Orange Flowers Montale 2015

If I really try, I can just about keep track of the essentials, but I've long given up on the Aaaaaaouds! Since I quite liked the "orange line," I consciously ordered this sample, but somehow I must have missed the fact that there is a pink sign painted on top.
Because Orange Flowers is thoroughly a women's fragrance that clearly acknowledges this and doesn't always pretend to be the obligatory lukewarm "unisex"!
Orange Flowers slightly reminds me in the top note of the unsweetened version of Cedre by Serge Lutens... but that was just the calm before the storm, as a monster wave of flowers, blossoms, and great sweetness follows! The only thing I can really pick out from the potpourri is the orange blossom, which you can recognize in hints from APOM Homme and Femme, more Femme of course, and the delicious honey. However, it's hard to focus on a single note, as the nose constantly has to battle with something new, which can be quite exhausting at times. Nevertheless, it smells quite good from a man's perspective (on a woman!), even if it becomes sweeter and unfortunately also more cloying hour by hour, without being a gourmand, as nothing in this fragrance is sugary. In the middle part, it briefly reminded me of Narciso (EDT/EDP), even though the roses are missing up top... that only flashed briefly and was then swept away by the next wave of flowers. At the end, I can still detect a small dose of laundry detergent musk, but that's about it.
The longevity is, as usual, very very good; it easily lasts 8 hours, and the sillage is very strong, here 2 sprays should be enough to fill the office.
Not a bad fragrance, but also nothing that blows me away; I'd rather invest the money in APOM Femme or APOM Femme Elixir, as that one has real style!