Immortelle L'Amour

First I get some dry spices with a real maple syrup! ;) Then the maple syrup becomes more soft and vanilla-like. The lasting power is really good (about 10 hours on my "hungry' skin) but no sillage.

On first sniff, this smells exactly like vanilla extract, straight out of the bottle. It reminds me of mixing up cake or cookie dough flavored with vanilla. It’s not baked cookies, but rather the raw dough, smelling mainly of fresh vanilla. Close up there’s also lots of smoky immortelle absolute. The whole thing gradually evolves into a pancakes-with-maple-syrup scent that I find much too sweet and gourmand. The one thing that saves this perfume from being sickly sweet is the smokiness, which seems to be a characteristic of all of Ayala Moriel’s scents. There’s supposed to be rooibos tea in here, too, which doesn’t surprise me. I really don’t care for rooibos tea, to drink, or in this perfume. There’s a good bit of vanilla, dough, and maple-syrup sillage, so if you wear this, be prepared for people to ask what’s cooking. For an all-natural perfume, this one is surprisingly long-lasting. The maple syrup sillage is there for 6-8 hours, at least, and I can still smell it on my skin the next day. I think I’ll pass on this one. I like my pancakes on a plate, not on my body.

Gorgeous, smells just like spiced maple syrup. I love it!!