Petales De Cashmere

Petales de Cashmere graces my skin with its warmth and velvety floral romance. After a brief citrus flash of mandarin and grapefruit it melds into the visceral floral flesh of violet. It unfurls into the bright purple star of the fragrance and hovers above the rest of the notes with an aldehydic effervescence. The other splendorous floral notes of jasmine and rose gently come and go in subtle green waves of sweetness with the support of aromatic accents of saffron and caraway seed. Layers of clean musk set on a dry woody base of sandalwood and spiced incense harmonise the luxurious bouquet. It dries down gloriously powdery with a classic creamy soapiness that I adore.

Creamy, powdery, and slightly floral. Very inviting work-safe scent. This is my go to work scent and one of my favorites from FDB. I find this a very unisex scent on my skin.

I'm still mourning the fact that they discontinued this. I have yet to smell a saffron scent quite like it. :-(

Nice but there are several way cheaper scents I enjoy many times more. It's not an on the fence-situation so I don't expect it to change. Opening is soapy. Starts off like a nice natural soap based washing detergent, fresh and bright, citrusy but not too citrusy and floral. Mostly feminine, I imagine an elegant, fresh, happy and confident middle aged to upper middle aged lady in a crisp white shirt. Definitely office friendly, definitely daytime. Bright and happy with a charming hint of bitterness to it. I can't quite place it but I think it reminds me of resin or pinetree, there is something comforting, simple and familiar about it and it gives an earthy edge to the light floral and citrus which could easily go generic. In fact it has grown on me between the first and second try. Still not worth the price to me but I see how it might be the ultimate scent to many. Maybe to me in 10-20 years since that is more in the age range I pictured. As all scents of the house I tried so far it is very well balanced and rounded, that may be what sets apart the more expensive scents from the cheaper ones in my (though limited) experience. It loses the washing detergent/soapy note as it matures on the skin. I like it much better that way, though it simultaneously makes it very soft and quite faint. Hence, I think it's overpriced in the mid stages as well. Drydown the morning after (after applying in the evening): Barely noticeable when smelling directly on the skin. Like your own skin but better kind of scent - nice but barely there at all (in comparison with three other scents of the same house I tried on other parts of the skin on mid day a good 7 hours earlier, this is the faintest spite to having been applied many hours later). Tried it out in the morning as well. The scent was practically all gone by lunch time.

Violets and orange blossoms. This is delicate, yet tenderly sweet. It is soft violets at max with creamy sandalwood, jasmines, and orange blossoms for some twists. It has grapefruit, saffron, and def caraway for some earthy factor so as the musk. It is creamy and rounded, sort of crispy as well, but i think i am sensing some metallic notes as well and i think it's from the olibanum, & grapefruit mix. I can't deny that their line is charming, and presents quite an amazing quality blends. This one is fairly done out of their oud specialist, the violets adds that slightly milky yet creamy note. Edit (20th dec 2017) WOW ... now I remember this juice! When i first sprayed it in jovoy boutique I loved it's top note, it has that light creamy iris blended with violets and sweetened by orange blossoms. The saffron as well is there and so is the sandalwood but all kept in a soft tender frame. The only and MAIN drawback of this fragrance is it's calm down (middle note), it goes quite clean soapy, not fresh but bubbly. This note is already there in top note but the strength of the violets and the soft iris overcame the scene. And since both almost vanished after 5 minutes the soapy bubbly note conquered. Now on the plotter, the violets remained there and so is the iris but on my skin it just didn't stay as much as the plotter. I'm not passing this by for now, as I will sample it few more times and see if it's going to grow on me.