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No holds barred Orange Blossom
Lush ORANGE BLOSSOM offers a strong, Gorilla-base anchored presentation of the orange blossom note. I would say that this analogy is valid:
LUST:Jasmine::ORANGE BLOSSOM: Orange Blossom
I suppose that's not all that helpful, and the name basically sums it up already, but the most important point to bear in mind with Lush ORANGE BLOSSOM is that it is truly buried in the Lush house base, which is super gooey, somewhat blunt, not at all subtle, and going to be a deal breaker for many. I personally like it, but it's quite intense and makes for perfumes which are more like events than scents which I would choose normally to don in public.
As an example, I chose to don ORANGE BLOSSOM this morning because... I knew that I had a bath on the horizon, and I was thinking about taking an orange blossom bath, so this scent is just going to ramp up the wafts of orange blossom off the top of the water beautifully. (I did the same thing last week with LUST, donning it before a jasmine bath, and it was lovely!)
The orange blossom of this composition is almost soapy, but not quite, and almost sweet, but not quite. It's really Gorilla-gooey, and therefore sui generis, it seems to me. It starts to make me think of Prada INFUSION DE FLEURS D'ORANGER, except it stops short of that soapy composition and instead veers toward the sweet side without however attaining the levels of the By Kilian sweet orange blossom or the Couvent des Minimes variation on the theme.
ORANGE BLOSSOM does smell like orange blossom, I can attest. But it also smells like the Lush Gorilla base, which is going to work for some people and not for others. Although they are enjoyable to wear, I would advise not wearing these perfumes to the office, unless by chance you work for Lush. (-; They are so strong that they may permanently impair one's olfactory receptors, leading one to lose the ability to smell perfume on one's self, just like the guy who cranks the earphones of his MP3 player on maximum volume, having lost the ability to hear.
In fact, for that very reason, I've been punctuating my testing of the perfumes of this house with the ultra-subtle, refined creations of Keiko Mecheri. I do believe that these Lush perfumes are natural smelling and worth a sniff by people who appreciate intense olfactory experiences à la Serge Lutens.
