things to me. they are part of game and not real. Though this one is a better design than i cannot get out of this feeling.

It is creamy clean that reminds me nivea cream scent. Nivea cream is an fellow beginning from my child hood and the scent always peaceful. thumbs up for sake of it.

Aquatic bananas and melon. Somehow simple and flat like car scents or way erasers smell. No base notes. No base as it faints in five minutes.

I have tried this because it is supposed yo have a black currant note. I am crazy about this black currant note. Ask a few of your normal nosed friends about black currant smell. They will say you "does it smell?" yes it does smell. Not loud not memorable but it has a smell. I think using black currant as a note in a floral or fruity scent is like using a cat's purr as an sound in a symphonic rock song. To make it noticed you have to amplify it billion times. Is a billion times amplified sound is still a cat's purr?
Any way i am talking empty as i could not get any black currants here either.

Flair? Reminds me Pleasures by Estee Lauder. In fact very much like pleasures. In music, if a song contains a part longer than 8 measures, exactly same with a previous song, musician can be accused of stealing (i do not know what word is used for this act). In perfumery there is no measures. Bad for the designers.
I can say that it flair has more than eight measures in common with pleasures.

Lemony fresh opening. Becomes sweeter in time. Nothing interesting about it.

What can be more beautiful than a beauty? A well dressed beauty. Alien is a well dressed jasmine, succeed to be more attractive than a nude jasmine. Good work. Must have for jasmine lovers.

As i have never met a gardenia in person; cannot comment on gardenia scent replication quality. This is an old style misty smoky sweet floral to me. It has also woods like oak and sandal. My husband thinks it smells like guest room of his grandma. I can imagine it, oak or walnut solid furniture, soap washed sheets and sweet sambac cologne. It is nice but i would not like to smell that way.

Opening the vial the peach aroma tickled my nose. In a few seconds after i applied it to my skin arose the rose. And in a few minutes these two combined with a grass note to be fresh cheerful tone. The chemistry should be playing a big role in reaction with this scent i think. It is very soft rosy nectarine on me. vodka? eh if you push it there is some but it is not too bitter or dry. It does not have the romantic magical aura tresor arouses with apricot and rose but still nice.

Honeysuckle over the green tea and lemon. I like honeysuckle very much and the honey suckle note in it is very gentle but i would prefer a different base. Green tea and lemon is worn out; besides never acts as a base; green tea is like red satin, it would pop out in all instances. Of course you can use red satin to underlie diamonds but honeysuckle is not a sparkling note and is shadowed by green tea here. İt is a pity as i like honeysuckle very much.

This is a bold and strong parfume even in edt form. Opens with a quality rose bouquet, then i got something reminding me bubblegums. bubble gums? no i got some berries, getting stronger and stronger. which berries? exactly the ones in the jungle berry bubblegums. i feel confused about it. It is well done but i do not feel charmed by it. As it become sour cherry over the rosy base and fade away i decided that it is not for me.

Though the one i hold in my hand is an boxed sample of caron i had deep suspects that bottle is filled with something else. I have nothing green or floral from it. Opens with a leathery smoky aura which turns out to be a rich and nice oakmoss. Then rises carnations and jasmin in an old (i mean not with their actual smells but their old way representations) but nice way. It is a bit spicy and sweet probably due to carnations but carnations are not over powered cloying clovers as in many of coevals. For me it has the best parts of mitsouko and le heure bleu (oakmoss jasmin carnations) and lacks the cloying disturbing part of them (neroli and begamot representative old heavy oils). It is one of the still wearable oldies for me.

It is so light and transparent that becomes a trace of floral lotion odor very quickly. It has no point of interest.

The first chemicals kick you away all off a sudden. These are not saffron and coriander; i have eaten much of them. This is just a disturbing chemical. After five minutes i put my courage on to bring my nose closer. Now it is softened and become a mild insecticide smell. After an other ten minutes florals begin to come to stage. First magnolia then jasmin. The scent is like mixture of florals and insecticide. What a big ambivalence for a poor bee...

