Orchid Mantis by Zoologist

Orchid Mantis 2025

Gyokuyou
08/24/2025 - 04:39 AM
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Scent

Orchid camouflage hiding an earthy trap

Have you ever seen an orchid mantis? It looks like an innocent light pink flower, safe and attractive, but it is actually a dangerous predator ready to catch its prey.

The start is very intensive like an explosion of tropical flowers and greens. One spray and my nose is in shock, the whole room is drowned in the scents of a tropical orangery, humidity fills the air, and it all is so bright that the housemates notice it immediately. The scent is so amazing that I cannot stop inhaling the air around and sniffing my skin where I applied it.

After a half an hour, the tropical flowers have calmed down, the humidity has gone, and I can only smell the aroma of the earthy base reminding me incense, just like the basic smell of Christmas smokers' cones. When you open a pack to take out a new cone, you always feel the smell, regardless of the type and manufacturer of these cones. Maybe, it's sandalwood and vetiver in base. It's fine, but sad that those orchids and other tropical fragrances have gone so fast.

Maybe that was the intention of the creators of the perfume? To lure us in with the mesmerising orchid illusion, and when we got close we were trapped in an earthy base? This is how the orchid mantis is hunting. That's how I perceive this fragrance, and that's what I find really exciting about it.
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