Lumière de Venise

This is beautiful. A sweet modern chypre-light (not really chypre but what is being called chypre today). Fruity and floral with clean patchouli. I didn't even know this brand existed until I got a sample from Osswald in New York. It's nice enough for me to want to try some others. Very pretty and feminine fragrance that, while sweet, doesn't cross over into the pure sugar or candy like territory. I really like this a lot.

two notes that I have a hard time with, rose, and patchouli, but this, I love this! The soapiness of the rose is not present, and the harshness of the patchouli is very very faint, somehow it's a bit juicy, might be the peach. 7.5/10 for me :)

I don't know why I like this so much. Its so strange, like a metronome. It starts off citrus and sweet, very light and sparkling almost champagne like. Then it moves into the jasmine, before becoming woodsy and cologne-like. Starts going very aftershave for a sec before the jasmine and floral peeks back through and makes it feminine again but cold? Like if I didn't know any better I would say there's eucalyptus or something in it. And then it just does that back and forth for me as it dries down. Something new peeking through every time. I want to wear this for Christmas, walking to find a tree to cut down. It's bizarre lmfao.

Opens with a juicy, sweet grapefruit. Then peach comes in, mixed with patchouli and tonka. I wouldn't call it fruity, the focus is definitely on patchouli here. There is a similarity to Coco Mademoiselle, not in the opening but after 15-20 minutes. I think this one is a bit more feminine and less sharp than Coco Mademoiselle, overall a pleasant mix but nothing groundbreaking.

I would never have guessed the notes after getting this as a sample/free gift thing and wearing it. Peach? Grapefruit? Where? To me it was bergamot jasmine and tonka with patchouli, and I like it! It's very long lasting on my skin as well. It's a good peach scent for people who don't like peach probably 😅