Flying

Testing Flying from a 1.5 ml Maison Margiela official sample. Well, this is beautiful!! As a big floral fan, perfumes based around notes like neroli/orange blossom/ylang ylang/citruses fill my heart with joy and happiness! And Flying is absolutely spot on with that! It’s fresh and bright, green and sharp, white and yellow floral, creamy and crisp and super feminine. If Ideal One is a manly man scent profile, Flying is exactly on the opposite spectrum. Yes, it’s not as edgy and unique as Ideal One is, but it’s uplifting and simply beautiful. And you have to love white flowers and petit grain to like this. Otherwise, it might be as polarising as Ideal One is, even though it’s a very light, easy, bright perfume. The issue is that you might not need Flying if you’re a fragrance collector. There’s so many similar perfumes that smell almost identical to Flying that it can be absolutely redundant in your collection, like it’s in mine. If you own any of the Les Eaux from Guerlain, you don’t need Flying. Or anything petit grain, neroli/orange blossoms dominant from any brand, you don’t need this. It’s a beautiful feminine perfume, but it’s same juice! Spring and mainly summer weather appropriate because it’s the kind of perfume that keeps you energised and refreshed in hot and humid weather and it’s fairly light and minimalistic. I love Flying but I have it already in my collection from various other brands! I’ll pass on it.

So I just learned I love neroli (from the blossom of the bitter orange tree), not only do I love neroli but I have a deep reservoir of memory for the scent. I love this, I love this more every time I revisit it. I think the Replica line does such a fantastic job of isolating a mood, setting and scene. For me, this is a slice of childhood. It also is really reminiscent of other fragrances I've tried but I simply can't place it. I am thinking that it feels similar to Juliette Has A Gun's "Gentlewoman", but I'd have to revisit it to know for sure. As well as hints from fragrances like "Narcotic Venus" by Nasomatto and "Fracas" by Robert Piguet, for some reason I am connecting "Flying" with these other perfumes. Whatever this is, it is deep in my subconscious. Every time I smell it I feel transported back into a memory I no longer can access. I really love it, I can't explain why. I agree with jbeans81, it does smell like a nice fancy soap and that may be why I love it so much -I love soap so much I actually collect it. It's very concentrated and for me, completely unrelated to whatever I might imagine "flying" smells like. This is very spring like, sweet blossoms and fresh with citrus. Love love love 8.5/10

The power of suggestion is strong with this one for me. I received a sample and thought what a silly concept it was, a fragrance of flying? Joke was on me, I had no idea... A blast of fresh air sweeping past you, almost a cold mountain air flowing through a pristine natural air conditioner, a natural electric charge. Along the way, a refreshing green and subtly sweetened air with hints of citrus join in the for the ride. My little sample literally does sweep me away into a biplane of the long past, flying like Amelia Earhart with my hat and goggles, freer than ever before. Time passes and it's time to land all too soon. This ride isn't one I can take often but I will watch for some special event day to buy another ticket to fly...

Love It. Big fan of ozonic notes, neroli, bergamotte and the petit grain and ylang-ylang gives the fresh and crisp scent a lovely creamyness in the drydown. Leans towards more female than male. The opening is a bit hash ( urinal cake like @pickle1334 wrote) After a few seconds it turns out like a softer version of Acqua neroli from clean. The drydown is by far true best. Fresh, clean, plesant and crisp with a creamy and sweet base. Longevity is 1-3 hours on my skin...wish it lasted longer. Projection is great for about half an hour.

gosh... i’ve never been the type to get on here and leave reviews, but this perfume really had the audacity to make me create an account just to talk about it. it smells SO good. fresh, floral, clean soapy (in the best way possible), and not overly sweet. the neroli and almond blossom blend together beautifully. this feels like the perfect spring scent — i can picture myself drinking tea in the middle of a blooming garden wearing this. this is what Matiere Premiere’s Neroli Oranger wishes it smelled like lol.