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Helpful Review
Orange flower soap
Orange Star starts off with the fresh, sweet/tart smell of mandarin. Like the essential oils of the bitter and blood orange, the orange in Orange Star has a warmer, richer and slightly more spicy/floral feel to it than the more common "sweet" orange. I also feel like I am not only smelling the juice of the fruit in this perfume, but also a bit of the orange tree's leaves and green wood.
This is not a light eau de cologne-type citrus scent, but a more substantial "perfumy" interpretation. Of course, the scent of orange blossom is a natural accompaniment to the fruity mandarin note and I find the amber base to mesh well with fruit's delicate warmth and spiciness.
Unfortunately, this perfume becomes much soapier as time goes on and the natural orange top note disipates (as citrus top notes tend to do). At about the ten or fifteen minute mark, this perfume really starts to smell like an orange/orange flower scented laundry soap on my skin. In fact, I was wearing this in the car with my daughter and her friend, and they both said I smelled like a soap and candle store (out of the mouths of babes..)
I'm not saying Orange Star smells bad per se. But I really think I could have gotten the same effect by layering some Clean Fresh Laundry with some Pacifica Blood Orange for a lot less money. Too bad, I do appreciate a perfumer taking an atypical approach to a citrus-based scent. Just didn't work for me.
This is not a light eau de cologne-type citrus scent, but a more substantial "perfumy" interpretation. Of course, the scent of orange blossom is a natural accompaniment to the fruity mandarin note and I find the amber base to mesh well with fruit's delicate warmth and spiciness.
Unfortunately, this perfume becomes much soapier as time goes on and the natural orange top note disipates (as citrus top notes tend to do). At about the ten or fifteen minute mark, this perfume really starts to smell like an orange/orange flower scented laundry soap on my skin. In fact, I was wearing this in the car with my daughter and her friend, and they both said I smelled like a soap and candle store (out of the mouths of babes..)
I'm not saying Orange Star smells bad per se. But I really think I could have gotten the same effect by layering some Clean Fresh Laundry with some Pacifica Blood Orange for a lot less money. Too bad, I do appreciate a perfumer taking an atypical approach to a citrus-based scent. Just didn't work for me.