Царевна-Лебедь

For me it's quite unusual for a fresh perfume. I smell more like an abstract watery note To me it smells more like an abstract aquatic note than a sea one. For some reason in the drydown I smell coffee rather then a marshmallow.

I've honestly had higher expectations for it. This starts really sour on me with citron and a hint at juniper, and turns straight to very weak white florals skin scent. I don't get any sweet notes on me. This is a nice, non-challenging, non-projecting smell, but it doesn't do anything for me. The bottle is lovely though.

Every so often a perfume house will bring out perfumes they call 'White', but they're rarely convincing as a translation of colour into scent. This is. It's the smell of whiteness and everything that's white - snow, marshmallows, clean cotton, white flowers. More than just an assemblage of associations, it has a clean whiteness in the way it presents itself, almost overbright to the point of headaches. I think it would work as a wedding fragrance for an incredibly traditional bride enveloped in a huge meringue of a dress, clouds of tulle and layered petticoats and all. I don't think I'll be wearing this - I simply don't possess enough white clothing - but I'm intrigued nonetheless.

This opens with a super strong blast of juniper on a salty marshmallow, it’s somwthing one spray would likely suffice with. I’m using it from a tester sample so the spray size is smaller than a bottle would produce. Sadly the top notes, which I really adored and found unusual die very fast and I am left with a kind of toilet cleaner smell. It would be called Sea Spray or Blue Wave. Nice toilet cleaner, mind, but toilet cleaner nonetheless.

I agree with reviewer below me: the name should have been transcripted from the Cyrillic. In English it translates as Swan Princess. Either way this fragrance looks wonderful, magical and mysterious with its notes of marshmallows, magnolia and hint of aromatic juniper. I'd love to try it!

Why is the name of perfume only in Cyrillic alphabet? I think it is easy to transcript: CAREVNA-LEBED, which means CZARINA-SWAN.

Artificial aquatic reminiscent of 90s bathroom cabinets and old cheap perfume left in bathroom conditions for too long.

My sample is labelled Princess Swan.