Aromatics in White

When I wear this and catch a whiff of it, I can get tears in my eyes. Remember when perfume used to smell so good you could get lost in it? You could put on a whole new personality and mood with a couple of sprays? The scent could make you feel like there's nothing you can't do? That everything is going to be all right? For me, Aromatics in White is what Happy is supposed to be. Aromatics in White is multifaceted - and it's beautiful from start to finish. It lasts and lasts and lasts, and it creates new facets of olfactory imagery throughout weartime. It's a PERFUME. It doesn't have any distinctive notes of something edible, or a flower from a garden...it's not soapy, or powdery, or watery...It doesn't allow you think of notes; it just smells beautiful. My 8 year old daughter has proclaimed it her favorite perfume, and I practically have to hide the bottle from her because she likes to spray all her dolls, her bed, and drawers with it. Thankfully I bought the 3.4 oz bottle! Aromatics in White is extremely difficult to describe, because of its lack of distinctive notes. It's a new aroma altogether. I'm stumped when trying to think of another perfume to compare it to...it doesn't smell like anything else I know of. The most I can come up with notewise is a very clean, breezy musk that's not nearly as innocent as it first seems to be. It deepens, but not in a dirty way. It seems more "juicy", and it sparkles like a musk-aldehyde blend. My daughter says it smells like "bubbles". Not soap, she says, definitely not. "Just shiny bubbles." This isn't a sweet scent. My brain wants to categorize it in chypre because the juiciness of the musk connotes "green". But this is not a chypre, and it doesn't have even a hint of it's forerunner's DNA (Aromatics Elixir). Aromatics in White is instant euphoria...it makes my daughter and I both have a sense of anticipatory excitement...like something amazing will happen soon...or we are living in a bubble of wonderfulness. This White is good for the soul!

Aromatics In White is what I associate with a magical forest, its icy, but, warm. It smells almost like someone, kneeling down in an old, stone building is holding a frozen, deep red rose in one hand close to the flame of a lighter in their other hand; smoky, burning roses. At least, thats what I can picture in my head whenever I smell it. Mental images aside, AIW presents itself to me as quite a good universal winter, spring and fall scent, I can detect a lot of the rose and musk in this as well as some labdanum and benzoin, when first sprayed I can pick out the pepper and violet, but after roughly 15 minutes it dries down into this wonderful smoky, incense-y rose, with some of the patchouli, musk, labdanum and benzoin dancing around in the background. AIW is too much for the warmer weather, because of its incense quality and prominent rose notes, it becomes very heady and cloying, its best enjoyed in the cooler and freezing cold months in my opinion, the person I can picture wearing it is someone thats slightly witchy and mysterious, someone that wears black (contrary to the name; Aromatics In White), someone who is in touch with their spiritual side, its quite an understated fragrance I think, its simply divine! Longevity is pretty decent with AIW, I can wear it from 7:30am and still smell it by 5:00pm, its not a super projecting scent, but it does have quite a soft wafty sort of trail, very unlikely to offend, but when someone gets close it will gather compliments, its quite ageless and because of how incense-y it is, its also pretty unisex in my view, though I feel that if you like something you should wear it. Would I repurchase? yes, definitely, its an easy scent to dress up or dress down, it always feels appropriate, its got a wonderful rosey, musky, incense-y dry down and the shot of patchouli, benzoin, violet and pepper keep it feeling interesting and unusual

AE in White Oh, the lovely AE in White. The bottle, though based on the badass "non-conformist" original, fits this perfume perfectly: All white and soft and smooth with a translucent, wholesome beauty. I like this a lot. This scent is above all sweet, creamy, musky, and smooth. When first sprayed on there is a hit of orange blossom rose, which quickly transitions into a peachy sweet patchouli rose, surrounded by a pleasantly green and slightly bitter violet in the background. The violet is dusted with a nice shake of dry black pepper. It's faint, and even a bit jarring if you look for it, but the pepper, but it goes nicely with the sweetness of the peachy rose. That and enveloping all this is the creamy musk! So creamy that it reminds me of a luxe body cream--for the first few hours I feel like I'm wearing an antique body cream, a white cream with rose, violet, patchouli blended in. AE in White really changes in the dry down, the florals fade off and the amber takes over. That peach note is still there though, a peachy amber that has a hint of smoking labdanum. The musk is still there but it’s less creamy. The final stages are a wisp of vanilla. I really like the interesting subtlety of some of the underlying notes. Like I said I find the personality of this to be creamy and sweet—the musk, roses, amber etc. are all smooth and sweet. But the violet is green, the pepper is dry and almost bitter, the labdanum is a little dirty. Lasting power is great, and the sillage is noticeable but polite on my skin. Right now this stuff is on Ebay for a mere $25 for 50 mls which is frankly cheap.

Ok....The reviews and the notes look about right. First off, it smells nothing whatsoever like AE. It starts with a ton of rose. At this stage it reminds me of the heart of Kelly Caleche but with no citrus. Then rose and sichuan pepper. The rose is still very loud. The pepper is really great but there isn't enough of it. Then as the rose calms down I get the patch, but not nearly as much as the other reviewers have smelled, and it's powdery patch blended with powdery amber. The patch smells like the one in 31 Rue Cambon! But there isn't nearly enough of it and it's not in the opening like it is for 31. I start to smell orange rind (tiny bit) mixed in with the rose. Like the rose/orange of Calypso. The rose calms way down now and turns entirely powdery. Still smell powdery pepper (this pepper smells smoky like a wood fire to me. Barely). After about 2 hours it's all sweet amber-musk powder/ patch powder/ pepper powder with a wee hint of rose/orange rind powder. The whole thing is VERY mild (after the loud rose) and only lasts about 2 hours. I had to put it on twice yesterday and still couldn't smell it at bedtime nor on my pjs this morning. IMO, the components are pretty good. The balance is way off. Those are my early impressions...I wonder if it would melt open and bloom in hot weather? All that rose might kill me in summer, though. EDIT: This is becoming my new favorite rose perfume (along with Calypso). I wear 3 sprays: low back, inner elbows, belly. Then it "wafts" in a more balanced way. I get lots more musk, labdanum, and patch this way.

Let me get to the quick of it - this sent is amazing! Although its release occurred some time ago, it was only till this week that I finally smelled what so many have mentioned. Thinking it was a hyped-up sequel to the (in)famously complex Aromatics Elixir, who's chypre base is both as difficult to appreciate as it is to stop wanting to smell, I conveniently placed it on the back burner of commerce. Deadened with sighs recently, and a need to smell something newly wonderful, I cast away any dispersion, and went forth unfettered by prejudice, in purchasing a sleek bottle of my own. The bottle came so quickly from the box, it is as if it leapt into my hand: slick, white, minimal. It had me at hello. I've heard it said that the bottle itself, pristinely clad in angelic white, does not match the essence inside. I would emphatically disagree. White is exactly how I would begin to describe its contents. Smiling upon first spray, I leaned back instinctively, eyes closed in surrender to a heavenly eclipse. There is something so captivating when patchouli is allowed, to not only dominate, but fervently express its natural herbaceous luminosity. Labdanum and benzoin shine radiantly in an amber hue so bright, it becomes gilding. Orange blossom and rose aerate diaphanously; like sifting powdered sugar on angel wings. The talcum nature of violet and vanilla stir incessantly, lifting the floral pepperiness of Sichuan berries. The effect becomes an ethereal chant of joy, that I lament not trying sooner!