Top Notes 
Nectarine
White cyclamen
Heart Notes 
Black violet
Base Notes 
Marzipan
Amber
Leather
03/17/2013
Rubyred
49 Reviews
Rubyred
1
A Purely Purple Disappointment
This is literally a wrist sniffer. IE, you can't smell it unless you sniff your wrist.
Tired of not being able to smell it on me, on the weekend I soused myself in 20 sprays. 5 minutes later, another 20 sprays. Still no trail. It's only to be smelled if I sniff my wrists. That isn't what I wanted. For such a faint scent, it does manage to last 4 hours but what's the point you can't smell it unless you sniff it.
As to the cyclamen reference, intrigued, I went and smelled my intensely flowering, hot pink, cyclamen, and it does have a warm, softly spicy, and a fine but definite petroleum scent - like a water lily or orchid - this petroleum scent is in my cyclamen flowers pretty strong in the morning unlike the perfume which is not strong any time.
The perfume is warm, nutty, a hint of gingerbread biscuits. I am a lover of marzipan, and I could not smell marzipan. Sometimes there is an out of place soapy, lemon waft. Then a soft suede scent intermingles with a warm, fuzzy/heathery/woolly scent. The dry down smells like a handful of pot pouri thrown on a slow combustion oven in the tack room or the engine room/machinery shed where the old saddles are kept. A warmed up undifferentiated pot pouri, leather and soap smell.
I bought this blind, hoping for a violet and/or marzipan scent. It wasn't there.
Tired of not being able to smell it on me, on the weekend I soused myself in 20 sprays. 5 minutes later, another 20 sprays. Still no trail. It's only to be smelled if I sniff my wrists. That isn't what I wanted. For such a faint scent, it does manage to last 4 hours but what's the point you can't smell it unless you sniff it.
As to the cyclamen reference, intrigued, I went and smelled my intensely flowering, hot pink, cyclamen, and it does have a warm, softly spicy, and a fine but definite petroleum scent - like a water lily or orchid - this petroleum scent is in my cyclamen flowers pretty strong in the morning unlike the perfume which is not strong any time.
The perfume is warm, nutty, a hint of gingerbread biscuits. I am a lover of marzipan, and I could not smell marzipan. Sometimes there is an out of place soapy, lemon waft. Then a soft suede scent intermingles with a warm, fuzzy/heathery/woolly scent. The dry down smells like a handful of pot pouri thrown on a slow combustion oven in the tack room or the engine room/machinery shed where the old saddles are kept. A warmed up undifferentiated pot pouri, leather and soap smell.
I bought this blind, hoping for a violet and/or marzipan scent. It wasn't there.
