Top Notes 
Fir balsam
Moroccan neroli
Pink pepper
Heart Notes 
Cinnamon
Date
Davana
Base Notes 
Ambroxan
Milk
Musk
Vanilla absolute01/28/2025
Chefärztin
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Oriental scented candle in the Swedish house
Date Opaline is one of those fragrances where you know "somehow this looks super familiar, but it's not just that".
The opening immediately gives you an almost pungent sweetness that immediately accompanies the intense neroli blossom and lingers throughout the fragrance. This is softened by balsamic notes that leave behind a good creaminess. My first impression: "Okay, that's strong! Could this be something for me?"
Unfortunately, the soft opening fades and is replaced by a typically penetrating mix of unbearably synthetic vanilla and neroli that you would find in any scented candle. Smelling it, I now find myself in the decoration department of a well-known Swedish furniture chain and ask myself why I'm actually picking up the large pack of scented tea lights again - didn't I actually swear to myself last time that I'd give up this "fragrance experience" for good? Somehow I couldn't keep my hands off it after all (the familiar is also a reassuring experience).
The other notes listed don't help to soften my scent either; milk and musk also inspire the waxy sweetness and I am certain: this IS the ultimate scent candle fragrance.
I feel the same way about the rest of the fragrance - I don't really want to smell like a walking tea light, but I can't say that I find the fragrance "bad" per se - only as a perfume, it doesn't have to be. It really doesn't.
The opening immediately gives you an almost pungent sweetness that immediately accompanies the intense neroli blossom and lingers throughout the fragrance. This is softened by balsamic notes that leave behind a good creaminess. My first impression: "Okay, that's strong! Could this be something for me?"
Unfortunately, the soft opening fades and is replaced by a typically penetrating mix of unbearably synthetic vanilla and neroli that you would find in any scented candle. Smelling it, I now find myself in the decoration department of a well-known Swedish furniture chain and ask myself why I'm actually picking up the large pack of scented tea lights again - didn't I actually swear to myself last time that I'd give up this "fragrance experience" for good? Somehow I couldn't keep my hands off it after all (the familiar is also a reassuring experience).
The other notes listed don't help to soften my scent either; milk and musk also inspire the waxy sweetness and I am certain: this IS the ultimate scent candle fragrance.
I feel the same way about the rest of the fragrance - I don't really want to smell like a walking tea light, but I can't say that I find the fragrance "bad" per se - only as a perfume, it doesn't have to be. It really doesn't.
