Top Notes 
Lavender
Mandarin orange
Red fruits
Heart Notes 
Coffee
Heliotrope
Base Notes 
Patchouli
Acajou wood
Amber
Vanilla
01/11/2017
Cumulnimbus
119 Reviews
Cumulnimbus
Very helpful Review
4
Lavender and patchouli oriental unisex perfume
This is a rich and relaxing (lavender) woody oriental with lots of patchouli and some sparkles from the fruits in the drydown. It could have been labelled as unisex, I bet many women would find it masculine, at least in the first stage of the perfume's development. Coffee, woods and vanilla are perceptible too but I can't feel the heliotrope, it isn't a creamy perfume.
I found it at first quite different to everything else in my collection but my partner's reaction to it, which wasn't very welcoming by the way, made me think it does share an aesthetic with Cartier's Le baiser du dragon, one he clearly dislikes. It isn't a contemporary style, more that of the first years of the present century, that puts it a strange space not too young but too old to be considered retro. Still I enjoy it for cool weather days when I want something comforting, not too sweet, green or spicy.
I found it at first quite different to everything else in my collection but my partner's reaction to it, which wasn't very welcoming by the way, made me think it does share an aesthetic with Cartier's Le baiser du dragon, one he clearly dislikes. It isn't a contemporary style, more that of the first years of the present century, that puts it a strange space not too young but too old to be considered retro. Still I enjoy it for cool weather days when I want something comforting, not too sweet, green or spicy.
