Georgie

I spent half my life in Stuttgart, and one of my favorite places there was and still is the zoological-botanical garden "Wilhelma" with its beautiful park and historic greenhouses. And this fragrance takes me right back to those greenhouses with their warm, stuffy humidity.
It is quite extreme at the beginning - as if you open the doors of the greenhouse and this lush, humid floral scent takes your breath away for a moment. After about half an hour, the fragrance becomes greener, herbaceous, and more wearable.
It quickly becomes very close to the skin and, after two hours, is actually hardly noticeable on me - a brief, intense burst of fragrance.

Through a surprise letter, I had the opportunity to test all four fragrances from Nectar Olfactif.

In all the scents, you can noticeably perceive a fragrance progression, and here too, the top, heart, and base notes can be beautifully distinguished.

My first association is delicately fragrant almond-honey pastries, which wonderfully fits the current Christmas season, yet without drifting too much into the gourmand direction.
Over time, the almond takes a step back to make room for creamy notes, so the scent increasingly reminds me of a cozy honey-almond milk bath on cool days.

An adult, very well-groomed, somewhat feminine fragrance that is very suitable for everyday wear due to its moderate sillage. The longevity for me is about six to seven hours.

Anyone looking for a cozy almond/honey scent without a strong gourmand note should give this fragrance a chance.

I smelled this wonderful creamy, well-groomed fragrance for the first time in December eight years ago in the perfume department of Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Still completely captivated by the festively decorated Christmas tree and the impressive dome of the department store, I strolled past the sales counters when a friendly saleswoman offered me Amber Musk to try. While the Goutal fragrance I also tested didn’t convince me at all, my nose kept wandering back to my wrist throughout the day to smell this delightful scent.

Since then, the fragrance has been my faithful companion during the winter months year after year, sending me on a scent journey back to Paris on that radiant, festive winter day just before Christmas Eve.

The fragrance doesn’t have a significant development on me, with a moderate and very wearable sillage. After about 5 hours, it gradually fades away, leaving behind a light, finely creamy musk trail.

I snagged a bottle of this fragrance at TK for a mere €16 yesterday and bought it blind. Just looking at the fragrance description printed on the outer box left me puzzled, considering the name "Glam Flower." According to the box, it primarily contains orange and bergamot oil as well as vetiver, with no trace of glamorous flowers! With the name "Glam Flower," I certainly associate a lavish floral bouquet that might only shine in the evening because it feels too stuffy during the day.
Good for me that I'm always up for fresh scents, because that's exactly what this fragrance is; in the top notes, it becomes almost aquatic-fresh on my skin - definitely unisex! According to the manufacturer, the top notes consist of citrus notes, which I, however, do not detect.
After a few minutes, vetiver comes to the forefront very prominently, surrounded by minimal floral notes and pleasantly harmonized by patchouli.
In the base, vetiver takes a bit of a backseat, while musk and vanilla become more noticeable, providing a well-groomed, clean-creamy finale.
A lovely, albeit very fleeting fragrance, of which hardly anything remains after three hours. In my opinion, it can be worn by any gender, as it strikes a good balance between seemingly feminine and masculine scent notes.

I am one of the lucky winners (thank you Parfumo!) of the Sneak Peek raffle and was delighted to find the fragrance sample in my mailbox today.
Queen of Silk - how fitting, I thought, as I have been watching the series Shogun for a few days now and admire the most beautiful silk kimonos of the noble ladies every evening.
However, while the initially very present magnolia still lets my thoughts wander to East Asia, shortly after that, a very dry, woody note (saffron?) pushes itself forward, paired with a distinct sweetness that possibly comes from the passion fruit, although for me it doesn't smell authentically like this exotic fruit, whose scent and taste I enjoy, as the fragrance remains simply too dry; it lacks the juiciness of the passion fruit. What I smell now I associate much more with the other end of the Silk Road, with oriental souks, with all their rather heavy scents and dust-dry desert air. And then suddenly I realize what this synthetic passion fruit reminds me of: some Tiziana Terenzi fragrance.
After about two hours, the passion fruit retreats, the scent becomes skin-close and slowly transitions into a soft, warm vanilla base, which, fittingly for the Silk Road, is accompanied by a fine note of incense.
For me, it is clearly a fragrance that smells best in the base and, in my opinion, is perfect for evenings in the cooler half of the year.