Sirène

Final Update: I finished off my sample and could NOT get this scent off of my mind. So, I purchased a bottle tonight! Waiting on arrival...it arrived and now, this is my all time favorite fragrance hands down. This has replaced TF LC as my signature scent. It's soo delicious, I can't get enough of it. It's just the right amount of sweet (on me) with hints of Strawberry, which is not a listed ingredient. I was at a store, and one of the guys working the floor that I know well and often chat with said, "Who smells so good? Is it you? Yes, it is you! Omg, you smell sooo divine!" Then, his eyeballs went up to the back of his head as he feigned fainting/melting lol. I need to purchase some back-up bottles 🩷. I think my first experience with this, where I said it was Oud heavy and very masculine, was due to sampling other scents heavy with Oud so those particles were still in my nose. This is definitely feminine on me. Edit: I tried this again and I had to delete my earlier comments that this was awful, nothing but Oud on me and I was glad I didn't absolutely love it. Second try, I sprayed it over the 3 cherry perfumes I had layered earlier, that had faded. BUT, I also sprayed some on my clothes this time bc I read someone say it smelled completely different on clothing for them. Idk if it's just a mix with my other perfumes, but NOW I get the hype. I'm definitely getting all scent notes this time around, including a bit of strawberry someone else mentioned (not in scent notes). Everything is blended so nicely! First impression could have been altered due to me smelling a lot of other scents before sampling this. Loving it now... I will purchase a travel decant, to keep testing, before committing to a full bottle 😃 Woke up next day to this scent lingering on my sleep shirt and it's just soooo good! I want it! Cherry & pepper lasted all of 3 minutes on me, then it went straight into the middle notes of oud, lactones & incense. This is where it stayed (on me) with hints of the base notes coming through. I have to agree with those who say this leans more masculine on them. Testing Sirène confirmed some of my thoughts & made me realize how most fragrance Youtubers (etc) are mostly hype. It's a nice perfume but just not for me.

boy do i have a lot to say about this scent. but i guess i should start from the beginning. when this was first announced, i had literally no interest at all in trying it out. even though it came in a beautiful bottle, when i saw that it was a cherry scent, i couldn't have cared less about trying it. i credit this to the cherry craze that was kickstarted by tf's lost cherry and the ensuing incredibly mediocre cherry releases. trying disappointing cherry perfume, after disappointing cherry perfume started to tire me out so i swore off cherry entirely. then one day i decided to randomly purchase a sample after watching a review on youtube. when it arrived, i couldn't believe that i had finally found the cherry fragrance for me. this had zero traces of lost cherry. it was original and not like anything i had smelled before. it was a sweet, creamy cherry, with incense and spice. much to the dismay of my wallet, i fell in love. when i was wearing it, i couldn't stop smelling, and when i wasn't wearing it, i couldn't stop thinking about it. so, after some saving and more contemplating, i decided i needed to have it and purchased a full bottle. however, on delivery day, it was dropped off at the wrong house. after two weeks of arguing with the postal service, i was FINALLY offered a replacement bottle by the incredible stockist (if you live in Australia, i highly recommend Oligarch, their customer service is amazing and you'd be supporting a POC owned small business). THEN, the day before the new delivery day, my neighbours (who i'm assuming were just really busy for 2 weeks lol) dropped off the bottle i had ordered at my door step. so i now have two full bottles of one of the most beautiful fragrances i've smelled. if that isn't good luck, i don't know what is. nothing but positive thoughts will be associated with this scent from now on and i feel incredibly lucky. all of this to say, if you think you're also over cherry fragrances and haven't tried this yet, give it a try if you can. you might, like me, find your cherry scent and you might also get some good luck along with it.

