Elenasmom
Reviews
Filter & sort
Elenasmom
Translated
Show original
I am a la folie
A more appropriate headline I can not think of for this unspeakably great fragrance.
I have some fragrances that fit me incredibly well, and I love the fact that there are so many beautiful perfumes for thousands of different occasions, lighter for summer, heavier for winter, daytime fragrances, evening fragrances. I also like the variety of being able to put on a perfume on a whim. If I'm sad, I can underline that with a melancholic scent, or cheer myself up with something sparkling. I have wonderful memories with many of my treasures, and some have to wait longer for their use, but then fit all the better because they were carefully chosen for that day. That's why I actually don't like to commit to just one signature scent.
Would you put me, however, before the choice ... it would be Lancome La nuit Tresor a la folie. I am so addicted to this fragrance, it's insane.
Once again, I'm lying in bed, my daughter snuggled up to me, and I'm trying to describe this pink and black jewel that gently envelops me, but I think I just can't do it justice. Also, I just can't and won't smell and describe this fragrance broken down into its individual parts because it just shines so perfectly and deliciously in the sum of its things. It smells so natural, never pungent, synthetic or suffocating, floating around me, always there and staying with me until the next morning. When I spray it on (2, 3 sprays on the back of my neck), I always have to close my eyes for a moment, inhale with a sigh and somehow, very briefly, the world stands still. Honestly, that's how it really is! That a perfume blows me away like that, and beguiles me like that, completes me like that, has never happened to me to this extent before. I fall in love quickly, am easily impressed at the first spray, but usually this interest fades quickly again, at the latest after 2, 3 weeks. But not with this fragrance, oh no. The euphoria is unbroken for months.
"La nuit tresor a la folie" smells exactly as described in the pyramid. Most of all, I perceive juicy dark (but not overripe) berries, a beautiful dark pink (but not squeaky pink) rose, and the very finest bourbon vanilla (yes really, not the normal vanilla) as well as a delicious tonka bean on warm wood. It changes by the hour, yet stays the same. He smells so familiar and yet new.
The comparison with red fruit jelly with vanilla sauce I can partially agree, but the wood, the rose and tonka are so present that he yet again does not quite fit.
Who knows me knows that already a too penetrating rose note can spoil the whole perfume for me. May the top and base notes are still so beautiful, is it too rosy is over with me, I'm sensitive. The well-known Tresor la nuit Damask rose is used here, however, well-dosed, the slight spiciness by Ambrox and nutmeg round off the fragrance perfectly. H+S are very good, but without being intrusive or artificial.
The heart note reminds me of something, but I just can not come up with it. Somehow, the fragrance melts so well with my skin that I can just fully identify with it.
I am downright addicted to it, can you tell very much? :-D
I'm a responsible mum since summer 2020, but in my heart felt forever 17 (in my head sometimes too :-D), and somehow "a la folie" brings across this change and at the same time constant believably. I'm still the same, yet changed in one fell swoop. My needs no longer come first, I have to always decide for the best for a little person who wouldn't exist without me, and honestly? Sometimes I'm scared shitless of doing something gravely wrong. However, when my little mouse squeals happily at me, reaches her sticky little hands out to me and gurgles "mamamamam"...I know I can't do too much wrong. My daughter makes me stronger, more vulnerable, even more confident and mindful of what's important, just like "A la folie". I love them both, but my child 1 billion times more. That's still a huge compliment to "A la folie".
I have some fragrances that fit me incredibly well, and I love the fact that there are so many beautiful perfumes for thousands of different occasions, lighter for summer, heavier for winter, daytime fragrances, evening fragrances. I also like the variety of being able to put on a perfume on a whim. If I'm sad, I can underline that with a melancholic scent, or cheer myself up with something sparkling. I have wonderful memories with many of my treasures, and some have to wait longer for their use, but then fit all the better because they were carefully chosen for that day. That's why I actually don't like to commit to just one signature scent.
Would you put me, however, before the choice ... it would be Lancome La nuit Tresor a la folie. I am so addicted to this fragrance, it's insane.