If i got to be fair, I cannot say that it has no attractiveness. It is original and extraordinary. It does not resemble to many others. It is strong and has a character. Reminds me here the marvelous face of Uma Thurman. Not cute not tender, a kind of beauty; mostly strong and attractive. If the story was ended here i would hive a big thumbs up to this scent.

But after an hour comes the basenote; spicy amber. That is the point i began to take saffron and coriander which is really mild and suitable. But after that time it is not so good and does not resemble to Uma...

It is romantic and lovely; like a powder colored French lace and silk dress and a big smile of affectionate lady in it. Apricot and rose makes a dreamy soft new thing that makes you ask "what kind of rose is this?" But the real artistic scene begins after the rose steps back to a even up the musk and vanilla. The sweetness may be tiring in repetitive usage but i have to try and see.

Pine and lemon gives it an old, well known style. It is nice and wearable.

vetiver is not in the flora of the country i live so have never handled a piece of vetiever and smelled it. So when i first sniffed guerlain vetiver i thought vetiver is green with bergamot and coriander aroma. Really i cannot go any further with it. Cedar and tobacco is very faint (would be better with more of them) and coriander is very cloying (would be better with less) throughout the first hours. That makes it plentiful. My husband who pours perfume over his had could not finish his first bottle of vetiver for the last three years.

the name arouses nice inspirations sun and flowers. but the huge sunflowers do not have a flowery scent other than some green saps and i could never get what is the the dusty sour head note of it. not exciting in anyway.

It is a nice floral with an modest amount of lily. Nice and tender. I am happy to meet it today as i have been planning to add a lily fragrance to my wardrobe and could not decicide between diorissimo and pleasures incense. 5. avenue will be a better choice as i don't enjoy strong lily much.

The openning is very enticing; it drove me crazy. i had to name it was like vetiver and basil and mint and lavander and sweet and sour but none. Was like some iced tea but none of these would be so seducing for me. When the grapefruit note rose and the herbal one began to diminish i got some peace. When i come back to my computer i looked up it and yes the secret is the green mango. What else would be so green and seducing? i put all my thumbs up for a green frag for the first time. (because of the one green in it which would not stay green all its life). any way best green ever for me.

I know three ladies in my place using it continously. It is a bright magnolia rosewood scent with some cheery sweet notes. It reminds me one of my mother's friends. She was a chic lady with properly done hair all the time. This scent must have a 35 years elder twin but i do not know the name. though i find it nice, this is also a catchy scent that can become boring quickly.

Avon's description of Celebre: "Comes with vibrant notes of white peach, waterfruits, jasmine and magnolia finished with a hint of woody scents and precious amber."
Two of my office friens like and use it. It is nice in very common sense. Peaches and jasmine is a combination of an summer verenda. Who does not like to eat peaches laziliy in a summer verenda? It is also a catchy fragrance. Being catchy is good for a fragrance to make it popular but as it happens in music; being catchy is not good for becoming a classic. Every one likes simple tunes that they can play whistling but they can become boring easily. So it happens to celebre.

Treselle is a flower scent that even people who do not like flower scents apreciate. It does not resemble to any popular florals i know. It is a bit extraordinary without any lily, peony and freesia. Flowery note is mainly on jonquil or daffodil like flower ( should be White Tuberanthia Flower) and lotus which gives the scent modest and nice character. It is not the best quality but have medium longelivity and it is understandable for me as in my country its price is one forth or fifth of estee lauders.

