Wild Geranium

I wanted to take the time to review this fragrance since I use it quite a bit. Geranium is one of my favourite perfume notes and, without a doubt, my favourite essential oil. For me, geranium is calming and I usually diffuse geranium eo at night to help with sleep (and, in my case, it also aids with dream recall). This is the next-best-thing to pure geranium oil that I have found (and I certainly have looked in many places). Even though all those notes might seem like they would complicate this fragrance, it really is, to me, straight up Geranium. All the other notes just serve to support the fragrance by either prolonging it or helping it to stand out. While I'd love this alone, I tend to use my little 8mL spritzer of this (I got at Sephora for a reasonable price) for layering - to add my favourite note to any uncomplicated fragrance I like. For this, it works wonders. If you know you like geranium and its scent - especially those of you who are into geranium essential oil (the 100% pure kind), this is a safe blind buy. Otherwise, I have found geranium is a divisive floral among reviewers here and I'd say definitely try before you buy if you're not as familiar with the scent. Silage and Longevity is moderate.

This is a very feminine, pretty, and delicate scent. I think Dianna from Anne of Green Gables would have loved it. On me, I get very little green. It merely blooms very daintily, and keeps blooming for a few hours. I wish it lasted longer because rationing my tiny sample of it. This one will be a full purchase for me soon. I feel dainty and feminine wearing it. Update: I splurged and got a travel size of this last night. I love it already, but I'm still a little hesitant to pay for a full size bottle. Update : Full bottle bought, worn out for the first time. After several hours into wearing it, I did a one wrist refresh. I smelled EXACTLY like St. Germains Elderberry Liqueur. The dry down on me was a little sweeter, and little more musky, but it never crossed over into powdery or cloying. This is a very overtly romantic feminine scent. I had to change clothes because I got dressed, put this on, looked in the mirror and immediately knew it was wrong. I switched to a pair of flower embroidered jeans, a ruffled white cotton shirt, and a peacock blue corduroy puff sleeved jacket with an Edwardian updo.

I got to try this yesterday on paper. It's the definition of pretty. Flower petals, fresh. I'll test it on skin another day and update if I have anything more to say. It seems quite wearable though for about any occasion. Update: Wearing this on skin today, and it smells different than on paper. It started out a bit bitter, herbal, when I sniffed close to skin, a little smoother in the perfume cloud. It's not a bad bitter herbal smell, but that of natural wildflowers you might find in a meadow. The bitterness fades, but it remains slightly herbal (spicy as they describe on fragrantica, but not warm spices like clove or cinnamon). After wearing it, I have mixed feelings about it, but I think it would be a fantastic choice for someone looking for meadow flowers, wildflowers.

This is soooo good! Flowers upon flowers! However, I detect zero geranium notes, but I still love it. It's springtime sunshine and wildflowers in a bottle. I adore peonies and that's the *main* note I pick up. The longevity is great. It reminds me of the first fragrance I fell in love with sooooo many years ago, it was Coach Summer Edition 2012. I've never been able to find anything to replicate it, but I think I have found it! I wish it was more affordable but I'll stick with the purse spray for now until it's gone and I'll get a full size. Perfect for spring and summer although I am wearing it now in the winter lol! *Happydance Update: I did get a full size! Spring love in a bottle.

Wild Geranium is sweet, rosy, lemony, happy and uplifting. It's a little bit floral, with much more soft pink rose than geranium. It has an airy quality wafting around, with a nice, light sillage - nothing offensive, very pleasant. It's fairly well blended, with a pop of rose, a sluice of lemon, and just a hint of something slightly green hovering around in the background. Think butterflies dancing over an English garden on a fresh spring day with pretty young women in white dresses sipping lemonade in the sunshine, and you'll get the picture. Lovely!