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Sel Marin starts with citrus fruits, nice and refreshing. A touch of lemon peel could also be part of it, because I can detect a slightly tart note. Not sensational, or even new and never been there before, but very nice to wear in the warmer season.

After the citrus chords have faded away, I find myself by the sea. I feel sun on my skin and sand under my feet. Seagulls are screaming, loud and clear. Sel Marin has catapulted me to the North Sea, but I cannot explain why. It's just the way it is. Period. Consciously I don't smell salt either, but the association to the North Sea is just there

Little by little, woody notes and a hint of leather join in. When smelling and sucking in very exactly I notice a weak, really only minimal fishy note. It must be Nemo and Dory, hiding deep down at the bottom of the sea. Sel Marin doesn't remind me of a herring cutter, the fish section in the supermarket or even spoiled fish. Definitely not! I swear!

For me, Sel Marin is an unagitated, wonderful feel-good fragrance that conjures up a holiday feeling in my everyday life. So far I only have one bottling, but as soon as I have emptied it, I will (have to) buy Sel Marin. The fragrance is simply so beautiful and with a shelf life of about 10 to 12 hours, it is not a fleeting pleasure.

I don't know if Sel Marin has been reworked or if there are also different batches of this fragrance, but the sample I have is older than the bottling from a sharing and there I perceive the "fishy" algae note more clearly, even if it is never in the foreground.

Through Montana 80, for which I have already written a comment, I became aware of Crystal Noir, because this fragrance is called Gemini here on the site. I wanted to follow this or rather sniff after and so a 10 ml bottle of Crystal Noir landed with me

For me, the two fragrances are not twins, but I do think they are related. They could be sisters, but not twins and certainly not identical ones.

Crystal Noir opens with a green-tart berry note and I am sure that the leaves have also ended up in the mixture with the currants. The start of Montana 80, however, is quite different. Sweet, heavy and with a coconut flavour I hate. If the tangerine was not there at the right moment, I would probably have put the scent of Montana in the souk long ago.

There are also differences in the heart note, even though tuberose dominates the middle section in both. In Crystal Noir the jasmine creates a certain brightness, even if it does not quite match the radiance of the orange blossom of Montana 80. I do not perceive CN as dark or even "noir" (M80 does not go in a dark direction either). For me it is a creamy warm flatterer with depth. CN is a fragrance that glows and Montana 80 shines, or more simply put, I find CN more intense and Montana 80 brighter.

The closer we get to the base, the more similar the two become and I'm sure I couldn't keep them apart any more. They are wonderfully soft, creamy, warm and cuddly.

Both fragrances are beautiful, even if you don't have to have both. You have to weigh up what's more important to you ... a sweet intro or a more tart ... coconut or not. For me, M80 has been a little bit ahead so far, but the CN opener has something. Especially not coconut! After testing several times, I have corrected my rating of CN upwards and M80 has lost its top position with me.

In terms of durability CN is absolutely unbeatable, because I am accompanied, flattered, cuddled, beguiled for 15 hours (at least, rather more and on clothes much, much longer) in a wonderful way ... and at no time do I find the scent obtrusive or even disturbing.

Anyway, I'm happy to have both CN and M80 in my collection, even if one of them would be quite sufficient.

I find it extremely difficult to grasp this scent, to grasp it and to describe it even approximately. Just the title alone makes me uneasy. "Iced fire", "fiery ice" and similar contradictory things are buzzing around in my head. But that is exactly what Perles de Lalique is for me - he is cold as ice on the one hand, but also hot as hell.

From the very first spraying, this scent was strangely familiar to me. I never tested it before, because I would have remembered the beautiful iced glass bottle. Besides, I don't know anybody from my environment who wears it or has ever worn it. Yet there was this familiarity, the feeling of having arrived and being at home.

