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Lionora Mind Games 2023

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7.7 / 10 96 Ratings

A popular perfume by Mind Games for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is fruity-sweet. It is being marketed by The Fragrance Group.

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Main accords

Fruity

Sweet

Creamy

Fresh

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Apricot

Passion fruit

Madagascan ginger

Mango leaf

Tonka bean

Heart Notes

Apricot skin

Iced tea

Osmanthus

Tuberose absolute Freesia

Freesia

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Ecomusk®

Tonkalactone®

Perfumer

Christelle Laprade

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Ratings

Scent

7.796 Ratings

Longevity

7.877 Ratings

Sillage

7.376 Ratings

Bottle

8.876 Ratings

Value for money

5.859 Ratings

Submitted by Spl3xx, last update on 07/05/2025.

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The fragrance is part of the "Soulmate Collection" collection.

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/26/2025

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

I expected more..

I feel like Erba Pura is still lingering somewhere in my office. What a longevity!

I was wondering whether it was the right time to try Lionora, but Erba Pura is only faintly present and I love how well my "come-back" from my hiatus is going.

So, Lionora, a recommendation I believe is from none other than Anne Lauren herself. She is a true influencer. This fragrance really excites me, because I am adoring rich fruity fragrances at the moment. Dear 90's kids, do you also have vivid memories of fruity fragrances being childish or juvenile at best? The rest of the fragrances was like that of Trésor by Lancôme or Shalimar. That's at least how I reminisce fragrances from my childhood. Now-a-day, fruity fragrances are juicy, rich, vibrant, realistic and seductive! Lamar has actually become my favourite fragrance in my collection.

Lionora is promising apricot, passionfruit, ginger and tonka, but also sandalwood and osmanthus, which has me jittery with excitement.

She (because apparently I have gendered the fragrance) opens with a scent that has me searching my memory like crazy. Lionora's opening reminds me so much of a designer fragrance. Is it one of the My Way flankers by Armani? Or perhaps Nomade by Chloé? As it dries down, I smell a delicate apricot note that is very lovely - it could potentially be a difficult note, if not done right. Unfortunately, I was hoping for a tart freshness from passionfruit, but I cannot smell it at all. The fragrance smells tactilely soft, yes, I can smell a specific touch. It smells like the soft fuzz on the apricot skin. It's quite sweet, but it's not too close to becoming cloying. I just wish that the ginger or passionfruit was more prevalent, to "break" the scent profile a little. I wouldn't classify Lionora as a fruity fragrance, but rather a sweet and creamy fragrance that perhaps has stepped on an apricot fallen off the tree due to it's ripeness. I expect some tart, sour or fresh kick from fruity fragrances, but hey, that's just me!

All four fragrances from the kit have been a pleasure to meet. And I'm truly happy that I haven't yet fallen in love with any of them, because I am not supposed to by any more fragrances. However, we are approaching the final boss, Kurky by Maison Francis Kurkdjian.
I will try to contain myself.

03/15/2025

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

TiaC
2 Reviews

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TiaC

Helpful Review 4

Is that nice?

I have only just got to know Lionora and yet the scent has caught me so much that I feel the need to write something about it.

I actually tested Lionora mainly out of habit. I associate fond memories with the scent of apricot, peach, mango and a few other fruits, so I quickly developed an interest in trying perfumes that promise these scents. Knowing full well that these tests usually leave me less than enthusiastic. I often like the fragrances quite a lot, but I still usually don't feel the urge to wear them myself. That's what happened to me recently with Peche Mirage. I was delighted with my bottle and enthusiastically tested the fragrance, but have never felt the urge to wear it again since.

Lionora seems to be different. My sample arrived just as I was getting ready for work. I still had a little time, so I opened the envelope and sprayed the fragrance onto a small piece of paper. Not bad, I thought. Perhaps a little too milky and I caught a whiff of the kind of sweetness I already disliked in Queening. Still, I liked something about Lionora, so much so that I decided to wear it straight to work. In a way, that's a bit of a gamble and an acid test for a perfume, because I can't stand most of my fragrances at my workplace, where I'm sometimes exposed to extreme temperatures and smells.

