Baptisma

Like the previous reviewer mentioned, this opens with a bright but short-lived burst of lemon verbena-flavored Pez. The dry down softens into a mix of milky florals. The neroli here isn’t an overly sweet, designer neroli - it’s more photorealistic, with a slight bitterness. I don’t detect even a WHISPER of ginger or incense, which is disappointing, because a touch of smoke or spice might have elevated this from a like to a love for me. It’s very pretty, but lacks depth or edge. Without the incense, this doesn’t read as explicitly churchy, but there is something angelic about it. It evokes a pastoral spring scene: white Edwardian dresses, baby lambs, maypoles, all overlaid with a diaphanous veil of nostalgia. Performance isn’t great, but at this price point, I don’t mind. And call me crazy, but I go googoo gaga for this weird plain bottle. This is something I’d reach for when I want something subtle and inoffensive for a spring day. Smells like: a baby bathed in neroli milk Looks like: a blossoming citrus orchard Sounds like: Anne Shirley reading "The Lady of Shalott"

Beautiful Smooth Low Sweet Milky Neroli/Jasmine. Light citric opening of Bergamot, Verbena and a touch of spiced Ginger, then goes slightly milky as natural sweetened non-indolic Jasmine/Neroli come forward. Very light but lovely drydown of musk, non-acrid incense and non-bitter oakmoss. Nice for spring/summer wear, especially in evenings. Becomes more beautiful as it wears on and the dewy fresh green neroli hovers over a gentle, restrained jasmine softened by the milk accord and becomes a clean, refreshing, very soothing mossy skin scent. Comforting and relaxing. No harsh edges. I could relax all day or night in this one. Soft as eider down, white as snow. No soapy detergent like facets here.

oh this perfume! very classic scent with slightly soapy citrus and powder, but soft and so so smooth. feels like fresh shaved legs on white silk sheets. dries down really mellow and floral. just so pretty and feminine and silky. sadly not as long lasting as i would like it to be. after about 2 hours, i can only smell it if i bring my wrist to my nose. i also dont smell the ginger notes at all. but im ok with that! it doesnt need spicy undertones to work. i think it serves well as a daily wear. nice light fragrance at a reasonable price.

I absolutely fell in love with this one! I am on a tester n°2-making sure I still like it..well..It's a very calming, meditative but very uplifting joyful scent. To me it is a perfect slow morning scent. It is so easygoing to me, that I'm definitely going to get the full bottle on Monday! The silage and longevity is ok with this one, as I am looking for something that is not loud and I can change the scent easily later. Just a perfect peaceful scent. I think I found my spring/summer signature:)

beautiful and well crafted. First you get a bright happy citrus note with a hint of sweetness, almost a candied lemon peel. It then opens up into a beautiful floral creamy dream, with some citrus hanging around. Its a happy fragrance that makes you stop and smile. Very short longevity, but that cant be helped with these notes. Its a great purse perfume, due to the affordability and the need to reapply every few hours. Excellent bright fresh spring scent

Milky, lemony jasmine. Very gentle ginger note. A little powdery in the drydown but not in a makeup way. It's very delicate and pretty and comforting. I'm loving it. I do get a slight fruity pebbles vibe, but it's not overtly cereal, too clean for that. It hits perfectly central on the clean/cozy axis. It's something I would love to spray after a shower and then climb into clean sheets. Wearing it makes me feel like a new baby.

For someone who finds that neroli or incense doesn’t work with my skin chemistry, this is a truly gorgeous scent. I detect none of these notes. Lemon curd/ orange blossom + pastry opening and settles to a milky jasmine plus a fuzzy, airy molecule like note. It’s very smooth, velvety and moderately sweet without feeling ‘heavy’. Full bottle worthy.

A gorgeous, milky fragrance that melts on your skin. Does not last a long time, so this would be a perfect bedtime scent or one you sprits on first thing out of the shower. Low/Moderate projection (depending on how many sprays), and sillage is very low. Overall, this is a nice one to have as your go-to cozy scent~

RARWARWRARWRA I LUV DIS SO MUCHHH >_< Somehow, to me, yellow citrus perfumes smell like one of those perfumed wipes they give ya at restaurants, but this one aint like that at all. Itz creamy and soft, smells clean in a not fresh but cozy way, kinda ethereal.

I love this one. Feel protected, comforted but also energised for a new beginning! The lactonic note is really nicely done, the ginger lily gives it a freshness, and the light incense makes it mildly mysterious.

wowee this one is beautiful. a warm blanket of lactonic lemon ... how can a girl go wrong? i wish the scent bubble wasn't as fragile but that's just kind of what you get with these notes. no harm no foul

This encapsulates enjoying a lemony gelato on a spring/summer day along the coast, catching faint whiffs of driftwood and a bonfire burning in the distance.

so nice, makes me feel like the coolest girl in the world! great mix of citrus and incense, don’t really pick up on the milk. great scent for summer

precious sweet citrus that dries down soooo smooth. the name tells you everything you need to know. this perfume is very special to me.....

at the church i grew up in, there was a nursery at the back of the congregation, and it smells like babies in there. like a mix of baby formula and just that baby type of smell. like when the top of a baby's head smells warm and fuzzy. this reminds me of that, and sitting in the back row, sharing lemon-ginger hard candies with your friends at church. this scent evokes something nostalgic in me, and i kind of hate it because those years of my life associated with this scent were absolutely horrible. that being said, this is bittersweet to me, as it still reminds me of something so youthful and sweet. this opens green, yellow, floral and bright; like the flowers outside of church on a breezy spring day, and again, you've got your lemon-ginger cough drop candies in your pocket, warm from holding them in your palm, and now they're kind of sticking to the wrappers. as it dries, it is a soft and gentle musk and milky neroli. it smells so... smooth. i don't get a lot of incense in it honestly, but how i smell it right now, i think it's perfect the way it is. would make a really nice spring-summer scent.

The oakmoss/neroli and verbena combination is giving it a hint of vintage, maybe an lotv and oakmoss situation like diorissimo.... But just a vague hint. Incense and milk hang back but keep this from landing solely in any saturated genre where it would be immediately forgotten. It's not only citrus, not only a white floral... Innocent and kinda seaside churchy. I'm glad I tried this as there's talent here... I'm keen to test the others, notably l'eau d'epine and oud pagode (:

musky citrus! discrete and evanescent like most chapel factory scents fragrances i have tried. on my wrists, i am missing the florals in a straight up way, but there is a slight creaminess around the musk that i think is owed to them. on my warmer inner elbows, there is a delicate lactonic jasmine blooming and becoming the star of the show. very clean girl but with texture and layers, if a shampoo smelled like this i would die for it.

Baptisma smells like a very nice blend of Nenuco (a popular cologne for babies in Spain) and Lann-ael by Lostmarch (a milky cereal perfume). If there is incense in the base I really can’t smell it. It’s a fresh, innocent, short-lived scent, appropriate for the hot weather. Nothing groundbreaking here but some times you just want to smell fresh and nice.

This one is mainly a neroli scent. It is a thick, powdery neroli with a woody backbone; sort of like Eight &Bob's Mémoires de Mustique, etc. Not smokey at all, as the notes suggest. Surprisingly, very long lasting on clothes. Very nice for spring and summer.

What a beautiful scent. Honestly I feel like a bride wearing this. Soft, feminine, a bit sweet milk, with white flowers. For the price this is absolutely full bottle worthy.