Flossi

You get what you expect, a really authentic pistachio ice cream fragrance. The fragrance is linear, there is nothing else, it just fades relatively quickly.

I use it as a body spray after applying cream. It is then layered, last week I combined it with "The one Gold" by D&G. It's a lovely combination.

Longevity and sillage are below average, but I think that's OK for the price. I like the fragrance, I would combine it with gourmand scents or powdery musks.

I just like this authentic fragrance, it brings back memories for me.

I bought the water blind (mistake).
The opening: I smell a pungent smoky note, an association with over-seasoned smoked products comes to mind and in my mind's eye I can see my father's sausage kitchen and the sausages hanging on a wooden pole, which were placed there to be smoked to my liking.

In the drydown: Nothing changes for the first 2 hours. Sausage kitchen deluxe. Nothing more.

After 3 hours: Tonka bean, vanilla or even cinnamon try to make an appearance somehow, even a shy clove knocks bashfully on the Tumaric door but: Nothing to do, the incense spice blend displaces everything that is not nailed down and insists on its superficial, penetrating and all-slaying brutal presence until the bitter end. At the end, it smells a bit like a burnt speculaas cookie on my skin that has been topped with a slice of salami.

The fragrance is nothing for me, it won't make it into my collection.

I wore the fragrance in 1989 and then didn't wear it for many years, rediscovered it for myself and have to say: I still love it, it is simply a successful creation, timeless, elegant, perfectly coordinated - a work of art. The fragrance is now being thrown onto the market at low prices, I don't understand why, the scent is so perfect - many others in the high-price segment can't keep up at all.

The opening is floral, fresh and unobtrusive, the drydown is delicate, deep and soft - but it is incredibly long-lasting. This combination of subtle and long-lasting, unobtrusive and yet easily perceptible is very rare. Yes, many people have now smelled it and are smelling it (again), so if you want to exude a rare scent, perhaps you shouldn't choose this one. But what matters to me is that I personally like the scent and this one does. It's floral without being overbearing, fresh without being aquatic, wonderfully vanilla-like in the drydown, jasmine, rose and lily of the valley are so perfectly balanced and at the bottom musk and cedar round off the experience. I don't notice the patchouli at all, but I think it's responsible for the extremely good longevity.

What a masterpiece. Now you get the products and shower gel thrown at you and you know what: yes, I catch it. I love smelling like Joop le Bain, I don't care that everyone has it and that XY also uses it. I spray it for all I'm worth and enjoy the smell and celebrate it so hard, I really don't care what is generally written about this brilliant fragrance. I like it, it makes me feel good and that's what matters. If the body lotion is still available, I'll get it too. If nothing else...

The first time I sprayed it, I thought I'd been struck, the opening is blatant and I recommend that everyone gives the fragrance a few minutes to develop. At first, the impression of a pungent freshness prevails - reminiscent of a very well-kept toilet area in an upscale restaurant where high-quality products are used to maintain the sanitary facilities. However, these disturbing images disappear after a short time and you find yourself standing in a lemony orange orchard planted with jasmine and mimosa. And the great thing is that this feeling lasts and lasts and lasts - really unusual for a body spray. It's absolutely comparable to a good perfume, with above-average longevity and sillage on me. What strikes me after a few hours is a delicate musk that appears, I love, love, love this fragrance! And depending on my mood, I also wear it in winter, especially on gloomy, dark days it is a bright, sparkling companion against the winter blues. Oh yes, Lush - unfortunately overlooked by me for years.

To my nose, the opening starts off clove-heavy, although you won't find anything like that in the fragrance description. At first, I feel relatively strongly reminded of Felce Azzurra - my grandmother and my mother used the powder from this line and I also use the fragrance from time to time. However, this is only the case at first; this impression disappears again when you dry down. What remains is a rather clean, slightly spicy scent with a hint of smoke, I notice a little leather. What I don't detect at all - neither at the beginning nor after a while - is lemon or cheesecake, there's nothing milky or creamy about it. Nor do I smell the frequently postulated vanilla at any time. Maybe a little caramel, but if at all then only very delicately and marginally. For me, this is a subtle fragrance if you don't want to smell like everyone else, fine and quiet, like a polished rock crystal in a cool mountain stream on a fresh, misty winter morning. Very special, by no means conspicuous and yet very special. This is certainly the right companion for walks through freshly fallen snow. I could easily imagine it in the office, if you don't spray it over, even for therapeutic professions, in surgeries or hospitals it is not annoying or even room-filling. I find it relatively close to the body. Sillage is OK and also the durability. If you buy it at the normal price, it is too expensive. All in all OK, I would buy it again: No. Not at the moment, but who knows, sometimes a fragrance relationship develops slowly.