Aukai

Thanks to a bottling of the dear PetiteMadame I may test this fragrance today. I was very excited - the fragrance pyramid is also promising here, but so often there have been fragrances where it was similar, and which in the implementation for my nose then... let's say: were difficult.

To shorten it directly: Satine is there a beautiful exception. In the top note dominates heliotrope, jasmine remains discreetly in the background. Very sympathetic, I find. However: on the first 2, 3 Schnüffler the fragrance seems for my nose at first something green and not cuddly. However, that evaporates directly. After that, it becomes pleasant. I'm not a friend of overly floral, sweet bouquets. And that brings Satine fortunately also not.

The heart note is dominated by vanilla and tonka, peppery spiciness does not perceive my little nose here. And it would not fit here either. The heliotrope and jasmine remain present, but again unobtrusively in the background.
The base note I find very difficult to describe. Here I join my previous writer: everything is harmoniously interwoven, nothing dominates. Who hopes here for intense base notes such as an earthy patchouli note, a woody cedar note or a strong leather note, will certainly be disappointed.

My conclusion: the fragrance is personally too little earthy, too little distinctive for me. However, I find the composition and the interwoven with each other very successful, a beautiful composition that conveys warmth and elegance. For a sweet fragrance, I find it pleasantly unsweet. Also, the floral notes do not impose themselves, on the contrary. Powdery - yes, the fragrance is definitely a bit powdery, but compared to other powder fragrances, the powdery here is also kept discreetly in the background. Sillage / projection are moderate, but again, for me, it would not fit the fragrance theme if he would spread massively in the room.
By all means a nose flatterer, close to the body, unobtrusive, tender. Good for making a friendly, well-groomed, unobtrusive impression. And good to bring a little warmth to everyday life on days like these.

SUPPLEMENT: ordered it for me now - even though I don't find it distinctive. The fragrance is felt from hour to hour more beautiful, I will take him as a winter everyday cuddle fragrance. I look forward to it.

After the many great reviews here, I treated myself to the fragrance as a blind purchase - I found the fragrance pyramid appealing, could fit. As usual, he wandered first on a paper strip, and this fragrance has also made it onto my skin.

Top notes: citrusy bergamot, paired with slightly sweet currants and pear, the roses come through easily. After sniffing three times, I immediately think of Jil Sander SUN. At least in the top note, the two have an extreme similarity for me.

The heart note develops quickly, the citrus of bergamot goes, also the currant disappears into the background. Roses and jasmine emerge, vanilla, tonka and benzoin are sniffable in the background. Together with the pear quite nice - it does not smell bad, but it also does not knock me now so from the stool that I want to constantly sniff my arms or the paper strip.

The heart note begins to decline rapidly after about 3 hours. The mixture vanilla-ambroxan comes through more and more. At some point, it smells to me only like the impulse deodorant Vanilla Kisses. At least after how it smelled in the late 90s - that's when my neighbor used it all the time. I find the vanilla extremely artificial, it smells a bit like the deodorant was applied to sweaty armpits. Patchouli comes through minimally, but woods I do not smell here.

My conclusion: the fragrance is not intrusive, in between it always has nice hints. The pungent-artificial vanilla base, which spreads but then quite intense and the still existing fragrances scared away I like unfortunately not at all. I liked that but also already at the impulse deodorant not, I feel this kind of vanilla smell rather sharp and pungent and unfortunately not warm and cuddly.
Too bad - we both will probably not warm. It could have been so beautiful with us.

Thanks to a filling of the dear Sabrini I could test the Si Intense today. I was very excited about the fragrance. As usual, the first splash wandered on a paper strip, before he was allowed me then half an hour later on the skin (not every fragrance creates!).

Top note: The black currant comes out wonderfully, not too sweet, I like the slightly tart on it. Citrus embedded, neroli is also clearly recognizable. A great top note, but unfortunately very fleeting. After about 10 minutes, the beautiful currant and the wonderful citrus are almost completely gone.

The heart note: A sea of flowers spreads. Initially, the neroli still prevails, then it becomes a floral mishmash on my skin. After the very successful top note somehow disappointing. The currant can still be glimpsed from afar, but is forcefully pushed back by the floral scent. The next 4-5 hours it smells on me unfortunately like a run-of-the-mill perfume, the initial sophistication is gone. Was the top note strong, but pleasantly unobtrusive, the heart note now pushes vehemently floral-sweet in my nose. For me phasenweise really too much.

The base: the flowers want to stay, and slowly joins vanilla. Patchouli, where are you? Show yourself! Patchouli (I like very much) is here as good as not perceptible. Woody notes - if they are present - are also lost in the sea of flowers. The vanilla also reveals itself only timidly. Still, it's a vanilla I like. I had written a little treatise on the Dior Addict vanilla in my last review. The Si vanilla is for me from the scent comparable to ground bourbon vanilla, very slight impact towards vanillin sugar. I like it. But it also sinks again and again in the sea of flowers. I do not like.

My conclusion: the top note and the vanilla base are exactly my gusto. Unfortunately, between the two lies a large, for my nose hardly surmountable, sea of flowers. For lovers*innen sweet-floral fragrances Si Intense is certainly worth a try, my fragrance it will not. I would have liked that the currant remains longer and more intense, plus more patchouli, less flowers - just something more seductive. Maybe it works out with the next Flanker.

Thanks to a bottling of the dear Moenique I was able to deal extensively with this wonderful fragrance in recent days.