My nose plays games on me in this scent. I really do not get most of the notes. Ralph opens sweet fruity; mostly watermelony to my nose. It is very cheerfull. (does italian mandalins are some breed between watermelons and mandarins?) I can swear that it has no magnolia or linden flowers in it. These two are realitively heavier florals. Ralph is so light and airy. Can you think and orris magnolia musk scent to be young? I got none from it. Sweet summer fruits and white flowers. I got bored of it before the 1 oz bottle came to end but i have bought one for a friend of mine recently. She wears it hapiliy and i got smell from her often. I think same every time; it is young cheerful nice but boring.

It is one of the fragrances my skin spoils. No almond blossoms, no sambac or lily nothing sparkling but a messy flower bouquet away from freshness, resembling to a bowl of fruit salad waiting in the lemon juice more than a day. Yes sour and messy... But not so bad that i have finished up a 30 ml bottle and had a few compliments about it. But i do not dream of using it again.

Ugmpff. Hit by the nose breaking spicy Neroli. When my nose is destroyed by it, i can hardly go any further. Like in heure blue and tabu and narcisse noir. i went to board to take a sniff from tabu to compare and umpg hit on the nose again. i know narcisse noir is much more gentle and cute at the opening, heure blue is more essence oil old so these two can race in harshness of opening i thought. Tabu is stronger in time and goes soapy as bal a versailles gets a bit flowery. But as my nose is destroyed with two harsh neroli kick i cannot tell much about the flowers and citrus. The mixture seems to be very complicated. As delicious as a late night baby food; put everything in the blender, honey and the eggs and the apple and the cheese; nutritious but do not expect it to taste gurme. But i can be completely wrong because my nose is dropped by neroli. and may be the neroli does that only to me because hates me as much as i hate neroli. Anyway, i could not find anything nice about it.

The oak moss and leather which are commonly works as base notes meets us in the opening in a surprising way. then comes the powdery iris sealed with a hint of joyful cardamom and lavender. I think it is a very nice fragrance. It smells very homme and very home to me as my husband uses it for the last three years. I am a kind of person that gets bored of many popular fragrances before the end of the bottle comes but this is not such a simple fragrance. If it is not worn recently, I sometimes find myself asking "what is this you are wearing?"

Supposed to have notes of mandarin, water lily, sandalwood, vanilla and honey. I get spicy florals and mandarin from it. But the spicy honey component is disturbing for me. I don't honey much and if a have honey on me i would be sticky and walking with flies and bees over me; these are not good inspirations; netiher the aroma of a oversweet honey in the mounth. honey is not something like caramel or vanilla; you cannot take its scent from far away and begin to dream about yummy cookies deserts waiting for you. The moment you get the scent of honey it sticks to your hand or mount or spoon. So it is not a bright idea to arouse apetitite . But people generally take notice of it on me and like it. may be i am the only one against honey and spicy florals

I have edt of it, which i can only get aldehydes from it. The powdery clean heart of it reminds me one of the early baby wipes. Then comes the powdery synthetic jasmine which would be nice alone. But it is hard to forget the baby wipes and feel attractive in this scent for me.

It is sweet and woody. sandalwood and vanilla, some violet iris like misty note in the middle. Nice and ordinary...

Mapple syrup, vanilla, then comes incense woods which are not burned yet (no smoke); ah a kind of fruit raisings? ops, someone took the fuit back; there is a chemical blends everything into a misty potion; then more woods and a bit amber...

I cannot imagine myself or another lady i know wearing it. It has something rubbery in it which reminds me bulgari black which i found masculine too. I feel confused how to feel about it. it is well designed, has inspirations, have quality but a bit weird. Today i am neutral about it.

This is a very hot day to try it. If you are planning to leave it to late autumn. the oppening is very cloying old style clovers. then a bir soft flowers and dries down to a powdery oakmoss centered base. Like dozens of similiar old lady fragrances do, it has nice properties to apreciate after first hour of horror. Does it worth to endure? I don't think so.

Diorissimo smells soliflower to me; hyacinths and/or lilies. Though it is quite flat; it is a velvety smooth bodied fragrance of high quality. If you love this flowers it is a must have.

