Makeda

I love this fragrance from the first sniff ;o) Fruity floral domain is full of wonders, because fruits can be produce beautiful notes in the right hands. This perfume is jasmine with top of exotic fruits that add juiciness and light, a great base with a hint of agarwood is weightless, cold and smooth. So difficult (for Europeans) ingredient as agarwood, is perfect here, it feels slightly metallic, refreshing and noble.

What can I say about Makeda? It is just Jasmine, a lovely jasmine soliflore, real green dewy jasmine under the sun, with a little bit hint sweet discreet fruitiness. The opening is quite weird buy lovable in a mixed-up house detergent lemon-y sweet fruity way, but it disappear really soon. After this, Makeda is quite linear, what I can smell is just jasmine! Even though I’m not a fan of jasmine, but the jasmine here is so real, just like the one I smelt in a garden. If you were scared by TM Aline due to the sugared jasmine there, Makeda won’t scare you for sure, instead, it might lure you in to a new world where you find jasmine lovely, make you feel exotic and somewhere in between optimistic and happy. To me, I can’t really smell much the wood, the dry out is more like a version diluted jasmine oil in some unscented body lotion, by unscented, you know most of the time unscented product have the slightly creamy coconut-y discreet smell undertone there. Highly recommend to jasmine lovers.

This is one of the most beautiful perfumes I've tried in a long time. It sings on my skin and the agarwood doesn't overwhelm in this lovely combination. There is a sexy earthiness to this scent, with the beautiful jasmine flower resonating in perfect rhythm with the beautiful fruits. This is one of the only perfumes I've ever tried too that the cedar isn't knocking out all the other notes and dominating the whole thing. The longer on the skin, the more the fragrance blooms. I walked passed my husband and he was like "wow, what is that perfume?" It's very exotic and wild somehow. I have to have a bottle.

The only one of the whole line that i find a miss. Peach, plum,apple, and a beautiful summery jasmine only for 10 min. After that a very fade cedar. Unfortunately i don't smell exoticness or oud and i agree with sofiii that whatever is here is overdilluted.

Rotting fruit in a generic floral. It smells like someone sad and unwashed. I get the sense it's supposed to smell like a vintage perfume, and it does smell like an old bottle of something...just not something good. Major miss for me.