Shi

OH DEAR HEAVEN. Ilias Emenidis is a perfumery genius I read they created this scent after my review here and their creation of this perfume is pure angelic magical and alluring. 🌈 I was not expecting this to be so so lofty and heavenly. 🌼I have always loved perfumes that smell a little bit soapy and this is just so so clean and gorgeous. I did not read the reviews before I bought this. And I really won this time with getting a perfume off eBay. I did not read the notes in either before I bought it I liked the teardrop bottle( thanks to Jerome Dinan I found out who created the bottle after penning my review). ...and I like the name of the perfume. What I smell when I first spray it is gorgeous 🍑lemon🍋🍊Orange and tangerines and just absolute brilliance. I thought it was going to be wayyyy too💦💦 Aquatic because of the color blue juice but it's not. I cannot stop smiling my wrist. I do smell musk??? A tad. Very sexy and a tad balmy. For the for a perfume that come out in the 2000 millennium 21 years ago its still top notch. 💫🌟💫It's now been on my wrist for about a half an hour and I am so very impressed with this scent. For a girl that's on a slight budget this is absolutely amazing. 🌺🌸🌺It is slightly fruity and but not in a bad way at all. I cannot see the scent offending anybody. I would wear this anytime during the Spring🌿 and Summer🌴. Day or night. I'm sure I'm going to Dazzle people when I wear this perfume.🌠 I want to thank the creators of this perfume because it smells so comforting. I usually like Cocoa scents and vanilla scent not to sweet scents and this is perfectio. I'm so glad I took the risk of buying this beautiful perfume. This is one that I will forever have. In fact I'm going to go buy another bottle on Payday on eBay. I did get the tester it was about $16. But the investment was worth it. This smells like it's $65. I did get a tester without a cap but the next time I get this perfume I'm going to buy a bottle with a cap that's how impressed with this perfume. If you've never tried it I really suggest to try this. If you're a fan of☁ NOA you're going to love this perfume. NOA has been reformulated but this scent is heaven sent. The bottle is very very opulent and I could smell the beautiful fragrant flowers and oils.💐 This scent is so clean and so fresh and so soft. 💦But I know that other people are going to be able to smell it slightly and that's what I like. The closer a person gets to me the more of those smell this perfume and that's exactly what I like. You cannot go wrong with this perfume. It is everything that I ever hope for in a perfume that's not slightly gourmand. If you read my review thank you so much may peace be with you. May the light shine upon you. May you have Enlightenment 🌈and Beauty surrounding you. And may the age of Aquarius begin. 💗This perfume actually reminds me of the age of Aquarius. 💦A very refreshing. Of time in life. Celebrate your life every day it's a gift and to a buyer fragrance is one of the best thing you could do for yourself and others. God bless you dear one🕊🕊🕊 update - this is really weak. I must spray it every hour and I can not smell it on me unless I put my nose directly on my wrist. Thats my only complaint because on me it smells wonderful.

