Almond

Yea ummm dangerously delicious real almond, not playdoh, but real almond extract, nutty, pure and amazing. Even tho I do love the playdoh almond kind in perfumes like Forbidden and Girl of Now, this one is so unique because it is not even almond blossom which smells like floral nutty almond (in BBW Almond Blossom). This smells straight up like the chewy almond cookies/sweet of Spetses, the Greek island, "amygdalota" αμυγδαλωτά, and I made some myself about a month ago and once I sprayed this I started craving them again. For the Greek recipe I basically use rose water and with the almond crumbs and almond extract it smells identical to this. It is too strong also and nutty like youre eating a cookie with some roasted almonds in there. This is beyond gourmand, this is mixing the ingredients to make these soft cookies. Update: So Ive worn this enough now. I was wrong you cannot pair it with other perfumes or mists, unless u wait for 30 mins or so, but its so potent that overpowers everything else. It has 2 stages. Its drydown is slightly different than the opening (its first 15 or so minutes), less food-like. After about 30 mins or less, the intense almond extract scent becomes softer and gives place to a more sugary scent like candied almond, reminiscent of the fruit shaped colored marzipan pieces I was eating like a kid, we call them "little fondants" in Greece and they come in various fruit shapes. There is also something kinda "plastic" here but I love it, something like benzoin, its the first time I cannot even describe a scent. This is very unique and I love it. After 30 mins it morphs into more of a perfume scent rather than straight up food-cooking extract, so I no longer wanna bite myself.

After trying dozens of almond scents, I've landed on this gem that sat in a drawer untouched for years. I bought a bunch of Demeter samples a few years ago and while some of them were ok, most disappeared in mere minutes and I forgot about them. Since I've been on an almond tear, I reluctantly dragged this sample out just to be disappointed. Well count me shocked because not only does this actually smell like sweet almonds, it lasts on my skin for upwards of 3-4 hours, which is a downright miracle for Demeter. I've bought a huge bottle for under $18 and I've been layering it with tons of fragrances, especially vanillas and orientals. I see the comparison to Orgasmo, but I actually like Demeter better, especially for the price. I had very high hopes for Orgasmo, but it was so faint and became a skin scent in minutes. I expected a lot more for $160. Your skin may vary, as mine is all over the place when it comes to almond, but I urge you to try a sample of Demeter before spending lots of money on more expensive perfumes. This is my second favorite, truly linear almond, just behind House of Oud Almond Harmony.

Almond is one of my favorite notes. I love this for layering. It smells to me of an almond cake, something more than just the one note. I especially love adding it to a rose scented perfume. I just opened my bottle of the perfume oil (I always buy these in oil form because it makes control of the layering process so easy.) I swear I’ve had my bottle for 4 years at least and the fragrance was as delicious and amazing as the first time I opened it. I would highly recommend this in the $12 oil form. GORGEOUS. DELICIOUS.

I bought this specifically to see if I could layer it on some of my other floral-gourmand scents to create a more fall-winter scent. I love, love, LOVE almond scents, but I don't necessarily want to smell like an Italian bakery. This stuff smells like almond extract, and it's very pronounced, very sweet - an abject almond scent. I love it. However, with that being said, I don't think I would wear this scent alone unless I was going to work in a mall as one of Santa's elves because it's too one note. With that being said, it was never marketed as anything but one note, and because it's one note, it layers especially well with some of my scents that already have an almond note, like Marc Jacob's Perfect, to create a warmer, richer bouquet. This is also the first Demeter Fragrance I've ever bought, and now I'm looking forward to growing my scent library for layering.

It opens as a heavy bitter almond. It is absolutely gorgeous and very realistic. Quite quickly it turns into a milky, powdery, dusty sweet almond, so the drydown is quite different from the start. From a slice of a delicious Mazarin cake to a glass of sweet almond milk. It lingers for quite a while and while it's not bad, it's milky rather than nutty, and the smell of sweet milk may be a tad difficult on some days. I prefer the bitter almond note and wish they had made two separate scents; one for sweet almond and one for the bitter.