Megaflower

This is the best example for me when you have ideas about what a perfume like this would smell and when your opinion changes in a very positive way. I would say this fragrance is very creamy, it is a creamy floral, definitely not the flower shop kind of floral. Before wearing this throughout the day I was a bit scared it would be too loud and overpowering after some time, like when you wear a gourmand that gets too suffocating over time, but it did no. It got quiet over time, and left a nice creamy sweetness on the skin. I wish the bottle design would allow users to see the gorgeous orange colour of this perfume, because even just looking at it, when I got the tester, it made me want to spray this on myself all day long or just stare at it, it is happiness in a bottle. What is the most suprising, however, is that since it is in an oil base you can rub in the spritz and it just smells even better, yummy!

I love this. I would never recommend it for a man.

As its name suggests, Hermetica Megaflower seems centered on flowers, and opens with a bright, flesh, floral burst. Bergamot, mandarin, and orange blossom create a citrus/floral bouquet that eases into a dry down of amber, vetiver, and patchouli. It’s a great freshie for its opening hour or two and then becomes a more modest blend in the dry down. I get the full “MEGAflower” effect for some time before it eases into the base notes and a more year-round-friendly arrangement, albeit much less boastfully than in the opening. As with most of the Hermetica offerings, the alcohol-free composition facilitates a very strong opening but a significant decline in projection thereafter. Megaflower and other Hermetica scents work quite well for those that want to private enjoy the loudness of the opening but appreciate the mellowness of the dry down, and similarly don’t require that their fragrances carry on for more than six hours or so. I didn’t recall loving it when I first smelled it but Megaflower is one of my favorites of the line—fresh, floral, agreeably boastful, and pleasantly woody and earthy in the dry down, still with the levity of the orange blossom. Very nice stuff, and one I’d seriously consider at its retail pricing of $195 for 100ml / $135 for 50ml, given just how pleasant it is. 7 out of 10

Very charming and tangy, - a big, bouncy, modern and clean-lined orange-blossom scent - but to my nose just a shade too synthetic to fully convince. It smells lab-built rather than garden-grown and I miss the full spectrum of leafy, botanical, earthy or even indolic notes that make some more naturalistic orange-blossoms like Lutens Fleur d'oranger so appealing to me. I give Megaflower a nod of respect for its lovely, clean, citric version of vetiver, the rare treatment of the note I can love, and for the scent's robust personality and performance (sillage not huge, and it's pretty linear, but the pleasure lasts for up to 5-6h, not bad at all.) Juice is a lurid orange colour so watch out if you're thinking of applying it to light linen clothes on a summer day - a shame, as that's exactly the sort of scenario that Megaflower seems made for. Leaves me a little baffled overall - yes it's fine, I'd happily wear any time, but at this price I struggle to see the point of it given other available options. If you really do gravitate towards hyper-polished hyper-modern stuff, though, and definitely want to go for a specifically minimal yet energetic and extrovert floral - it could work!

Piquant ambery-orange blossom on a bed of vetiver that I like (don’t normally care for vetiver). Linear & pretty all the way. PSA ⚠️: This oil-based orange juice will irreparably stain anything you spray it on.