Flower Ikebana Indigo

I love the entire Flower Ikebana line (Sakura and Mimosa were both so beautiful) and was highly intrigued by this latest flanker. Ink and iris? I’m not even usually a huge iris fan but I was intrigued. This opens with a clean yet also earthy “orris root”-type iris that reminded me a lot of L’Iris by Santa Maria Novella. After a few seconds, the vanilla comes in to add a sweet background note but the iris does stay front and center. I can detect the slightest hint of that mineral “ink” note that gives this fragrance a warm, ambery quality, but it doesn’t play a huge role in the overall composition. To my nose, this is mainly an iris and vanilla fragrance. It is definitely sweet, or at least sweeter than a “traditional” iris perfume due to the vanilla, but I wouldn’t consider this overly sweet as a previous reviewer indicated and it’s definitely nowhere near as sweet as Lancôme’s La Vie Est Belle to me. It’s interesting how we all interpret fragrances differently!

As a lifelong Flower fan, and as a lover of iris, I simply had to try this. Does anybody know why it has such a limited availability? I had to resort to buying a tiny official sample on ebay. Is it simply because it's relatively new? I would love to have a small decant of this, as Indigo is quite beautiful. This ain't Iris Pallida or anything, but I do enjoy it. It opens with a mineral blast that quickly evolves into bitter iris mixed with sweet vanilla. And there is slightly sharp, curious inky note present from start deep into the drydown. For its entire lifetime it remains primarily iris, and only then vanilla. Longevity is so-so, which I'm ok with, silage is minimal, which makes it an acceptable work fragrance. Overall, quite an interesting creation.

I smelled this perfume quickly. If i can feel an interesting mineral aspect (représenting the ink) , it’s really too bad this « Iris Pallida » is very very sweet, almost sugary. It make me think at the iris in « la vie est belle », especially the « Iris absolu » one, even that i prefer this flanker over Ikebana a indigo. I feel this perfume is a new try of the brand to touch an always larger audience, and it’s sad. (Sorry for my English, thank you for your understanding)

My mom bought this for me in Greece. I am in love with it. It’s an inky mineral iris. The bottle is stunning. It’s a simple and linear perfume ...but in not in a boring way. It also has some warmth to it (I am guessing from the vanilla which I don’t pick up specifically). It does have a tint of soft leathery sweetness. I am thrilled to have it in my collection...as an Iris lover this hits for me. Maybe because it was a gift I am biased, but this feels special to me.

Ikebana Indigo has straight up shocked me, I really wasn't expecting to love it so much. It starts off clean, reminding me of a boutique, just to turn into the most lipstick-y iris I've ever smelled lately. It's a bit overwhelming at first, but then a more acidic almost salty note of ink finds its way too, very simple and balanced. Don't imagine a bright red lipstick, this is a dark, cold frosty purple made perfume.