Pearl Ikiryō 2017

The white tulle gently caressed her legs. Blush lay scattered on her dressing table, trying to add some color to her pale face until recently. Her red lips were now smudged and the edges of her mouth no longer clearly defined. She looked into the mirror with tired eyes, her costume still clinging to her body as it had in years past, roses lingering on her table as they often did. The lush scent of these, enveloped her and mingled with the sweat that lingered in her mask. Her dance was over, her solo finished. Her silk dress shimmered in the dim light and she knew that despite the exhaustion that lay in her bones, the night was just beginning. She dribbled a few drops of the dark elixir on her neck that would give her renewed strength. One last look before she disappeared into the dark.
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Pearl starts off surprisingly fresh and herbaceous for me, with the rose seeming untamed and coming prominently to the fore. Yet it takes more and more space for itself over time, becomes heavier, velvety and seems more lush. The daphne adds to this benevolent, almost narcotic heaviness and allows the fragrance to become expansive. The musk, which is added after a while, gives the whole a certain animalic quality, which nevertheless does not seem obtrusive at all. With time, patchouli comes through noticeably, but still nestles the rose and acts only in the background and balsamic sweet underlines this fragrance composition.
Despite the few fragrance components or just because, this fragrance seems insanely cuddly and rich. He weaves around the senses and lets the wearer mysteriously attractive and evokes in me mixed associations of cultivated scene clubs, peaceful Gothic and old theaters.
The durability can be seen and so keep rose and patch with me on the skin around the 6h through.
The sillage is perceptible and initially the fragrance takes its space, whereby it becomes closer to the body with time and nestles against its wearer like a second skin.
Ikiryo has created a wonderful fragrance composition here with Pearl, which is very wearable and could be interesting especially for lovers of a rose fragrance. Of course, the batch of rose and patchouli is nothing new, but is here in harmony with musk and silk bast very well implemented and thus creates a lush fragrance, which may well tarnish but not must.