Jessence

Jessence opens with a blast of photorealistic, completely edible sweet orange pulp. It quickly morphs into a clean, sweet, orange blossom floral. It's soapy, but in a soft, warm way. Not at all shrill or industrial smelling. Lovely and fresh. I get a hint of rose during the drydown, but it's a supporting player at best, adding a soft dusty element that prevents the orange blossom assault from turning into dish-soap. I don't get any lilly-of-the-valley, other than as a vague, white floral shimmering background note. The musk here is light, airy and linen-like rather than animalic and heavy. Sillage upon application is quite heavy, but quickly settles down to something in between soft and moderate. Longevity is middle of the road. All in all, a delightful, refreshing floral. Nothing spectacular, but safe and inoffensive. I wish the mouth-watering opening lasted a lot longer, but still a winner I think.

The bottle of this is now a sad pathetic farce of the 2 previous bottles. It's like the one in the page but it's no longer frosted and the cap is a very fake looking diamond. 😅 That said it's still the very safe youthful fruity white floral musk that it is. The opening registers more mangoish to me than citrusy (that slight heavy note must be the rose). Lasts for nearly 7 hours, a bit explosive on the first 2 hours so be easy on the sprayer.

tested this for the first time in my whole life intering the luxurious shop where I live. Fot the people who know me here they know I'm not into arabian or arabian/westren kind of fragrances cause I've been using french colognes since I was very little, it's because my mother use them the whole time & receiving them as gifts from relatives. Anyway, the bottle is so heavy & frosty & the fragrance you get is very little in the middle of the huge glass flacon inside. I think it comes in many forms, the one I tested is oil not in the spray form which I think is shown above in the tall bottle. It smells kind od citrusy lemony maybe because of orange blossom? it smells soft & feminin & perfect with a summery dress. I tested this once just because the huge bottle caught my eyes first thing when I saw it. I also tested many other fragrances but most of them were infused with oud or other eastren spices which I'm not really into them.