It is a very nice and extraordinary aquatic. Do not be too demanding about wet cobblestones and clean Tshirt but it is really wet and refreshing and have a high quality apart from all these cheap ozonic detergent scents.

The top notes oranges (very natural orange juice aroma, has nothing artifical or neroli or bergamot like heaviness) very faint florals spiced up with tomato leaves. Tomato leaves here deserves extra appreciation and makes this fragrance a "must try" to have visions about creativity in perfume designing.

I agree the other reviewers about the non disturbing, clement way of the scent. This would be a plus in many instances but i would like to have it more bodied. The natural scent lovers which enjoy the fragrances that smell like air would smell naturally in a moment in time (not after a channel lady walked by, but rather after you have watered your cherry tomatos and dandrofills in the garden) would not miss that one.

A classical bergamot splash is followed with lime and lavender. Even at the moment vanilla come up to stage i found this to be a bright idea. But it stays pleasing very short. When vanilla gets lauder lime and vanilla becomes sharp and noxious together.

It is a nice bergamot labdanum fragrance. I do not get any jasmine in it. But cistus makes a great herbal here, lavanderish green. Masculine and original... Worths a try for herbal green scent lovers.

Top notes lemon and tobacco which are nice disappear in five minutes leaving its place to a very cloying, overpowered spicy neroli. Santal comes after an hour and a half. What a miserable waiting it has been. This kind of neroli is a serial killerwhich have ruined many fragrances same way.

Top note reminds me Twinings Lady Grey Tea, ceylan tea with lemon bergamot, orange, and flowers.
Middle notes have sweet basil, lemon peel, hint of sweet spices.
Base note is amber.
It is nice but has nothing extra to surpass the many congeners.

Top note is rose to my nose. It as like old rossy baby powders, and like rose smell on old clothes rested decades in the attic or the sealed with a puff card found in an old novel. it is vintage soft but not the way i would like to smell.
Middle note is carnations and jasmine. I really apreciate that part. These to are balanced so well that i can hardly tell them; they make a nice happy accord together, which is original and unique after fifty years. may be gardenia plays a role in that accord but i do not have a straong gardenia smell image in my olifactory lobe so it is hard to comment.
Base note is iris; powdery and rich. I do not get spices in it. But expect nothing fresh either. I cannot wear it because of the top note but can say that it is a nice vintage.

This is my second try on it. Nose is a gentle apparatus and is affected by many variables; Being hungry or not, long exposure to certain smells (which may cause selective anosmia to them) etc. Now well fed and wore a woody scent all day, i can barely define you the perfect tin note in it. It is an motor oil can which is cleaned with gasoline and left under dripping gutter. Is it good? Yes, it is strange but note is tempting. It is extraordinary, manly and sophisticated.

In my first try i found it to be a very strong woody incense with sweet spice peaks, drying down to vanilla amber.

This time it is nearly impossible for me to smell the middle and base notes. If i did not have my own witnessing about the strength and longevity, i would deny.

You would probably not decide to wear it unless you are fond of extraordinary fragrances but it worths a try for enchantment or the weird experimentation that nature of the fragrance promises.

To my nose it opens very citrus an refreshing like a glass of lemonade with crushed mint leaves. Then comes a nice blend of sweet spices. Nice fragrance but has nothing extraordinary or surprising or exiting.

It was my valentine day's present eleven years ago. It was terrible on me. Chemicals and acidy tastless florals... I hated it. But i liked the boy. So i used it though it annoyed me. But i guess somehow he knew i did not like it and never bought parfume for me anymore. Thinking that i have married him and he buys me expensive gifts three times a year ever since; and none of these gifts is ever a fragrance; i hate wings. What more evil a fragrance can be?
O.k you can think that i would not be objective on wings. And you may be right.to be objective I can advice you not to buy it blind. Do not buy it if Cabotine or Escada En Fleurs turns acidy sour on you. Do you really have to buy it?

