Temptation

One of my absolute favourite scents. It smells to be of very realistic cake with delicate, violet frosting. It is also very long lasting, as many Alkemia scents are. It really surrounds you in a delicious bubble.

This is like almond cookies with powdery candied violets. I don't get much white chocolate but it's more noticeable on the dry down. This also lasts FOREVER on my skin, quite strong for a perfume oil.

if ANYONE knows something that smells similar to this please let me know ;-;

I always thought that perfume oils were pure aromatherapy for me: nice to sniff from the bottle, but not to be worn as a real perfume, since most of all they just smell like "perfume oil" to me: unsubtle, homemade, with a flat mineral base that I don't like. Sampling Temptation has made me change my mind about that: for true gourmands at least it might be the perfect format. It's a perfume category that's unsubtle anyway, so I think it benefits from the homemade, straightforward, outlandishly lifelike edible quality that the oil form can offer: if you're going to smell like a piece of candy, you might as well go all the way. And Temptation ticks all the boxes: it's exactly the kind of decadent, realistic, sugary gourmand that I'd never wear outside, but love at home, especially in the colder months. A guilty pleasure, but without much guilt. In the opening especially it is wonderful: it truly smells 100% like a real macaron. I would have guessed a raspberry-flavoured one, but candied violet is plausible as well. That sugary doughy delicious macaron scent unfortunately only lasts for half an hour or so, but what remains is great as well: alongside the violet a powdery white chocolate gradually becomes more dominant, until the violet disappears altogether and the drydown ends up more generically vanillic but still very nice. So it looks like I might end up with at least one perfume oil I actually wear in my collection after all: this one is going straight to my wishlist...

This is such a scrumptious violet macaron scent from the bottle and upon application. I really wish that scent combo stuck around longer than for just a few minutes. The macaron scent leaves quickly and the great majority of this scent’s life is violet, very similar to the kind of violet in Choward’s old fashioned violet mints, if you have ever had them. It is a nice smell and does stick around for at least 5-6 hours; I’ll get little wisps of the white chocolate sneaking in here and there, but this is mostly violet on me.