Silk Ribbons

The juice in my bottle is rather pink and the bottle is missing the cap, so it’s entirely possible mine has changed a bunch over time. It arrived in a lot of other perfumes, and I wasn’t at all interested in it until I tried it. Whoa, is it delectable!! The opening is Kir Royale and the drydown is a very smooth and sophisticated vanilla. When I wear it, I want to go to a black tie function, mingle, chat and have bubbly. A much more adult scent than the notes would suggest. I don’t get any lily of the valley. **So, today on my 6th wear or so, the lily of the valley came through rather prominently and was lovely. Can’t get over how much I love this scent — typically this style of fragrance is too sweet for me.

This fragrance is NOT gourmand and is not all of the notes listed. It is not terribly sweet at all compared to the other florals from the house. It goes on amber, not vanilla. There is a big amber component overlaying florals but they do not smell LOTV dominant. There's iris in here for a powdery quality and a slightly bitter note that may be oakmoss but seems more like vetiver. It keeps it from veering sweet. The raspberry is there as in vintages but not in ANY fruity way whatsoever. I like it second best of this house after the original JM. Lovely.

I find it hard to believe there's no musk in the base. First impression was actual silk ribbons in the fabric store. Maybe that was purely psychosomatic, but there's definitely a "new textiles" scent, and I'm finding it often correlates with white musk in a perfume composition. The raspberry is right there at the fabric cutting table, enjoying an equal partnership with the silk-satin abstract, thus avoiding the candylike tendencies we often ascribe to fruity scents.

I can't describe just how lovely, this Fragrance is. It's like your skin, but sooo much better. It's slightly warm, musky, and floral, but sooo smooth. This stuff is so beautiful on skin! Criminally underated.

Has a Coca Cola vibe at first spray then it morphs into raspberry soda. It's not an overbearing scent but has a meek rather quiet disposition yet you know it's there.