Crystal Noir is supposed to be a blend of gardenia, peony and orange blossom with amber, musk and sandalwood. Musky part is ok but i could not have guessed any of these flowers in it. I would rather call it amber musk with peaches and mango. My nose must be playing games on me.

My husband fell in love with it at the first try at a duty free and finished two bottles. We were trying to buy third when we had noticed suprisingly that it was under the women fragrances in the online store. We were so sure that it should be masculine scent; had to check many online sites. Then my husband suggested that he could handle the tragic truth and ordered the thirth. But nothing ever stayed same between them. He did not use it. I used in in pregnancy as it was one of rare fragrances in cosmeticsdatabase which is said to be safe throughout. But i still think it is very good on men.

The opening is very classical with bergamot and lemon; just a bit spicy. Then comes cloves (not fresh cut carnations but edible kitchen type cloves) and cinnamon very strong. These two have a smell that you cannot play little.
The citrus leaves their place to a nice woody note but it is not imposible to enjoy woods as clovers cinamon buddies go loud and shrill.
Also the vanilla moss base is spoiled with clamorous spices.
Yes i hate these clovers. But i cannot imagine a person standing in the kitchen smelling the deep wet aroma of boiling dried cloves and thinks "yes, that's the way i should smell..." Cloves and cinanamon is ever a bad idea.

Here hyacinth or the lilies i have thought were hyacinth; announce her sovereignty over all the other flowers.
This makes the fragrance cool and strong.
Proper little lady is now grown up and feels ambitious.
I liked all pleasure variants but that one a bit more.
It is like bright purple; alluring and prominent. you do not want to wear every day.

yummy yummy mango and a lot of fresh flowers to remind any one that you are not an edible sweetie but just stepped out of heaven. A very nice summer fragrance for younger ladies.

This one is a pretty floral. all the flowers in it is fresh, all roses lilies and peonies. Not sexy or pretentious but a proper little lady. Pretty as natural curls and joined knees. that is may be why it is appreciated so. Everyone does not like to wear red.

This is not a stable scent and changes a lot from skin to skin. I have bought it during first marketing rush in 2003. I thought it was magical as all flowers of the world should be in this potion. Hyacinth and honeysuckle are my two favorite flowers They are rarely distinguished in a floral because of their scents being faint in quality;they were even there. I wore it happily for a few months with dozens of compliments from even strangers. Two of my friends liked it so much that bought for themselves. I have gifted mine to a third friend which liked it very much but not bought in respect of me. So i have said goodbye to my love before it became official fragrance of our floor. But none of these three friends of mine enjoyed the scent on themselves as they do on me. Our other office friends who complimented it on me did not even take notice it on them. (God has justice?) Skin chemistry changes a lot. And this can be the only explanation about the negative reviews here. Beyond paradise is a really wonderful floral.

It was the year beyond paradise launched. The duty free lady made me try their new launched scent i went on board and as i have enjoyed it so much that on the way back in a hurry i bought that wrong B. of Estee lauder. It was a disappointance. I tried to use it. Mandarin and rose is not a nice duo to me, jasmine and orange flowers were not the best quality and turned sour on my skin. The only compliment it take was from a taxi driver. I regretted i did not have bottle with me and give him away.

The name must be a joke. It is too heavy and old. But that is not why it is so bad. Many old type floral oils are just bearable but this one has a bad composition besides having these old oils and too much spice. Very disturbing. You can use it to spoil a party, two puffs up in the air would disperse the crowd.

This scent is a chamelon. When we were at the college, I have met at least a dozen of men wearing it and i could rarely guess it before told. It is so different on different men that it is hardly possible to make a comment on. One of my friends smelt great in it, aldehydes, cedarwood and musk dominantly, but another friend was awful with it; cloying cinamon and cloves like a rancid desert. generally it is misty and woody on darker men and spicy and tasteless on porcelain white. but of course there are exceptions.

