I Dream of Paris

This is my favourite floraiku fragrance. The first 30 minutes of this is a heavy apple fragrance with sweet rose , and undertones of vetiver plus gooseberry. 2 hours into this fragrance, is my favourite time of wearing it , it's a cotton candy like rose and fruity scent. Nearing the end of this fragrance is a similar cotton candy scent but more citrusy. I dream of Paris lasted an impressive amount of time,with it lasting 10 hours but projecting for 7 of those hours. I also found this to be one of floraiku stronger scents.Overall, I completely love this fragrance.

I love the scent, I have a sample with my OUFT and loved it. It makes me think of childrens apple shampoo and bubblegum and sweet tea roses blooming in a dessert. It’s a joyful and unique scent that has a sweet, cosy vibe. That said it’s not limited to a young person. I imagine everyone could wear it. I think I would trade in four other rose perfumes for this one. Beautiful.

It's now end of summer - beginning of autumn where I am, and this scent goes very well with it. First I sprayed it on a sunny afternoon outside and thought "bread crumbles from Champs Elysees" - kinda warm enveloping scent with some deliciousness in it and a trace of that expensive distinctive French perfume from your grandma's vanity" (in a good sense). And it reminds me of fall foliage when it just starts to fall and the grass is still green, - that softly sweet earthy sunny smell. Most prominent note for me is sweet-tart plum jam with myrrh and a hint of cloves, constantly accompanied by soft vanilla (I know vanilla is not listed, perhaps it's a combination of davana-geranium-...))) Also, I could imagine some earthy, moist and pinch metallic smells rising from the Seine and the city. Strangely enough, I don't smell rose at all. Maybe it's what binds all other ingredients together and unifies them, giving the stage to all this richness. I'm used to rose essential oil, and rose in Floraiku's "In the Dark", but I don't see any rose in this. Overall, it's a well-balanced scent, warmer and softer on my skin, and more tart-herbal-zesty on the clothes. And it really puts you in a light and courageous mood, no dark clouds there. Edit: on the drydown, it smells like natural dry soap with some aromatic sweetness in it.

Ok. I'm not going to even look at what anyone has written about this perfume. I'm not going to cheat and look at notes. I am going to go off what I am smelling, after spraying a sample. An overpowering rose. Kind of milky, rosy. Muskiness. Muskiness with rosiness. Full rose, quite strong, very rosy; milky, rosy, musky. And a bubblegum kind of smell, like a strawberry bubblegum, mixed with rose and musk. Some plastic in the bubblegum, maybe from the wrapper, and it combines plastic with strawberry as the third dominant note. A faint hint of something herbal, very faint, just enough to cut into the sweetness and the floweriness of the notes. The perfume registers young, feminine, casual, sensual. Think of a gorgeous, long hair blonde woman in Southern California who just came from swimming in the ocean. She is tanned and very casual and throws an oversized cotton sweater over her swimsuit and then she towel dries her hair and sprays this perfume under her sweater. She walks barefoot onto the wood deck, pours herself a cold glass of white wine, and curls into a comfortable wicker loveseat and looks out to the ocean. That is what I get from this perfume.

The intimidating metallic scent of the Eiffel Tower, passing through the crimson Parisian cabarets, then Amélie Poulain's apple stalls... Dominant Notes: Rose, Plum Wine Umeshu 梅酒, Blood Orange, Davana Secondary Notes: Apple, Geranium Subtle Notes: Incense, Myrrh, Vetiver, Mandarin Non-existent Notes: Leather, Guaiac, Patchouli Deeply cinematic, suspended on the cold aldehydic iron and steel beams. Striking at the opening, it's a metallic and humid Rose, representing of the Iron Lady. Before moving on the subdued lights of the Moulin Rouge, burlesque but contemporary. It's fruity and slightly sweet, like the green skin of an overripe mango, before the Takara Umeshu plum wine finally reveals itself, earthy and mysterious. It’s the Franco-Japanese union that evokes the purple night lights of the Pont Alexandre III, but also the scarlet tōrō lanterns (灯籠) of Yamaga. A powerful and unique fragrance, halfway between iron and velvet, between Paris and Tokyo...