Eau D'Ikar by Sisley, 2011

Some reviewers mention Hermes and i have to underline that this fragrance owns (in its soapy, hesperidic, bitter-herbal, exotic, tart and dissonant opacity) that typical Hermes's factor that you can catch in fragrances as Terre d'Hermes and others. This is a soapy lemonade plus vetiver, orange and green tea to me, not without something resinous, woodsy and gummy (mastic?) in the "fragrantic" air around. The beginning is a blast of bergamot and lime but i feel immediately from the back a plain presence of vetiver and cedar swirling around. The lemony-orangy feel is dominant on the side of vetiver but the link is spicy, exotic, earthy-herbal and mostly peppery even if the consistence is not dusty but kind of resinous and a bit viscous. Some floral notes (accessorial to the general "detergent laundriness"-iris and jasmine) swirl in the air and those are nothing but radiant and white in their soapiness. Set the dry down the soapiness starts to come out in its ambery-vanillic touch but the smell holds on to be cool, airy and aqueous with its link of crisp-watery tea and fluidy citrus . I agree who with talks about a sort of chemical vibe exuded by the juice (bergamot-mastic) and there is a certain level of medicinal-laundry feel you project out wearing this fragrance. That's my complaint and that's why this scent can be worn just by the  lovers of the genre. The projection is notable and the longevity is not bad on my skin.

To my nose, the fresh citrus top notes combine to produce a grapefruit accord. This is accompanied by a crisp, just-short-of-bitter green note. For the first 15 minutes, the sillage is good & strong, after which it dies down considerably. After an hour, it's faded to a smooth, nutty, creamy yet cool skin scent, with just a touch of sweetness, faintly there after 3 hours. Mastic is apparently the star player in this fragrance; l'm not familiar with the smell in nature, but if this is what gives this fragrance it's cool, crisp, slightly sweet leafiness, then l'm a fan. Green notes don't often work well on me. The longevity is disappointing, but for me this would definitely be a summer scent, & l think it may have more staying power in the heat. There is something intriguing & different about it, & the fact that it lacks the all-too-common woody-ambery drydown of so any "masculine" fragrances. l sought this sample out for my bf to try, but on his skin it came off as a very sweet lemon-scented cleaning liquid. He was not impressed. So l guess it's a question of skin chemistry with this one, but l would say this is easily unisex, possibly leaning to the "feminine" side. l look forward to revisiting it in the summer.