Onder de Linde (Melkmeisje)

Just want to give this one a shout out today - I've had this one for 6 years now and it's one of my first niches and still absolute favourites especially in the early spring. First wearing of this in the year - I'm having an amazing day and decided it's the perfect scent for today. This is one of my special occasion perfumes as it's so heady and rich, (not to mention expensive) and one small spray will be plenty for the day (I've only used up 15 ml of the 30 ml bottle in 6 years it's that potent.) So one small spray from afar, with my wrist on my neck to get it everywhere. It's the smell of sweet spring - the most gorgeous, sensual evocative floral green - fresh spring linden with pulpy rich pear which is my absolute favourite rich with a honeyed ambrosia. Love this, brings me such joy, I do recommend trying from the bottle itself as the astute sprayer is perfectly suited to spray such a potent scent - if you try from a sample it will go everywhere and indeed overwhelm but used correctly (meaning one tiny spray from the original sprayer and from afar) and you will be in spring heaven. ** If you want to rehome your Melkmeisje bottle I may be willing to buy it from you / swap it **

Onder de Linde (Dutch for “Under the Lindens”) opens kind of aquatic, in a pleasant, realistic way – sky blue, all vase water and spring blossoms. It’s amazing how wet it smells, while still smelling good. The florals are fluffy, mellow, and lightly sweet. Not that distinctively “linden” or “lilac” – if he had labeled them “mimosa” I wouldn’t have blinked – but no less pleasant for that. Over the next few hours it gets sweeter, with a delicate milk-and-honey effect. It’s an original concept, and one of the few scents I’ve encountered that evoke dewy-wet freshness without a trace of a chemical aftertaste. (Zoologist Dragonfly is the other one). Onder de Linde is rather faint, mild, and simple – even tame – but sometimes you want a pretty, delicate, lightweight trifle, and this is one with peerless execution. It’s got a similar fresh spring mood to Tindrer, but more feminine and mellow. If Tindrer was a garden at dawn, Onder de Linde is a vase of flowers at noon, flooded with Vermeer’s almost milky sunlight.

I finally gifted myself this perfume after going through multiple samples kits. It was not love at first sniff, but I like when a perfume chalenges my senses. I would suggest to try it on skin, in summer, and enjoy its evolution. Something in Onder De Linde arouse my sensations, it turns on my primitive nature, just like the werewolf during full moon. It is carnal, yet sweet and floral, but with aslight animalic facet. Something opulent and reassuring, absolutely not decadent. it could be the scent of a Paleolithic goddess and gives me also African maternity statue vibes. On a more literal point of vue, Onder De Linde is an overdose of yellow flowers, linden blossoms covered in honey with a touch of powdery lilac and fruity pear. The vetiver brings a subtle greenness creating depth to this celestial potion.

This is an exquisite green floral; Fragrantica's description of Floral-Woody-Musk is bizarre. Opens with a bitter green linden blossom (reminds me of Mimosa) fused to a honeyed fruit (is it pear or apple? Baruti describes it as both pear AND apple) with a gorgeous fat-budded lilac note which becomes stronger with time. This is very similar to Jean Patou's Vacances (which I adore) for the greened-up lilac note, but here the addition of honey provides a deeper, softer note throughout. Distillation: richly honeyed pear bitter green linden blossom in clouds of lilac

I love this scent. The pear and honey just go so well with the florals. Very natural scent, sweet, organic, pulpy almost, and very long lasting, Baruti always delivers best on that front. Probably my second favorite after my signature, but that price tag is holding me back for now. 5 star. *Bought anyway. I'm in heaven - and wow, I've been smelling my arm for 15 minutes straight and still going strong - this is now my signature, I'm in love! I have 100+ niche samples for swap within Europe - updated spreadsheet of samples on my profile, get in touch!