Delicate

(This review is for Eau de Perfume) I am in love with DELICATE! I always admired the tender spring beauty of bluebell woods with cool shades of blue, lavender, green and purple. DELICATE expresses this beauty so well. It is green and fresh like a gentle breeze bringing the waves of beautiful spring flowers mixed with the green new leaves and warm sunshine. I can imagine a beautiful young girl from Jane Austin’s novel walking through the sunlit bluebell woods when I smell this fragrance. DELICATE is absolutely gorgeous! DELICATE opens with a gentle green and fresh scent that reminds me a lot of spring daffodils. The waves of hyacinth slowly waltz in and mingle with very green and absolutely gorgeous galbanum. The galbanum presence is quite strong right from the beginning. The heart notes bring fragrant lily, hyacinth and a bit green rose. The rose becomes rosier and less green towards the dry down. The dry down is very subtle rose with spicy galbanum on my skin. DELICATE is elegant, feminine and classy but at the same time very natural and green. It is very harmonious and delightful to wear. One of the best spring fragrances I have ever tried. On my wish list for sure. The longevity and sillage are decent.

Let me paint you a picture what "Delicate" smells like to me. Imagine yourself lying in a long grass near woods, it is one of those first really warm spring days and the wild flowers are in their bloom, the ground is hot and you can feel how the warmness flows trough your body, you feel the dirty, warm soil and the sweet flowers surrounding you and you feel happy, because finally spring has really arrived. "Delicate" made me feel really good. It is not a delicate perfume, it is rather sharp and green, and very, VERY oldschool, but nevertheless it is breathtakingly beautiful. It is extremely warm and comforting, only after 6 hours or so it gets slightly colder. I think that only the crowd who loves classic powerbombs with narcissus/oakmoss overload will enjoy "Delicate". I really enjoyed it.

What an oddity. At first it smelled like dirt, like patchouli with some powdered flowers. It quickly became something else, like a crispy, crunchy, spicy, bitter herb, maybe like arugula in a way, mixed with a massive green moss note. This perfume is what I would reach for if I wanted to smell exactly like I walked into an antique shop and found an ordinary bath soap from the 60's. I can imagine the paper it is wrapped in, a faded picture of a blond-haired maiden with curls in her hair, wearing an apron, with a wooden wash tub at her feet and blue birds flying about. Think Cinderella from the Midwestern USA. On the other hand, I can also imagine a field full of fragile, bell-shaped flowers dangling wildly in a summer breeze. It certainly mellows out over time. The sharpness and bitterness become a lot more approachable and soft. We go from the scent of dusty brown dirt to a relatively clean smelling drydown, which is a tad sweet and fairly pleasant. If I had to choose a perfume that Delicate reminds me of, I'd say Cristalle due to the sharp moss and the soapy drydown...but they are far from the same perfume; just the same style. For me this is a love/hate relationship. I appreciate it. I think it is artistic and beautiful. If I were collecting purely for the sake of collecting I would buy it. But I don't think I would ever reach for it if I owned it. And, oddly, I think it would smell exquisite on the right person.

I bought a bottle of Delicate in a blind buy despite some seriously negative reviews because I am intrigued by Boadicea after having gone thought the hoops to get a full bottle of Valiant, which is a BEAUTY! Delicate was too great a bargain to resist, so I went for it. The first sniff had me almost reeling - nothing delicate about this frag, I agree! Then in the drydown I started smelling something oddly comforting, albeit bitter...very green, no flowers. Very mysterious, not my typical bottle of fragrance, I thought. So I let it sit and wait... Today I went to a big nursery to buy some potted mums for my garden since fall is round the corner. As I was walking along the isles with gorgeous mums of different colors I suddenly thought of my Delicate. Yes, this is it! No bluebells, no forest flowers, no roses, no no no... but a beautiful fall fragrance, with notes of fallen leaves, wet grass and austere blooms of autumn. I know I will enjoy wearing it in the coming months. No regrets!