Once again, I'm lying in bed, my daughter snuggled up to me, and I'm trying to describe this pink and black jewel that gently envelops me, but I think I just can't do it justice. Also, I just can't and won't smell and describe this fragrance broken down into its individual parts because it just shines so perfectly and deliciously in the sum of its things. It smells so natural, never pungent, synthetic or suffocating, floating around me, always there and staying with me until the next morning. When I spray it on (2, 3 sprays on the back of my neck), I always have to close my eyes for a moment, inhale with a sigh and somehow, very briefly, the world stands still. Honestly, that's how it really is! That a perfume blows me away like that, and beguiles me like that, completes me like that, has never happened to me to this extent before. I fall in love quickly, am easily impressed at the first spray, but usually this interest fades quickly again, at the latest after 2, 3 weeks. But not with this fragrance, oh no. The euphoria is unbroken for months.
"La nuit tresor a la folie" smells exactly as described in the pyramid. Most of all, I perceive juicy dark (but not overripe) berries, a beautiful dark pink (but not squeaky pink) rose, and the very finest bourbon vanilla (yes really, not the normal vanilla) as well as a delicious tonka bean on warm wood. It changes by the hour, yet stays the same. He smells so familiar and yet new.
The comparison with red fruit jelly with vanilla sauce I can partially agree, but the wood, the rose and tonka are so present that he yet again does not quite fit.
Who knows me knows that already a too penetrating rose note can spoil the whole perfume for me. May the top and base notes are still so beautiful, is it too rosy is over with me, I'm sensitive. The well-known Tresor la nuit Damask rose is used here, however, well-dosed, the slight spiciness by Ambrox and nutmeg round off the fragrance perfectly. H+S are very good, but without being intrusive or artificial.
The heart note reminds me of something, but I just can not come up with it. Somehow, the fragrance melts so well with my skin that I can just fully identify with it.
I am downright addicted to it, can you tell very much? :-D
I'm a responsible mum since summer 2020, but in my heart felt forever 17 (in my head sometimes too :-D), and somehow "a la folie" brings across this change and at the same time constant believably. I'm still the same, yet changed in one fell swoop. My needs no longer come first, I have to always decide for the best for a little person who wouldn't exist without me, and honestly? Sometimes I'm scared shitless of doing something gravely wrong. However, when my little mouse squeals happily at me, reaches her sticky little hands out to me and gurgles "mamamamam"...I know I can't do too much wrong. My daughter makes me stronger, more vulnerable, even more confident and mindful of what's important, just like "A la folie". I love them both, but my child 1 billion times more. That's still a huge compliment to "A la folie".
7 Comments
Translated
Show original
Who are you? Tell me your name!
Oh, a very first comment on this fragrance, which also comes off well in the statements :-) let's see if it gets a few more fans ;-)
How did I come to this yet quite unnoticed perfume? I was about 4 months pregnant and just in the shop with the red centaur on the way, but not in my regular store, but the one in the next village. I wanted to have a good look at the fragrance section, and to my delight, this store had some other fragrances that the other one didn't have. I blithely sprayed (I had time) water after water onto the test strips, and some even bravely onto various parts of my arms. Wrist right, left, inside of the arm right, left and - shame on me - also on the back of both hands :-D yes, when you are pregnant you are often no longer completely sane. At that moment I was able to remember all the perfumes placed on my upper extremities, was firmly convinced that I could do that at home, and about 3 were allowed to leave the store with me. Once home, I washed my arms thoroughly with soap, snuggled comfortably on the couch and admired my loot. As I unpacked, a deliciously bitter, sugary-sweet lipstick scent kept rising to my nose, even though I hadn't bought any lipstick at all. Where did it come from? I sniffed the various spray heads, but they didn't compare to this delicious concoction. Until it hit me - there was an incredibly delicious, powdery-sweet-fruity-bitter scent wafting on my left wrist. I could immediately identify the bitter orange and neroli, sugar and almond too, it was just the heart note that somehow didn't open up to me, or that blended so well into the scent, making it round and not balanced. So, who were you? Please tell me your name! But the scent just smiled mysteriously and wafted on. I tried frantically to remember, but of course all the names were forgotten. Therefore - the next day I trotted to the regular centaur, hoping that exactly this unknown fragrance was in the assortment. And indeed, after a few attempts I had it! Unmistakably sweet, lipsticky and slightly bitter, with a touch of melancholy it welcomed me. I'd never noticed it before... but the bottle is just also quite inconspicuous.
