Secrete Datura

I, a certified gourmand lover, love this. I thought I wouldn't, but here we are. Sweet but not syrupy, powdery but not cloying, Secrete Datura is a narcotic bouquet of white flowers with a lovely depth of what my nose interprets as, yes, chocolate (mind you, sometimes patchouli smells like chocolate to me). The presence of heliotrope is undeniable, as is vanilla and the assortment of white flowers, but I honestly don't care to analyze the different aspects of Secrete Datura too intimately. It's such a joy for me to experience this scent without thinking too hard. In real life I'm about as graceful and beautiful as a refrigerator, but whenever I wear Secrete Datura, I feel like a swan princess.

I've just smelt this...and I've fallen in love!!! It starts with the notes of muguet and jasmin, but soon turns into a beautiful, bright, powdery smell (on my skin, I can mostly smell heliotrope, and maybe vanilla). It seems a fragrance with two souls: the sweet floral and the tender powdery one. If you like fragrances like Heliotrope by Etro or Heliotrope blanc by Piver, or also Douceur de vanille by Les nereides, I think this is the perfect spring fragrance for you (and for me, of course ;) ).

Datura opens with a burst of bright white florals, with a slightly vintage touch. As it settles, the dry down is absolutely to die for.. delicately musky and powdery, creating a soft and elegant aura💖

I have sampled now several MPG perfumes and I have to say this; Secrete Datura is absolutely the Best One. My Favourite. And also One of them favourites in my whole collection. I just Love this.

The datura flower here smells to me like an accord of lilly-of-the-valley, iris, and heliotrope. The florals are infused with a classic soapiness reminiscent of the Victorian period. I’m reminded of the Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” It is about a father who plants a garden filled with poisonous plants and leaves his daughter to tend them. After many solitary years of cultivating the garden, she becomes poisonous herself and deadly to would-be suitors. She eventually falls in love with a man who sees her inner purity; however, as he begins to acquire her toxicity, he persuades her to take a remedy in the form of a concoction that ultimately kills her. Incidentally, the seeds of the datura contain scopolamine, which is a deliriant that produces powerful and horrifying hallucinations. It is also a dangerous drug of abuse because the hallucinogenic dose is precariously close to the lethal dose. The datura flower is an excellent symbol of the Gothic: it is at once beautiful, morbid, and surreal. The perfume captures all three of these qualities in a lifelike portrait of the femme fatale.