Sunshine Demeter Fragrance Library 2013 Cologne
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Vanilla Ice Cream on a T-Shirt
I was really curious about the Sunshine scent from Demeter.
I had it ordered as a larger sample through a very nice fellow Parfumo member from Demeter in the USA (the shipping costs are really steep if you can't share them).
When I first sprayed it for testing, I came to the conclusion of my statement.
To me, it smelled only slightly vanilla and had nothing to do with sun-warmed cotton.
In the meantime, I have tested it off and on, and now I have somewhat different scent impressions. Maybe my olfactory spectrum has expanded, or I can now simply distinguish more different notes.
Whatever the case, my new impressions are as follows:
Right after spraying, it smells pleasantly unobtrusive sweet, and yes, still vanilla.
But: I can now also define why it comes across so subtly and friendly.
For me, it’s due to the musk, which is present here in a light, airy version, and which is presumably meant to symbolize the T-shirt that, according to Demeter's description, is warmed by the sun.
Additionally, I perceive something light-floral, very delicate and reserved, yet always slightly & casually, but I suspect there’s something white-flowering in it.
This floral aspect gives the scent, along with the musk, something clean, pure. It is never sharp or distinctly floral, but only very soft and powdery.
Then there was a bigger surprise for me, as another scent note strangely appears to be aquatic. This note is again only very subtle, but I definitely perceive it.
I’m still puzzling over why a certain aquatic aspect was included here.
Did the perfumer want to refer to the freshly washed T-shirt?
Do laundry detergents for cotton or fabric softeners in the USA perhaps smell more aquatic?
I don’t know, but it certainly gives the scent something special, quirky.
A possible image for this scent would be:
A young lady (or a young man, if you prefer) has fallen asleep while eating a large vanilla ice cream, and lying in the warm sun near a lake, the ice cream is now melting onto her (his) freshly washed T-shirt.
For me, the scent doesn’t quite meet the expectations I had for it. Perhaps it’s already too quirky for my taste.
But it is well made and (especially for Demeter scents, not a given) definitely wearable as a perfume.
I had it ordered as a larger sample through a very nice fellow Parfumo member from Demeter in the USA (the shipping costs are really steep if you can't share them).
When I first sprayed it for testing, I came to the conclusion of my statement.
To me, it smelled only slightly vanilla and had nothing to do with sun-warmed cotton.
In the meantime, I have tested it off and on, and now I have somewhat different scent impressions. Maybe my olfactory spectrum has expanded, or I can now simply distinguish more different notes.
Whatever the case, my new impressions are as follows:
Right after spraying, it smells pleasantly unobtrusive sweet, and yes, still vanilla.
But: I can now also define why it comes across so subtly and friendly.
For me, it’s due to the musk, which is present here in a light, airy version, and which is presumably meant to symbolize the T-shirt that, according to Demeter's description, is warmed by the sun.
Additionally, I perceive something light-floral, very delicate and reserved, yet always slightly & casually, but I suspect there’s something white-flowering in it.
This floral aspect gives the scent, along with the musk, something clean, pure. It is never sharp or distinctly floral, but only very soft and powdery.
Then there was a bigger surprise for me, as another scent note strangely appears to be aquatic. This note is again only very subtle, but I definitely perceive it.
I’m still puzzling over why a certain aquatic aspect was included here.
Did the perfumer want to refer to the freshly washed T-shirt?
Do laundry detergents for cotton or fabric softeners in the USA perhaps smell more aquatic?
I don’t know, but it certainly gives the scent something special, quirky.
A possible image for this scent would be:
A young lady (or a young man, if you prefer) has fallen asleep while eating a large vanilla ice cream, and lying in the warm sun near a lake, the ice cream is now melting onto her (his) freshly washed T-shirt.
For me, the scent doesn’t quite meet the expectations I had for it. Perhaps it’s already too quirky for my taste.
But it is well made and (especially for Demeter scents, not a given) definitely wearable as a perfume.
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Shipping costs from the USA have caught me off guard too. Anything over 30 ml is basically unaffordable.