Nicki80

A delightful sweet and creamy fig opening paired with aromatic black tea. The vetiver smells slightly more nutty than earthy and blends well with the tonka bean in the base. After four hours or so, I’m left with a delicious creamy and nutty scent which avoids being too sweet. This somehow makes me feel simultaneously cosy and elegant.

I love the initial burst of bright fruit before the floral and woody notes come through. It smells like summer but somewhere hot and dry like Arizona or a desert rather than somewhere tropical and humid. The citrus notes come and go for a few hours, before the earthy and woody notes take over. From time to time, a slight powdery note appears.

I’m usually a bit wary of fruity fragrances as they often smell cloying and artificial on me. This opens with a lovely, sparkling grapefruit balanced with black pepper to give depth and spiciness. After a few minutes, slight floral notes appear but the lovely citrus and spice combination remains strong. A couple of hours later, soft warm and woody notes appear and blend with the citrus and spices. This is a lovely summer fragrance and definitely reminds me of warm late nights/early mornings on holiday in the Mediterranean.

This has a lovely opening of light fruity and citrus notes - avoids being too sweet, has a nice freshness, probably because of the bamboo leaf. Cedar appears after a few minutes with that distinctive pencil-shavings note but is quickly softened by peony and cotton flower. More woody notes come through but I don’t really detect any obvious smokiness, it’s more woody and aromatic than rich and smoky.

It works well in all weather and is definitely office-friendly.

This is the desert fragrance I’ve been searching for! On me, it starts with sweet herbal notes, similar to fresh tea or a newly opened packet of rolling tobacco. After a few minutes, more woody and aromatic, almost spicy, notes join and make the sweet herbaceous scent warmer. After several hours soft suede notes appear, and the perfume takes on a slight creaminess, but there’s still an underlying herbal sweetness.

This isn’t a fresh green scent that will make you think of lush fields after recent rainfall, this is definitely an arid landscape. It’s the smell of desert plants drifting on a hot, dry breeze in Southern California or Arizona or New Mexico. It’s unlike any perfume I’ve ever smelled but it takes me straight back to visiting the Grand Canyon. I love it.