Saffron Mandarin

I sampled this recently and kept coming back to it enough I bought a small decant. The opening is fresh mandarin, but it’s the base notes that I’m in love with. It’s dry, oaky, and fresh. Really unique. I get small sillage and moderate longevity.

I love saffron, and love it more when its mooxed with bergamont orange and its a fresh scent, perfect summer scent

Fresh and bright at the opening, dries down to pepperish scent. Most realistic orange for me for now.

As others have said this is a very realistic mandarin. I can smell orange pips and a slight bitter zest. On paper I didn’t detect and saffron or spice. On skin it’s there, very dry - maybe that’s the pepper. I’m not sure I would buy a bottle as LI is on the pricey side (although I have a few bottles from them) but I would be interested in a travel size if they ever do that for this collection.

My initial impression was of orange essential oil, dustiness, and a general sort of Lush bath bomb vibe (lemony, ylang-ylang-y, natural jasmine and tonka). I thought I might smell vetiver in there. The oak is strong and bitter. I didn't get labdanum at any point, which is too bad because that's one of my favorite notes! The drydown is weird and sour. My husband tried it too and said it smelled like Sunny D to him.