The same wet gardeners mold note shared with "to see a flower" and "winter 1972". That note is very surprisingly natural. that makes me smile as i wonder how it is obtained; from distilation of well composted forest soil? Black march, compared to the "to see a flower" and "winter 1972" is bit boring.Goes quite flat on that note; to the end a bit sweet greens. But of course worth a try and can be used in layering.

It has lived a good life as a fresh green, tea scent. But any one can admit that time is over and she is died out. Green tea is not a kind of scent that would survive a century, nor any one smelling it first time would find original. now with many similars it is completely worn out.

I have tried EDT and EDP of no 5 before. And every time i thought it was soapy, nice and ordinary.
Then i have read a review here telling to try perfume form to love it.

Pure perfume is really splendid. I can only tell ylang ylang and aldehyde in it for the first hours. then comes the sweet rose. It is a perfect floral at the fourth hour. Goes a long way on rosy sandalwood.

It is must have, but in pure perfume form. I must be sure that it is not the reason for my present headache before ordering one.

Mr. Hulot¹s Holiday shares the very natural aquatic note with eternal return which i have enjoyed as well. A fresh salty aquatic but even at the first moment it carries the skin already in. I mean smells like a sea exposed skin more than sea itself. Barely a male skin. Richer than eternal return with a kind of sweetness and hint of old leather smell. It is not much sophisticated but i will accolade it in its simplicity.

If i'd walk blind in a room full of gentlemen to choose the sexy one, i would not take the habit rouge (old and tired director of the office) or yatagan (middle aged but not tired macho) but the mr hulot's holiday (the young student from the south shores who works as a lifeguard for summer). This would not be anyone else's (than lifeguard boy's) signature fragrance but any man would like to smell so simple and sexy sometime.

Of course we must take the skin chemistry into account. I can guess that this aquatic note is not so stable. But worths a try.

If i would meet a fragrance having orange blossom note in, i would really appreciate. Because orange blossoms really smell misty and charming.
Narcisse noir is a multifaceted neroli fragrance. Neroli; though it is made from water distillation of bitter orange blossoms, do not represent scent of orange blossoms well . Neroli is a spicy bitter orange peel smelling scent with very little orange blossom in it. After exposure to a billion good and bad neroli fragrances which produced in last century, i can rarely endure to smell neroli.
Narcisse noir has a well spiced up interesting opening which deserves a special place between billions of congeners. After the first half hour comes the tedious sour neroli. Here ends my pessimism. Goodbye another legend.

146 years old by now. 8 years older than Jasmin Impératrice Eugénie, 28 years older than Fleur de Thé Rose Bulgare. But much more fresher and timeless. Opens with a rich bouquet of flowers and in the middle a good trick for freshness; lemon and lemon flowers comes. Dries down rich and solid with mostly lily of the valley.

If they produce Fantasia De Fleurs with the same ingredients they do a centuary ago; then time is not a reason for us to forgive the heavy arabic oils Caron used in en avion, french cancan and nuit noel nearly sixty years later.

Fantasia De Fleurs is still an excellent floral to wear everyday.

Heavy, gloomy and dusty as classical furniture from an old palace which now resting behind red lines in a museum. You would not like to sit on them. But you can pay to see them. After half an hour you get out of the museum and meet the old familiar jasmine vanilla buddies. i can imagine how marvelous it has been after all these heavy Arabic oils. think; we are talking about a time that electric bulb was not invented and people were sitting under real candle chandeliers. Eugenie should be avant-garde to use such a modern and extraordinary scent. I think all these and leave the museum area; walk into the city to the real life... Do i advice to visit this museum? No, no need to...