I don't perceive any pepper at all. Rose and Iris, which are listed in the pyramid, I could not identify. The pearls start floral-powdery, but not with iris as in other fragrances. Here the powder note is also completely different. No innocent baby powder, but also no body powder and no smell of make-up or make-up in the broadest sense. Herbs also play a role, but what are they? I have no idea. Because as soon as I try to get to the bottom of a component, it disappears. Maybe it's the SHU Somehow the scent plays cat and mouse with me.

You may all think I'm completely crazy now, but when I wear PdL I have to think of iced bommerlunder. Maybe because it is drunk out of iced glasses? But I can't make out caraway seeds and then I think of juniper brandy. Is that herb I smell juniper? And no, I'm really not a boozer, and I'd rather stay away from the high-proofs

Perles de Lalique has only recently moved in with me, but I have worn it so often and it seems to be made for me. It creates distance where it is necessary and on the other hand gives me a feeling of security. A fragrance that warms me, but also cools me down and creates a healthy balance. Hot and cold, fire and ice, yin and yang. This could be my signature fragrance, because it combines everything I want and probably need.

Thank you dear Schoork for this wonderful fragrance recommendation, because I would probably not have found this fragrance alone.

L'Amour starts citric fresh with bergamot, a shot of neroli and some green is also part of the game. The rose is added quite quickly and the fragrance changes from citric/green to high-quality rose soap, but only briefly, at least for me

My dear friend the tuberose only sticks her head in the door for a short moment, only to disappear again afterwards without a sound to leave the field to the main protagonist, the gardenia. The dear gardenia can be very exhausting and diva-like in scents and might have caused some of you headaches. But here the sometimes very hated flower behaves extremely civilized, tame, reserved and downright well-behaved. L'Amour by Lalique has absolutely nothing shrill and loudly craving for attention - it is a gardenia scent that comes on quiet, elegant soles

The musk used in the fragrance is bright and clean and is free of animalism. The woods support without coming to the fore themselves and round off the fragrance perfectly.

For me, L'Amour is a cool/elegant silent treader, which might be perceived as boring, but for me it is absolutely not. Cool yes, but not unapproachable and a wonderful day scent for numerous occasions and probably suitable for all seasons.

I am quite satisfied with the shelf life of about 8 hours, because for a rather discreet, quiet fragrance this is not a matter of course. The glass flacon, which by the way is beautiful and very valuable, is in the 100 ml version a challenge for small women's hands, but Pluto has already noted this in her wonderful commentary.

To be honest, I expected something completely different from an oriental flower scent, namely a scent that comes around the corner with kettledrums and trumpets, as well as riots and ties. It's completely new to me that in the Orient you can also create very delicate, quiet scents.

The jasmine is very delicate and fine, which is gradually pollinated by soft iris. In addition there is a light vanilla, which never pushes itself into the foreground or even tries to dominate the fragrance. It remains in the background and supports this delicate floral breath. Fatina remains almost transparent throughout the entire fragrance and this does not change with the patch. Only a very, very light earthy note completes the fragrance structure. I don't even notice the orange blossom by the way.

The first sunny, warmer day after a cold winter that gives a hint of spring - that's how I would describe Fatina. Spring is probably also the perfect season to wear this fragrance and even in summer you won't bother anyone with it. For cold days, in my opinion, stronger fragrances are needed.

I have a shelf life of about 5 hours, but from the beginning only close to the skin, which is absolutely fine for such a delicate nipple. An overdose is excluded, because you would have to set the spray head to "continuous fire".

I can't rate the bottle because I only have a 20 ml Pocket Spray and this container, bottle can't be called with much benevolence, is ugly, cheap, pink and also made of plastic. Nice is different and I fear that the 50 ml bottle also looks rather cheap.

Fatina was a blind purchase, but one that can be dared in this price range. I was really surprised by the scent, although not completely convinced. Beautiful, delicate and fine it is, however, in any case and all the filigree fragrance webs love should Fatina absolutely test.