Iperborea

If you don’t want to leave a trail of perfume behind you, don’t want to be noticed, I could even say if you don’t want to use perfume - USE IPERBOREA! It gives the sensation of “no perfume” - just clean and fresh. Testing it I even forgot I had sprayed it. It’s difficult to separate listed notes – I can smell citruses, musk and the lily of the valley. It’s creamy, soapy and a little bit sour as a Greek yogurt. I can imagine a nurse, a kindergarten teacher or just some very, very reserved person wearing it. It’s not a bad scent, but it’s not my preferred Lorenzo Villoresi Perfume.

It reminds me of vintage Diorissimo (without the indolic aspect), a lot more than any current Diorissimo reformulation. I say this as a compliment. This is truly excellent. An outstanding white flowers/green/musky creation. In a way, I could describe this as a LOTV soliflore with musk at the base. I understand comments re soap-like, but that's because it stays clean, even at drydown (creamy musk). Average performance overall, but it kinda lingers on.

Iperborea. The smell of sheets that were hung to dry outdoors on a perfect summer day. (In Scandinavia, people from all socioeconomic backgrounds hang sheets out to dry.) The purity of white snow. I'm thinking of avalanches. To me, this fragrance represents good manners, friendliness, class, and the color white. Iperborea, I must have more of you.

Try to imagine pureness in the highest quality. Everything white around and feeling of ice. I love the early spring days when in the air you can smell coming changes and this is it. In my opinion this is very unusual fragrance. I have only the sample but for sure I’m going to buy full bottle of this miracle.

This is an androgynous clean skin scent, and I agree with the other 2 reviewers who said that this smells exactly like Nivea cream and I love it!! Its the best fresh, wet, soapy, expensive scent on dry skin ever. It even leaves a scent trail in the wind...I need a back up bottle..

Immediately it is 100% Dove white bar and just as quickly starts moving towards Nivea cream. In the end it's a cross of Dove bar and Nivea cream...I smell both. Fantastic freshly showered fragrance. Love it.

A tru beauty for anyone who enjoys the soapy, clean category. Fresh, a little green, with creamy white flowers. The only disappointment is the longevity :/

This reminds me of Nivea creams. Nice clean, soapy scent. It's funny but I can smell coconut, in a very sophisticated way.

Iperborea is only my second experience with Lorenzo Villoresi, but I already held the house in high regard because I'm so fond of Teint de Neige - that elegant, feminine cashmere sweater of a scent that's absolutely not "me", but that I love anyway. So I was very glad at the chance to test this one when I got a sample by chance. And it really fits my idea of this brand as a maker of high-quality, no-nonsense, classically feminine scents, because that description is definitely appropriate for Iperborea as well as TdN. This one is spring in a bottle - but spring in a luxury soap shop rather than spring in the fields outside. It has a very nice lily of the valley note that's freshly sweet and natural, but this is accompanied by a clean musk accord that's at least as strong. So it's sharply soapy as well as sweetly floral, but those two facets don't clash or even complement each other - they form one whole scent, very balanced and harmonious (and, obviously, hard to describe!). I like it a lot, more than I thought I would based on the list of notes. But, unlike Teint de Neige, it's not enough to make me want to use it despite how "unlike me" it is - it's one of those I enjoy admiring from afar more than I do wearing it.

Soft, airy, and fresh; a delicate pairing of lily of the valley and magnolia. It’s white soapy, but not aldehydic; these are flowers that smell inherently clean on their own. The result is a chilly kind of cleanliness, but not harsh - rather, refined and graceful. Like a glacial breeze: pure, distant, untouchable. After looking up the name, it makes perfect sense: Hyperborean, referring to a mythical people living beyond the north wind. This perfume truly feels like it comes from that distant, ethereal realm. The absence of sweetness is what I appreciate the most. But unfortunately, it disappears in less than an hour on my skin. Some compare it to Dove or Nivea, but I disagree - it’s far more sophisticated than that. I’ve always admired Villoresi’s creations, and as someone who adores Teint de Neige.

