If you’ve ever been to Paris, there’s a chance you’ve gone to L’Orangerie museum, close to the Louvre. There, if you’re anything like me, you can sit on a couch and get completely lost in Monet’s Nymphéas. They are huge paintings too, which makes the experience even more absorbing. If color could have a smell, this would be it.
Then again, you might choose to go instead to Giverny and see for yourself the pond that inspired this painting. This perfume brings me back there, surrounded by flowers, the smell of the pond hitting my nostrils, and a soft breeze gently moving my hair. I kneel down to smell one of the flowers, but instead, I breathe in the verdure of the lily leaves. It starts softly, with some freshness that I associate with the Violet leaf, but there’s a hidden warmth that appears later, no doubt caused by the vanilla and cardamom. In some aspects, it makes me think of Philosykos Eau de Toilette , but I like this better, it’s less green, softer and gentler.
The duration is quite good, I’d say between 6 and 7 hours, but the sillage could be better. It becomes a skin scent quite quickly. It’s not a loud perfume, but it will no doubt appeal to the introspective or the romantic.
