Tel Aviv

A really beautiful scent but poor longevity if you don't make sure your skin is super moisturised. I never thought I would love a scent with peppery freesia in. It's a bright airy fruity floral. Sparkling bergamot tickles your nose like champagne bubbles. The fruit notes are as potent as the Floral although freesia is probably top floral. The clementine definite stands out on me but I'm not complaining. Citrus notes are 'happy' notes to me. It smells classy and not like any ordinary mainstream floral. It's a shame the musk and sandalwood don't seem to help to extend the longevity. Thank goodness for shea butter. I put this on skin where I will spray and the scent really clings to it. Reasonable sillage in chilly conditions. It's the sort of scent to wear with a feminine outfit. A floaty dress and strappy sandals. Yeah, I can see it working well in the 70s. Yep, I think this is the one for me. It's a bright and sunny scent to wear on warmish days. Happy to the core. 😀

I haven't tried this on skin, but just from sniffing on a card this is a very interesting fragrance development wise. When I first sniffed the freshly sprayed card I found it to be very nearly aquatic, I would have sworn there was something in the melon family and maybe some salt in the top notes, very 'fresh cool ocean breeze'. A few minutes later a second sniff was still a lot of sea breeze but with a hit of sunshine, something very warm and bright coming in. I set this to the side did a lot more sniffing of other things, and picked this back up when deciding which strips to take with me and... it was a whole different scent, I had to double check I hadn't mis-labled it! It was warm and creamy in a sultry late summer afternoon way. Next time I see someone ask for a beach scent, this will be my first suggestion, total day at the beach, from cool morning breeze to midday sun to lazy late afternoon. I'm definitely going to need to try this on skin sometime!

This for me is the perfume equivalent of a pretty blouse with lots of delicate little flowers: it's a perfume you would smell on someone who is good and kind (it's giving me Caroline Ingall's vibes ;-) I really adore this creation - the combination of florals with the blackcurrant and clementine make for a truly lovely, approachable, very easy everyday perfume with surprising tenacity! Of the three Gallivant perfumes I've tried, I've been particularly impressed with the performance of Tel Aviv and Los Angeles (the oil lasts all day for me!). I also appreciate this house in general and am always happy to support small independent companies who clearly have their heart in the game. Tel Aviv strikes the perfect balance of being a bit floral, fruity and citrusy -- refreshingly uplifting and happy.

randy.devost1's review is perfect. Especially the comparison to sunscreen. This is an elegant scent with classy sunscreen undertones. Extremely comforting and beachy. I just love this one, it'd be perfect for Summer and Spring

Very longlasting on my skin, I love this fresh sweet flowery smell. Maybe I’m a flowertype after all🤔 I used the perfume this morning and I still can smell it (it’s evening) It’s beautifully subtle, yet has sillage.

Love this but the longevity is dismal. Luckily, I can just throw the 30 ml bottle in my backpack and spritz throughout the day!

I love it. It has a sassy, sexy eighties florals vibe, smells like summer and it holds up in hot weather.

fresh, fruity, aquatic floral; airy; very lovely; the freesia is the star

The fragrance of Tel Aviv portrays, in its creative concept, the hectic life of the great city in Israel, with its beaches, nightlife and gay hubbub. Its name means, in Hebrew, "Hill of Spring" and in this sense, the fragrance could not be more literal, since it is a beautiful white floral, full of sunny and warm shades as spring. It features notes of clementine, bergamot and blackcurrant buds on top of the composition. Then, the heart carries notes of freesia, essential oil of rose, ylang-ylang from Comoros (Africa) and Jasmine Sambac Absolute. In the base we have notes of sandalwood, musks, benzoin and liatrix absolute (also called deer tongue or prairie pine). On the skin, Tel Aviv has an extremely strong output with acidic aroma. The citrus side merges with the fruity acidity of the blackcurrant and bathes the flowers, as if it were a juice washing petal by petal. And, as usual, in compositions that combine jasmine and ylang-ylang, everything else loses importance when these notes show their power. And what a jasmine! What a beautiful ylang-ylang! From the bottom, to be honest, I did not feel the tobacco or vanilla content that some claim to exist in the liatrix. I felt a clear nuance, which I believe came from the musks and a slight creaminess, very typical of sandalwood. However, I do not agree that Tel Aviv is a unisex fragrance. Perhaps shareable by some more modern men. But, still, it is a feminine fragrance, which brings me to classics such as Givenchy's Amarige, for instance. Of course, I know that the root of perfumery does not separate perfumes by gender and that this is linked to marketing questions. But since most of my followers are Brazilian and I know that Brazilian men do not usually surrender to the most floral fragrances, I would never indicate a blind purchase of this perfume, except for women. It is a beautiful perfume, especially for someone like me, who quite like this type of fragrance, almost narcotic. If you like it too, it's worth knowing.

