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The first time I tried this I put it immediately in my 'giveaway pile' the place where samples I don't like get stored to add as extras to swaps. Well I tried it again today and I really like it! Don't know what is going on! Its a really lovely soft but still there scent, I can smell alot of vanilla even from the start, the bergamot and rosemary are not sharp or too herbal which I like, they are like supporting acts really and aren't there for very long. The patch and pepper are also not overdone. It's all really well blended. The vanilla is really sweet enough that I'd say this is best for women not men. EDIT: trying the last of my sample again in Winter, the herbal aspects are strong and im not liking it again. Ugh can't stand a scent that can't make up its mind on me! ANyway it does soften out but I don't want to smell like a kitchen (rosemary :) so now that Ive finished my sample im going to forget about this one.

'I produce culture'...really, Alexa? Ugh! It's a scent, not a way of life. Go back to modeling. That having been stated, this is nothing terribly special--far too much rose on me, dries down to a honeyed sweetness, then...nada. Brings to mind some of the extreme spray-gels I wore in to spike my hair in the 80s...Spritz Forte anyone? Grapey, syrupy rose. Maybe Ms. Lixfeld believes that the oh-so-gritty concrete caps on the bottles of her over-priced fragrances constitute the 'production' of 'culture'--not surprising in this narcissistic, everyone's-a-'celebrity' so-called culture in which we're currently mired. I'm shocked that luckyscent is sold out of this at 120.00 a bottle. Either the economy isn't as appallingly bad as I'd thought, or we're so bored to tears we'll buy anything that seems different. If there is this much disposable income about for the purchase of fragrance, more power to you, that's great (seriously! I'm envious!), but frankly, your money would be spent more wisely on something really evocative--there are so many far better 'statement' fragrances, as well as many simple beauties, old and new.

Great scent (for a woman). Longevity and projection...way above average. Just felt for my skin it was too feminine, woodsy but very sweet. Still, I would give this fragrance a 9 out of 10.