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Golden Cream-Colored Scent; Airy and Light
Out of the bottle, I was struck by a creamy, vanilla-smelling heliotrope, perhaps with an alcoholic tinge...? I could not tell. On skin, thankfully, there was zero alcoholic smell, and, on me, it melted further into that creamy-sweet realm. I don't quite sense the powderiness of this as much as others seem to; it smells clean, yes, like it *could* in theory be a luxurious hotel bathroom soap, but it doesn't explicitly scream soap or powder. People may even mistake this scent for a pure, light vanilla perfume. The heliotrope has a warm tilt; if this scent were a color, it would be a faded, paled antique gold or cream.
I sense the hint of jasmine, but it's not the flower itself blooming in the dew — it's more of a Chinese jasmine tea, unbrewed, like opening a container of dried whole jasmine buds... More musky and slight than floral and fresh.
It's the perfect level of faintness, to me; not undetectable by any means, but not able to be picked up from 10 feet away. If someone were next to you, they would notice this perfume, but it would not be overpowering.
For context, I applied this perfume very lightly using a sort of disposable, papery-textured sponge applicator. The faintness and pleasantness of this perfume lead me to believe any who claim this scent is heavy might have applied it with a heavy hand?... I truly and wholeheartedly do not get a suffocating sense from this perfume; on the contrary, it is airy and breathable. This is coming from someone who is very sensitive to heavy perfume scents. :)
Edit: Coming back to this, the more I smell it out of the bottle, the more it is reminiscent of the cherry pie-elements of white heliotrope that some claim they can smell. Unfortunately, I have not detected that note in the heliotrope on skin, but it is still ever-pleasant
Heliotrope
Vanilla
Almond
Jasmine
Ylang-ylang
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