Darling

Q80 where are you? Would love to hear your take on this one :). I'm not sure I can work out what I'm smelling...maybe a sweet resinous, slightly sticky suede with orchid...Needs someone with a better nose to do it justice. I love this kitchen sink approach to notes / ingredients listed above...ie a bit of everything. It smells well blended to me...despite the oodles of notes listed.

The Cognac, Guaiac Wood, Cherry, Rum, and Oud smell amazing in this perfume, well-deserved award for sure. I found a perfume store called D'or Prestige, bought Perris Monte Carlo from them online, and sent me aa sample of De Gabor Darling. I loved it so much that I made a full bottle purchase, and my lady loves it also.

Creamy sandalwood and gourmand notes accompany my senses all through the whole opening layers, each richer than previous. There're also elegant spices, warm resins, suede, boozy rum, cognac and cherry liquor, oud, guaiac wood, tonca, fruits... Ambergris is also here, peaking out with it's softness.

Sweet and very lovely. But it smells exactly like Hot Couture by Givenchy. I own that and like it a lot so I won’t be getting Darling as well. But it’s a great fragrance!

Darling smells like all these fragrances below: When it's first applied, the clean green notes reminded me of Prada eau de parfum Intense, minus the menthol note. After that passes, the labdanum note here was strong. Mixing with the vanilla, it gave me Grand Soir vibes, smelled like it too. In middle of this fragrance, I got a patchouli-cedar-musk mix of notes, that definitely smelled like I put on Wardasina. To end this off, I smelled a caramel note, which reminded me of Ambre Narguile a little bit. Along with a mix of sandalwood-musk-cedar-patchouli, which to me smelled like Burberry Brit Gold mixed with Wardasina. I wanted this to really smell sweet from the start and be a SANDALWOOD sweet dessert frag. Instead, I got a mixed bag of wood fragrances and hardly any dessert, lol.