By Alena Akhmadullina

Today I tried Alena and wow, its a softwarm, peachy/plum/vanilla-sweet mix, almost skinclose and absolute gorgeous. Timeless - both younger and middleaged women can wear this one - you have to like peach, plum-sweet notes to fall. A small wibe of the 80's but with a modern twist.

When it comes to fruity scents, I usually really don't care if they are female or unisex. With this, the feminine vibe is so obvious and dominant, I can't imagine myself wearing this scent. When sprayed the black currant is dominant, the other top notes can be barely noticed, it's a bit sour, berry-like scent which is soon (5m) shattered by the peach and plum. The fragrance's peach note is not the sugary-peach-drink, but when you bite in a ripe fresh, yet bit soury peach that you've just picked off of a tree in italy and you feel the juice puoring down on your face every direction. At this time the plum is still just in the background, but you can sense it's presence. The sandalwood and musk gives the scent a slightly noticeable mature vibe. It has much more in it that you would expect from a simple fruity peach-plum fragrance. After 1-1.5 hours the final scent is exposed which will stay until the final toning down of the fragrance: if i'm about to say one word, its plum-jam. Not the wateres down light jam, but the thick one that you cant scratch off of your spoon.Not the usual cinnamon-heavy plum, but the pure fruity plum on it's own. What you hope to find inside plum-noodles. As time passes, the peach begins to fade, the scent deepens, after 3-5 hours the plum is the most dominant participant alongside with the sandalwood, amber and musk which get their attention more and more as the scent becomes skin-close. The presence of rose is slightly senseble, yet there are moments when you got poked by the petals in waves. Longevity: on my skin it's very dominantly smellable for 4-5 hours (50cm+ projection), after that it becomes a semi skin-scent for another 2-4 hours (20cm+ projection). Sprayed on paper it gives a projection of 20cm even after 12 hours. In warm weather this is going to be a monster. I do not advise this for office use unless you want to get laid, I wouldn't dare to use it in that session if i was a woman.