Kamasurabhi

Every accord in Kamasurabhi has oxygen but also is on the precipice of humidity and perspiration, refreshing as these cooler summer days after a long stretch of stifling thick air and hot temperatures. It opens with a flourish of florals: orange blossom, jasmine, all lucid yet with that twang in their backbone, ever so slightly indolic and on the verge, but not quite over that ledge. The florals plateau on what to my nose seems like plumeria and champaca in a grove of sandalwood. This sandalwood is the fulcrum of the composition, where it all centers, and the yellow florals rally around it as a chorus, singing the praises of 80s and 90s amber florals with modern arrangements. Villoresi took this time test-approach, incorporated his lovely base for which I am hooked, and elevated innovative floral elements with woody and fresh components. I am really, really pleased with the end product. It's another dazzler from a favorite perfumer.

This opens briefly with a freshy, sweet and bright citrusy mix of ylang and orange blossom, then instantly dives in lactonic sandalwood and heavy white flowers. It's soapy, and as it dries down on my skin it smells fattier and fattier as the narcissus skanks it up with patchouli. I have a feeling this is challenging for some because it has the same effect in the drydown as costus does: it mimics the smell of human grease, of unwashed hair and neck skin. It is not repellent, by any means, but I think it's an intensely intimate smell that is attractive to us on a lover, but perhaps not on others. I like this a lot. Spray it on your hair, the nape of your neck, and between your breasts/pectorals. Let it mingle with your own lipids. It's totally out of context on the lapels of a jacket or your wrist. Some perfumes rely on placement. This is one of them.

Interesting. I had a chance to smell Angelic Encens by Creed. There is no Angelic nor incense, but a puffy bread note, airy, carefree. There is nothing overtly woody or balsamic or stickily sweet, but I imagine if you have to give it a name, it's a soft amber+warm spice+soft sweet patchouli accord. Could that be real ambergris? I thought I'd never smell a similar scent again, but voila! Here it is, Kamasurabhi! The beginning of the scent is inky, even threatens to turn indolic on me, but it cowers back to this puffy bread note, with a sweet undertone, and edged with something resembling cinnamon or clove, but far softer and pleasant. If smelled far away I also get the sandalwood overtone, but it doesn't last long. The flowers (tuberose, ylang) start to settle in at some point, then finally took over the whole show.

No throwing of tomatoes my fellow Fragraticians :o) However, I just wanted to put it out there that FragranceNet has a 100ml bottle for a REALLY decent price! I cannot wait to try this. It was a blind buy (of course) soley because of the notes presented and the love of the fragrance house itself. The reviews are kind of all over the place. I promise to be back to add a real review once tested :o) UPDATE: As nervous as I was with all the different reviews......I cannot be any happier with this fragrance! I could not keep my nose off the back of my hand :o) BRB with longevity!!!

Despite being a male, I love and use this fragrance; especially in spring and late summer. It brings me peace and happiness; right as its name means. I find it a bit overpriced, but Villoresi's creations are wonderful, and Lorenzo doesn't care about creating mass-appealing fragrances. I have both versions, but prefer the EDT, as it is more lively and indolic (just in the beginning). I agree on the fact that this is a bit overpriced and less "unique" than other Villoresi's creations. Nonetheless, it remains a lovely scent I'll buy again when I'll finish my bottles.

A delicious opening of florals will open the way to a concerto of wood, amber and patchouli. White florals lead by tuberose will close the dance. Marvellous. Villoresi Symphonic Orchestra. I love it, and find it stunningly unisex in most of its development, but have to admit that the tuberose ending veers a bit on the feminine side. I might acquire it anyways. Fantastico!

This is a wonderfully blended masterpiece. All of the notes are there and can be detected but none of them is dominating the other notes. It is floral, woody, ambery, soapy and leathery at the same time. Performance is nuclear for an edt. Lasts days on clothes. 10/10

Smells like a very classy luxury soap to me. I can’t describe this perfume other than this, it has a classic oriental touch. It is very well-blended. It lasts forever on clothes, it’s been there for weeks on my jacket despite wearing other perfumes.

This is so beautiful floral ambery sandalwood, i would pay much more for it

One of the best fragrances , really really good and underrated frag

Warm, dirty, earthy flowers. Almost getting stale... Unique. 7/10

First of all - I have tried almost all perfumes by Lorenzo Villoresi and I have enjoyed the quality of them in all cases, even if I dislike the scent itsel! This said - Kamasurabhi doesn't feel like something by Lorenzo Villoresi at all, it lacks the undoubtful italian zing and Lorenzo's slightly old school vibe. It also had a staying power of only 3 hours, very close to skin. KAMASURABHI also doesn't feel like India at all. I got mostly powdery and sweet white florals with no spicyness whatsover. Just this mix of white flowers (and not the strongest ones! the tuberose is listed, but I swear I got almost none of it) with the sweetness and slight saltiness of amber. I also got a hint of leather, but it was so shy that I didn't have much time to enjoy it. Not at all something I enjoyed. It wasn't bad, but left me with a bad feeling - there should have been more. I hoped for something far better and interesting. This is NOTHING like Alamut.

