Flower Glyph

I've been dying to try this new release because the nose behind it are Jean Claude Ellena and Celine Ellena. JCE is one of my faves as he created my holy grail perfume Frederic Malle L'Eau Dhiver. And thank gooodness...Flower Glyph did not disappoint! It opens with a tart blueberry-honeysuckle that also reminds me of lilac, and it feels so airy and atmospheric. There's a coldness to it which I looove in perfumes, and JCE does so well! I can smell the ink too, and it does have an iridescent feel to it...it's that coldness and the fountain pen metallic tip that's been dipped in a fairy's rainbow pot 😍 The longer it sits on my skin, I keep getting whiffs of a blue ball point pen- it's a nostalgic smell I didn't know I needed! I also get dried apricot or plums for a touch of sweetness. I LOVE THIS. I'm usually whelmed by most Liis scents cause they're all very pretty, but feels like elevated dupes of something else. Flower Glyph, on the other hand, smells so original, unique and lovely!

This smells like sticking your face directly into a literal bunch of jasmine. The heart notes of honeysuckle and jasmine are the main event. It has the green edges and slight spice that a real flower has. It's nice to see Liis heading in a more high-art direction with master perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, who has also created for Hermes and Frederic Malle. It's not a blueberry fragrance or a pollen perfume. I get a little pollen on the dry down, which gives it a soft, fuzzy, honeyed, pillowy sort of effect a few hours into the wear. It smells like someone distilled honeysuckle flowers down into their pure form, a rich golden floral. It also kind of smells like jasmine tea, a little like pomelo oolong from d'annam

Flower Glyph is a soft patchwork of early memories and associations from the 90s. Upfront, there’s blueberry jasmine tea and earthy pollen. In a more associative sense, I get Mazzy Star, scratch and sniff stickers, a watery ink drop spreading, and spreading, until it reaches its final frozen form on page. All memories awash in a moody haze of denim blue. I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, but I think I may be falling in love. Every time I sniff my wrist I feel like I’m falling backwards in time. The intensely curious and hopeful part of my brain lights back up after years of dormancy, and I’m back in a place where music is felt deep in my bones.

I'm getting tea & was about to ask if anyone else was getting tea before the comments saved me from questioning myself. I was expecting a more polarizing experience given the mixed reviews I've been hearing. I don't see it as straying from the Liis lineup either as I've also heard. I think it fits in nicely and different enough from Ethereal Wave, teawise, to not be redundant. I'm still in the opening but I think it's actually a lovely floral tea scent.

Misunderstood. If you want to feel like a fairy, stopping on the petals of a fruit blossom to pollinate it, this is the fragrance for you. Highly originally and realistic floral for those who love the smell of nature alive in its sticky humid beauty. William Carlos Williams esque eating the plums from the icebox. A favorite I had not expected to love so much.