Royal Gisada 2020

It was a dreary December, rain was incessantly pounding against the windows, crowds of people were pushing through the overcrowded shopping arcades to pick up last-minute Christmas gifts. And I was one of them that day. The frustrated, wet folks who had once again waited too long for everything. Just like every year.

The scent of Christmas is drowned out by the hustle and bustle, and amidst this busy commotion, I feel like a lonely wanderer in a sea of haste and noise.

In front of a perfume shop, a sample is handed to me. Gisada, ah. Never heard of it. And so, with complete disinterest, a spritz lands on my scarf and the sample sinks deep into the crumbly depths of my handbag.

Suddenly, a delicate whisper penetrates the air, wrapping around me like a warm blanket. Handbag set down, sample fished out, another spritz, this time on my skin. What elegance, what a spring-like, light sensuality on a day that could not have been less spring-like and sensual.
Despite the hustle and bustle around me, I felt one with this scent.

I find the name, the color scheme, and the target audience extremely unfortunate for this fragrance and see this as the reason for its poor rating. It also smells very synthetic; I love synthetics, but I understand that it can be off-putting. But a 5-star rating does you wrong, dear Royal.

In my opinion, Royal is clearly feminine, light, spring-like-floral, painted with bright suede that gives it an incredibly exciting, mature edge. Also a distinct violet. Hardly any oud. Soft, but you definitely feel perfumed.

For me, this perfume truly embodies a lot of what I wish for in a fragrance. Absolute tranquility, my holy grail, my zen. Wearable in the evening, at work, before going to sleep.
Royal merges with my skin as if it were made just for me. Or as if it were made for everyone who sometimes needs to lose themselves briefly and find their way back.

My first review happens to be about a fragrance that I cannot even call my own because it is simply too expensive for me. And yet, I would like to claim that I have tested it extensively. Because whenever I can get my hands on a sample of Royal, it comes to me. And with each additional sample, my longing for you grows, dear Royal, and someday a bottle of you will find its way to me.

Because I am irrevocably in love.