On Saturday evening I rang the getting to know - as usual on a paper strip. I sifted through the scent pyramid beforehand. Tangerine leaves - I have already seen them in the supermarket on tangerines, beschnuppert I have them admittedly not yet (I will catch up in the near future). However, I once had a fragrance oil: Violet Leaf Absolute. It was very green and smelled like that: green, herbaceous, tart, a little bitter, minimally pungent - the smell of violets was only very subtle. From therefore I was very curious whether and how I would perceive a similar note in the otherwise rather sweet-floral composition.

The top note: I smell nothing strikingly pungent or herbaceous-green-bitter, it seems rather floral, with delicate berry note (I really need to take soon in the supermarket a tangerine leaf in care and sniff). Orange blossom is discernible, but not in the foreground. Jasmine and vanilla don't hesitate and are right up front. Jasmine is not intrusive here, however (which makes me cheerful).

After about 10 minutes, the scent changes. The floral character gives way to the warm sensuality of vanilla. I have the feeling to smell benzoin Siam and some iris, even if they are not listed here. Wonderfully cuddly, subtly powdery. And just vanilla. Real vanilla.

I have already written it in my statement: I think you can clearly perceive the real vanilla here. Perhaps for better understanding: there are vanillin and vanilla in different qualities.
Imagine you have vanillin sugar. It smells like vanilla, but it contains only some of the chemical compounds found in a real vanilla bean. But enough to tell your brain that something smells or tastes like vanilla.
Then there is ground vanilla powder. Here, a pod is usually ground after the pith is scraped out. The taste is much rounder than the vanillin flavor, the smell as well.
And then there are vanilla beans. The inclined Christmas baker knows the small test tube-like containers in which selbige are usually stored. These vanilla beans also contain the pulp of vanilla, and just the latter smells and tastes a lot more intense than the first two. Especially if you leave them for 6 years, because you do not get for various reasons to bake cakes and cookies *hüstel*
--- "Jaaaaa, it's still good, it should only REIFEN a bit!"---

If I have to classify the Addict vanilla - and here I draw on my ground vanilla powder and the pod about 6 years old, vanillin sugar I do not have there - then this is from the smell between the powder and the pod. Vanilla in full fragrance splendor, so to speak.

On the skin, the scent develops very similarly, however: the durability on the skin is with me at the highest 2-3 hours. Then the magic is gone. On the clothes, however, a splash is enough to scent the whole day. I applied a rather large spritz this morning and smell even now very intense. Sunday and yesterday I got compliments for the smaller dose applied to the skin (but also somewhat absorbed by the clothes). Today I had the big splash only on the clothes and my environment told me clearly that my scent tail is too much. The sillage is therefore obviously above average, is yes also good to know.

My conclusion: Addict is a very nice, round vanilla fragrance, elegant, somewhat sexy, in the right dose not intrusive and very pleasing to many noses. Very intense and long lasting on clothes. Basically a successful, balanced composition.

Two things I noticed when sniffing, however, and I write this here, even if it may border on blasphemy or idiocy for one or the other:

1. As much as I like the real bourbon vanilla in desserts or in coffee and consume a pinch there daily, I obviously like the slimmed-down vanilla notes in fragrances. I sprayed another fragrance strip with JHAG Vanilla Vibes yesterday - yes, it's a very different kind of scent, rather summery-light. But the rather artificial vanilla note in it pleases my nose better, is more or less enough for me personally as a vanilla note. Maybe a bit idiotic, and I wonder myself about this statement. With food, it's just the opposite. Vanilla sugar or butter vanilla flavoring are not wrong, you can conjure up wonderful baked goods with it. But my palate clearly prefers real vanilla.

2. As beautiful, round and sexy as the fragrance is, I wonder: how well does it suit me? I guess the men around me would say, "Great!" For men's noses that seems to be a real dream. However, I myself am missing something, namely an earthy, heavy note. Without a doubt, Addict is not a light fragrance. But that certain heavy something - patchouli, vetiver, oakmoss, musk, cedar, amber, sandalwood or something leathery - is missing from my nose when I wear it on myself. But even then, only then. If I have it here on the paper strip, then I can't sniff my fill of it. Do I find myself crazy, but that's the way it is.

And: just because I personally lack the earthy base, that does not mean in any case that the fragrance is not good. It is perhaps comparable to a picture: you see it, admire it, rejoice in the color composition and yet know that it will not quite fit in your own four walls.
Somehow a pity. For me, Addict remains probably more of a paper stripe fragrance - there he has for me actually addictive potential.

Tonight I thought that tomorrow I could finally test my filling of Volumna. I like to spray fragrances first on a strip of paper and let them develop a bit, so I can at least sniff the head and heart notes already. No sooner said than done.

Attracted me here actually the interesting fragrance pyramid, first and foremost musk, sandalwood, vanilla, coconut, rose, black currant. Mango I like, tuberose is - if it is not overpowering - also gladly taken. This one could fit, I thought to myself.

I take it directly in advance: I am very glad that I have the habit to test fragrances first on paper. Otherwise, I would now be in the shower instead of writing this review.
Although I only used a small spritz, everything around me smells like this fragrance. And because I don't like it, I'm airing it out extensively right now and hoping it disappears quickly. I couldn't really make out any of the notes described - the top note is an indefinable fruity-floral-sweet, rather synthetic-looking weave for me. Staggering. I didn't get to the heart, after 2 to 3 minutes the sweet heaviness had spread so intensely that I felt sick to my stomach. I carried the paper strip directly out, but the scent remains.

Gladly I would have smelled what my Vorschreiber*innen have described here. But for me it is just much too intense, too spacey, too sweet, and I could not imagine with the best will in the world to wear this fragrance.
Too bad, because a very nice fragrance pyramid he has no doubt.