Sensuous Stars

This is an unusual take on iris. I've had a few irises in my life, such as Hiris, Iris Rebelle, Silver Iris, and even the long time discontinued Iris Ganache. Sensuous Stars is closer to Iris Ganache than the others. It has the typical carroty flavour that iris root can have, but also the sweetness of the flowers. It's creamy and dense, without being heavy. There are plums is here, and they are sweet, ripe and dark purple. So sweet that they actually make this scent smell like candied violets. The scent is almost gourmand. The candied violets remind me of Meteorites, and a little like Lipstick On, but the perfume maintains its individuality. It turns powdery in the dry down. It also brings back memories of doll heads, (when dolls had rubber heads that were slightly scented) and it even smells a little like scented plasticine. I cannot smell any lavender. It is definitely charming and feminine. Despite being reminiscent of many childhood things, like the violets pastilles, this isn't a juvenile scent. To my surprise it lasts quite well, and the silage is not bad either. I find it very beautiful, but I know everyone's tastes differ. The bottle is nice, heavy, the magnetic lid sort of spins in your hand. I don't think it's a safe blind buy, especially because it's pricey, but it's quite a stunner. Now I really want to smell the other from this collection.

As an iris lover, I'm very impressed with this scent. A light, airy take on iris enhanced nicely by the plum and lavender notes in supporting roles, Sensuous Stars is a powdery beauty. It is rare to find iris-dominant scents among modern designer/mass market offerings, but SS features a high-quality iris note. Sweetened nicely by the plum note, and enhanced by aromatic lavender, it is simple yet beautifully composed, like this Estée Lauder luxury line in general. SS is iris-forward at its early stages, with plum emerging after a little while, adding jammy sweetness. I get lavender as it develops, restrained but aromatic. I was very excited about the powdery orris note here - it is pitch-perfect - but unfortunately, the iris note fades after the opening subsides. It becomes slightly lipstick-y as it dries down, fading to an airy, woody-amber skin scent. I get a hint of ambroxan or similar fixative in its later stages. The lavender remains, sweetened by plum. I would have preferred an iris-dominant scent throughout, but overall SS is still really good. Sillage and longevity are moderate. A youthful take on a scent profile that may be traditionally viewed as mature, SS is timeless and ageless. Best worn in spring, but is transeasonal. An effortless but excellent feminine everyday scent. 4/5.

🩰💜 Cue Tchaikovsky's 🎶 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 🎶 💜🩰 Oh my stars, Sensuous Stars is lovely, an underrated gem!! Sadly discontinued, but I picked up a bottle on eBay for a song and loved it so much I purchased a backup! This is Chanel's Misia, but with plum instead of violet! While not listed in the notes, I detect aldehydes in the opening, giving Sensuous Stars that bubbly champagne cocktail sparkle that I find so addictive in Misia, Volnay's Perlerette, and Vermeil by Bienaimé. The base of Sensous Stars is very similar in structure to Vermeil with sophisticated grounding via Irisy orris root. But the plum lends a dash of whimsical sweetness. The lavender note is slight, but present, providing added depth and interest in the background. Longevity is excellent, silage is moderate to strong. If you love "lipstick" scents, I suggest getting a bottle while you can! This is an enchanting fragrance befitting the Sugar Plum Fairy, and I will be wearing Sensuous Stars this year to watch The Nutcracker ballet! ✨🩰✨

I like it very much. I can’t smell the lavender but the Orris and Plum are very prominent. Its vibe and olfactory category reminds me a lot of « Yvresse » by YSL (Lately called « Champagne »). It’s a Fruity-Chypre for me. This is very poetic and also « gourmand », but not in the sense of current sugary perfumes, but rather « mouth watering » and « gourmet », I mean, it makes me want to crunch into a fruit! Very sparkly and dusty, like sparkling stardust 🤩. The purple color is a clever choice because this is exactly what I see when I close my eyes smelling this : A purple cloudy sky with bright silver stars (Think satellite pictures of the universe with saturate colors). Sensuous stars is classic and polite but impertinent and playful at the same time. I like the fact it is ageless. I can see a young girl like an old woman wearing this. Other perfumes make me the same effect, for exemple « insolence » from Guerlain (in particular the EDT), who can play very youthful game as well as mature feeling.

this is my favourite of the new EL scent line. I smell plum TEA, not the real fruit, but luckily more of an unsweetened plum tea in a wonderful combination with orris root, (so not the powdery, flowery iris, it's really the slightly herby iris root that was used here). The lavender is hardly detectable and I can only smell traces of it very late, maybe after 2-3 hours of wearing. It remains mainly this lovely plum tea and orris root mixture which immediately gave me the impression of a Japanese teahouse , very soothing, protecting, quiet, almost spa-like. The scent impression remains quite exclusive and expensive to me - especially if you are a general iris-scent fan like me and have tested like hundreds of iris scents and found that many of them resemble each other. This one is really new to my nose, plum tea and iris root, a combination I never smelled before and very well done.