Laskarina

I know that we all have different skin chemistry, and with that being said, I personally would never put this in the fruity floral category. Neither fruity nor floral at all. Even though tobacco notes are not listed, that is what I smell more than anything. This opens with ambroxan, grapefruit & pear. Its not harsh, its very nice. It doesn't change too much, it mostly just softens up. After a few hours it slowly transitions into fresh cigarette tobacco with a touch of amber like in Jasmin Et Cigarette. It does settle after many hours with a little sweetness. The longevity is superb. After a 10 hour shift I can still smell it... and more importantly, that residual scent is still great and defined. Outstanding!

What a lovely scent to add to the rotation. An incense-y, tobacco-y, iris softened by gentle pear and rose notes. This is just lovely -- so romantic -- feels like a wedding day scent <3 My boyfriend says I smell like a sweet fresh-rolled cigarette, but like, in a good way. The drydown has a slight licorice/cherry, syrupy vibe that reminds me a tad of Mad About You from Pierre Guillaume. Opening is a sparkly floral pear more akin to Dom Rosa. I know this is so odd but the first time I smelled Diptyques Volutes, to me it smelled just like this. I instantly fell in love. I have no idea what I was sampling bc when I smelled Volutes again, I got a spicy, arrid powdery vibe akin to Chergui.

Delicious fruity-floral. When I was in my teens and early twenties, I only wore fruity-floral perfumes. When my taste developed, I started appreciating complex, heavy fragrances. This is the only fruity-floral that impressed me in the last 5 years. It is really special in the sea of chemical sludge of fragrances recently released. The main note to my nose is juicy pear. The rest of the notes compliment it perfectly. It is very delicate and girly and will be perfect for spring and colder summer days. If you like Delina but it's too young or too much for you, this is more delicate and well blended, but still in a similar category.

This Love started my fragance wardrobe, and after many sniffing sessions, she is still a big favourite. Laskarina is to me a floriental. A rose with dark edges of olibanum, amber and iris, spiced up with pepper against a background of sweet tobacco, that comes forward in the drydown. Feminine, sexy and mysterious. Lasts long, but slightly changes and softens over time. Great work by Amélie Bourgeois (and more of her work impressed me)!

Everyone seems to smell smth. else here. On my skin it is a bright and airy kind of pear-rose-olibanum combo, in dry-down with a hint of powdery slight peppery iris. Summery and fine. I see it as a first scent for a very young girl wearing a white sun hat and a dress with flowers or dots wavely blown by a breeze on the seaside. Actually a very feminine concoction