I initially didn’t own any fragrances from FDB because I didn’t feel like they were a good match for me. I blind bought Sirene because of the bottle and also the hope that this will agree with my skin. While I can still smell the FDB DNA, personally I think this is their best fragrance! It starts off fruity, creamy and a tad spicy. The cherry in it is juicy and ripe, and I can definitely see the comparison to a fruity jam. A couple of hours laters it turns darker and mysterious, having the oud make its presence felt. This is a very pleasant oud nonetheless, very sophisticated and elegant. I think this fragrance is a 10/10, incredibly beautiful and well-rounded. It’s a mix of bright-fruity and dark-woody. I highly suggest sampling it beforehand because the oud might still be too much for some. Also, it seems that it’s quite a polarizing scent, pulling very differently on our skin. *Test wear update* While I do need to test it more, so far I feel that in terms of projection, it radiates within arm length, and 3-4h hours later it ends up sitting closer to the skin. It does last a long time on clothes (8h+), but it becomes a subtle scent. I have tested it while outside twice so far, once with 3 sprays and today with 8. The first time it was barely noticeable, I had to let my fragrance friends know that it was *the* new perfume and they only picked up on it once they sniffed my neck. The second time it projected at about an arm's length and then 3-4h later, as mentioned above, it sat closer to the skin. Not all perfumes need to be a heavy hitter, but I feel like this should perform much better than it actually does. The bottle is pretty and gentle, with the fragrance being bold and heavy, however the performance matches the bottle, non-invasive and delicate. Personally, I would have liked it to match the scent and be a bold, loud perfume, but I think they wanted to play it safe and created something more mass appealing and easy to wear.

Buckle up for this review! I saw this getting popular on that side of TikTok and wasn’t sure if it was for me as I’m a woman that likes feminine scents but this sounded VERY feminine. I actually bought this on a whim as it was the last one that the store I was in had and I knew if it sold out it would be a long time before coming back in stock. I was originally at the store for other perfumes but of course had to try it and WOWOWOWOWOWOW!! The way they’ve crafted this is truly incredible, exactly how you’d think an actual siren would work their magic. First musky sweet cherry and floral notes that classic feminine girly smell, FLIRTY! Think of light giggles, marshmallows, leaning in but not touching skin. Then after a good few minutes that oud creeps in, that cherry gets darker, richer, sweeter, you’re leaning in closer and closer, maybe an accidental brush of skin, the world slows and gets darker while you’re focused on this one person, you know you should step back but before you know it you’re in a trance. You get seduced, at first it was fun and flirty but you feel yourself being dragged to the deep ocean, you know what’s happening to you but the smell is so addictive you don’t care. You go all the way... down. In ecstasy of being in a delicious trance, then after they’re done with you you smell this light and bright cherry come back lifting you from the depths and your heads above the water, you can breath though that dark sexy cherry scent still lingers. I love perfumes that tell and takes me on stories and adventures and boy is this an adventure! Very strong projection I only spray 3 times tops! Lasts ALL DAY, I keep the box and all because of how beautiful it is and I know I’ll enjoy this one forever!

I bought this fragrance because of the name, I kid you not. In last year’s game of the year masterpiece Clair Obscur:Expedition 33, there’s a massive Axon named Sirène, known as She Who Plays With Wonder. She’s mesmerizing in the most dangerous way possible - she gets inside your head, shows you what you long to see, and creates illusions so vivid and beautiful that reality itself starts to feel uncertain. Everything about that section of the game stayed with me: the haunting music, the dreamlike worldbuilding, the elegance mixed with unease. I was completely captivated by it. So when I came across a fragrance carrying the name Sirene, I immediately thought of that character and decided to give it a try. I honestly didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, especially as a guy, but there was something incredibly magnetic about it. To me, this smells like someone who is effortlessly confident and comfortable in her own skin. A woman who doesn’t care about fitting neatly into expectations or trends, because she’s too busy carving out her own path. She’s attractive without trying too hard, sensual without being overpowering, elegant but still grounded and approachable. The kind of person who can turn heads one moment and laugh at herself the next. There’s a softness and beauty to this scent, but also a quiet confidence underneath it that makes it feel alive and memorable rather than just “pretty.” It has that same enchanting quality the game’s Sirène had - alluring, immersive, and impossible not to be drawn toward. Absolutely beautiful scent.