Water Calligraphy

Love this stuff! But honestly, I don't think it does smell "niche". It smells very "mainstream" to me. The perfume isn't exactly groundbreaking, but really lovely and inoffensive nonetheless. And, withal, high quality ingredients make it stand out from the crowd of aquatic fragrances. The only downside is the price.

beautiful :)) love at first test

Easily the most feminine scent I own! I only have a 7.5ml atomizer which I suspect my girlfriend will get more use from than me but hey? Yes this is very familiar and reminiscent of Issey Miyake but for me has a little more finesse. It opens sweet but then the white floral body takes over and it becomes the sort of fragrance I usually don't like but something about this is somehow more mellow? Maybe it's because it's waterlily, Magnolia and Jasmine rather than orange blossom or neroli? This tends to make it sweeter and frankly quite girly but strangely more pleasing on me. Again I'm not someone who conforms to the traditional paradigms of Man/woman fragrance categorization but you have to call it as you see it and that's what I think. Oddly enough I'd wear this though! The couple of wears so far have interesting in that the opening couple of hours aside the dry down smells amazing on me! Just a very clean almost green vetiver with a little floral touch hanging in there... I really like it. Anyone dismissing this fragrance as over priced for what is a common smelling feminine fragrance should expect to be pleasantly suprised after a few wears. The longevity is very good too.

Aptly named: an elegant, restrained, cultured pastel-floral exercise in fine control, mixed in a very, very gentle watercolour concentration and subtle enough to dissolve away leaving only a mere ripple of calm behind. Absolutely pleasant and upscale, and with enough genuine aura & quality in the grapefruit and magnolia to make its mark... at least at first. Vetiver and cardamom are both EXTREMELY subtle here (so don't be alarmed) and mostly just work to cool it all down even further. But overall, not bold or sweeping enough to really stick - and not original enough to fully seal the deal. Very much like a Hermes Jardins approach but somehow less sure of itself - meaning that it diffuses even faster and leaves barely a ripple behind. Pretty femme and lasting for say 4-5 h, though only projects for 2 at the outer limits. Certainly elegant, lovely and cooling for a hot, muggy day - but still just way more generic and less special than the Kilian name (never mind the Kilian prices!) might suggest. Tremendously refreshing dip in classy waters, then, but doesn't make all that much of a splash.

The first spray of this I loved-as it was initially light, citrusy, with iris notes and grapefruit However, as it dried down, the grapfruit and other citrus in this perfume came off extremely strong on me, taking over the other notes, and all I smelled was the cirtus/grapefruit. I like the first half-life of this perfume, but not the secnd half! I do believe it is my body chemistry though, as these has happened with other perfumes with strong grapefruit notes. I want to like this due to the other notes, specifically, the hint of iris. I notice the collection descriptions at the actual retailers have different descriptions with much more notes listed than here or anywhere online.