Parfum Satori smelling-strip Experience 1: SAKURA

Parfum Satori　smelling-strip Experience 1: SAKURA
It's cherry blossom season in Japan now, and the cherry blossoms have already started to fall, leaving pink snow all over the place.
I'd heard of Parfum Satori before, but I honestly didn't have high expectations because I want a certain amount of individuality in my scent. 
So I looked at their website and found that they offer a free smelling-strip distribution service, so I decided to give it a try. (Only in Japan)

What arrived was a letter-like envelope with three smelling-strip that could be sealed securely with plastic. The perfume blended well into the smelling-strip, and they were soaking wet and soft.
In honor of cherry blossom season, this time I'll share my impressions of the SAKURA scented smelling-strip. If you want to know the scent right away, you can skip the next paragraph.
First of all, what do you think of when you hear the word "sakura"? Actually, sakura doesn't have a scent. The fruit of the cherry trees（seiyou mizakura) and the cherry trees you often see in town are different species. So, if a fragrances is said to have a cherry blossom scent, Japanese people are confused. They say it's a fake scent. (Well, imagination and expression are free, that's art.) So, each company has to imagine the scent of cherry blossoms and create it.
Also, there is a Japanese sweet called sakura mochi. In fact, cherry leaves give off a coumarin scent when they mature. Sakura mochi is a rice cake wrapped in these leaves, and is a traditional sweet that is often sold during this season. So japanese people may imagine a gentle coumarin scent. Parfum Satori's scent is neither of those.

When you smell it, it has a gentle scent that makes it difficult to imagine what kind of flower it is. The first thing that came to my mind was my mother.
Actually, it's the scent of shiso. Speaking of shiso, it is often used as a seasoning in Japan. Umeboshi is one example, and the nostalgia I felt was probably umeboshi or shiso furikake.
"A Japanese scent of crisp shiso and patchouli, with light pink cherry blossom petals dancing and shimmering, like a sachet."

TOP：Perilla、cherry
MIDDLE：sakura、jasmine、rose
LAST：moss、musk、woody、incense

Indeed, this is more like "air" than perfume.

※Studio Ghibli: The Tale of Princess Kaguya (This image was licensed by the studio.)
It doesn't smell like musk at all, and it smells vaguely like "plum wine".
It's a scent that's been aged by blending ethanol and fragrances, and it doesn't smell like the cosmetics floor of a department store at all. Instead, it smells like my mother. It's a scent that I remember from a distant memory, like the lingering scent of my mother wearing perfume when she came to school. The patchouli is very faint, and it has a transparent shiso scent. Or it has a camphor-like scent that you'd smell from a kimono freshly taken out of the closet.
I felt that this was the best expression of the cherry blossom scent I've ever smelled.
Some people may feel that this is a room fragrance if the musk, which is closer to the skin, or the mellow vanilla and sandalwood are not strong, but I thought it was well done. It's more of a memory scent than a perfume.
It's like coming back to your apartment on a cold spring evening and hearing the sound of someone taking a shower, and the warm scent of shampoo and body wash wafting through the window, or like the lingering scent of young women who, as a very cute child, got into the elevator with you and greeted you by saying, "You're cute!" as they got off. (I was very cute when I was a child lol. Women often doted on me when I walked around town.)
Or it could be the scent of the mothballs in your closet that your mother used to put on her going-out suits, or the scent of shiso furikake that you often put on your lunchbox as a child.
With that kind of scent, if you were to introduce this as the scent of sakura, some people would probably say "no," but this kind of distant memory or ephemeral scent may remind you of sakura.
If someone who likes strong scents smelled this, they would probably call it "the scent of toiletries" or "baby wipes (hey, what does baby wipes smell like?)".
However, in Japan, all daily necessities have a weak scent, so no one would complain if the perfume itself had a weak scent, and I think it would be a good friend for people who don't like artificial scents.
I don't know for sure until I actually try it, but I felt like I would like to go to the store and try it once. This is more of a "perfume of the heart" or "perfume of memory" than a fashion or to seduce the opposite sex.
Productively speaking, people who like the scent of shiso will find it very pleasant. However, don't expect beast mode or long-lasting scent.

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