Linden

If, like me, you've never smelled linden blossoms, this will present as a sweet, bright green floral tempered with a note I'd characterize as tangy. (Another reviewer called the same note kiwi, and I think that's a more apt comparison than sour/lime.) Imagine a combination of kiwi and orange blossom and you'll have a reasonable approximation of linden.

Ahh, I wandered around our new neighborhood in the late spring/ early summer looking for the source of the divine perfume I caught whiffs of for two years before I looked up and realized it was the trees, not a flower growing on the ground making that intoxicating white floral lime scent. This captures that fragrance perfectly.

I know it says "for women", but I'm a guy and I love the green-floral scent of linden blossoms- my favorite springtime scent! I wish more men's fragrances featured it- combined with woods and herbs, of course. Demeter's perfect rendition will do until then.

Lovely, floral, sweet, powdery and green. This was my signature scent a few summers ago and I've rediscovered it. This is very similar to Pré de Provence's linden soap. It's perfect on its own but can complement as a layer quite well.

I have the perfume oil in a rollerball, and I find this to be a fair approximation of the linden tree--at least the beautiful little-leaf linden that is a few steps from the front door. Like the tree blossoms, the scent is evanescent, and sometimes I dry the blossoms and make a kind of tisane out of them--a grassy, honeyed-pollen scent, not unlike chamomile but sweeter. Perhaps because this is an oil, perhaps just because of the aromatic compounds, this is not a scent that projects very far, but when I wear it, I mostly put it on for myself, to remind me of the beautiful tree that blooms for only about a week every year, in late spring or early summer. As with all the single-note Demeter fragrances I own, I find that they are best for layering, to intensify one of the notes in another fragrance that projects a bit better but might not last as long.