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Hera is a vintage soapy floral chypre. I warn you to test before you buy, it is not for everyone. I feel like I am in an imaginary garden where I am pulling out carrots while surrounded by narcissus, jasmine and orange blossoms. It is quite soapy and ever so sparkly, later a little animalic. And it lasts forever on the skin.

Pistil is in your face floral. I am in a meadow not in a florist, it is slightly herbal and wild. Wind blows in my hair and I stand there barefoot while sun sets. There is a hint of a dark purple sweetness, like a good plum tart - is it boozy or does it have cinnamon sprinkled on top? It has a creamy texture like some of my chypres do. Out of current Miskeo four scents, this one is the strongest projector on my skin. Don't get me wrong, it is still not the kind that clears the room, you are safe to wear it to public.
After six hours it calmed down and stayed on my skin for another six.

Daim opens with naturally smelling mixed white florals followed by suede inspired by gloves that the prefumer's grandparents wore. If I concentrate, I can get the sage, too. But it is blended well. The scent is smooth and silky like a scarf. Gentle animalics join the suede and florals later. It does not have any drastic development changes and stays fairly linear on my skin. Despite the ingredients list, it is not a huge projector nor does it last forever on me, 8 hours maybe. But I do not mind. I like it. It is perfect for closed spaces. You can not possibly offend anyone with it.
Side note: My husband liked it on me as well as on himself.

Épices opens very zesty, like if I have just grated lemon zest or opened a jar of candied lemon. I imagine that I go to my spice cupboard and I look for some spices to cook with later. I open several containers and smell them - coriander seeds, cardamom, saffron, bay leaf. I get a whiff of mint or eucalyptus perhaps. Jar of sweet cocoa is ajar at the back. Scent of cooling as well as warming spices are mixing in the air. Cooking does not take place in Épices, spices remain powdery dry. Drydown is my favorite part. The scent moves into a soapy musk, which smells like an old fashioned laundry soap, the kind my grandma used when boiling the bed sheets. Later it sweetens and at the same time gets dirtier, too. Perhaps some animalic musks join the soapy ones. Very sexy. Épices is an eau de toilette which after the initial stage moves into a skin scent that last all day, easily 12 hours.

Malia opens with fruits and florals with a distinct marjoram flower note. Marjoram here smells like the fresh flower not the dried leaves you tend to buy for cooking. It immediately takes me to a herb garden. Fruits are a mix of flavours reminding me of fruit mix sweets called bon pari. Perhaps there is more of the zesty green, yellow and orange ones and less of the red berry ones. There is light spiciness from pink pepper which intensifies later when black pepper joins in. Flowers join in, again well blended and hard to distinguish each one. Chypre base comes last, again well blended. On my skin it projects well for 6 hours and then settles in a skin scent, rubbed on clothes it lasts ages. I slightly prefer it in summer because of the marjoram and zesty fruits but it is not a typical summer scent and I can easily wear it in winter during the day. It is different enough not to be a boring perfumery scent but not too artisan and pretty safe for most. I would say it is feminine leaning, but there might be men brave enough to pull this one off.