Top Notes 
Italian petitgrain
Cardamom
Heart Notes 
Balkans sage
Nepalese sandalwood
Base Notes 
Jasminum auriculatum
Virginia cedar06/16/2025
CurlyHen
15 Reviews
CurlyHen
1
Promising, but a pleasant disappointment
This opens refreshing and clean, green aquatic, muted notes of wood, citrus, herbs and a soft spiciness. There’s a sweet, bitter, herbaceous citrus and an aromatic minty pepper from the cardamom. First impressions, this is a great summery, unique, unisex freshie. I like! As it settles, I’m getting a little whiff of sweet and woody balsamic floral. This is sweeter at the heart, with a hint of juicy fig and jasmine, some fig leaf keeping it fresh and green, but with the sage here and the musk and sandalwood coming through at the base, I’m left with a powdery, flowery, soapy dry down with a pleasing effervescence. I like powdery dry downs, I like musk, heck I even like soapy perfumes. But I’m disappointed. It started off promising. It’s nice, it’s pleasant. But it feels more like a niche hand soap you’d find at TK Maxx than the unique, effervescent freshie that I was hoping to get. And then I’m doubly disappointed. Its projection is subtle, silage moderate.. but now listen, longevity has never been a big issue with me. I like delicate skin scents. I love teasing my nose throughout the day. And there’s perfume that people say lack longevity and I can still smell them on my skin the next day (hence my soft spot for Jo Malone’s). But my oh my, this disappeared quickly. Within 2-3 hours even my sensitive nose struggled to find it. I actually had to sample this on a second day and bring the sample with me to tease out my thoughts on this perfume. And for the price of a Trudon, I would really struggle to justify buying this, even if I really loved it. And I don’t. I like it. It’s pleasant, inoffensive, nice, safe. Then poof, it disappears.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And great perfumes are in the nose of the beholder. So someone, somewhere might love it. For me, it’s just a bit ‘meh’.
Collection Status - this was a sample. It’s pleasant enough that I’ll use it up but I’ll likely never think of it again.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And great perfumes are in the nose of the beholder. So someone, somewhere might love it. For me, it’s just a bit ‘meh’.
Collection Status - this was a sample. It’s pleasant enough that I’ll use it up but I’ll likely never think of it again.
CurlyHen
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