Lys Sølaberg

This is lovely. It smells exactly like my grandmother's tweed coat and hat, and the way the coat cupboard smelled at her apartment. Obviously this is a world away from the memory the brand is trying to evoke, but I actually find that aspect of the range (the fact it's the owner's memory the parfumers are asked to capture, so they can be shared with customers) a little restrictive on the wearer's imagination. On me, this is predominantly an iris and gentle rice fragrance. There is a burst of the Baccarat Rouge cloud only in the first spray, but on my skin that disappears in seconds leaving something soft and poetic that isn't unlike a very transparent Armani Prive Cuir Amethyst or Floral Street's Iris Goddess (with which it shares many notes). There's a touch of warm clean hair and freshly ironed cotton. The base notes must be incredibly well-blended as it doesn't seem like an overly busy fragrance at all, nor particularly heavy. I get little of the gaiac wood and no smoke at all. I think this is a bookish fragrance - fit for reading in old libraries. It's cerebral.

Oh.My.Goodness. This is so beautiful and hypnotic! I absolutely love this one because all the notes described are blended so well that all I smell is this delicious liquid. To me, it evokes a golden potion in the most exquisite crystal glass. From the liquid emanates the most tantalizing wisps inviting me to drink from it... It is fruity, smoky, woodsy, leathery and amber-y all at once! What kind of witchcraft is this? Nathalie Feisthauer has concocted the most delicious ambrosia and I am ready to succumb... Longevity: 7-8 hours Projection/Sillage: an arm’s length Price: $260 USD and it’s worth it!! Season: personally, it’s more of an Autumn/Winter and cold weather or on a cold rainy day kind of scent. Just my personal preference. Absolutely wonderful fragrance. Leaning slightly towards the masculine side and it is soooooo beautiful!! Full bottle, I am coming for you!! I don’t care that I am a woman, this was made for me 😝😍😍

I think this is feminine to some and masculine to others depending on what notes are more prominent due to body chemistry. This smells mostly fruity sweet on me and soft woody in the dry down, while on my partner the smoky and tobacco notes stand out more. Definitely try this on skin first. I get mostly candied quince in the opening, quite realistic quince note which I really like. I smell some iris, but lily is barely there to my nose. If you are looking for a lily centered fragrance, this isn’t it. Dry down is mostly woody, tobacco is there but faint, and the sweetness lingers. Autumnal scent to me because of the quince. Longevity is about 4 hrs, sillage is modest but suited to the scent profile. Casual, comfort fragrance. Quite unique, I haven’t come across many others like it. Happy to have a bottle !

How are people listing this as a fall scent??? Now I am truly shocked because it is nothing I expected. The first spray of the perfume is FRESH. You don't really smell the notes listed. It smells like a tart, but fresh fruit scent. But you cannot really smell any specific fruit. I think it could be unisex since I have smelled very similar men's colognes with the same sweetness. The drydown is a bit musky, a bit powdery but the sweetness remains. Now it is NOT very sweet - the sweetness is natural, like the one from a fruit. But the overall impression of the scent is that it is quite airy, it is not heavy, it is easy to wear. Don't be afraid by the notes because it is very wearable and likeable, especially for the upcoming warmer months!

I got a sample of Lys Sølaberg a few years ago. Reading the copytext about what this scent was supposed to be associated with, it was absoluetly on point to me. Fresh air, a lily in the midnight sun in a fjord, moist ground, green grass, a stone bridge and candied quince. I got the idea, I loved the idea but in most settings it had something weird to it (imagine wearing this in office in autumn). Not to dislike, definitely lovely but kinda out of place. Until I went on a three weeks road trip through Iceland this summer. It was just most perfect, spot on. I couldn't get enough of it there and enjoyed it nowhere as much as under the midnight sun in an Icelandic fjord, hiking through the beautiful magical landscape...