H+S are not bad for a drugstore fragrance, he actually keeps half the day well through, and the base is in the evening still beautiful body perceptible.
"Bench for her" I would describe as a mixture of gourmand and lipstick fragrance, he is neither purely one nor the other, and together it makes a really interesting mixture, which today as hypnotized did not let me reach for "La Nuit Tresor a la folie", my signature fragrance (!!!), incredible. I wouldn't want to eat it, it smells too cosmetic for that, but I wouldn't push the delicious bitter orange and almond off the dining table ;-)
How did I come to this yet quite unnoticed perfume? I was about 4 months pregnant and just in the shop with the red centaur on the way, but not in my regular store, but the one in the next village. I wanted to have a good look at the fragrance section, and to my delight, this store had some other fragrances that the other one didn't have. I blithely sprayed (I had time) water after water onto the test strips, and some even bravely onto various parts of my arms. Wrist right, left, inside of the arm right, left and - shame on me - also on the back of both hands :-D yes, when you are pregnant you are often no longer completely sane. At that moment I was able to remember all the perfumes placed on my upper extremities, was firmly convinced that I could do that at home, and about 3 were allowed to leave the store with me. Once home, I washed my arms thoroughly with soap, snuggled comfortably on the couch and admired my loot. As I unpacked, a deliciously bitter, sugary-sweet lipstick scent kept rising to my nose, even though I hadn't bought any lipstick at all. Where did it come from? I sniffed the various spray heads, but they didn't compare to this delicious concoction. Until it hit me - there was an incredibly delicious, powdery-sweet-fruity-bitter scent wafting on my left wrist. I could immediately identify the bitter orange and neroli, sugar and almond too, it was just the heart note that somehow didn't open up to me, or that blended so well into the scent, making it round and not balanced. So, who were you? Please tell me your name! But the scent just smiled mysteriously and wafted on. I tried frantically to remember, but of course all the names were forgotten. Therefore - the next day I trotted to the regular centaur, hoping that exactly this unknown fragrance was in the assortment. And indeed, after a few attempts I had it! Unmistakably sweet, lipsticky and slightly bitter, with a touch of melancholy it welcomed me. I'd never noticed it before... but the bottle is just also quite inconspicuous.
H+S are not bad for a drugstore fragrance, he actually keeps half the day well through, and the base is in the evening still beautiful body perceptible.
"Bench for her" I would describe as a mixture of gourmand and lipstick fragrance, he is neither purely one nor the other, and together it makes a really interesting mixture, which today as hypnotized did not let me reach for "La Nuit Tresor a la folie", my signature fragrance (!!!), incredible. I wouldn't want to eat it, it smells too cosmetic for that, but I wouldn't push the delicious bitter orange and almond off the dining table ;-)
1 Comment
Translated
Show original
Slytherin Common Room
Yes, I'm a big Harry Potter fan with an affiliation to the Gryffindor house, but I'd probably be a bit too brave to sneak into the Slytherin common room with the "bad boys" every now and then ;-) I also feel strongly drawn to this house with my characteristics like cunning, ambition and that I'm more of a lone wolf than a team player. In short, there are two hearts beating in my chest, and in Decadence too. He is wicked but self-confident, thereby attractive and at the same time unapproachable.
Since I wore this fragrance only recently, but he did not make it into my current top 5 (why you read below) I can still describe it quite well, even if I can not really smell out the individual notes.
At first glance, the handbag bottle promises a more pleasing, if not ordinary scent. However, if you take it in your hand, it exudes a certain coldness, heaviness and aloofness, just like the content itself is. You have to be brave for this scent (Gryffindor), and I even ordered it blind, just based on the scent notes, and sometimes I don't know if the scent isn't too evil for me (Slytherin)...
"Decadence doesn't go through much of a change for me. It's smoky, velvety, heavy, opulent, spicy, and floral. This stuff lasts from early to very late, has insane sillage, and I have absolutely nothing like it in my collection. As a signature scent, I can not imagine the best will to anyone, simply because it is so incredibly opulent and extraordinary. But exceptions confirm the rule, as is well known, and on this person I would be curious.
