Byzantium Tesori d'Oriente 2016

For the price, the fragrance is really incredibly beautiful, and definitely worth a try. Unfortunately I'm always torn, I tend to have a toxic relationship with this fragrance. I love smelling it, with its cinnamony-sweet powderiness, almonds and a creaminess like milk with honey that wraps you up like a warm blanket, rounded off with spicy notes, cozy-soft and cuddly, with a hint of floral powder... and yet it overwhelms me after a while. When I wear it, it smells kind of musty after a short time, it becomes unbearable in one fell swoop, so I have to get rid of it, it suddenly really annoys me. It's absolutely not that the fragrance changes in a negative way, it's just my perception, it becomes too much for me in one fell swoop.

And yet I can't get away from it, I want to smell it again and again. I can only stand it for a short time, but during that time I enjoy it. For the price, such a love-hate relationship is manageable, especially as you can expect above-average longevity and sillage and just one spray is enough, and I would still recommend it to anyone looking for sweet and powdery cheapies. Not everyone has to be as quickly annoyed by it as I am. And if someone really likes having the fragrance around, the Byzantium convinces with an extremely good longevity of several hours. I will probably stick to the shower gel, because showering becomes a pleasure with the fragrance, and it is also one of the few shower gels where the fragrance is still present for quite a while after showering, just long enough to satisfy my longing without annoying me :) However, the bottle still has a place in my collection - just in case.