Fleur de Orientica Orientica

I think everyone knows what I experience with Fleur de Orientica, although perhaps not with fragrances. This fascination and at the same time somehow aversion, but also enthusiasm. And then you ask yourself, yes, what is it? Do I like it or not? And then it starts again, yes, I think it's great, but also - strange, unpleasant - and somehow great. And you get the desire to understand your own strange reaction, try to break the whole thing down in more detail.
I've been trying to do that for five days now, the five days I've been wearing Fleur de Orientica. And since I always come to the same, still ambivalent conclusion, I'm going to write it down here too.

The opening is a delicate orange blossom that does 4711 proud. I'm serious, the orange blossom of the original 4711 Eau des Colognes is the best ever for me. However, it is only perceptible here for a few seconds, because something strange, strangely creamy and muted, with a hint of heliotrope, is added. Immediately afterwards, many blossoms appear, and the creamy, dimmed note somehow connects them.
I can't recognize a single familiar flower, it's just floral in a dense but not stuffy way. Now I recognize something tart, which may also be due to the flowers, minimally indolic, but in such a way that it's okay.

After the first five minutes or so, I notice water flowers. Water flowers have spoiled many a scent for me, but here they're not at all bland. Here they are paired with a sweetness that is now setting in. My inner image is of a water lily pond with stagnant fresh water into which large quantities of oversized wine gums have been sunk. It all seems very strange. On the other hand, I have to admit that I don't know of any other perfume that even comes close to smelling like this.

As the fragrance progresses, it does become a little stuffy; I have found the jasmine lactone fragrance in other fragrances to be similarly stuffy and dimmed at the same time. Perhaps a little bit of it has been used here too. In addition, the focus of the fragrance is now moving even further in a fruity direction.
There are a few hours when it smells to me like creamy wine gums with a little marigold. Now, unfortunately, the creaminess becomes even stickier, but only when I smell the spray. In the projection, I experience a wonderfully cheerful, bright fruity bouquet!

And it stays like this for a few hours. When I'm not smelling the spray, I'm really happy with the fragrance.

By late evening, Fleur de Orientica has thinned out, the fruitiness has receded somewhat and the marigold note has softened a little, so that I would no longer describe it as marigold. It is as if all the notes have now come together. If I want to, I can still recognize them all: The creamy, the hint of heliotrope, unspecified florals, a hint of jasmine lactones, wine gum, sweetness, water flowers, bright fruit, tamed marigolds. Only the orange blossom has completely evaporated.

Fleur de Orientica lasts for 12 hours and can still be detected on clothing the next day. It is a unique fragrance, I don't know of anything comparable. It is very flexible and has a strong progression, in which other notes come to the fore again and again, just a magic spell in which all the stops are pulled out.

Do I like it? Yes, I think it's great - but also funny - unpleasant and somehow great.

By the way, I can't see any resemblance to Fleur Narcotique. Fleur Narcotique, after a fantastically beautiful opening, unfortunately had a continuous hint of plastic for me, which spoiled the fragrance for me.
And: I wrote this review without reading the pyramid.