Profuma

There it is again, this note that is more or less present in some ET scents. Like a red thread. Unmistakable Liz! So straight as a die and without regard to losses, in this variant the gardenia is administered here. Another "If he's too strong, you're too weak" descendant. But it's a little like the S&M practices. Some are swaying and others are letting it happen. I have been "admitted" to Gardenia and have been able to round off ET's sweet smells with my personal preferences of her waters with him.
The prelude clearly makes me a trio, mixed in and with power. Ivy provides the green flavor, lily of the valley with a concentrated portion of white and gardenia even whiter. Normally too much white for me, but here somehow quite pleasant, even if really engaging. Somehow this ingestion has the consequence for my nose that the remaining notes go down in the threesome. Perhaps they act discreetly as support. As if the stars were at the front of the stage or in the film and they were the ones in the background who made it all possible. The agents, so to speak, managers and entourage. So the scent doesn't change much for me. He doesn't have to. Where Gardenia is written on it, there should also be some to sniff, where else would be the sense of the naming?
Of course I see Liz in my mind's eye, in her white dress from "the cat on the hot tin roof". And I can hear the delicate and fine fabric rustle easily as it swings with her every step and I can smell the scent on her as she descends down the stairs in the house. Pulling behind him and putting Gardenia in the air, if he had already existed at that time. Sublime and sensual at the same time, eroticism and purity united in itself. Innocence and greed as a weapon for every moment.
Thus, the Gardenia seems to me to be better suited for the warmer seasons, when one can really play with the clothes and its charms. Under the high-closed, the scent will rebel until it is released. He just needs to get in the air and show himself. Somewhere else he might choke himself.
Again one comes irrevocably to the comparison with Liz. This alternation of feelings, the moodiness and then again the childlike, needy of support, which pushes you away again in the next moment.
I find Gardenia from the ET creations together with White Diamonds the fragrance that best dresses a woman like Liz.

First of all: The prisoner is not pink, as the picture suggests, but a diluted and almost completely dissolved grey-brown violet. Same watercolor, watercolor pale, translucent and only a hint of color. Whatever you place close to it, it picks up the hue and is then almost impossible to capture itself.
The fragrance is then also a breath, an air draft, a breath, but not quite as delicate as the colour seems to suggest. But in any case, spontaneous summer or just warm temperatures and a lot of sunshine comes to my mind. It is cheerful, fresh fruity and tingling, the currant is clearly "effervescent" and exhilaratingly perceptible through the mixed bubble drinks. In many places it seems melancholic and heavy to me in the black version. But here it is light and fruity and "good things", almost exuberant. Good mood with every bubble seems to spread instantly. From the heart note, heliotrope and orange blossom show themselves to be the strongest and give the initial note a little more depth. Orchids are a little too small for me to grasp in fragrances. Only the term orchid doesn't tell me how it smells if it doesn't have a trend-setting nickname such as vanilla orchid. What does a "wild orchid" smell like in this case? I stick to my impressions of the heart note, which are really clearly revealed to me. They are reinforced with a wood note and a very beautiful and rich vanilla. This gives the fragrance a creaminess that rounds it off in its final bouquet. He may seem a little soapy, too. All in all, Divina by La Perla is not a new or independent fragrance creation. There is already something similar, something approaching also and jumped over seven flacons there will also stand an approximating composition. But Divina still "tastes" better to me, because she just shows this creaminess at the end, instead of the fresh, aquatic or astringent touch that many of the similar fragrances have. The durability is clearly in the upper league, the Sillage is advantageous in the lower league, because it can be an everyday office fragrance, as well as just one for the shopping tour. And you don't want to attract attention with a too strongly perceptible scent anywhere. That's where Divina's character comes in. She knows what she wants, says what's going on, but she never gets involved in the sound.
The Frenchman would probably say: "C'est le ton qui fait la musique"...!
And Divina plays with hers right into my heart.

For obvious reasons, if you look at the larger bottles, I have explicitly chosen the smallest one, which is the one that is most likely to achieve the intended look. With all the others you would have to put up with jokes and comments or make endless explanations about the suspicious object in your pocket or bathroom. So I go the "short" way...;-)!
Unfortunately, the Cacharel house has not been able to grab me like this in the last few years with its scents. Except for the nostalgia catcher Loulou, no bottle of it has ever been in my collection. Until I got a sample of "Yes I am" for another purchase. Because of the fragrance combination and the enormous longevity, it has conquered my heart for spring.
Those who know me know that ginger in fragrances makes my nose and everything attached to it freak out with joy! Here I get a fair amount of the sparkling stuff, the raspberry, which should have opened, is still holding back a bit. Something about this opening catapults me back to my childhood. Someone from my environment had a perfume that smelled exactly the same. While I'm pondering, the ginger flattens out a bit, but the raspberry makes it less sparkling but soft, which has its charms. I already liked that so much at the rehearsal. The scent goes through different stages and makes itself an experience. I perceive the tangerine peel discreetly, perhaps I couldn't even name it, if I didn't know that it was romping around in the fragrance. The gardenia on the other hand, with its special note, comes through noticeably and complements the raspberry wonderfully. Little by little, another new note emerges and with jasmine even more floral, but the main theme remains raspberry. After a good ten minutes then the amber wave. She meanders smoothly around the previous ingredients and embeds everything that has been a little louder and more demanding up to this point into her soft arms, giving the whole thing a real feel-good factor. It's like adding a sweet and perfumed sauce to a dessert, sweetened juice or the finest crumbles. Simply something that additionally delights the palate and makes you want more. As if some invisible hand were constantly adding new fine ingredients. "Yes I am" could be continued with "delicious". Delicious, tasty and simply somehow special among the sweet scents. This is certainly due to the spices, which emphasize the sweetness in a way that it doesn't become exhausting. Meanwhile, this Cacharel wafts around me like a wonderfully soft and fluffy raspberry-sugar cotton cloud and lets my soul and heart float on it. The milk aspect comes through more and more the longer the fragrance is in the air. The wood is more reserved for my sensation than in other fragrances. For me, "Yes I am" is and remains a very fine, deliciously tasty, all-encompassing raspberry-amber smoothie, which I enjoy sipping with relish on this radiant spring day.