As soon as I applied it, I noticed that the fragrance was quite intense. Although I had only sprayed a little, I was surrounded by a veritable cloud of apricot. But not a bad one. I had to smile for the first time on the drive to my workplace. Hmm, what's that? A creamy freesia, unusually sweet and yet very beautiful. I liked that. I wondered if I could also detect a hint of tuberose, but it was mainly freesia.

After I had been working for about an hour, I suddenly got a scent in my nose that seemed very familiar. I couldn't get enough of it, I kept looking forward to it and at the same time I couldn't figure out where I knew it from.
After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly remembered Passiflora by Guerlain. So the passion fruit in Lionora is very noticeable to me and I was a little surprised that I had only just discovered it.
But there was more. Something else that I knew well. Something I had once liked very much and then forgotten. It took a surprising amount of time before I suddenly found myself transported back years, in the perfume department of a department store, on my way to a date, more casually testing a few fragrances, until I finally held the sparkling green heart in my hand and sprayed on some of the perfume that would enchant me for the rest of the evening and beyond. That was Aura Eau de Parfum and, quite unexpectedly, Lionora has something of that very scent for me. They are by no means identical and yet the small similarity is enough to awaken vivid memories in me and give me a familiar feeling of well-being.

I don't know if there has been any other fragrance in recent times that has put a smile on my face as often as Lionora in the course of a day. I don't think so. Yet I know so many others, some that I would probably rate as 'better', objectively speaking. But what's the point if I think the fragrances are great but can't wear them well? If they feel like a foreign body on me that I carry around with me.
Lionora is different. Although I find the fragrance intense and long-lasting, it makes me feel upbeat. Almost like a little energy booster. This is probably due to the beautiful memories. Not just of Passiflora and Aura, but also of the apricot shampoo I used to use in my youth and the feeling of unbridled joie de vivre associated with it. It goes well with the first signs of spring that are just starting to appear. It's a bit crazy what smells can do, but above all it's very nice.

Lionora smells a bit artificial. But it's not the relatively new, extremely pungent kind of synthetic that I'm familiar with from Erba Pura and the like, but the kind that is familiar from fragrances like Aura and that many fruity-sweet perfumes and care products have had since the 90s. That doesn't bother me. The hair care associations don't annoy me at all either.
Only this strange, lactonically sugary sweetness, which I already know from Queening and which I can't quite place, could still spoil the fragrance for me. That's also the only reason why I didn't order a bottle straight away, but will continue to test it a little more as a precaution.

For me, Lionora smells primarily of passion fruit, apricot, osmanthus and freesia. I find the fragrance sweet, fruity and somewhat creamy floral/milky. However, there is also a small hint of green coolness, so that the sweetness doesn't completely suffocate me. I would have guessed vanilla in the base. Tonka is listed, but I don't detect it here.

Lionora smells as if you've just had a fresh shower, washed your hair with apricot shampoo and then applied a body lotion that smells of freesia and a little vanilla. Add a few spritzes of a passion fruit perfume and a woodruff-flavored wine gum in your mouth.
Does that sound nice? Probably not necessarily. But what the heck, I like it.
It is perhaps interesting to note that I liked the development on the test strip much less than that on my skin.

I find the longevity and sillage to be good, or just right for me. Lionora lasts a long time and is also easily perceptible to other people. With a normal dosage, however, you probably won't fill a room with it and drown out everything else. Despite its intensity, it's a fragrance that I feel like I'm wearing, that it accompanies me and not that it completely overpowers or smothers me.

It's quite a bright, friendly fragrance and when I think of the occasion and the season, I see Lionora more in the daytime, in normal everyday life and especially in spring. At the same time, I think the fragrance is versatile and will be wearable almost anytime and anywhere, as long as you like this type of scent.

When I got up this morning, I didn't have to think long about which fragrance I wanted to wear. It was immediately clear that it would be Lionora again. So I spent the day in an apricot cloud again and was delighted every time the cheerful passion fruit flashed up.

Lionora really isn't the best or the most beautiful perfume I know, but it awakens feelings of happiness in me in a way that few others can, so that I ask myself: how can a fragrance be more beautiful?