IPERBOREA is such a gentle perfume, it's a bit soapy, a bit powdery, but 100% feminine and gentle. I think this could be the perfect wedding scent! I can imagine a bride in her elegant, shy silk gown and bits of IPERBOREA - shy, close to skin, just for the groom to smell. This is a very pure beauty, it does not last though - only around 2 hours on my skin, but it stays a bit longer as a very soapy skin scent, like you've just washed your hands with luxurious flower soap. Great choice for those seeking a feminine, shy skin scent and does not mind the lack of staying power.

I agree with previous reviews, this smells exactly like the Nivea cream. I do like it though, as I prefer a clean scent, so it's exactly what I prefer to smell like - clean, fresh and soapy! To me, it's the perfect, inoffensive, pleasant fragrance that I can wear anywhere, when I don't want to smell too "perfumey" but still want to feel put together. The fragrance itself, starts off very strong and then quickly fades on my skin, I'd say I get 2 hours max, at a stretch. On my clothing, it doesn't last too much longer either, 2-3 hours.

How nice the lily of the valley feels when you apply a few drops of Iperborea. This white floral is fresh and green like a spring explosion, a breath of fresh wind reminiscent of the petals in bloom. The drying becomes more creamy, sweet and with a soapy point, well measured, that does not bother nor reminds the classic detergent. It feels quite unisex and I find it great for spring and summer days. The only counter is that it suffers from the sufficient projection, since immediately it remains pegadito to the skin. Rating: 7.5

On the opening, Iperborea is a blast of soap and lotion. Very clean and luxurious, Nivea-like, with some crunchy LOTV. The scent is mostly linear to me and creates this lovely soapy-milky-creamy-balmy, subtly-sweet sillage. My condo lobby uses a scent that's very similar and I LOVE it. It's somewhat similar to the scent of the Shangri La hotel chain. This is an indoor scent for me suitable for all seasons, except perhaps summer. I find it uplifting and comforting.

I disliked the opening which was like citrusy baby wipes, powder and suntan lotion but then after about an hour the cirtus really brightens and warms up in a lovely fresh yet cosy way. I feel wrapped in lemon vanilla, cool musk, crystalline amber and thankfully cant smell baby wipes anymore. It reminds me a bit of Versense. Has good sillage and longevity more than 3hrs on my skin. It is a warm, mature and womanly scent.

It smells just like Nivea cream. Easy scent to reach for when you wanna smell clean and put together but not stand out. It‘s the fragrance equivalent of a white cotton t-shirt, versatile and minimal.

I agree with Juliette it's very soapy, but it's a nice green floral fragrance, which is very light, "without shadows", good for Spring. I smell clean and green lily-of-the-valley :o))

Hmm, can’t get to grips with this one or work out what I think about it. I have several perfumes by this house and 2 of them are in my top 10, but this one was a blind buy and I don’t like it nearly as much as the others. It’s vaguely metallic and vaguely watery on me and I think the problem may be the magnolia which I’m not a huge fan of. I will persevere with it to see if I change my mind.

It's a nice white floral with a citrus edge. I do not find it similar to Nivea cream or other cosmetics/ lotions because it is not that musky.

A soapy fresh light floral that conjures up temperate zones as opposed to exotic climes, opening with smooth fruit-juice-like citrus, also oddly something that reminds me of aniseed or Pernod at first, though that quickly fades. It's very light, suited to daytime I think. It has a green flower-stem sap idea to it that reminds me of things like Ineke's Hothouse Flower - except Iperborea is most definitely not one of those perfumes that conjure up a giant Georgia O'Keefe white flower! As the description suggests, it's very much a cool-toned perfume, and once you know that the perfumer had a sort of spring thaw in mind - with flowers peaking out of the snow, that makes sense. I'm not sure I'd have thought of that without the description though. I think how much you'd enjoy this would depend very much on mood or style. It's delicate, introverted in character, definitely self contained. A complete contrast would be Villoresi's Ylang Ylang which is a full-blown warm powdery/musky, very sunny ylang. Sillage seems very soft to me (in comparison to most florals I've tried)longevity a few hours.