The first sniff was beautiful Hawaiian ginger flower (not to be confused with ginger spice) When I tried it on the back of my hand it faded to a nondescript floral -- maybe the narcissus combined with ylang ylang -- that lasted forever in grandma perfumey glory. I occasionally got a bit of amber, but the floral was dominant. However, I decided to just wear it today and it was better. The ginger shifted to tuberose, which changed to the floral, but this time it changed again. It got spicy, like a solidly good carnation note. That gave way to a sandalwood or amber that is too powdery for my taste, but fortunately the patchouli stepped in and gave it a darker edge. I might get vanilla, but that might just be my skin doing it's thing. I didn't get the leather I was hoping for, but this time around it was mostly pleasant. Six hours in and it is mostly faded.

Amber, sandalwood, patchouli, leather and florals. Wonderful composition. Most Noses develop a certain accord, which they might then use in many of their compositions and turns into the house's dna. Think of Guerlinade etc... Mr Villoresi's version of that is also one with flowers, but he includes spices as well. It's truly captivating and to my nose something extraordinary. A reviewer below described it much better than I could. So Kamasurabhi is that accord plus the notes I mentioned above. Not the best performer in the Villoresi canon, but in this case I don't mind it. But, the sandalwood base lingers on longer than most suspect. Sometimes it reminds me of L'heure attendue. Surabhi indeed.

This was a blind buy but I took the risk because I love a lot of the fragrances by this house and it was a very good price. It opens with the same notes as my much loved Alamut but differs after the opening into a much softer perfume with weaker sillage and longevity. I like it, it does conjure up India and the great thing about Villoresi is how expertly his perfumes are blended. There are many notes in this, but not one dominates overall, instead it’s a muted, classy perfume. If you like this, try Alamut as well. Update - after wearing this more I can say that I like it, but it’s not a love for me. The excellent blending of notes continues to impress me in all Villoresi fragrances.

First spray of a sample, does remind me slightly of Alamut that I also just recently tried. But this is more floral, slightly soapy whereas I got more spice in Alamut. Both seem to be centered around a beautiful sandalwood. This actually smells really good in the air... Familiar and comforting, intoxicating and attractive. I like this, a lot. But this is just my first impression which to be fair never turns out to be an accurate (complete) perception of a fragrance. So I will most likely come back to add to this later.

this perfume doesn't exist in an other form than EdT. It seems there is a confusion in the previous review.

Kamasurabhi is a superflowers composition with I guess a lot of Iso E Super not listed. Sunny sweet fragrance immediately pleasant if you like the kind wonder woman in tuberose & narcissus. It is completely an 80s first 90s scent style that I do not dislike. I feel also some fruity accents as well in a blackcurrant fresh peach way. The first spray Make me immediately think to LouLou de Cacharel and Jil Sander n°4 immediately after that reminds me Delicious by Gale Hayman which actually seems to be a bit more sparkling and “sandalwoodies” versions. Other little similitudes with Cabotine de Gres, Narcisse de Chloe, Scherrer 2 and Casmir de Chopard. A forgotten classic is back... more modern in the drydown where maybe the Iso come alone. As declared by him, Villoresi follow is own way to build perfumes without “listen” at the world of perfume preventively created. I appreciate this thing as experiment. The risk is obviously to create something pre-existent without realize that. Is infact like a musician that compose without have listened any Vivaldi Mozart Puccini Sting Jackson etc ect. A big risk in involuntary imitations. It is not the best fragrance of Villoresi, and if a lot of chemical sandal make a perfum "indian"... well. This is not Indian it is more a Beverly Hills super blond actress, or a woman that poses like one, in her 50s kind of scent. Sunset blv was the right name I presume. P.S.: I have test again Fleur de Rocaille, the 1993 version of the classic FleurS de Rocaille de Caron and: bingo! Almost identical.

When first applied it reminded me a less sweet and less in your face version of bond no9 central park west+sandalwood.I love central park west head over heals but even slight changes can ruin a loved one It has the same bright creamy floral heart.peachy gardenia thing blended with some yellow florals but instead of CPW's musk and earthy notes,a very prominent sandalwood is what blends with flower notes. I was waiting for sandalwood to calm down as it seems that villoresi loves to use this note in all his fuems intensely but usually it mellows,well not in this case.sandal becomes stronger to tge point that it covers other notes.what lasts on my skin for +6 hours is sandal+a whisper of beautiful floral notes.it's not a faint scent on my skin and remains strong but very close to skin hours after application. It's one of rare villoresi fragrances that I don't like however I expected to love it according to it's lovely notes.not that it's a bad perfume.they're not much overly floral fragrances this much suitable for men IMO.also if you like sandalwood and you like a tasty big but soft floral bouquet you may love it Edit: It was very long lasting on my skin. I could smell it the whole day and I had dabbed just a little!

Kamasurabhi, dedicated to India, is developed in two very clear phases: A first floral-fruity stage, where you will feel a sweet fruit combo associated with a floral bouquet where the exotic flowers stand out, there is also a touch of unnatural orange blossom, a faint jasmine and a sweet and calm tuberose. These exotic flowers feel, without distinguishing very well what flowers are, so it is a clear floral arrangement of fantasy, this phase is cheerful, fresh, but it lasts quite a bit. The second phase is also sweet without reaching the gourmand, this phase is floral-woody, here the ylang is clearly differentiated and immediately gives way to an important note of sandalwood, patchouli is felt on a smaller scale and leather and amber Are almost imperceptible. This second phase lasts longer, it is immediately stuck to skin looking like a scent skin, to my taste is quite nice but predictable and becomes boring. I do not know, it does not convince me, the fragrance is pleasant, feminine, but the resulting scent I find it unappealing and somewhat monotonous. Rating: 4