Portrait of a Lady Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle 2010 Eau de Parfum

It smells like an Ancient Portrait of a Lady from a past long gone I'm talking 1800s, and the smell of this perfume is her smell through the portrait and how she smelt, it's legit a work of art if this is how the creator intended it to be. and the faint roses i could smell i think it meant to be her smell like even after all these years you can faintly smell the lady in the portrait like a ghost of her. but most of the perfume smells like the portrait and ink that try's to replicate her smell her essence after all these years, which too me i didn't like the smell, and think of it as bittersweetness and hollow.

It smells like a vampire who lost his wife thousand years or more years ago, but can't let go of her portrait, and he always keeps looking at the portrait and sniffing it just for the last scent of her of the roses and fruits she smelt of.

to me the name of this perfume is so beautiful, loved the story behind it and all. but when i smelt it was just a portrait, the smell of portrait and the little roses and fruitiness i could get was the lady on the portrait which wasn't for me at all. truly broke my heart cause i was so excited to smell it.

I love the portrait of you darlin, but this isn't for me at all. maybe later in my life il come back to it in life, but i don't want no portraits of something gone you know.