Bird of Paradise

A complex scent that I am still trying to analyze. A burst of green opening, then it mellows to floral, spicy...and....I am still trying to work it out. I do love it: my only strong complaint is the longevity: it is gone before I can fully grasp it....Unusual,good buy for the price though.

This is a departure from typical Demeter scents, as it is not a singular smell and it is also quite lasting on my skin. Upon first spray it took me back to a nostalgic fragrance, but I can not completely remember. I am going off decades of memory, BUT I am pretty sure this is very close to Estee Lauder's Alliage/Aliage and maybe even Paco Rabanne Calandre. A VERY green scent, which I feel would be appropriate for men or women. In the chypre or herbal category, for sure, and much more grassy than tropical, as stated above. Overall, I really like it, but it is quite different from the modern scents of today. From the Demeter website: The bird-of-paradise flower is actually a large tropical herb (Strelitzia reginae) of the family Musaceae (banana family), native to South Africa, with it's large blossoms resembling an exotic bird. Our Bird of Paradise captures perfectly the warm, fresh and invigorating green scent of the living flower in the wilds of the Hawaiian Islands; a scent that cannot be adequately described, but must be experienced.

My first impression is that it reminded me of cactus or aloe - something with a waxy green exterior and succulent interior. It's very green... not floral to me and I'm not sure how a bird of paradise actually smells, but I could imagine this could be also something growing in a jungle. This is a strange one that shares its green note with the Tomato scent from Demeter.

It's really stange. I regreted to buy it!

Fragrance Review For Bird Of Paradise Demeter Fragrance Notes: Strelitzia This is an exotic fragrance of bird of paradise or strelitzia which in truth is very hard to describe as a scent and even harder to recreate as a synthetic note in perfume. When I first closed my eyes to smell this and let my imagination take flight, it brought me to my childhood. I swear I have smelled this scent before. The bird of paradise flower is commonly grown in homes usually in front lawns or backyards. I remember smelling this at the home of a friend in Massachusetts. I never bothered to ask what the flower was called but later on when studying flowers I rediscovered it. This smells green-and-yellow. It's herbal but not terribly aromatic nor anything like patchouli. If it had to be compared to some other herb it's more like bay leaves. This is a green plant smell, and a garden smell. It has a yellow floral type of scent as well a bit like ylang-ylang. It has a fruity banana scent as well. It's more herbal/spicy than it is sweet and floral. It can also be classified as Oriental. It's such a gorgeous fragrance and I love to spray it in my house. I do agree with the other reviewer that compared it to Estee Lauder Aliage however I find that this has a definite yellow floral and banana scent. In this way it's more tropical than Aliage which is rustic/woodsy/forest scent. This is not a forest. This is a tropical jungle type of smell. It smells of places I've been to like Brazil, like the Amazon rainforest. It's also smelling of Africa, namely Central Africa and East Africa. It smells of the wildflowers that grow in mountainous regions in the continent. What a strangely beautiful scent.

This smells like some cosmetic from the 70s. A shampoo, face powder, hairspray or something, not sure which. Reminds me of one of my elementary school teachers. It is mainly fresh but there is something underneath that smells a bit waxy and almost musty, like you're smelling the flower but youre also smelling the dead leaves which have turned brown but have yet to fall off. Probably not something I'll wear out, but I will definitely be able to finish off the bottle just wearing it around the house. Really intriguing. One of Demeter's best fragrances for how different it is without being overpowering whatsoever.