A spritz is perfectly enough, and I smell a smoky, but by no means cheap nightclub, even if I've never been to one. There are separees partitioned off with heavy, dark green velvet curtains, gold candlesticks on the walls that give only dim light. The drinks menu features only expensive and exclusive drinks like whiskey, rum, and liqueurs, all of them expensive, aged in old wooden barrels, and slightly spicy on the finish.
Late at night, "Decadence" is still present, but glistens at me there only from dangerous green eyes, hovered around by woody smoke, amber, and a rest of plum liqueur in hand. There he is somehow more pleasing, but still you have to be careful of him.
If I had to describe him in one word, it would be dangerous. Yes, somehow I'm afraid of this perfume, but on the other hand I put it on just when I want to keep people at a distance and feel anyway attack and belligerent :-D
Yeah, it definitely smells like that in the Slytherin common room. Come to the dark side of the force, we have "Decadence"...
Since I wore this fragrance only recently, but he did not make it into my current top 5 (why you read below) I can still describe it quite well, even if I can not really smell out the individual notes.
At first glance, the handbag bottle promises a more pleasing, if not ordinary scent. However, if you take it in your hand, it exudes a certain coldness, heaviness and aloofness, just like the content itself is. You have to be brave for this scent (Gryffindor), and I even ordered it blind, just based on the scent notes, and sometimes I don't know if the scent isn't too evil for me (Slytherin)...
"Decadence doesn't go through much of a change for me. It's smoky, velvety, heavy, opulent, spicy, and floral. This stuff lasts from early to very late, has insane sillage, and I have absolutely nothing like it in my collection. As a signature scent, I can not imagine the best will to anyone, simply because it is so incredibly opulent and extraordinary. But exceptions confirm the rule, as is well known, and on this person I would be curious.
A spritz is perfectly enough, and I smell a smoky, but by no means cheap nightclub, even if I've never been to one. There are separees partitioned off with heavy, dark green velvet curtains, gold candlesticks on the walls that give only dim light. The drinks menu features only expensive and exclusive drinks like whiskey, rum, and liqueurs, all of them expensive, aged in old wooden barrels, and slightly spicy on the finish.
Late at night, "Decadence" is still present, but glistens at me there only from dangerous green eyes, hovered around by woody smoke, amber, and a rest of plum liqueur in hand. There he is somehow more pleasing, but still you have to be careful of him.
If I had to describe him in one word, it would be dangerous. Yes, somehow I'm afraid of this perfume, but on the other hand I put it on just when I want to keep people at a distance and feel anyway attack and belligerent :-D
Yeah, it definitely smells like that in the Slytherin common room. Come to the dark side of the force, we have "Decadence"...
20 Comments
Translated
Show original
Shell shimmering in corona year or: the mama perfume
My very first comment here, long I thought about which fragrance to choose for this. Once I made my choice, I also wanted to find the time to do this scent justice. That's what I'm trying to do now, while my baby slumbers next to me and her scent, mixed with a hint of "nude", floats around me. This blend is - if you'll pardon the expression - simply divine.
In the summer of 2020, my first child was born, a little girl. I blame it on the hormones and the ongoing, wonderful breastfeeding relationship that I can no longer smell almost my entire stock of perfumes, in fact there are currently exactly 5 that I wear in rotation, but only sprayed on the back of the neck and dosed more sparingly than usual, since my baby is supposed to smell the purest mommy scent. "Nude" belongs to this elite.