Top note is sprout tea or earl gray tea. But the bergamot aroma in is not the old cloying bergamot oil which i hate but a new fresh one that takes you to the moment when your teeth runs into a piece of candied bergamot. The middle note is just menthol. In nearly five minutes comes very fine resinous cedar timbers. They are so fresh that reminds me a wooden cottage on a mountain. if we take into account the frequency of places i meet pine timber smell, first should be saunas, then some house decorations and massive wardrobes. I do not know if i have ever been in a cottage made of cedar wood or stand between the huge stacks of cedar timber but smell is so fresh and realistic that never reminds a hot sauna or a closed wardrobe.
I think it is simple natural and fresh. It is certainly for men. And my husband liked it. (The last one is very important when i meet a men scent i like).

Opens with the same earth (maroon compost or soil i call it) note that i have noticed in the "to see a flower". Then comes a fresh note that i cannot name; like fresh air after the rain, and a handful of candies, some stacked wet wood by the door, and some fainted white flowers. This is complicated and fresh. I liked it so much that i have had to show it to someone else. I run to my husband and put a drop on his wrist. To my surprise the wet gardeners soil smell disappeared in one second. And the nice complicated freshness i have tried to (but could not) describe above, flattened into a fresh green in one minute. The remaining note was surprisingly but clearly corn tassels. Yes still cute but my husband is not fascinated by the winter 1972 like me. Skin chemistry really changes it throughout. But i am lucky, it is good for me and i will have one.

Top note is a very natural fresh mix of daisies, poppies, thistles and all greens in a meadow. Very nice and joyful. In the middle comes a new kind of violet note; not as misty as traditional but more cheery and fine; just like a pansy would smell if it had a smell. (Ones in my garden do not. If yours do; do not tell me and arose my jealousy.)
I have enjoyed it so much and would like to wear.

What a nice sweet bubblegum or champagne smell. It is really enjoyable. what a pity that it disappears comletely in half an hour.

Rosa damascena Mill; also known as bulgarian rose or turkish rose is the most common rose that is cultured for rose oil production. It is a big pink rose with crowded layers and strong smell. it is mainly grown in Bulgaria, Turkey, and some in morocco Transcaucasia and Syria. When we were children we used to call it plate rose because of its big flat shape. It may be as big as 18 cm cake service plate and as you can guess it is not a kind of lovely rose anyone can put on his collar :) In turkey it is used mainly in water form every where; to tonic face, to pamper baby, as a cologne to service your guests or put on your hair as a frag, in jams, some deserts and turkish delight and as room frag...
If we can come back to rose bulgare; it opens with a clear and loud rose damascana oil smell which kicks me on the nose and reminds me the all these baby bottoms and turkish delight and old villager ladies with rose smell on their white hair... but thanks god that loud note of rose goes away in a few minutes and lemon balances the deadly rose smell... here becomes the beloved classical fleur the rose bulgare, simple and lovely. So simple and lovely that no doubt anyone having feelings about watching the first snowflakes of year or marching ducklings or a great oak alone in a yard would enjoy fleur de the rose bulgare as well.
i am not fond of roses as may be understood but if i would own one rose fragrance my choice would be on the side of romance (Ralph Laureen) which is a much more sophisticated fragrance...

In the first try i found the neroli and cloves is too heavy that i thought it would be suitable to dress up a dead body. Cloying old floral oils and cloves as simple as the dried ones served in an Jordan restaurant to chew after garlic appetizers to kill your mount smell. After the first hour you can put up with the cloves and then later you can enjoy the remaining powdery florals. But i cannot advice it to anyone as it is hard to endure the first half hour of it.

In the very first moment of smelling it i would run away like a cat would when sprayed insecticide on the nose.... yes it most smells like insecticide to me. But it goes away just in five seconds and then comes an earthy summer flowers (sorry no tuberuse yet) but pallensis and dandelion and many from Chrysanthemum family. then to the end yes a bit like tuberuse or Hyacinths but sweet and powdery. Excluding the first moment this is a very nice experience and should be lived....

