Top Notes 
Pear
Blackcurrant
Bergamot
Heart Notes 
Lily of the valley
Damask rose absolute
Jasminum grandiflorum absolute
Base Notes 
Musk
Ambrox
Vanilla
06/12/2025
Ursaw
134 Reviews
Ursaw
3
A simplified American remake of a foreign film
I spray it once. Initial cloud fills the whole room. Fruity. Fresh. Sweet. Textured like a smell equivalent of cheap synthetic fabric. Feels like someone sprayed too much air freshener in an enclosed space and locked me in it.
The fruits fade from view before the cloud settles. Around ~15 minutes in lily of the valley is already the main star at this stage. Rose and jasmine are about ~5 minutes late, but they also come into view right after. Still obnoxious, still very synthetic. When things finally mellow out about ~40 minutes in I don't really feel like I'm out in a park. More like Shrek slamming the door open and coming out of the toilet at the start of the movie.
But from then on I soon catch myself almost... enjoying the experience? As it gets softer and starts settling closer to my skin, the scent transforms and blossoms into something oddly familiar. Humid, juicy white florals with lily of the valley in the very center of the composition. Milky plant sap. Morning dew.
And then it hits me. L'Eau d'Issey Eau de Toilette. In a much more elegant and dignified way, but it did the same thing. "Springtime in a Park" doesn't necessarily feel like a 1 to 1 replica, more like those simplified mid-budget American remakes of Japanese cult classic films that were popular in the 00s. Nevertheless, once the association is there – it never leaves my mind. And this is not a competition "Springtime in a Park" can win.
About ~1,5 hours in it completely stops projecting and settles on skin. Fresh, faintly green florals. Soft musk below, almost translucent. It takes about ~3 more hours to fade away into nothing. But each time I grab a pen to take notes I come to the same conclusion – it's just Americanized "L'Eau d'Issey". Sweeter, cheaper, and worse.
As our time together comes to an end, my notebook is full of timestamps that all just read "same". It's awkward to just stand up and leave silently, but I also have nothing to say to it.
The fruits fade from view before the cloud settles. Around ~15 minutes in lily of the valley is already the main star at this stage. Rose and jasmine are about ~5 minutes late, but they also come into view right after. Still obnoxious, still very synthetic. When things finally mellow out about ~40 minutes in I don't really feel like I'm out in a park. More like Shrek slamming the door open and coming out of the toilet at the start of the movie.
But from then on I soon catch myself almost... enjoying the experience? As it gets softer and starts settling closer to my skin, the scent transforms and blossoms into something oddly familiar. Humid, juicy white florals with lily of the valley in the very center of the composition. Milky plant sap. Morning dew.
And then it hits me. L'Eau d'Issey Eau de Toilette. In a much more elegant and dignified way, but it did the same thing. "Springtime in a Park" doesn't necessarily feel like a 1 to 1 replica, more like those simplified mid-budget American remakes of Japanese cult classic films that were popular in the 00s. Nevertheless, once the association is there – it never leaves my mind. And this is not a competition "Springtime in a Park" can win.
About ~1,5 hours in it completely stops projecting and settles on skin. Fresh, faintly green florals. Soft musk below, almost translucent. It takes about ~3 more hours to fade away into nothing. But each time I grab a pen to take notes I come to the same conclusion – it's just Americanized "L'Eau d'Issey". Sweeter, cheaper, and worse.
As our time together comes to an end, my notebook is full of timestamps that all just read "same". It's awkward to just stand up and leave silently, but I also have nothing to say to it.
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