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

When I 1st bought this, I didn't like it very much, & mostly all I was getting from her was rose, cinnamon, powder & a little orange, & incense. Now 2 years later, I've decided to revisit this frag, & I will say, alot of the synthetic Undertones are now gone. Still Montale DNA, but not as headache inducing, & chemically as before. Now, I honestly get mostly tuberose, orange blossom, toffee, sweet powder, a little bit of pink pepper/cinnamon, and very light hints of Orange & incense. I really don't get much rose or ambergris now, & even the cinnamon has moved to the back a lot as well...i barely pick it up. I honestly enjoy this fragrance in winter, Fall and cold chilly spring days. I feel ultra feminine and sweet. Its semi gourmand b/c of the toffee, cinnamon, powdery notes, but the florals def pulls it away from being an actual gourmand and more floral than gourmand. While she still isn't a favorite. I can enjoy her occasionally now, i can layer her with boring florals that need more umph, or if I want to calm her down, I can layer her with a softer more musky floral. You can also layer her with sweet gourmands with similar notes/vibe, to give it more of a floral touch. I'm gonna play around with her but for now, FINALLY after 2 years I'll give her a 6.5/10, for the beautiful bottle, good longevity, decent sillage, and no longer being harsh and overbearing and actually semi enjoyable now.

Smells strong. At first incense with a jammy rose, but then it went very musky. Almost Armani scent. In the end it was too strong and not fresh and "gardeny" as I wanted. incense and musk stayed awhile. After washing it off two to three times. It stayed and began to give me a headache. a bit synthetic and heady. Not very fresh. Smells like a lot of different fragrances. popular scents but not very "niche" to me.

For the first 1-2h the incense note rapes my nose and is unbearable but later it transforms into this sweet spicy floral BEAUTIFUL scent. More evening scent for colder months. It's my first niche (?) fragrance and first blind buy, which is interesting for sure. 2 sprays filled my whole 2-floor house so definitely a strong perfume, maybe even too strong in the beginning.

I love this!!! If you like tresor la nuit edp you will love this also! It has the same exact lovely sweet incense smell that smells almost like cherry bubblegum and im so in love with this! I love pairing this especially with mon paris by ysl. What a combo!

Very beautiful. Makes a statement. This is not a fresh greenery garden scent but a scent for a garden party with drinks and flirting. In a way - the base or frame reminds me of Wild Candy by Mancera. It is candied and gives a party vibe.

Lovely Garden is in the same style as Roses Vanille and most other sweet/floral feminine fragrances from Mancera. It's a powder forward sweetness with a hint of floral notes and their often used rose accord, but as usual it smells heavily synthetic. I'm not getting any of the cinnamon or pink pepper, but I do detect an incense note lightly in the dry down. Even once it's calmed down after a few hours Lovely Garden remains sugary sweet and pink like the color of the liquid. I don't know why Mancera and Montale cost as much as they do when they have basically no natural smelling aromas in them, you'd think being a "premium" house they'd attempt to make their offerings smell less like air fresheners and more realistic. But people love them so whatever. Projection and longevity are above and beyond which is par for the course with Mancera. Lovely Garden is decent enough but one would imagine a more realistic flower garden type scent from something called Lovely Garden and less of this saccharine sweet room spray/scented candle vibe. Not something I'd want to smell up close all day, if someone walked by wearing it and I caught just the sillage that would be fine though. I can see how someone may enjoy it. For me it's a no, but to each their own.

Beautiful fragrance! It has a special and cohesive charm. It’s fruity, sweet, floral, and quite powdery it reminds me of vintage powder compacts or 90s makeup scents. But don’t get me wrong, this is not an old-fashioned perfume. It feels timeless. Super feminine yet powerful, and definitely not a scent that goes unnoticed. I was a bit concerned about the patchouli, but it’s beautifully blended with the florals and fruits perfectly balanced. It could easily be a signature scent. Be careful not to overspray, as it can easily feel overpowering 7/10 for me! UPDATE : Gorgeous scent, killer headache. Literally. My head is still recovering from the beauty. 🤣🤯

Purchased my new bottle from a reputable, online retailer. I'm wondering if I got a fake bottle, or a bad batch. While nice enough, I barely detect any fragrance within 10-15 minutes of application. Was expecting a beast mode fragrance. Sadly, Lovely Garden fails to perform on my skin. Disappointing...