"La Nuit Tresor Nude is a daytime scent for me. I deliberately do not say everyday fragrance, because this sounds somehow negative for me. In the evening, I can imagine him rather less, simply because he is too bright and dazzling for the "dark" hours, even if he likes to drive away dark thoughts. In the opening I smell most the bergamot, pleasantly fresh and a very little tart it comes along, the peach has covered itself with a silk cloak, because this is not as pungent as in some other fragrances. Almost immediately the coconut joins in for me, which is creamy fresh and velvety at the same time. I love coconut and everything that smells and tastes like it, which is why "Nude" had my attention from the start. I'm happy to say I smell this coconut note until the very end, it gets creamier towards the end. To my surprise, the Damask rose is not so overwhelming here, I always find rose fragrances very difficult on me and leave them alone when in doubt. But here it blends expertly into the scent so it doesn't give me a headache. Maybe the aquatic notes are responsible for the fact that I remember so much the sea and the iridescent shells, which I admired for hours on my last holiday to Egypt 3 years ago and could lose myself in daydreams. However, the scent is never aquatic-blue, thankfully! If "Nude" had a color, it would be the delicate iridescence of a seashell interior. No glitter, no ballyhoo. For hours I can perceive the fragrance, despite a maximum of 2 sprays, well on me. When I crawl into bed with my daughter in the evening, usually dead tired, and "Nude" was allowed to accompany me during the day, I can still smell coconut and the pleasantly gentle finish of benzoin and vanilla, which lays itself dry and warm on my skin. In the morning, when my daughter greets me - albeit far too early - with her stunning toothless grin, I still smell "Nude" on my pillow. This scent is a soul comforter for me without coming across as melancholic, it somehow makes me feel meeker, and God knows I don't have a calm temper :-D Given to me as a gift for Christmas 2020 by my husband, after I brought home several test strips of different perfumes, and he initially liked "Nude" even better than I did, it somehow completes me olfactorically since I've been a mom, along with its dark, spirited sister "A la folie", which I'll report on another time.
So, my baby is waking up, and I'm still by the sea in my mind :-D when this crazy time is over, I'll show her in due time, carrying "Nude" for sure. Shortly again smell her little head, and on goes the crazy mommy everyday ^^ Thank you Lancome, for this indescribably beautiful fragrance.
In the summer of 2020, my first child was born, a little girl. I blame it on the hormones and the ongoing, wonderful breastfeeding relationship that I can no longer smell almost my entire stock of perfumes, in fact there are currently exactly 5 that I wear in rotation, but only sprayed on the back of the neck and dosed more sparingly than usual, since my baby is supposed to smell the purest mommy scent. "Nude" belongs to this elite.
"La Nuit Tresor Nude is a daytime scent for me. I deliberately do not say everyday fragrance, because this sounds somehow negative for me. In the evening, I can imagine him rather less, simply because he is too bright and dazzling for the "dark" hours, even if he likes to drive away dark thoughts. In the opening I smell most the bergamot, pleasantly fresh and a very little tart it comes along, the peach has covered itself with a silk cloak, because this is not as pungent as in some other fragrances. Almost immediately the coconut joins in for me, which is creamy fresh and velvety at the same time. I love coconut and everything that smells and tastes like it, which is why "Nude" had my attention from the start. I'm happy to say I smell this coconut note until the very end, it gets creamier towards the end. To my surprise, the Damask rose is not so overwhelming here, I always find rose fragrances very difficult on me and leave them alone when in doubt. But here it blends expertly into the scent so it doesn't give me a headache. Maybe the aquatic notes are responsible for the fact that I remember so much the sea and the iridescent shells, which I admired for hours on my last holiday to Egypt 3 years ago and could lose myself in daydreams. However, the scent is never aquatic-blue, thankfully! If "Nude" had a color, it would be the delicate iridescence of a seashell interior. No glitter, no ballyhoo. For hours I can perceive the fragrance, despite a maximum of 2 sprays, well on me. When I crawl into bed with my daughter in the evening, usually dead tired, and "Nude" was allowed to accompany me during the day, I can still smell coconut and the pleasantly gentle finish of benzoin and vanilla, which lays itself dry and warm on my skin. In the morning, when my daughter greets me - albeit far too early - with her stunning toothless grin, I still smell "Nude" on my pillow. This scent is a soul comforter for me without coming across as melancholic, it somehow makes me feel meeker, and God knows I don't have a calm temper :-D Given to me as a gift for Christmas 2020 by my husband, after I brought home several test strips of different perfumes, and he initially liked "Nude" even better than I did, it somehow completes me olfactorically since I've been a mom, along with its dark, spirited sister "A la folie", which I'll report on another time.
So, my baby is waking up, and I'm still by the sea in my mind :-D when this crazy time is over, I'll show her in due time, carrying "Nude" for sure. Shortly again smell her little head, and on goes the crazy mommy everyday ^^ Thank you Lancome, for this indescribably beautiful fragrance.
9 Comments
