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The top and heart notes in this perfume are switched around for me, I initially get some lilac and then it's all up to violet and heliotrope to carry the cloud of powder and vanilla. It's like a much lighter everyday and all season alternative to Le Parfum Poudré - Eau de Parfum Iris Blanc which is somewhat smoother and milkier and most definitely a winter perfume.

My Name is powdery, and it leans a bit babyish on me when the vanilla is less present. I wish the lilac was remained more present (of course I would), but it does what it promises very well. I hate to make these cheesy associations but if you like swan lake, this is probably what Odette would wear when she's with Siegfried. It has a certain romance to it. It's not a comparison I can take credit for but it has certainly stuck for me.

In the first 15 seconds there is something grassy in it that has a weird mint ice cream lean to it, that's the best I can describe it. It mellows out really fast though (thank god). The violet leaf turns it at times towards the aquatic (in the sense that violet leaf sometimes makes things "watery" to my nose).

In the middle stage it basically disappears on me unless I huff my wrist, so I'm left dreaming of the fragrance I was hoping for, having been jolted from my initial excitement by that strange opening so different from what I was expecting.

Then in the dry down the scent returns as this dry, light, powder (=the iris) with some hints of non-sweet and non cosmetic violet. It's still somewhat grassy/earthy but not sharp anymore. It turns fully ozonic. I'm surprised not more people think of this perfume as "green". It begins to warm up as well in the dry down. It's to sum up a warm powdery scent with some green earthiness to it.

It's like falling into an enchanted sleep in some late summer meadow, all the flowers are done blooming for the year but the grass is damp and the evening is cooling. I can't see this as a winter perfume. It's best I think on cool late summer days, warm autumn days, and spring.
I like it and the dry down is super beautiful. Would love to smell this on other people.

Starts out with a nice musky, almost fizzy orange blossom (if you want an image with that think light falling through a dense tree top, the orange blossoms illuminated, that same sunlight falls across your eyes and wakes you up from a nap under that tree.) It's a little sweet and the honey isn't too recognizable here, but soon that sweetness disappears and there are moments where it just smells like a lemony cleaning product. Then that too fades and you're left with this lightly bitter orange blossom water in the dry down.

It's only "bad" when the scent develops into cleaning product territory, but it never lingers there too long. The bitter dry down is very wearable, woody, and refreshing but I miss the opening and wish it would've just stuck with that. Would be a nice office scent because it's not too young, it's calming (aromatherapy right?), and it doesn't project too far so you wouldn't bother anyone. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who wouldn't associate this scent with "clean".

The bitterness gets very addicting, so don't let the 5 seconds of cleaning product scare you off. Worth it to sample in my opinion.

This opens with more incense smoke than the EDT and it lasts a bit longer too. The florals here are equally ambiguous after a while but the smoke keeps it from being a generic flowery scent, which the EDT somewhat and sometimes struggles with. It lasts just a bit longer too (about 6-8 hours* rather than 3-4 for the EDT), but remains a little close to the skin after a while with about the same projection.

Essentially the same beautiful scent with just a bit more depth, but I'm not sure if it's to the extent where you might choose this one over the other. If you're looking more for the church in this line of perfumes then the EDP might be better for you, if you want the hazy afterlife with all it's foreign flowers the EDT would be the better choice.

I like both tbh, this one might satisfy that "goth" itch a little better.

The opening of this is play dough like, it has no freshness to it at all except for the first second it's sprayed when it mixes with the alcohol, and as soon as that dissipates the presumed bergamot is gone too. It's not an unwearable play dough, it does have something vaguely floral to it but not any recognizable flowers (maybe freesia, but absolutely no lilac here).

In the drydown this becomes a powdery (=Musk?) mild vanilla with very very little sweetness. It's a good take on vanilla, but not for me. Its a fragrance that can only be described with negatives like: It has no warmth, no sweetness, no lilacs. It's a vanilla that has a lot of things taken out of it. It is powdery and interesting for sure and does make for a really nice skin scent.

I think this would suit somebody who is settled in life, this perfume doesn't smell like it wants approval, it has something very cool and calming to it.