Baní

My third sampling of Day Three Fragrances is Bani, a fresh, tropical, fruity/floral blend that’s brightly delighting from its onset and remains so into the dry down, with robust notes of mango, orange, bergamot, jasmine, magnolia, coconut, papaya, with the fruits handing off the lead role to the florals from the top to the heart, and then eventually giving way to a dry down of sugarcane, sandalwood, and musk. It’s really superb, one of the best executions of a realistically fruity/floral blend with just with the right amount of greenness to make it seem realistic but not take away from the edibility of it. I really love both the opening and dry down phases alike, and it performs quite well for a freshie, a great version of a “fruit salad” (not solely mango or citruses, even—there could be some other stuff in there, to my nose) -type fragrance with florals, woods, and musk to add some sophistication and roundedness. Bani is EDP concentration and is pried at $225/130/35 for 100/50/10ml, roughly the same as the other fragrances in the house, very reasonable in my opinion, and is sold through the house website. I’m continuing to enjoy sampling this house and look forward to me. 8 out of 10

This opens with a gorgeous photorealistic smell of green mango with the leaves still attached, freshly plucked off the tree and hints of juicy orange. There’s a slight aromatic freshness here thanks to the mango leaf, and the sweetness here is subtle, and in no means strong. The heart of this introduces some creamy coconut blended with sweet and slightly heady white florals. The jasmine and magnolia shine the most, the mango still present. It smells like fragrant flower bushes with mango trees nearby. There’s a hazy muskiness present from start to finish as well. The base of this feels like a tranquil calm of powdery woodiness and earthy naturalistic sugar cane. This is in no means gourmand or sugary sweet, this is raw sugar cane with a creamy green earthiness to it, hints of fruity florals lingering. This is a unique take on a tropical fragrance that I think works beautifully.

A feast of sweet and juicy slices of mango, passionfruit, and various citrus' on the back porch of your hotel room. The smell of the clean white flowers and cedar chip mulch planted around the hotel caught in the coastal breeze. Life is good. Man this is some good stuff, I've been looking for a true mango fragrance forever now and I am so glad I found this. Off first spray this is a bright, sparkly blast of sweet and bitter citrus with juicy and super sweet mango. It is so delicious yet still so fresh, this is the kind of fragrance that puts a smile on anyone's face. Then creamy coconut milk and clean white florals come through. After this powerful the delectable and sultry cousin of "Del Mar" by this same house. This is vacation in a bottle. Room filler off first spray but sits within arms reach after the blast and sticks on me a really nice time for a summer fragrance 9/10

I definitely get the mango leaf as advertised. It's not at the forefront as you'd think, it opens with the mango leaf and citrus. The coconut note is present throughout, and my god what a beautiful symphony it is. Just like with VIW, you have that beautiful coconut and fruit scent. However, the underlying musk makes this a step above VIW in my opinion, and for a fraction of the price I'll be looking at getting 1-2 full bottles when they have a sale. Compared to VIW, this feels clean, refreshing and ultimately more versatile as it doesn't smell purely like a vacation. I have the sampler set and will be going through the rest this month, this is my first scent from the house I've worn the sample through (2ml).

Imagine fruit salad. You know that stuff that’s served at grandma’s house in the middle of summer during a cookout. Then. Imagine the same instance but you’re in the Caribbean. Fruit salad but all the fruits are different than what this Ohio native is used to. It’s not too sweet which is why it can lean masculine. Not too many white florals. Once again this pulls it unisex or slightly masculine. Some sort of peppery note, very light but again pulling it slightly masculine. This is not Erba Pura or Accento Overdose. No scratchiness. The coconut is subdued enough to not stink like a tanning salon. So good and can’t wait to wear it in the heat of summer.