Ames Soeurs

Mmm I love this but only have a small sample. I will be buying it though. I think it will become my signature. Straight away I can pick out honey and frankincence with very gentle ginger, orange blossom and a cedar woodiness. Later there are apricots covered with warm honey, sweet musk, Amber and almond milk and again that soft wood. These are the notes which last longest on my skin and it does last! I love that it is an oil with a roller ball applicator and how it melts into my skin and blends with my chemistry. There is something quietly exotic and smoothly enticing about this scent. It has an earthy, ancient quality that invokes images of sensual women from ages past indulging in their steamy bath houses. Their bodies being anointed with scented oils such as this by their handmaidens. The creation of this perfume was inspired by 'The Book Of Lost Fragrances' in turn inspired by the elusive recipe book of perfumes created for and by Cleopatra titled Cleopatra gynaeciarum libri. Mark Antony gave Queen Cleopatra a perfume factory because of her interest in perfume. Cleopatra’s perfume factory is at the south end of the Dead Sea, 30 km from Ein Gedi. Residues of ancient perfumes were discovered there.

this perfume is so gorgeous i genuinely cannot get enough of it....very soft, rich, and floral, makes me feel like i’m walking through the garden at an old stone manor. i usually go for more warm and spicy scents but i think the olibanum, incense, and myrrh add just the right amount of depth & complexity to the bouquet of florals. i get more jasmine than rose or lotus on my skin which is perfect because jasmine is one of my favorite floral notes. i have the rollerball and it lasts all day on my skin.

Wow I got this one in a blind buy with a perfume lot. I was shocked at how wonderful this is. Although it's a small roller bottle oil the smell lasts all day on me. I love this so much in fact I emailed the manufacturer to see if they can make it in a parfum spray, if so I seriously would consider selling much of my collection and making this one a signature. Unfortunately it's only avail in a roller form but I will keep it in my purse. It really is that NICE!!!

so pleasantly surprised with the longevity on this one! despite being a roll-on oil, it projects pretty well and lasts a whole workday for me. ames soeurs opens with a soft and creamy grapefruit note, with spiced/ambery undertones. i don't get the smokiness/incense as much as others had mentioned- more so just a subtle earthy blend of myrrh and amber. there is a slight floralcy to this that adds to the sweetness- but i can't pick out lotus or orange blossom in particular really- just a generic white floral. it almost reminds me of a body lotion or body oil that a supermodel in the 60s or 70s would wear. softly spicy and citrusy with a decadent- almost lactonic- base.

The fragrance is beautiful, it's rounded, floral sweet and fresh at the beginning, almost immediately I get spicy and woody (frankincense) notes on my skin, together with soft flowers (a hint of L'eau Froide? they are not similar at all, the last one is not floral, but they share this fresh woody, for me cardamom-like, nuance). It's nicer on Jodi's skin, I remember, on me it's quite spicy ;o) I think this one is a very very nice fragrance indeed. I haven't smelled it in solid perfume, only from my sample in oil.