Sublime

Aura Sublime

Aura Perfume 2015

This is not a pure vanilla scent. No, this is a real perfume. So something wearable, something elegant, not a cake scent for on the go. Not a sugary body spray. Nothing monothematic.

Let me describe Aura Sublime in more detail:
The opening impresses with its balanced composition of 50% citrus accords (freshly cut lemon and a hint of bitter bergamot) and 50% warm-soft vanilla (a classic vanilla, rather sweet, but not sugary).
I had been searching for exactly this combination and yet feared that it would turn out to be a cake scent and that I would be the little cake on two legs when wearing it. With a vanilla-lemon combo, it can quickly seem that way...
But no, this perfume develops into a wearable fragrance - cozy and elegant.
This is made possible thanks to the iris butter, which soon brings a booming-powdery note into the vanilla-lemon blend. And then after a while, the "balsam note" described in other reviews comes into play. While reading the comments as I waited for my blind purchase, I couldn't quite imagine what that might be - not some kind of tiger balm, like the one you use for coughs and colds? Or something smoky-scratchy?
Rest assured: neither of those applies. Rather, the note that appears after about 2 hours reminds me of warm cocoa and incense. The cocoa is unsweetened, very important. Not sugary cocoa for a children's birthday party, but noble, defatted cocoa and very subtle. The noble vanilla is clearly in the foreground. The cocoa might also be my imagination, as it is not listed. In any case, it is something very similar; fragrance experts are welcome to write to me about what else it might be. And the incense that I think I can smell is not yet lit, but still has a balsamic-oily scent and is in no way smoky or scratchy. If this description doesn't help you either, I might assist with a comparison to a spa visit. It doesn't quite match, like the unlit incense, but I believe this clarifies what I mean. A noble spa that smells of essential oils without being able to pinpoint a specific oil. But as I said - cocoa and balsam are really subtle, and Aura Sublime remains a vanilla-lemon perfume. In the drydown, this (imagined?) cocoa and the balsam are indeed the supporting characters to the tonka bean, which allows the vanilla from the base to continue living.

The longevity on my skin is excellent - even in the evening, I can still clearly smell this perfume on my wrist.
The sillage is good, especially the projection is (according to my colleagues) pleasant. Noticeable, but not annoying.
The bottle has been changed. It is no longer as shown in the picture above, but even simpler (who thought that was possible...). Very simple. Quite the opposite of the stunning, multifaceted perfume. Overall, the new bottle also appears very high-quality. It feels heavy in the hand, the cap comes off quite firmly (so it doesn't constantly fly off by itself), and the spray is luxuriously misty, in line with the higher price category.

Conclusion: beautiful perfume. Through Aura Sublime, I have personally recognized the difference between "scent" and "perfume" - and I love this perfume!