Orchidea & Riso Apiarium

Actually, I just wanted to write a short statement about this perfume, since I
1. do not own it myself, but only received a sample from a dear perfumer, and
2. because it really is quite a challenging fragrance description for me.
Aaaaaaaber ... I find Orchidea & Riso really VERY special (in a totally interesting way) and somehow both familiar and completely foreign at the same time, which is why I couldn't manage to keep it to just a handful of letters for a statement.

For me, it’s always the case that after the first sniff of a fragrance, memories race through my synapses at high speed, and I start searching for familiar things, events, places, people, situations, delicacies, and other scents with which the tested fragrance can be compared or described. (Spoiler) Let me take one thing in advance: with Orchidea & Riso, I have miserably failed.

The first thought came like an impulse out of nowhere.
MMMM... like Juliette Has A Gun but so so so much more intense ... and then approximately the following happens.
Somehow the intensity multiplies a thousandfold, and everything happens in one blow .... this must be how the universe once expanded. Really from zero to ... a felt bazillion ;-) KABOOM!!!!

I smell rice pudding with sour cherries (when the little hunger strikes moderately), an expensive hair care product from the hairdresser that somehow makes the hair ultra-smooth in a magical way, flowers, but not the kind of flowers that you would want to dive into like a bumblebee to then .... *blblblblblbl* no no ... it’s not that kind of flower at all, but it’s probably the indicated orchid ... and a keychain (?) somehow something metallic, like when you’ve had your apartment key in your hand for a while and afterward it smells like your little hand... and MMMM... I can continue to perceive that the whole time.

It’s so strange... Everything I currently smell on my arm should somehow be sugary sweet and stick to me like syrup. But it doesn’t! It doesn’t smell sweet at all but somehow .... foreign in a familiar way. So you know sweet, sour, bitter, herbal, spicy, salty, smoky, and all that... but that doesn’t help me at ALL here! I would claim I have never smelled anything like this in my life.
Short flashes of things come to mind, but nothing is really tangible. It reminds me of all the familiar things and situations that I just tried to put into words. Everything I just listed somehow appears here, but overall ... it reminds me of nothing that I would know. The longevity and sillage are, in any case, ASTOUNDING, really! But that’s the only thing I can say for sure here.

Unfortunately, I can’t come up with a better description. I hope, in any case, that I was able to convey my confusion to you well ;)

I received the bottle of Orchidea & Riso as a gift from a dear friend, as I like rice scents and wasn't familiar with this one yet.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect, as the statements are somewhat mixed (Sécretions Magnifiques? Not something I necessarily need..:D) but I was very curious!

By the way, I find the packaging very appealing and it totally reminds me of the Soap & Glory products that used to be available at Douglas. The bottle contains 100 ml.

First of all: From the listed fragrance notes, I can clearly smell the rice. I don't detect any orchid or anything floral. Coconut is only faintly discernible and then only in the background. Vanilla? Hmm.. could be, but just lightly.
In a comment below, someone mentioned cherries. And yes, that’s exactly what I thought of when I sprayed the fragrance. Sweet cherries. And I seem to be the only one who finds that the scent also strongly resembles sea air, including salt.
I feel like I'm sitting right by the sea (not the Mediterranean or somewhere in the tropics, but rather the Atlantic or the North Sea), inhaling the salty sea air while enjoying an unsweetened rice pudding with sweet cherry sauce. A hint of sunscreen wafts towards me as well.

In a blind test, I would probably have thought of the fragrance as a (expensive) niche scent, as I find the combination of rice, cherries, sweetness, and salty sea air very delicious but also quite unusual.

I find the scent very suitable for the warm season, especially when it’s humid and uncomfortably warm outside like today, Orchidea & Riso somehow feels cooling and refreshing, even though it’s not an aquatic scent; despite the association with salt and sea, I clearly categorize it into the gourmand category due to the cherry rice pudding with a suncreamy coconut hint.

The only downside is the longevity and sillage (I've been wearing it for almost 3 hours now and it's only perceptible up close). So it's not a powerhouse, which is quite fitting for summer.

Conclusion: A very delicious, unusual gourmand that reminds me of rice with sweet cherries and simultaneously evokes a vacation feeling with a hint of sunscreen and salty sea air. I am very positively surprised!

The description of the fragrance lists rice - and I've already ordered it.

Here is my test report. :-)
I smell powdery rice with sweet cherry. Or is it cherry with a hint of vanilla? Lightly sweet, not sticky or headache-inducing. In the first 10 minutes, I think of Asia, blooming cherry trees, rice powder, geishas.
After that, the scent becomes a bit more robust, still powdery and present. The coconut does not make an appearance, but that's okay.
It stays on my skin like this: rice powder with lightly sweet cherry, a really well-made gourmand with acceptable longevity and an attractive price. The blind buy was worth it.