Multilotus

I am not really a big fan of florals but now and then a floral fragrance announces itself to me and I fall deep in love. This is the case with Hermetica’s Multilotus. Although linear and may seem simple note-wise, it is what it is and I love it for that. It blasts of lotus flowers, osmanthus and hints of citrus. Very fresh and aquatic and flowery. Just like the lotus flower in a calming zen pond. One this I love about this house is because it’s alcohol free, the scent stays on your skin for a long time! Longevity is really great! Sillage and projection is moderate at arms lenght. Not so loud but not too timid. Perfect for a hot day out, a stroll through the park or even on an evening of wine and banter.

Thank you, @trabuquera for mentioning Kilian! I was going nuts trying to track what this reminds me of! It’s Kilian Prelude to Love, which I love and has been discontinued! This fragrance reminds me of how our skin plays such a role in how perfume will perform. I read some of the reviews. On my skin, it’s soft, natural, ethereal. Just gorgeous.

truly skin level. one of those id like to douse myself with out of the shower or before bed. simple, clean, soft, very subtly sweet like dried apricots (thanks osmanthus). kinda reminds me of saliva in a hot way? or a gymnastics mat? it should be a basic crowd pleaser but something is weird despite how straightforward it is. im obsessed.

This is such a lovely fragrance. My bottle had leaked a little in transit and I immediately registered a lovely scent coming through the package. I find it fresh and clean. It really is going to be one of my Spring/Summer favourites.

An extremely pleasant clean, green, blossomy machine which reminds me of the smell of some forgotten hair salon's shampoo ... sounds like faint praise, which I don't mean it to be, though this is far from my usual perfume home ground. Vague echoes of things like Zoologist Panda and/or Kilian Bamboo Harmony - like them, it's a very grassy-green treatment, not at all bitter-galbanum though, and the floral element is kept discreet and fresh rather than overbearingly blowsy. Nicely balanced, and does smell very very classy ... but maybe not quite classy enough, or strongly-performing enough, to justify the price point. Might be heaven-sent in a heatwave but for my nose it's a little too toned-down for a downright love. One delightful (or maybe sinister) thing about it: bees LOVE this stuff. I was tailed home for at least 300m at alarmingly little social distance by a confused bumblebee which abandoned a bunch of actual real flowering flowers in a park to harass me and buzz 4-6 inches from my neck instead. Hermetica might be mostly synthetics but they're clearly good enough to confuse animals other than humans. So watch out if the sound of this appeals to you but you're allergic to bee stings... it might get painful.