17/17 Stone Label

Lunosa XerJoff 2020

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6.6 / 10 75 Ratings

A limited perfume by XerJoff for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is woody-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
Limited Edition

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Main accords

Woody

Oriental

Floral

Sweet

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cypriol

Neroli

Heart Notes

Indian tuberose

Ceylonese sandalwood

Gardenia

Base Notes

Oud

Tobacco

Haitian vetiver

Ratings

Scent

6.675 Ratings

Longevity

8.568 Ratings

Sillage

8.268 Ratings

Bottle

9.394 Ratings

Value for money

4.454 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 27.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is exclusively available at Harrods.

The fragrance is part of the "17/17 Stone Label" collection.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/27/2024

4
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Sirbennyone
167 Reviews

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Sirbennyone

You drive me INSANE....

... and I don't mean that in a positive way!

Hello first of all,

today I would like to TALK about the Lunosa.

When I saw you in pictures (quasi animated), I smiled at YOU and not too little. When I also saw your price with your "slim" 740 pounds (+ customs from Harrods) my way of thinking was almost clear..., but this was a small mistake....

I saw the fragrance LIVE for the first time in mid-2023 and wow is it pretty. Some might say "kitschy" and yes, that was exactly my way of thinking until I saw it for real.

You can say what you like, but it looks classy!
Performance?

I can't understand/comprehend each very good and top with all other statements in the sense of well, ok, or quite good = those. Because if a fragrance stays with me for a very noticeable 10 hours or more, then I can only give it an 8 or 9 out of 10.

And the BUT...!

And now hold on.
It is NOT the price!
It is official and a certain exclusivity has its price. However, you will never get a recommendation from me for that (for such a price). At the end of the day, I primarily rate the content = the fragrance, the eye eats with the smell...., but what good is the best and most beautiful bottle if the content... is only ok?

Because that's exactly what the Lunosa = difficult. Indirectly, there are 2 problems, but they go hand in hand.

What do I mean by that?

The fragrance is complex and works for me (!) with difficult notes. Like the mix of cypriol + neroli + tuberose + oud. I get on well with each fragrance note individually or in a nice accord.

For example, the XXI: Art Deco - Blonde Amber works with tuberose + tobacco, or the Alexandria II Anniversary with cypriol + oud = all cool so far, but in combination.... very, very difficult. I've already had + emptied 6, 7 or 8 samples and I've tried to LOVE it.... - that's probably not going to happen!
And that's exactly his problem in my opinion - for heaven's sake, not that he doesn't appeal to me (!), but where and when to use him... = I can't tell you.

(If there are always 1, 2, 17 fragrances that I would prefer, why do I need it?)

There's no need to talk about the fact that it's ok/ good/ very well made!

And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
_______

11/23/2020

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

MontanaB
27 Reviews

MontanaB

Pretty

Pretty fragrance with dangerous price. Bottle is gold plated with actual gold so bring your bottles to pawnshop after they are used up ;) Jokes aside, very opulent white floral scent. It feels like concentrations of the oils here are 30-40% which is crzy much considering the modern days.

Short sum-up: Indolic tuberose with heady creamy sandalwood. After 2 hours drydown shows up with tobacco and honey. Very unisex, can be easily worn by men who adore neroli and tuberose. IT will be more successful amongst the female buyers.

Soooo...Scent is great. Price is even greater. Bottle wise, nothing that hasn't been done by other Italian brands with gold overspray and etched lines. Look at what Moresque did years ago. (P.S. same with Rosa Ekaterina styling taken over into the Apollo.... just saying). I assume it's crystal, It's way heavier than normal ones from XJ. Overall presentation is cool but has been done before. Scent wise solid 9 out of 10

10/05/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Violett
40 Reviews

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Violett

Top Review 20

A diamond, a short holiday, zeppelin flights... or a bottle of Lunosa ?

