Flower by Kenzo Summer 2011

Flower Summer 2011 meets the skin with a soft litchi scent blended with mandarin. The litchi here doesn't smell like the fresh juicy one in Madly EDT, but a rippen litchi because of the tartness brought in by mandarin. Soon the unmistakable incense-like Flower sharpness comes out along with violet and musk. However, it stays very soft and close to skin. I don't find it particularly powdery either. Those who were a little scared of the sharpness and powdery texture of the original might still be able to like it. The longevity reaches around 5 hours. A tender fragrance for spring and summer, there is no doubt, though there are also other interesting choices in the same floral-fruity category.

To me it seems very much a skin scent, easily transformed into something personal and lovely, powdery and only slightly sweet (maybe the litchi). I quite like it.

You still detect that it's the "Flower" scent that is well known. It's maybe a bit more airy and also a bit fresher. I couldn't really find a new interpretation here.

I want to apologize from the beginning to the ladies who love this scent. This is the only one perfume on the Earth I hate. Literally, it makes me not even feel sick, it makes me vomit from the first to the last notes. It is strange, because I love the powdery scents. Not this one. I was pregnant, when this perfume came to the market, and that pregnancy was very difficult. So after so many years I still feel that nightmare, which is associated with Kenzo Flower. Well, litchi and freesia are still too sour for my "not pregnant" nose.

My sister owned this one, don't know what to make of it really. Perhaps it just was not one of my favourites. Flowery scent though, but which flower I could not detect.