Moonlight 2023

Yambo
25.02.2024 - 05:44 AM
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Promising moonlight causes restless sleep

My second Pana Dora!

The bottle alone makes this house super interesting and so I hope that a fragrance will appeal to me.

Imperial Wood was unfortunately too boring for me, as there are already far too many fragrances in this direction and now I was finally able to test one of the most hyped fragrances, namely Moonlight!
The start of Moonlight is really successful.
The opening begins with a spicy and fruity start.
The fruitiness is generated by the plum and the peach and the spiciness is due to the tobacco and this is underpinned with a slight smokiness of musk and a slight note of chocolate. WELL DONE!
It also has a slightly dusty/powdery effect, which doesn't make the fragrance any worse, on the contrary, it fits the name perfectly! Heavy and dark and at the same time light, powdery and slightly mysterious. Just like the moon!

But over time, the initial enthusiasm fades and the fragrance transforms into a mixture of two scents that don't appeal to me at all.
But it is also precisely because of this transformation that I can understand why this fragrance is so popular and why it has succumbed to a certain amount of hype.
Because it reminds me of a mixture of Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum and Angels' Share and these fragrances or this direction is not my cup of tea at all, unfortunately :-( Nevertheless, these fragrances are very popular with the masses and so I can well understand that Moonlight is well received by many or just serves a certain hype.

Nevertheless, I find the composition much better than the two fragrances mentioned above and for me also much more pleasing, but still not my cup of tea.

Towards the drydown, this certain tobacco note paired with a little honey, a good breeze of vanilla and cedarwood remains, which again is not exciting but quite acceptable!
Unfortunately, this Pana Dora won't convince me either, so I'll probably keep searching and hope that one from this house will appeal to me, as I find these bottles simply indescribably beautiful.

To be continued...
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