Lovely Garden

Jammy Rose-Toffee-Incense with Creamy, Sweet White-Florals... In the first couple of minutes before the spray dries, I can feel the musky rose-patchouli blend. Once the spray dries and the sillage starts to open up, I get pink pepper & mandarin with a dash of cinnamon, and the rose-patchouli is already swelling through with rose leading the way. The overall effect here in the opening stages is a musky jammy rose with pink-pepper & mandarin bringing a near-strawberry-jam shade to the rose. As it deepens into the heart, I can pick out tuberose & orange-blossom emerging but they're there to help elaborate the rose in rich, creamy and luxurious tones. Into the drydown it's continues to get richer and sweeter with toffee & incense. The incense is divine. Overall I get a gorgeous musky rose-toffee-incense scent with jammy, spicy & powdery tones. This bears some resemblance to other sweet rose scents from Pierre Montale, but differs in that the sweetness is more creamy & incense-y, without the zingy, malt/congealed-vanilla note present in scents like Roses Vanille Mancera and similar. Performance is on par with Mancera beast mode performers. I just have a tester, but this is FB worthy. It's a love for me. 10/10. Enjoy! Update 10/03/24: Sprayed this on this morning, and the white florals & sweetness are coming more forward. There's still a layer of a jammy rose there on top, but underneath are the white-florals with clean, powdery & creamy sweetness. The sweetness here does give me a toffee, but also sugar & caramel. Overall I get an impression of a jammy rose layer over a scent like Love Don't Be Shy By Kilian. But this is by no means a dupe of Love Don't Be Shy. Every time I wear this I love it even more.

Be warned, this is not as the name suggests. Instead, it's bold, spicy, daring, full of character yet sexy and feminine. It has great silliage, longevity, and good projection. This is not mass appealing, I think you may need to have an appreciation for tuberose and rose combination with a bit of spice! I suggest a few sprays and letting your perfume macerate before fully forming an opinion on it. On my skin, I get the pink pepper, cinnamon, tuberose, rose, incense, and patchouli, which grounds the fragrance with a bit of earthiness. Patchouli is not my favourite note but I do like it in this. There is also a slight sweetness from the toffee. If I were to imagine a Celebrity of all time wearing this perfume, it would be the one and only Ms Tina Turner! Bless her.

My current favorite! Sweet flower with a hint of Patchouli that can be felt more after some 5 hours. The start remember (really by far, because I've only got some memory of it) me of LouLou. Perhaps LouLou nowadays would bother me, I remember it was quite loud. Update: I would say it reminds me also of Insolence Edp with more incense and patchouli added and a hint of LouLou and Very Irresistible, all that in a very Niche way. (I’m not a big fan of those I mentioned) I feel no La Vie est Belle in here, far from it despite all the sweetness going on.

Cozy, sweet, pleasant, warm, feminine. Can`t feel any rose in it, but agree on white flowers, powder, spice and musk. Really reminds me of Pure Gold by Montale.

Mouthwatering tart opening of fresh florals and fruity smell, closer to berries, sweet like sour candies! It’s ultra girly and playful, while smelling expensive. Looking later at the notes, I am surprised there aren’t any red fruits. However, I can on and off notice the rose playing around. The peppery fruity sourness stays for quite 2-3 hours close to the skin leaving a good trail. But the pink pepper is a little overdone and while you keep sniffing to catch some notes, the pepper tingles your nose. Very slowly, the heart notes appears, more gentle, leaving space to enjoy a powdery bouquet of white florals with the sweet, candy-like fruit notes present all along. I can definitely catch quite a lot of fresh woodiness from the patchouli. Perhaps this is where the incense is, very subtle then. I’d say these notes are very important in this perfume because they really bring freshness out of all the sour sweetness that comes out during the initial sprays. I’m not sure about the toffee note though, I’m not familiar with it. I wouldn’t say it smells like caramel here, but at dry-down there’s definitely a blend of comforting sweetness left. Lovely try, a “happy scent”, very girly-expensive and original. The closest I could compare it to, I’d say this is the sour-candy sister of Lancôme La Vie Est Belle mixed with Armani My Way. _____ Projection, sillage, longevity : 10/10 Originality, presentation : 7.5/10 Quality, value : 7.5/10 8/10