Bird of Paradise Demeter Fragrance Library Cologne

The journey continues with Demeter. Now come the paradise birds… oh, wait. It’s more of a paradise flower, of which I had never heard before. I wish it were the birds, because paradise birds are absolutely beautiful creatures. They are colorful, lovely to look at, and have great singing voices… honestly, who doesn’t like birds? (Oh, you’re grinning now, aren’t you? But here it says birds,… without an “n” after the “l”… you little piggies…!).

The scent:
After the slightly medicinal, alcoholic stench… um, I mean scent has dissipated, you smell very, very bitter and green notes. It actually smells just like when you cut through a plant stem and smell “the green” inside it. And there are actually two types of this juicy scent. One that smells only green and pleasant, and one that is a bit more bitter and, among other things, also biting, but this one is at least not unpleasant (and biting might be the wrong word, because the scent is not piercing, but rather very intense).
A little later, general, watery floral notes come into play, somewhat similar to how the water from flowers at florists smells. Quite nice, really, but too general to assign it to a specific flower, which especially applies to flower-ignorant types like me. A little later, a very light, sweet note appears… possibly the nectar of the flower :D

The sillage and longevity:
The sillage is okay at first, probably due to the still strong alcohol note. But then it drops to an average level and can only be sniffed from close up.
The longevity is about three to four hours, after which the scent is only faintly present on the skin.

The bottle:
The bottle is rectangular as always (so the average bottle of these) and has, also as usual, a simple and quite ugly label on the front. Although there was also a nicer label with a picture of a flower on it when the scent still belonged to a specific collection. The cap is chrome-plated and cylindrical. As always, not top-notch.

Okaaay… paradise flower. For me, it smells more like floral water, which is not necessarily unpleasant. It is intensely bitter with a later sweet touch. But whether it actually smells like a paradise flower, I can’t say for sure.

Overall, as I said, quite nice, but very, very simply constructed to wear as a scent, but maybe it’s good for leisure, to occasionally spray it on your arms or something when you feel like something bitter.

Therefore, you might want to give Birds of Prey… argh Paradise a try. … great, now I have to think of the Birds of Prey. And (of course…) I mean the comics with the sexy heroines :D
* sigh *