Sultane White Pearl

This is a beautiful scent and unusual experience. I wear this for the first time in nearly a year of owning this fragrance. I tested and admired it, but couldn’t imagine it on myself until these warm days of late spring. This if something very ethereal. My first association as I sprayed it on a test paper was Galadriel. If Tolkien’s elves were real this is how they would smell. At first, it’s piercingly fresh, bright, and clear, like a ray of sunlight on a sparkling snow patch in a spring forest. Then, slowly, the snow thaws and you can feel clear water drops on a green lush moss between the tree roots. After a while, it warms up even more and a delicate white flower emerges from the mossy roots with a clean, sweet smell. The scent makes me think of snowdrops and lilys-of-the-valley, but this is some exquisite strar-shaped fantasy flower. The most prominent notes here are citruses, moss, and lily, creating a beautiful contrast of warm, cool, bright and shadowy. This scent shimmers and rings in the air like elven laughter. This picture of enchanted forest stays with me the whole day: sunlight peering among the branches, melting snow, clear spring water bubbling along the mossy bank, tiny white flowers reaching up towards the sunlight. The name doesn’t do it justice. There is nothing opulent, spicy, or woody here to justify “Sultane” or powdery to justify “pearl”. Despite the ginger and cardamom in the pyramid, I wouldn’t call it spicy. This scent is light like air and transparent like the clearest gem. The only thing that fits well in the title is “white”. White snow, white magic, white flowers. Elegant, magical, out of this world. This is ethereal femininity. I can imagine young brides and ballet dancers wearing this. Not my style, but so beautiful.

This is a citrus bomb. It's like when you squeeze the peel to get the oil out and its all over your hands and all you can smell for hours is citrus... In this case it's Mandarin and Orange. Bright crisp fresh fragrance with a little bit of ginger. This is a gorgeous sunny day mix. I'm not getting any of the other notes as the citrus is so overwhelming. I have been looking for a strong citrus perfume and well, I think this is it. I don't think the name White Pearl is very suitable, that conjures pictures of something wedding like, virginal, more creamy floral and musk. This is citric acid all the way.

Given how much I adore 1001 Nights, this is a real downer. I sprayed my decant twice and once the very VERY strong alcohol smell subsided a bit, what was left was the joyous childhood memory of soap bubbles. Or maybe it's generic bubble bath. You know how the bubbles taste when your sister pushes your face into them while playing "baptism?" Hey, it's part of being a pastor's kid. Anyhow, this is just simple and I guess it smells clean, but not really in a pleasant way. Glad I got to try it, buy it's a "no" for me, dawg.

Fragrance Review For Sultane White Pearl Jeanne Arthes Top Notes Mandarin Orange Bergamot Ginger Middle Notes Rose Violet Lily Jasmine Base Notes Moss Musk Easy to wear and delicately mossy like little flowers that grow at the base of trees by their roots, exactly as if a child had picked up the flowers and made a little floral perfume. This is very innocent and child like. I find that some of the Jeanne Arthes fragrances are so blissfully sweet and youthful like they are keeping a secret: Jeanne Arthes is really a 10 year old genius perfumer. This is a very sweet fruity floral with a touch of oak moss, not a big chypre but an introduction to oak moss. The citrus note the mandarin is very delicious as it opens. I enjoy mandarin oranges both as fruit I eat and the scent in perfume. The ginger is what most stands out in the top notes. Sweet and a tad spicy ginger. The florals are at the heart and the core of this perfume as it becomes sweetly floral with a bouquet of roses, violets, jasmines and lilies. Each flower is detectable and you are allowed to have enough time to smell them. The dry down is pure moss but again light moss, not heavy moss. This is sweet, a tad spicy very nice but it could have had a longer life. It was probably on me 4 hours which is not enough time for me to enjoy it. But it's very nice.

I have all 3 Sultane fragrances in the genie bottle: Sultane in a gold-orange colored bottle, Noir Velour in a black bottle and this one in white. White Pearl is a sweet and somewhat spicy floral scent. Citrus starts off the performance of the scent and they're fresh and fruity but not cloying. The heart is floral with violet, lily, rose and jasmine. I can smell each of these flowers and they're beautifully paired. For me this is mostly a floral fragrance. In the base, oak moss is very noticeable. Woodsy but not too strong. This is very subtle. I wore it the other day and no one could even tell I was wearing a perfume. This is a great scent to wear when you don't want anything too strong, too complex. Just a clean simple floral scent. Beautiful. Jeanne Arthes makes great fragrances. I'll look into buying more from the line.

I gave a bottle of White Pearl to my daughter as a present at Christmas. During June, she and I were going out to dinner. I was enthralled by the fragrance she was wearing. To my surprise, it was White Pearl. I had no idea how beautiful this fragrance was until it filled the interior of my car. I have two bottles myself, but I had no idea that it had such projection and such a lovely presence. To say the least, I got my two bottles out and have been wearing them regulary ever since. It smells expensive, despite it's price tag. This is truly a steal! Especially for the summer months, this is a great choice in fragrance!

Against all odds, I used this perfume along the Viennese winter in 2011. Now, each time I smell this, all I could remember was the chilly crisp and the fresh winter breeze. This perfume is super fresh! I did the right thing. :) Affordable perfume without cheapy scent. Loveable.

Interesting, delicate, maybe a little bit 'herbal-pharmaceutical' but not in a disturbing way. I can't think of any similar perfumes at the moment. Unfortunately not very long-lasting.