Alfred Sung Shi really snuck up on me: a real sleeper! I can't really explain it but it transports me back in time -- the old perfume-as-time-machine thing. It starts off with fresh fruits (pink grapefruit? some sort of citrus, to my nose, anyway) and fresh, green flowers (orange blossom? water lily? frangipani? I don't know!) -- basically nicely rounded but slightly bitter fruits and sharp, green florals -- and no alcohol smell, interestingly. Overall, the impression, to me, is one of Restrained Elegance. So many of the reviews describe the scent as reminiscent of fabric softener sheets (maybe I just can't remember what they smell like...) and Shi as a casual, post-gym scent, but I get more of a fancy-hotel-from-the-1970's atmosphere. Maybe it's the orange blossom peeking through -- fancy hotel soaps -- maybe it's the starchiness of the rice note (starched laundry sheets), I'm not sure. As Shi dries down, a sophisticated woodiness and "perfumey" quality appears (the birch leaf, lending it a super-light leather smell); all I know is that it reminds me of my Aunt Bernice, who usually wore Norell or Chanel and expensive clothing, gold jewelry, and diamonds (very unlike my cool and earthier mom). When I smell Shi, I think of orange blossom soap, the smell of pink grapefruit served for breakfast with small, serrated spoons, and lazy afternoons at the hotel pool (chlorine). Happy times ... :) As for Shi's designation as an aquatic, well, I guess? But it completely lacks that nasty chemical undertone that drives me away from the majority of aquatics or aquatic florals (for example, Elizabeth Arden Pretty, True Love, CK Eternity Moment, and even, though to a lesser extent, Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey). Shi just smells fresh and watery rather than "aquatic." It also really seems to last on me -- and my skin often "eats" fragrance. I want to put Shi in the same category of light-but-intense fragrances, like Arden Beauty (that shares its fragrant, starchy rice note, but adds some warm ginger on top of it) and, weirdly, L'Heure Bleue (Yes! If an incensey/pastry-like confection seems like a weird comparison, for sure, but I made that association nonetheless!). As for longevity, I sprayed (OK, probably OVER-sprayed) on Shi last night before bed and I could still smell it when I woke up in the morning, 7 hours later. That's pretty good longevity, in my book! I don't understand why I don't hear more about Shi; but then scent is such a particular thing, tied to memory and experience, as well as chemistry. Incidentally, I have a couple of Alfred Sung fragrances, and like or love most of them (Like/love: Shi, Sung; DON"T like: Jewel -- it has that nasty aquatic note I mentioned before, and doesn't last on me anyway, thankfully). I just ordered Pure because I think I'll probably like it, but we'll see...

A Zen of Watery Fields of Rice... Opens with a burst of floral-citrus aquatics. As it transitions to the heart, rice-leaf and orange-blossom mingle to add a soft, creamy lactonic quality near rice-pudding, that echoes the lactonics in another composition of Ilias Ermenidas, So de la Renta Oscar de la Renta. However the balance of floral-aquatics to sweet-lactonics leans a little more to the former here in Shi, more than in So de la Renta, which also has a vintage vibe not present here. The rice-pudding note here is likely built with a little tuberose (not listed) as in So de la Renta. Overall it's an easy to wear fruity-floral with a rice-pudding note in the base. I could imagine walking through watery fields of rice when I smell this - it's very zen as many comments describe. Performance is average for a light spring through fall wearing experience. Overall: gorgeous, affordable, zen watery fruity-floral with rice-pudding note in the base and average performance. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Contrast to Dolce Dolce&Gabbana: These are different, but there are similarities with a watery fruity-floral over a musky base. Dolce has a more obvious pear note in the top, and the musky base doesn't take on lactonic tones. Roughly equivalent performance. Update 07/24/24: Sprayed this on my wrist this morning, and I'm really enjoying the water-lily in the opening. The notes are a little more clear now than I remember, especially the water-lily & orange-blossom, and the performance has improved. Refreshing & relaxing, and really shines in the heat. Still a love, and even better than I remember.

Shi by Alfred Sung is one of my favorite blind-buys. It's clean, fresh, light, and floral. I have a strange relationship with this scent because ordinarily, I'd be reaching for this type of fragrance every day. However, there is something in Shi (probably just one note) that I don't particularly care for, and I'm not sure what it is. As such, I wear it only when it suits my mood and mostly on my clothing, not on my skin. This works best (for me) during the summer. I can't stand heavy floral or citrusy scents when it's hot because my skin doesn't really carry them well. This opens a little sharp but develops quickly and dries down to something clean, soft, and pleasant-- as such, it can be used in any environment. I would confidently wear this to the office knowing it won't offend those who can't tolerate strong perfumes. I still have an almost full bottle but would definitely repurchase this one.

Its opens a bit Sharp..like a body splash, but very floral and bright,its my favorite part. I love this fragrance bc it smells so clean and frosty. After a settles...I get soft waterlillies, the spicy birch and musk...woody but not a creamy wood, more toward pine woody. Which is why its so aquatic smelling imo. It remains sharp and woody through out but with less floral...To me it smells like wet laundries straight from the washer...basically soapy wet linen. Call me weird but I LOVE that smell. Lasts 2-3 hrs on skin, about 5hrs on clothes. I can't seem to smell it on myself after an hr. but everyone else does, and I get compliments everytime. My only complaint is that I wished it lasted longer....but the scent itself makes up for its short commings =) bc Ive yet to find any aquatics that smells this bright and fresh.