Navigations Through Scent - Lijiang Molton Brown 2011

Navigations Through Scent - Lijiang by Molton Brown

Bottle Design:
Thierry De Baschmakoff

See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

See Prices

7.2 / 10 19 Ratings

A perfume by Molton Brown for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is fresh-green. It was last marketed by Kao Group.
Pronunciation

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Fresh

Green

Floral

Spicy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green notes

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Osmanthus

White tea

Base Notes

Vetiver

White musk

Perfumer

Jennifer Jambon

Ratings

Scent

7.219 Ratings

Longevity

6.014 Ratings

Sillage

5.311 Ratings

Bottle

7.025 Ratings

Submitted by Inala, last update on 05/23/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/23/2025

ClaireV
774 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Doesn't hold up well over time

You can sense the peachy sunshine of osmanthus trying to break free, but it is consistently quelled by a resinous mishmash of grass clippings and the gunk from the bottom of a coffee press. Lijiang is discontinued, so it is possible that my sample has disintegrated since I begged a salesperson for a squib of it to take home with me back in 2016. My memory of it in the Molton Brown shop was of a luscious, sparkling white tea fragrance enlivened with delicate, apricotty florals. It seems to have collapsed in the meantime into a dense fudge of moldering vetiver root. Shockingly, it reminds me now of Afternoon of a Faun (État Libre d’Orange), in all its brown-leaf immortelle gloom.

10/11/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

2

Watercolours

An unpretentious, yet truly delightful fragrance. Lijiang is a really well-crafted, weightless and fairly unique – despite seemingly faint and generic – uplifting blend built on a classy accord of green-floral-citrus notes with an initial dried-sweet vibe (then evolving into dried-spicy) and a subtle but perceivable sort of creamy woodiness. The osmanthus note is the true star here at first, and I think it’s quite well rendered. Osmanthus is an ephemeral marvel smelling like a sort of ylang-infused cold tea, so imagine something sweet, plushy, floral-green, slightly creamy and powdery but also grassy, fresh and slightly citrusy. Here, you get it brilliantly encrusted in a breezy, bracing and thin frame of light spices and a smooth musky-woody accord which as a miniature, comprises on its turn minimal nuances from salty vetiver to some “pencil shaving”. And that’s it. Dusty sunlight, a damp tea bag in a grassy winter garden. Peaceful and comforting, but exceedingly sophisticated too, in a really intimate and cozy way. The projection is really discreet and the longevity is quite short, but for once, they fit the design and the general airy and “evanescent” mood. Nothing outstanding, but really graceful and enjoyable.

7,5/10

Navigations Through Scent - Lijiang Molton Brown 2011

Main accords

Fragrance Pyramid

Perfumer

Smells similar

Reviews

Statements

Charts

Images

Popular by Molton Brown