Mmm

This sounds like it would be a bit frightening, I mean, butter, cheese? I like a good gourmand, but I don't want to smell like a dish from the Olive Garden either! That being said, this does NOT come off as an entrée from your favorite Italiano restaurante. More like a walk through the forest and shrubbery surrounding that restaurant, with the scent from the herbs wafting through an open window in the kitchen making a gentle appearance. The cheese and butter notes only give the basil and incense an Earthy, slightly tangy and green feel. I can't help but think of Enchanted Forest, minus the black currant, when I smell this. I think I'm loving another from Hilde! These are the notes Luckyscent has listed, Basil, vanilla, incense, and burrata accord.

Well, I was scared to try this due to the reviews. I am so happy that I decided to give Mmm a try. It's a nice herb-spiced incense scent on me, nothing stinky cheesy about it. Burrata cheese is made from mozzarella and cream, it is also sometimes defined as having an outer shell of mozzarella and filled inside with a mixture of butter and sugar. Mmm got even nicer as it dried down, it's more of a slightly sweet, herb scent that is wonderfully balanced. It is reminiscent of a green forest scent, like walking in the middle of the woods while inhaling the air where there is a sweetness mixed with smokiness to it. Great longevity and I like getting whiffs of it throughout the day, by the end of the day I have fallen for this one from Hilde Soliani.

Ugh. Way too herby. I find this nauseating. I put it on to go to dinner, and I had to wash it off in the bathroom before I could eat. Anyone who wants the rest of the sample is welcome to it.

I got anise. Like I'd dosed myself with ouzo. Barely any basil, no burrata.

There is something incredibly medicinal about the top note of this fragrance, an not particularly in a good way. Even just opening the bottle is evocative of some nasty thing my grandmother used to bring out of her medicine cabinet (mercurichrome?) for the first minute or two. Not quite as disturbing as TCP antiseptic, but close, it makes me want to put a Band-Aid on something. So ... Is that ANISEED? If that is basil, that is the singlemost aniseedy basil I've ever smelt. And having had an Italian mother in law for some dozen years at one point in my life, I have smelt some seriously aniseedy home-grown basils, huge leaves bigger than your hand, that she grew with the help of some cow manure she found over the back of the fields behind Heathrow Airport. I never realised basil was aniseedy at all until I smelt her basil plants. I'm not getting the gentle green pesto-y sort of basil and definitely no butter or cheese. I've not tried burrata so I don't know about that. Perhaps something creamy, sweet, eventually, but if we are going to be Italian about it, then its more like mascarpone to me. But then it suddenly mellows out to something woodsy, something with more gentle spice, and keeps the creamy mascarpone nature, blending with incense and dries down into a soft woody sort of pleasantness that I don't really expect to last very long (and I was right, it was gone in less than ten minutes whereas the remains of Mon Musc a Moi still lingered a good 40 minutes later).

Some reviewers notice a smell of anise instead of basil: right! Estragole (p-allylanisole, methyl chavicol) is a component of various trees and plants, including turpentine (pine oil), anise, fennel, bay, tarragon, and basil. It is used in the preparation of fragrances. Hundreds of tonnes of basil oil are produced annually by steam distillation of Ocimum basilicum (common basil). This oil is mainly estragole but also contains substantial amounts of linalool. Estragole is the primary constituent of essential oil of tarragon (comprising 60–75%). It is also present in pine oil, turpentine, fennel, anise, Clausena anisata and Syzygium anisatum. Asiatic basil contains less linalool so that it smells really like anise, fennel. So I think in this fragrance, they indeed used asian basil, very very rich in estragole and very poor in linalool.

I just got a sample of this, I wanted to try it because I know that perfume is art, and if notes look super strange it might be an interesting perfume, and I was totally right! My first impression: Mmm indeed! It almost smells like a beautiful forest, with lot's of pine and a tiny lemon note in the background. I think the incense gives that feeling. I have a feeling that I'm going to fall in love with this fragrance. I will updated my thoughts and feelings about it once I'm wearing it for several days.

If anyone has a sample or any amount, please contact me