Lilac Love Amouage 2016 Eau de Parfum

( a beautiful pale lilac peony. )
Lilac Love's top note is a bit of an acquired taste. It really opens up after a few seconds. Not
right at the spray, it seems to start off gently, so be careful not to press your nose to your wrist in full joy. The start is slightly unappealing, it spreads a bit, the spring. An unexpectedly strong alcohol note greets, it carries a lot of cocoa powder with it,
smells briefly like a mix of cocoa liqueur & Baileys, with a grainy (I like to call it sourdough) note reminiscent of wheat, like I know it from Guerlain's GC. At the same time, someone holds a huge bouquet of freshly cut tulips under my nose, really nice and fresh & cool, watery - greenish & milky. Sprayed on a silk cloth, the fragrance has no alcoholic note at all. Right away, the cocoa powder comes with a slightly peachy note.
Lilac is anyway an illusion, but lilac aldehyde, along with anisaldehyde must be inside, somehow lilac, the purple (or white) idea has to get into the bottle. Although I get a lot of notes presented, I can't catch any lilac, I can't imagine one. Heliotropin with its green powdery note (also reminiscent of plastic almond, here only plastic, without green almond) jumps at me. Linden blossom-like sweetness, along with lilies I believe to locate, gardenia like jasmine anyway. Above all, however, peonies, whole bushes of them want to intoxicate me. From this, a very indolic bouquet binds itself for a short fragrance span, which demands a lot of love for base scents, because it’s a bit intense. But that doesn’t last particularly long, it tames itself well. Green, it remains watery. Pale green would also have been an idea for the bottle.
I smell iris (orris root) slightly buttery, meaning, there’s also a violet living in the fragrance, very real, almost unsweet, like the little mountain dog violets by the roadside.
Lilac Love smells of a lot, also of spring, but certainly not of lilac :)
What Scheeheratze writes below me is true: ''Lilac Path'' suggests lilac much better, also ''Sweet Morphine'' which for me almost smells like Yves Rocher's ''Pur Désir de Lilas''. -> Pyramid says: almond & lilac, meaning heliotropin along with anisaldehyde. That then smells lilac-like, mimosa-like, and like plastic almond :) and it’s just too much of everything for me.
''Sweet Morphine'' I personally find significantly sweeter than ''Lilac Love''. ''La Tulipe'' also smells nice of lilac, at home on the very watery-green side, with a lot of lily of the valley (lilial) in it, but also has this synthetic
mix of helional watery notes, anisaldehyde, and heliotropin, so whatever one might want to smell, should also think they smell it, or indeed does smell it. “En Passant'' has similar notes, also very watery and in ''L'Eau d' Hiver'' it also smells of lilac, seriously!
Accompanied by a delicate-soapy (a bit old-fashioned) note,
like I know it from ''Dia'', the fragrance reveals its Amouage DNA.
Floral, greenish-watery, cocoa-buttery, heading towards the base
it picks up tonka, tussles a bit with cashmeran-musk base and *I don’t find it that sweet now. Honey-like peony sweetness, nutty, creamy & milky sandalwood, with green speckles. If I were to think of lilac at all with this fragrance, then it would be an idea of white lilac, which one must imagine wilting, but only when quickly pulling the back of the hand away from the nose, for me detectable, that only first somewhere in the heart note.
But I think that will become too exhausting in the long run, so I stick with
peony, gardenia, cocoa butter and the rest that I imagine ;) On the silk cloth, it remains delicate, powdery - green and leaves the tonka completely out.
In the end, a very enduring, spring-inspiring (actually wallflower is pale lilac, because that could fit;) even a bit cheerful, rather unexcited, elegant, cashmeran cream pot.
That a man will wear this fragrance, I don’t believe, it can be beautiful, but they probably don’t want to.
I can’t imagine it on young girls either, the base is too set.
This is the least sexy Amouage, but it does have something.
I would most likely see it on a Miss Marple :) but I believe she doesn’t wear fragrances.
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I have to add a small supplement regarding the Rutherford MM..
so: she could hardly resist her admirers..
it doesn’t always have to be ...you know what..
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Another supplement :) ..
4 days of continuous wear..
There is a phase in the fragrance, after about three-quarters of an hour, where it stresses (me) a lot, but it doesn’t last long.
I found patchouli (embedded in the soapy note and not sparingly..) gives the chocolaty note a bit of a kick towards After Eight.
The skin note (cashmeran-musk mix, of course) gains considerable importance during continuous wear.
The environment, especially the male one, likes to fall into the musk bed..
so, it’s probably not that unsexy after all ;)..