Tel Aviv (hmm...wishing Gallivant could have chosen a different city as inspiration, but here we are) is a bright floral scent, pleasant but nothing groundbreaking. It is based around a smooth white and yellow floral accord, with citric freshness up top and a musky base. It feels very noughties in style, thanks to the freesia and musk, not to mention the floral-fruity profile in particular. TA is a floral scent from the beginning, with some citrus adding freshness up top. I get sweet, juicy orange in particular. Light, sweet freesia leads the way, but ylang ylang becomes the most prominent floral note to my nose, smooth and creamy with a tropical sweetness. As it develops, powdery, clean jasmine follows, a predictable but seamless inclusion. TA becomes cleanly musky as it dries down, with the sweet powdery florals remaining. I get some rose here, but it lingers in the background. It remains floral as it fades, fading to a sweetly musky skin scent. Sillage and longevity are moderate. It is a feminine spring/summer scent in my opinion. A pleasant, safe floral scent, TA is a good-quality scent with mass appeal, but feels a little dated, style-wise. Not memorable, but undeniably nice. 3/5.

Gallivant Tel Aviv is primarily a floral composition, but it's green, unisex, and robust. It's underscored by citruses, musk, and a soft benzoin/sandalwood pairing in the base. I regard it as unusually agreeable for a niche release, seemingly appropriate for anyone anytime, and while that might brand it less daring, I see it as a rare entry that's signature scent worth for men and women alike. The white floral aspects (ylang ylang, jasmine) shine the most, but blackcurrant and citruses provide for a fun, bright, sweet opening that eventually paves the way for the a very agreeable dry down of musk, benzoin, and sandalwood. Like Brooklyn, Tel Aviv's performance is very good for a freshie, though in fairness, one should almost expect that at its pricing of $95 for 30ml. 7 out of 10

Tel Aviv is a very beachy scent, and on me the ylang ylang is the most prominent note that lasts for hours. I LOVE jasmine, and just like ylang ylang, but if ylang ylang is your thing definitely give it a try. This fragrance lasts a good 6-8 hours on me. It's an simple, pretty wear for summer with nothing offensive or overcomplicated. It makes me think of being barefoot in a light, flowy sundress on a warm day just taking it easy, but is also polished enough floral to wear to the office without seeming out of place. I've never been to Tel Aviv, but I visited Croatia once and this scent immediately smelled to me like the feeling of being there.

On applying this perfume to my skin my impressions are of a bright, fresh, clean floral scent. Initially there is a burst of quite sweet citrus and I also get the black currant leaf mixed with the citrus. Then for me the jasmine is the main note. I can detect some freesia and ylang ylang but no rose. The under notes are there but subtle. I am reminded of faint cigar smoke. Quite pleasant. The whole thing develops on my skin into a clean aromatic floral scent I could happily wear during the day. I think it is a feminine scent. Not 'seductive'. More 'confident young woman'.

One of my favorites from Gallivant, because it reminds me of the smell of the lobbies of 5-star hotels on the Mediterranean. It's more floral than fruit, but the fruit is used very judiciously to take the edge off the white florals (and the ylang-ylang also works to smoothe everything out). This is not very powerful, but rather pleasantly low-key. A good perfume for hot climates if you don;t want to emphasize that you're wearing perfume. Something nice for non-bathers to wear poolside, perhaps, or for anyone to wear to a sunny outdoor brunch.

Maybe it's unfair circumstances to judge this scent, since the bottle(a decant from Sniph) was crushed in the delivery process and the liquid soaked into the packaging. It smelled very fresh and clean and a lot of musky jasmine and bergamot, leaning towards feminine. I also thought it was a little harsh and alcoholish at first, but it might be that there were so much of it! The scent grows on me at the places i got it on my skin. Could have been a match but nothing extrodinary. As newly washed sheets drying outside in a floral spring breeze.

Jasmine is the most predominant note, and I guess I can understand why clementine is listed as there’s a subtle sweetness although it’s very light. It’s pretty and feminine. Overall it is a very linear scent that doesn’t seem to last long which it is a shame. I love the city Tel Aviv - it’s modern and bright but also has layers and mixes of cultures. Does this scent remind me of it? Only the top shiny facade. Unfortunately it lacks all the potential depth. I really like it but I don’t love it.

My first Gallivant scent!! At first spritz I thought Tel Aviv was a nice but unremarkable floral scent...what I was not prepared for was the remarkable development of this scent. I love Tel Aviv! The initial floral scent gives way to a beautiful citrus that lasts for ages. Even 6 hours after application I keep catching how good I smell! Buying the full bottle tonight and really excited to explore the rest of the range!

How we all feeling about a fragrance named for Tel Aviv these days? Anywhoooo ... a covert sandalwood / floral. Covert in that I wore maybe five or six sprays of this (for me that’s a lot) and it barely breached the threshold of my awareness throughout the day. Kind of like a nice body cream. As it wears off, I’ve already forgotten all about it. What were we talking about?

A very feminine fragrance. I can't see a man wearing this one. My first impression with the sample I have not even knowing the notes was: Beachy with a distant vibe of the old Sand and Sable cologne by Coty. I get a very clean floral and it's soft and safe and very girly. A pretty fragrance. I can picture a bride wearing this for her wedding.

It's an ok nisch perfume. I should love this one because it has bergamot in the top notes, jasmine in the middle and sandalwood in the base and thats usually a hit for me although I sence the powdery notes more than i like to and thats why it's not a winner or something I use every day. It's good for change though.