Top Notes 
Artemisia
Lemon grass
Sicilian lemon
Vervain
Heart Notes 
Bourbon vanilla
Heliotrope
Base Notes 
Amber
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Lemon Verbena on Synthetic Vanilla
I swapped a sample of this from Betty0714, as I generally like vanilla-citrus blends. My last attempt in this direction was an expensive blind purchase: Happy by Chopard, which quickly became quite artificial and unpleasant on my skin and now serves as a cleaning product...
This one smells a bit more like what I had hoped for from Happy, a contrast of cool, zesty, rather herb-green citrus notes against powdery vanilla. It is noteworthy that I can smell real essential oils, or at least I think I can recognize the freshness of lemon verbena and a bit of lemongrass. Artemisia or mugwort is a plant that somehow encourages you, when you walk by, to pull off some of those flower bud tufts at the tips and rub them between your fingers. However, the herbal smell of it would never have led me to think that something like this belongs in a perfume. Perhaps it contributes to this slight herb-green touch here. I'm not so sure about the quality of the lemon; in any case, I briefly thought of bathroom cleaner. Additionally, I also pick up a slight plastic note, probably because the vanilla used is synthetic, or due to the base accord. However, the citrus notes linger quite a long time, although the scent becomes increasingly powdery, and the back vanilla briefly reminds me of lemon cake; the amber base is rather synthetic but pleasant if you don't have too high expectations. It reminds me a bit of "Vanilla & Blues" by Real Time, which I once had.
If it weren't for the plastic note, I would order this as a summer fragrance. However, I perceive such a note in many perfumes where others do not; it could just be a personal association issue of mine.
In any case, I am now inspired to mix such a perfume for my vacation, using homemade vanilla extract and vanillin as a base.
This one smells a bit more like what I had hoped for from Happy, a contrast of cool, zesty, rather herb-green citrus notes against powdery vanilla. It is noteworthy that I can smell real essential oils, or at least I think I can recognize the freshness of lemon verbena and a bit of lemongrass. Artemisia or mugwort is a plant that somehow encourages you, when you walk by, to pull off some of those flower bud tufts at the tips and rub them between your fingers. However, the herbal smell of it would never have led me to think that something like this belongs in a perfume. Perhaps it contributes to this slight herb-green touch here. I'm not so sure about the quality of the lemon; in any case, I briefly thought of bathroom cleaner. Additionally, I also pick up a slight plastic note, probably because the vanilla used is synthetic, or due to the base accord. However, the citrus notes linger quite a long time, although the scent becomes increasingly powdery, and the back vanilla briefly reminds me of lemon cake; the amber base is rather synthetic but pleasant if you don't have too high expectations. It reminds me a bit of "Vanilla & Blues" by Real Time, which I once had.
If it weren't for the plastic note, I would order this as a summer fragrance. However, I perceive such a note in many perfumes where others do not; it could just be a personal association issue of mine.
In any case, I am now inspired to mix such a perfume for my vacation, using homemade vanilla extract and vanillin as a base.
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