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Forbidden Incense

My Shadow on the Wall Floraïku 2017

6.8 / 10 129 Ratings

A perfume by Floraïku for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is floral-powdery. It is being marketed by Memo International.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Woody

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black pepper

Madagascan ginger

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Violet leaf absolute

Mimosa absolute

Frankincense

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Bourbon vanilla Musk

Musk

Perfumers

Aliénor Massenet, Symrise

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Ratings

Scent

6.8129 Ratings

Longevity

6.996 Ratings

Sillage

6.599 Ratings

Bottle

8.9105 Ratings

Value for money

5.335 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone · last update on 07/02/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Forbidden Incense collection.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/07/2023

Rosymel
122 Reviews

Rosymel

2

A soft, pretty original

This is quite nice. It’s an original, doesn’t really remind me of anything else I’ve smelled lately. There’s a dry, peppery violet leaf, a gentle sweet mimosa, and a lovely creamy sandalwood. This is one of the few sandalwoods I’ve smelled that doesn’t turn into dill on my skin! I like it for that alone, but really the whole composition comes together rather nicely.

03/05/2022

Vitodito
95 Reviews

Vitodito

4

Beautiful, just so beautiful

Oh...
My...
Godness...

This is pure class!
The opening is similar to mimosa & cardamom by jo malone. Then violet comes in and might smell slighlty feminine but wait for the drop..... :-)
Because when it settles it just blends perfectly with some other sweet/woody note that makes this masterpiece just unisex perfection.

Wow, wow and wow!!!!!

Floral, unisex, creamy and top. Love it

12/21/2017

6.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 15

Reste-Rausflöten

I am sitting on the beach. On one of those sometimes quite hot days in late spring that always surprise you anew. Because no one has thought about buying new sunscreen, and now we have to make do with last year's. The bottle has warmed up and exudes that scent that a nearly empty container from the previous season gives off when squeezing out the last remnants (pft-püüüh… pft-püüüh). It's not rancid or anything, it just needs to go. A freshly unpacked little inflatable boat for kids is wafting its scent as a duet partner.

The creaminess is supposed to refer to sandalwood. Unfortunately, it comes across to me - that should be sufficiently clear - as plasticky. Let's turn our attention to the mimosa instead. It starts with a brief floral greeting right at the beginning, and soon the aroma is back. If this is mimosa, I have to throw overboard (why not from said inflatable boat?) what I thought I knew about mimosa. Apparently, it wasn't much.

Dusty wood in the background. Directly on the skin, there might be bitter violet leaf involved, perhaps drawn through an ashtray? But that's at best a temporary thought, for the formal fulfillment of the notes...

Otherwise: plastic and cream. Around noon, accompanied by a baking aroma that already seems very sharp and synthetic close to the skin. At the same time, and this is quite crazy, the scent is undeniably floral. The entire aura of the fragrance is floral; even the plastic eventually submits to that. Sweetly cloying, but also somehow cute. Or flirtatious. In the late afternoon, one might think of Haribo peaches. I sometimes feel that way with fragrances labeled as "mimosa-like."

In the dry down, creamier vanilla complements the distorted sandalwood. Perhaps (to stay with the beach imagery) there’s a vanilla soft serve for the evening. A bit of plastic is still there, more subtle and quieter, so to speak, better integrated. Oh yes, and as the sun sets, our figures cast shadows on the wall of the waterfront promenade behind us, hence the name of the fragrance.

Conclusion: This is not for me. It’s for friends who enjoy sweet floral cream scents. However, I can't wholeheartedly recommend this particular creation. For great sunscreen, you should rather try ‘Louanges Profanes’ from Parfumerie Générale!

I thank Verbena for the sample.