Sensations

August 2019 This is what I call a "sleeper." You spray it and you might initially react with "meh." But give it a minute to melt into your skin. This is soft and billowy Summer breeze and sundresses. It's one of those scents that's everything about a scenario, and not easily categorized. It's fresh but also soft and warm. It's floral but not flowery. It's sweet but dry. And it's positively brilliant on a breezy summer day like today. When you simply want to smell good. This is a woman. A woman who has nothing to prove, and everything to achieve. A woman who looks forward, not back. No regrets, only opportunities for improvement. This is optimistic. - - - - - - - - - - - August 2016 I think it's confusing to list this as a citrus perfume. There is a bit of orange, and a splash of bergamot. Maybe it's the combination of cedar, raspberry, and sharp white florals that makes this come across to some as citrus. To me, it's a beautiful warm, creamy, tonka-based fruity scent that isn't really sweet. This is, as is the case with every Jil Sander scent I've smelled, a beautiful composition in which all notes hold importance and nothing is left in the shadows. It continues to grow and develop every time I sniff it!

Before I tell you my thoughts on this lovely fragrance, I'll tell you a quick story about the bottle in which this gorgeous amber liquid lives. It’s beautifully rounded and softly white frosted glass with the spray built into the bottle and tilted to the side. The lid is actually the spray part, so you don’t take that off...but my friend when testing it thought it should be pulled off like any old lid, and did so! After that, I could never really get it back on correctly. I should have known better to keep it upright, as one day it completely leaked out into my makeup bag...well, at least my bag smelt amazing! So, be careful with that bottle. Anyway, this is a wonderful fragrance. It's warm and sweet and so comforting and I think, kind of alluring too. I like to wear it in "relaxed mode", but it's also lovely for work. To my nose, it’s fresh and soft at the same time. A gorgeous variation on vanilla with a slight citrusy top note, which melts into that lovely vanilla, with that touch of something extra. Could be the milk and cereal notes, though it's not really like milk and cereal. It’s comforting all the same!

A nice, creamy and soft orange blossom with a sharp bergamot opening that I am not very fond of (but it doesn't last very long, so no biggie). The heart and dry down is lovely, but extremely faint. I applied 8 sprays and it's barely there. You will catch some faint whiffs of it yourself, but others will have to get very close to smell it. I asked someone,and the reply I got was "very faint, but gorgeous, smells very clean". In the drydown it smells very much like a body lotion. A very, very nice body lotion! Seems to last longer on and project more on clothes, but retains more of that sharpness. UPDATE: I gave this to my mom and totally fell in love with it as she wore it. Maybe it is the cooler weather or maybe it is my nose, but sillage is way better than I first experienced. So feminine, uncomplicated and beautiful. I am going to purchase a new bottle 🙈

This is a review for the EDP version. To be honest I wasn't even aware that there's also an EDT! :) My brother gifted me a big bottle of this many years ago and I just recently finished it. I have this weird thing going on to find the perfect scent for me. At times I wonder if it hasn't already been there all along. Or even a couple (J'adore I used many bottles, Tommy Girl - likewise or Acqua di Gio, Montblanc and so on). This is a beautiful fragrance that manages to bee sweet and fresh at the same time. A lovely vanilla/tonka bean mixed with mandarin, raspberry and all the other notes. It's so well blended! It floats around you like a veil and I received many compliments on it. It's perfect for day or night and lasting power and sillage are both great. I wouldn't wear it on a hot summer day, however. One of the best of Jil Sander in my opinion!

I was in a perfume shop in Gran Canaria (go to canary islands if you are perfume-aholic, you might find your fave discontinued somewhere!) and the assistant sprayed some on a card and I just took it out of politeness.But for the rest of the day I couldn't stop smelling it. I went back the next day and bought it. This is my desert island perfume I would choose above all others. It's milky, almondy vanilla, kind of fresh warm skin like and yet more than that. I can't praise this highly enough. Luca Turin disses this in his book and says it's not memorable but thats exactly what I find in it. I remember what this smells like. It distinguishes itself but doesn't shout. It's my perfect one x