Today the price for 100ml of Lunosa, available at Harrods, is 843 pounds, approx. 929.66 euros (?!) And it has, I think, already fallen a little bit in the meantime. That alone is remarkable and raises questions. Sure, limited edition, crystal flacon... No idea what the reasons might be In any case, I spontaneously participated in the sharing, and did not pay any further attention to the costs.
I was a bit shocked how much I had to pay for the 4ml (although the price was absolutely fair !)
But I have no regrets whatsoever. Because this scent is... exciting. And yes, it's beautiful and special.
If you don't spray too much of it on, it is actually quite harmonious throughout.
In order to test it again "correctly", I have now put a good load on it.
Two fragrance components form the beginning: a sweet, ingratiating one and a strict, bitter one I smell honey, fruit and alcohol. That could be mead with a drop of orange liqueur. Hiccup!
I associate the austere note, which brings in a bit of disharmony, with leather. This smells, when used sparingly, very refined and elegant.
With stronger dosage it becomes very strict, bitter, medical. Everyone has his own pictures for this. Engine oil, street smells, I could understand everything, for me now no light leather anymore, but rather the black leather jacket of the car screwdriver (which also leaves it on when working).
But for my nose, flatterers outweigh flatterers. The bitter smokiness recedes with time and kindly changes into a moderate, still somewhat strict background spice. Well, now the transformation begins, little by little the flowers gain strength, radiantly friendly, warm and sweet, with the sensual tuber rose, the cheerful gardenia and the warm sandalwood as the main protagonists. The beautiful honey wine cocktail remains a little bit perceptible. But... any bitterness disappears!
This now smells much more pleasing and fortunately not boring at the same time.
With no other perfume have I ever experienced that I find the base most beautiful, but here it's like this. I smell an echo of all the fragrance that has taken place here. In the foreground is now a nice, warm spiciness .tobacco above all, I suppose, sandalwood. The oud has probably already lived out its bitter side in the beginning and has helped with the "motor oil smell" Now it's actually unnoticeable.
A lot happens in this fragrance, there are really significant changes in the course of the fragrance. This makes Lunosa exciting for me. Especially the beginning is not always harmonious from the smell, but most of the time it is a fine, pleasant smelling perfume.
It is also very interesting to see in which way we "translate" odours for ourselves. The bitter thing in the beginning was spontaneously alcohol and leather, you can live with that. If you can live with it Motor oil, dirt and above all various nasal nuisances associated with the dog, acceptance is probably much more difficult.
Anyway, I like Lunosa very much, but with the 4ml is good too. unless in a few years you get the rest of the limited edition for a special price (at least 700 Euro reduced.)
Then maybe you'd rather have a nice short holiday. :-)

10/04/2020

Mogwai
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Mogwai

Very helpful Review 10

We have to be patient, then it won't be long

So Xavier sang in some song.

The first spraying and sniffing on the wrist was a shock, nee uuuh
Like dog shit, a musty cellar in which once was a workshop and still old oil residues, petroleum, hang in the air.

Not washing it off requires patience,
yes be patient,
wait,
give it a chance.

I have researched this Cypriol, it is described among other things as particularly earthy, eagle-wood-like.
That's probably the note that's causing the bad smell
I remember years ago when we were kids playing in the streets When the road was dug up, it smelled extremely earthy. We kids found that smell as chewy.
This unpleasant perception goes away quite quickly, already in the next few minutes.

Then a smell of old burnt oil, or paraffin, remains very dominant and in the short term extremely pungent.
I sniff my wrist at short intervals.
I am briefly reminded of licorice, but only briefly.

Slowly a breath of sweetish flowers comes into my nose.
They are fighting a battle with this petroleum-like stubbornness.
More and more sweet, slightly powdered flowers are appearing.
They fight their way through. They're trying to get rid of that horrible smell of burning old oil and kerosene.
The sweet flowers begin to fill the room. Directly at the sprayed place they still fight with the unpleasant aroma.
After about 50 minutes this can still be perceived.

But the magical flowers win. They dance like dust particles in a ray of sunlight. A sweet, warm spray of flowers.
Figuratively a bowl filled with this burnt oil horror, in this one strews small ground sweet enchanting flowers with a pinch of powder and this in a sunbeam warmed up and flooded with light. Warm sweet magic.
More and more flowers more more.
Winning the flowers.

I don't feel the flowers as tuberose, as I know them from other fragrances, but they are wonderful.

No sticky sweetness.
A warm dry sweetness.
Addictive, lovers of sweet scents.

Little by little the last unpleasant note is displaced.

What remains is sweet warm magical
I'm surrounded by an unbelievable sillage
I wrote my statement after the first shock of getting to know each other I didn't wash it off. I'm glad I didn't.

We must be patient

Phoenix from the ashes has risen.

A masterpiece