Mémoire de Daisen In

Like another reviewer below, I have to disagree with anybody who says this is ordinary. Far from it! I was just sniffing roses yesterday in a huge award-winning rose garden, and this is about as close to an actual rose as I have ever smelled. It’s a fresh magenta, sweet rose, with both jammy and bright, citrusy aspects—much like many varieties of actual roses. There is some fresh peony to start that dissipates and becomes replaced with a well-blended tea note. A squeeze of lime lends a green-tinted tang. No awful, unbalanced currant or currant leaf note to be found— a tiresome note that really has no place in a rose garden and seems to be used to create an impressionistic garden effect but that doesn’t actually smell like any rose I have ever laid my nose on—and I have smelled hundreds upon hundreds of varieties. I find the scent of intense currant and intense patchouli offensive and have never found any rose garden to smell like them. Those notes are garishly overdone in so many rose perfumes, but not here. Let me reiterate: THIS is an actual rose blossom—not a conceptual one. It’s not a pretend rose garden and does not include the scent of the bush, leaves and stems nor the soil it grows in. This is the kind of voluminous rose that I can picture growing in a British aristocrat’s rose garden. Impeccably pretty! $295 for 100ml is a splurge. Wish they had 50ml bottles for half the price. In any case this rose is certainly up there with the absolute best of true rose perfumes in existence. I may cave in and buy it. TBD!

I love this one! I have to disagree with some comments below saying this is generic. It isn’t. But each brand has their take on a certain “movement” in the fragrance world, and I happen to adore this one. I opens with a very light peony and some citrus. Not overbearing, or sharp. Suuuuuper smooth and just a tiny bit of sweetness. Once it settles, the most amazing tea note is making its way in and OH MY GOD do I love that. It’s definitely present, it makes itself known, but it isn’t loud or screechy. This is blended to perfection! The tea note for me lasts about 6-8 hours before it settles into the final stage of dry down and only then do I get a slight resemblance to Delina La Rose. This one is worth testing if you enjoy your peony and tea notes. Personally, the longevity and projection on me is 10/10. Will for sure get a FB asap

I get loads of conflict between my nose and my brain when wearing this scent. I can't get passed the idea that it's reminiscent of something from women's range from MFK. Nonetheless, it still smells million times better. It's a sophisticated floral with tea and nutmeg combo framed with freshly blooming peonies. Very flirty yet not childish. On the femininity spectrum it's rather an upscale fragrance that is of veeery high quality. Ladies wearing Louboutins on their days off come in mind :) Overall very interesting house. Their fragrances don't reveal themselves upon the first spray, you really need to wear it for a week or so to truly get what's going on. Superior blends with remarkable longevity across the range.

Elegant, beautiful, masterfully blended and.... Gold Fluidity by Kurkdjian younger sister. Very similar, executed with more precision. Wife loves Fluidity Gold, I prefer this.

Iso E AND ambroxan? No, thanks! Smells like one of those mass marketed rose scents to me. Nothing special.