Holi Water (2016)
by Heretic Parfums

Holi Water is a very soft scent that has lofty ambitions of exposing the higher levels of sensory lightness. To employ the softness of champaca flower, resting upon a tonka + vanilla absolute base grounded with soft sandalwood gives to this scent a softness and innocence that almost escapes the ability to detect. The perfume might be missing a contrast with enough presence to yield relevance to all these soft notes. At opening I sniff a slight hint of limes but the softness of champaca and vanilla and the smoothness of a sandalwood base creates an invisibility cloak around this scent. It is heavenly soft, but the Holi Water etherality is almost impossible to smell here in the physical world, for lack of contrasts.