Dirham Wardi

From the brand's notes you clearly see the aim to be contemporary. And this truly is a child of its time, and in that one of the best kinds. Cheerful, elegant, young, feminine. The prevalent sweetness is both comforting and flirty; still I can see it fit for all kinds of occasions. To me this brings two perfumes to mind; The heavy, condensed white flowers in Good Girl have been replaced with a fresh Delina rose. And while I enjoy GG somewhat and, as a rose collector, sadly find the latter to have an adstringent, slightly sharp feel (apology to Delina friends - it just means one less around to steal your signature) - this works beautifully. It's not a dupe, but plays with prominent facets of both to combine them to a, for me, superior scent. It radiates quite a bit, but subtly so and whenever you catch a bit of it in the air, it's gentle. A patchouli woody base adds the needed dash of sophistication and depth, and overall this lingers around noticably even on the next day. (used in dry, cool, central european summer) On the back, the soft pink bottle is covered by silver ornaments of leaves and flowers. And if you remove the tag and its ghastly string, it looks and feels quite nice. A big price makes 'exclusive', a small one 'inclusive' - I have a preference, and appreciate Dirham Wardi for this also. Considering I don't live for any associated perfumes mentioned this was a daring blind buy, but such a happy one.

This fragrance is new to my collection and with all middle eastern scents I am going to let this macerate for a while and come back with updates. I loved this one from first spray though and had to come talk about it. As someone who can find rose scents very "grandma-esque" I was nervous about the rose being to mature and fortunately the rose in this is a very fresh and sweet rose that takes backburner to the orange blossom notes. The black currant and white florals balance very nicely making this scent a good mix of fresh, sweet and floral. I get very little/no patchouli but the tonka and vanilla make the base of this fragrance a rich vanilla. If you like the idea of florals but balanced with other sweet and fresh notes I would definitely say try this one. Only downside is longevity... I have worn this twice now once to bed and once to work. I could still smell some of the base notes when I woke up however while moving around and at work this only lasted 2 hours. Hopefully as it macerates that issue will go away but for the price I also won't complain about carrying it around to reapply.

I really want to like this perfume, but the performance is disappointing. I love the praline note and the jasmine. Even though rose and pear are the first notes, I don't pick them up until a little later. Now, I love the combination of notes. It definitely reminds me of La Vie Est Belle. But for some reason, I can't detect the scent anymore on myself. I'm sure it's because I've become noise blind, but I was hoping I could smell it myself throughout the day because I really like it. To me, it's warm and comforting. Idk why. I wanted to start wearing vanilla fragrances again but less immature ones. This fragrance gives me that praline, vanilla, and tonka and also makes me fill like a put together woman. I'll keep wearing it test its true longevity. But so far, it's moderate. I initially don't smell it on myself, but than maybe 4 hours later I smell it when I come back to my room after spraying it, if that makes sense.

This was a blind buy based on a friend’s review on Instagram, and is among my best blind buys. I can see why from the bottle someone can say it smells like Good Girl, because I can smell BBW Dahlia in the dry down (which is supposed to be dupe for CH Good Girl) The opening though, is a very fresh clean rose - bordering on soapy. Maybe it’s the Iris? I love the rose and would love it all the way but the scent changes ever so slowly to morph into a completely different scent! It then turns deliciously sweet because of the praline and is such a comforting scent I can’t stop sniffing myself. I was expecting more longevity out of this but I also have to consider the fact that I live in a hot and humid country. This is fresh enough to wear in summer and cozy enough to wear in winter. Blind buy win!

Initially, I found the patchouli in this to be unbearably. I would spray and it would remind me of being at a petrol station. On my skin, I didn't get Rose, pear, praline or vanilla. I only got the patchouli. One year later, I went back to Dirham Wardi and it's a creamy, soft, feminine, rose perfume sweeten with pear, vanilla and praline. The rose-pear-jasmine combination is a bit unique which makes it lovely and I really like it. The perfume just needed some time to sit and to settle. In my perfume journey, I've learnt that it's hard to judge a perfume on first impression or just a few wears. You really do need to give a perfume some time to settle, then to go back to it and see how you feel about it after trying it in different weather conditions.