Melbourne Muse

So this started as a mistake - I honestly thought that it’s vanilla and coffee combination, because it’s called Melbourne, duh :D but it’s actually coffee flower, which is a very intense white flower note. There is no actual coffee note - just FYI, if you’re confused like me :D As a white flower and vanilla perfume, it’s beautiful. It’s not sickeningly heavy, and just perfectly sweet and soft. I like this a lot, so I bought also a shower gel with this fragrance :) It doesn’t stay extremely long on my skin, maybe 2 hours-ish, but I don’t expect miracles from Glasshouse fragrances.

I am rarely into sweet scents but this fragrance is LOVELY. Rather than synthetic vanilla essence, somehow Melbourne Muse smells like cutting open a real vanilla pod. It's not overwhelming, and the coffee flower balances it out so well. The only problem with this fragrance is that when I am hungry it makes me crave coffee and pastry. I saw that it is marketed for women but honestly my close male friend wears this and I think it smells great on him! 10/10 cosy hug material. I'd say gender neutral even though it's sweet.

Love this one for wearing to work. To me this is a very delicious realistic green dry coffee gourmand scent that is not too sweet. It is fairly linear in smell where it opens with coffee blossom and maybe a small hint of vanilla. Doesn't have massive projection but i still love it.

Vanilla bean and coffee flower through and through. The longevity is terrible but for the price I don’t mind carrying around a bottle to reapply. Not my favourite from the range but I’m an absolute slag for fresh vanilla scents so it’s still a 9/10 for me.

I love the smell, it has a very specific vibe, like the smart, sexy, cool girl at work. I think it's the coffee notes that make me so strongly associate it with work, I think it makes you smell like you've just come back from a coffee break, but in a good way! Although I associate the smell with work and mostly wear it to work, I think you could easily wear this perfume on any occasion. It has that kind of "I woke up like this" off-duty model vibe. However, the sillage is so intimate and it honestly lasts maybe 4 hours before totally disappearing. It's so disappointing because the smell is great. I won't repurchase it but I will be looking for a better quality version of this smell, I'm happy to pay more for that version of this scent (I'm looking at you YSL). I'm also highly tempted to buy this scent as a candle and moisturizer which Glasshouse also sells. Also, just as a little side note, I am finding Glasshouse's perfumes to be very inconsistent for me, some perfumes last all day (albeit subtly), and others disappear in less than 4 hours. I also find that I either love or hate their scents which are all very different from one another. All their perfumes have quite an intimate sillage on me though. EDIT: I have tested Black Opium and I actually like this better but it is much weaker.