I found this initially very masculine - recalling vintage leaning shaving foams - a barbershop quality and it’s thick and dense before revealing haylike, lighter green, ferny and floral touches - a less honeyed take on Amouage Myths Woman. It’s interesting. It was first wear post shipping and it is late winter in a rather cool patch. So I’ll leave it a month and revisit September as we move into spring. Will edit once I’ve done that. Very promising - it’s definitely rather strong and lasts well.

A strange but beautiful floral green scent. It opens with notes of grass, clover, slight citrus and some wild flowers. The heart is mostly narcissus with a bit of rose and jasmine. The perfume settles into a powdery bed of sandalwood, oakmoss and cinnamon. The feminine leaning scent has moderate to strong sillage and very good longevity. Utterly unique but needs a certain mood to appreciate. Enjoy!

Imagine walking on a field, wildflowers everywhere, distant woody notes, the taste of simplicity. Never more appropriate name for a perfume: Delicate indeed. Try it.

The first word out of my mouth upon spritzing on Boadicea the Victorious DELICATE was: chypre. After a fair amount of googling, I finally came up with these notes: Bluebell woods, hyacinth, rose, lily, jasmine, clove, cinnamon, galbanum To my nose, this composition is a very classic, old school--or, if you like, "old lady"--chypre. Lots of galbanum, to be sure, and whatever the complete list of notes may be, the overall effect is not unlike that of a number of standard chypre perfumes, all of which can be procured for a fraction of the cost of DELICATE. One feature of this composition worth mentioning is the significant rose note, which comes through even in the slightly murky drydown. With the excellent longevity and sillage characteristic of classic chypres, this fragrance is more robust than delicate, but it is a nice one, albeit more or less redundant and definitely overpriced.

Oakmoss, grass, bitterness in overwhelming amounts in the topnotes. By the time the flowers arrive you have keeled over from the disinfectant scents of the topnotes. Sorry, but there is no other way to say it. This is really awful to my nose. It is about as far from delicate as a perfumer can get. Whoever named this must love irony and that's a pun with "iron" because this scent is done with an iron fist. My problem with this fragrance and this whole line is that everything is so heavyhanded, like Paul Bunyan decided to mix up some perfume oils in a giant black cast iron pot and stir them with his axe. I cannot imagine any sane human with a nose, man or woman, wearing any of these dreadful scents.

I love fragrance, I really do, and I love the beautiful bottles of this range. The descriptions of the notes sounded intriguing, so I ordered 20 different samples. Never got to fully appreciate the notes owing the overwhelming bitter, synthetic pong of drain cleaner each creation is suspended in. It was like opening bottles that have been on a bathroom shelf for 30 years and gone bad or being hit by the backdraft of a jet engine. Seriously. Maybe they had. Maybe they were all tainted. I don't know. I have never written anything off so completely. Sorry about that. I like my perfumes to smell of something other than rocket fuel and have a gentler approach. So very disappointed.

Harsh, grassy, and weirdly animalic and i am sure because of the narcissus flower. The cinnamon, and the floral are mixed quite well in here (i can sense tulips as well) and ONLY if it wasn't for the jasmine, it would have been perfect as i keep on sensing the weird rancidity of the jasmines which is not blending well with the whole juice! Once i sniff it, it goes quite captivating and dreamy till the after smell of jasmines that ruins the feeling. Sometimes i get the vibe of "Onda" by Vero! the same rooty, animalic with honey, and the same grassy feeling somehow!

I agree with sherapop - it smells a bit like old lady perfume. All i get is an overwhelming abundance of sweet-smelling flowers, some honey and bit of wood and spices mixed in to make it perhaps more edgy. If I had to sample this scent without knowing the name, I would not even for a second associate it with a famous warrior queen or anything delicate at all. I'm not saying it smells bad - it is an OK perfume, but absolutely not unusual or like anything that occurs naturally out in the woods and fields

If the saying "the grass isn't always greener" had a scent, this would be it