The first 5 minutes it is a tremendous aquatic fragrance that if i smell it walking in a street i would run after any stranger to ask what is this? It is so fresh that standing in the middle of ocean in a rainy day would not make feel you like standing there more than this frag does. But my god can anything on world be so good? Of course not. At the tenth minute or more the ozonic note exhausts into a irritating banal scent we know well from the cheap detergents with names like "ocean breeze". After an hour or so the irritation of it on the nose disappears and the clean cheap laundry smell (which you would decide to change next washing day) stays for a several hour more... I hope this second stage is all fault of my skin chemistry as the very first note is really enjoyable.

Surprise you with a flash of mastic like note which is replaces with a loud ozonic vintage laundry odor. In the middle note comes carnations full and comforting; with and cheerful illusion of old style coke. Base note is a powdery smooth carnations in caron style. What is artistic about it is the all notes are variations of carnations which play illusions on our nose. Though it is over 80 years old, never shows the age. I think this is a good compliment about a fragrance too.

It is a nice fruity bright fragrance with a main note of pear which is not a common note. I had it perfumed deo form and it stayed all day so i have never needed edp of it. It is fragrance that no one can fall in love with but i enjoyed wearing it on the days i am not in the mood of any perfume or the days i have to spend day in a crowd without being noticed.

Christopher Brosius, the designer defines eternal return as "the scent of sailing toward the shore. It is a blend of Fresh Ocean Air, Wooden Ship and a faint hint of Cypress Trees growing on the cliff above the water..."
To me it smells like skin of a man who spent all day in the sea or on the sand. He may have worn a sweet woody scent in the morning and may have smoked a few cigarettes but it is so far away now. This fragrance is really impressive because i think the main note is not sea but sea and sun kissed skin of a man.
Can i be mistaken? No, my brother exactly smelled like that with some tobacco cologne in the morning and after a long day at the beach. It is very natural attractive and wearable. (Wearable is an important point of interest when we are talking about cb i hate perfume fragrances.)
One thing disappointing is that the magic which happens on my skin is not so clear on my husbands. I am planning to buy one for my brother and hope it would work for him.

This is my first perfume. I remember the advertisement of it on tv. A boy playing a guitar singed a song "there is a new babe in town" and there was a young girl on her roller skates...
It was salmon colored fluid in a round shaped bottle. How i loved it. I used it from high school to early in collage but then it disappeared. I think it just smelled like clean skin; a bit soap and a bit human. I remember a friend of mine getting surprised to see me putting on perfume. "i thought it was natural smell of your skin" he said.
It was really something that a skin would smell by itself. Or it suited me so well. Or i was very young. But no chance to reevaluate it today with an older nose as it discontinued.

Let me describe you the smell. You put flowers into a vase and forget to change their water several days. Yes if you are lucky to notice before roots decay and that awful putrid smell comes on, (yes one or two days before it) the vase water smells like that. I sometimes like this odour of vase, sometimes not. But enjoying to wear it needs a lot of more amendment in my taste i think.
Also keeping the fragrance in water instead of alcohol makes it very natural. So does the fragrance content. So natural that it does not resemble a perfume anyway. This makes me understand the name. Designer really hates the things we call perfume today. So he is trying to make a completely new thing or at least a big revolution in perfumery. Maybe we will get used to his extraordinary way, may be today these perfumes born from the hatred of perfume are very avant-garde, and may be these perfumes will find a fan group just in time (as big as atonal music does.) Time will show...

top note; wet soil, flower saps and leaves
middle note; marron and a bit pine compost, greens like purslane and clovers, daisies and some flower notes that are very faint and cannot be named, may be the smell of flowers which are in a bouquet for their appearance but not smell, so no one knows their unpretentious smells when not exaggerated like that...
base note; a sweet cheery mixture of the all previous; may be a flower shop which the shopkeeper lady has eaten some croissants and drank sweet tea a few minutes ago...
It is really very extraordinary but i liked it.