Batucada

So I might be biased as right as I got my bottle in about a weekish ago I came down with a sinus infection so I couldn't truly appreciate this smell for what it is. So I have been anxiously waiting to try this scent for a long time. But now that I am all cleared up and I've smell it; woah. This is a super airy late spring/summer scent that is just delicious. As I have said in many other reviews I find it harder to like sweeter/gourmand fragrances, but this one is so odd. The sugar in it mixed with the underlying tone of salt really gives it this beach vacation vibe to it. Less of a gourmandy food flavor but like a delicious cocktail. Upon first spraying the sweet sugar, mint, and lime mix together to form this mojito like aroma that is amazingly intoxicating (pun intended). Then that blast dries down to add the florals and base notes. Now when I first read the notes I was expecting something a bit more feminine leaning, but it is perfectly unisex. It smells like unbuttoned Hawaiian shirts and linen bathing suit covers, mojitos in hand, the salty air whipping my hair, and the world at my fingertips. This EXCELS as a day fragrance, but I can see this being a boozy, bougie, and beautiful night out fragrance during the hot months as well. I can't wait to see how this performs under the high humidity and heat, but this is a vacation in a bottle. I can't really see anyone not liking this unique take on a summer scent. Be careful though, you won't be the only one intoxicated by this scent. My one complaint with this scent is that the giant mojito blast initially fades REALLY fast to an arms reach fragrance. It lasts really long overall, but don't expect this to fill any room besides the room you initially sprayed it in. EDIT: I wore this fragrance in Hawaii for like 10 days straight, and 1) it performed and projected amazingly! Super airy and wispy around me that makes it super beautiful 2) it's a major compliment magnet. Had a lot of fellow beach goers compliment me as they walked by. 9/10

Great summer concoction: sweet, flowery, citrusy...and oceanic good Batucada is a great summer fragrance. Certainly, it is not a linear one. During its initial phase, Batucada is alluring and unique, it feels like spraying a sweet lime-based drink surrounded by tropical flowers (unisex flowery). During its middle life it slowly turns into a sweet flowery and aqueous composition. Last, during its dry down, it morphs into salty skin fragrance. The first blast of Batucada is lovely. The lime scent is natural, refreshing, delicious, and sweet (due to the sugar note). This lasts for about 30 minutes. At this point the Ylang-Ylang and Tiare kick in adding elegance to Batucada, Also the mint shows up, adding a sparkling freshness. So within 30 minutes Batucada is in full swing and at its most captivating point. It is sweet, pleasant, elegant, and refreshing, perfectly suitable for hot, steamy, and wet weather conditions. These notes dance together for 1 hour. It's the best part of Batucada. I'm happy at this point. This is how I want to smell all day long on a Caribbean vacation If I had to walk all day under a searing tropical sun. I really like how it performs here in Florida where you don't want a perfume to suffocate other people or you from the heat. As Batucada approaches the 1st hour mark, the lime begins to fade away slowly, the Tiare and Ylang-Ylang stay, and the aquatic and salty notes begin to surface. This aquatic/salty combo accord makes my skin smell like as it does at the end of a day at the beach and salty ocean water has evaporated over it multiple times. I wish I could pick a little coconut in Batucada as some people report, but unfortunately I don't get anything at all. Batucada usually lasts about 5-6 hours on me. However, there have been times I can still get wafts of it much longer than that.

I get different results than many of the people below me so please know this is not a knock on anyone else since smell is somewhat subjective and varies dramatically according to skin chemistry and PH balance. What I get from Batucada is a fantastic tropical summer fragrance with solid longevity and sillage. I have never gotten the fishy smell that some others apparently received. Batucada can easily be worn by men or women and is almost like an island getaway for me that I wear casually or even to the office when I feel like I am in need of a vacation, but don't have the PTO time available. The accords above are pretty much spot on as I definitely get plenty of lime, sugar, ylang-ylang, coconut, tiare flower and a dose of sea salt. I don't get much of an aquatic or a sea water vibe at all though and that is fine with me as I own other frags that do. I find Batucada smooth, clean, tropical and extremely enjoyable. It shares a couple of the same notes as Creed Virgin Island Water and to a lesser degree Calvin Klein's Eternity Now, but is in NO WAY a clone of either one. Batucada does have a tropical island feel like Virgin Island Water though. Creed's Virgin Island Water is one of my personal favorites, but Batucada is a very different fragrance and experience that I do enjoy and can recommend to anyone that wants a nice tropical summer fragrance that makes you feel like you are on a far way island and don't have a care in the world.

To me this is a sugary floral, Tiare flower and ylang ylang with a thirst quenching hint of aquatic seabreeze and an exotic cocktail type feel to it. I'd largely disagree that this fragrance is all about the lime margarita thing which it does vaguely conjure up in the opening but soon becomes apparent Batucada is more about the flowers. It leans toward the feminine for me but do you know what...that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I love this fragrance...I really love it. Not sure I could pull it off with such a butch reputation to uphold, another wear and I may have an answer. L'Artisan is a good house offering quality and invention at a slightly more reasonable price this is yet another good one. Update: Oh yes!!! Wearing this today and I have cemented my position finally. I will be purchasing Batucada it's tropical wonder juice so, so good and really unlike anything I have currently. It was between this and Antigua which came in a close second place.

This is one of the funniest perfumes in my collection. Opens with green and marine notes, with caipirinha. Fresh, breezy, greeny, mariny and boozy but not the kind of chocolate cognac thing, this is summer booziness. The drydown is simply GORGEOUS. Smells like sugar from caipirinha just melt in your salted skin, what a sexy thing!!! I’m so lucky to own a 2013 bottle, i see that everybody complains about performance but on me it lasts forever. Altough when i opened the bottle it was very weak, but month after month it grew insanely and this is something i experience with l’artisan, first sprays are weak but fragrances become much much better after months and years. Also when it arrives from shipping, bottles need to settle down a couple of days. This is my personal experience, i love to wear this beautiful perfume in the summer.