Soliflore Freesia

That is it! Watermelon Jolly Ranchers! No, really! This is freesia on peyote, electric, candy, colors in neon so bright it makes your ears ring. That is not to say that this is loud fragrance, quite the opposite, despite it's effervescence, it sits quietly in the corner, waiting for you to look over and breathe deep. I keep coming back to it, as my husband put it : That smells good, not really so much sexy, but really GOOD! I can't say it smells exactly like Everything and Nothing by Tokyo Milk, which is more baby aspirin than watermelon to my nose, but it has that same sweetness that even my husband noticed, and he hardly notices perfume at all. (Ok, he said it was 'like that one you wore in Vegas, it's the same, but different obviously' and given that Everything and Nothing was the one that caught his nose on that trip, I can only assume that's what he meant.. )

This application (I have the rollerball) takes about 30 minutes to an hour to make its way out of candyland, but once it does, it settles into a simple, light, apricotty floral - a pretty accurate Freesia. In my experience with the flower, the blooms have a lot of variation in scent and intensity from plant to plant; FWIW, always fruity though, as far as florals goes. You kind of don't always know what you're going to get when you buy or plant Freesia and the scent of this perfume plays the same sort of guessing game as the day rolls along; sometimes it's spot on and sometimes it's in the vicinity of. Always lovely, though.

This is a light, sweet, girlish nose-tickling flower. It's like candy level sweet. It's very youthful and feels like a gourmand. Again, the vividness of it dies quickly and I am left with a blurry soapiness that is almost rubbery. Not pleasant. It's a shame cuz the opening was beautiful. At 1h it stinks, but at 3ish hrs it's back to the original flowers

Sadly, I never had the chance to smell the real flower. But if this is what freesia smell like, I have to say, Poor, poor freesia! it has a “naturaly synthetic” smell. Sweet to the point of being cheap, it constantly reminds me of something man-made: from shampoo to food flavors, it’s a downright gaudy scent. I guess there must be some widely used cheap chemical ingredients smell like freesia, therefore this scent is abused everywhere.

I love me some Freesia, so I was delighted to have been gifted a sample of this..and while this is a delightful scent, I initially get more sour watermelon hard candy than flowers from this. Taking away the expectation for a realistic take on one of my favorite cut flowers, by itself this is a mouthwateringly sweet candied flowers sort of scent that does eventually dry down into something like a cartoon version of freesia. I would have no issue letting a young girl wear this with a light hand, it's perfectly innocent like that.