This is literally “vieja cuchi” scent like my grandmother would of use this! I like florals but this is horrible I get tuberose and patchuli nothing else and it dries down very powdery with a slight toffee and incense peaking out not a scent for everyone don’t blind buy. I see some reviews saying if you like Tresor La Nuit you will like this NOOOOOOO I loveeeee La Nuit and I HATE this and I allowed this to macerate 6 months before trying again because I’ve had perfumes that I dislike when they arrive but 6 months later I fall in love unfortunately not this one.

This doesn’t smell good at all. If anyone likes it, I will send it to you free of charge. Just DM me.

Extremely repulsive and offensive Spicy bomb, I don't get any Muse comparisons

for the first half hour or so, this smells like a smoky version of velvet vanilla. upon drydown, this smells like if you combined, ever so lightly, the floral aspect of vv and add lots of incense. it's not feminine! it smells just barely sweeter than dolce&gabbana velvet incenso which is literally a men's fragrance. i tested this on my left wrist and red tobacco on my right, and red tobacco smells less smoky and dirty than this 😅 in fact, it smells more unisex while this remains predominantly masculine to my nose. really strong incense with just a tad sweetness. the name is misleading and if a garden or anything floral is what you're looking for, this will be a disappointment. however, if velvet vanilla is too sweet for you and you like the vibe of it, or red tobacco is not smoky enough, try this out! you might like it! if velvet incenso were more popular, or maybe if lovely garden were more popular, this would be considered a dupe. extremely similar perfume and a slightly sweeter alternative. making this perfume magenta was a bold move, as it smells dark grey until like the 6th hour, imo. UPDATE: wow. about the 8th hour in.. the scent that lingers is now a sweet, powdery incense. too bad by this point it's so close to the skin that it's not what projects the most. still a nice fragrance and i'd recommend it.

I don't see how anyone can truly have a problem with this scent, other than the fact that it's uninspiring. Very pleasant, but also leaning probably as close as you can to designer from a niche house. It's like Giorgio Armani sí intense, the 2021 version, (they actually smell identical from the nozzle only though) just with the added elements of a little spice and blood orange instead of your typical black currant at the top. Smells similar to some other Manceras., like velvet vanilla just a fruity version, or royal vanilla, without the amber. I can't say I smell incense or toffee at all. The cinnamon is barely there. I mostly smell a deeper fruit, with pink pepper, the typical mancera musk, and a lot of orange blossom sweetness. Again, I doubt anyone could truly despise this perfume, it smells nice, but I also don't see anyone truly falling head over heels for either. It's not one I reach for in my collection, simply because I have others I prefer to wear everytime over this one, even just to the gym. CHEERS!

I've been thinking about this perfume all day, and I've decided that on me it's like this: You walk into a thrift store. It's maybe a trendy one, but it's still a thrift store. There's this dress. It's probably yellow, or maybe pink, and it's definitely got flowers on it, but in a way that could be totally cute. You've seen a coworker totally crushing a similar look, so you grab it and put it in the pile. You try on clothes. Then, you put on the dress. It's a little too big. It doesn't hang right. It's maybe itchy in a few places. You realize that your coworker can totally pull off a maxi dress with pink flowers on a yellow background, but you just look like you got lost on the way to bingo. You put the dress respectfully back on the hanger and move on with the pile.

This smells like a well put together church lady who wears the matching hat to all her dresses and heels. She is a sophisticated classy beautiful older lady. She got her stuff together and don’t take no sh**. Her home is beautiful but has the smells of moth balls and vapor rub. I WILL NOT WEAR THE FRAGRANCE LOL. It is a VERY mature scent. Kind of nostalgic to me being in reminds me of my rich aunties in the 90’s. There is something in it that I like but it is overpowered by that menthol moth ball smell. It is strong and will clear your sinuses. Overbearing and headache inducing if your hungry. Nothing about this is sweet or sexy, unless you like smelling like a Auntie

refreshing. very spicy beautiful florals, the rose peeking through between whiffs is perfection. soda like sweet quality. one of my favorites from mancera. it's floral, with just the right amount of sweetness and spice. it's beautiful and sophisticated for floral lovers. despite being spicy and warm it's perfectly suitable for spring/summer although maybe not hot summer. however the more I smell it, the more mature it seems. I'll be trying more sweet rose/florals with lots of spice to compare and if i cant find any better than this I'll be upgrading to full bottle on this.

Gorgeous scent, bought blind, I have no regrets buying it. It is a floral gourmand, sweet, with a touch of patchouly very well blended with very good projection and sillage. If I had smelled it without knowing it is a Mancera, I wouldn't have guessed what I smell. It has something from Mon parfum Crystal Micallef but is not that transparent and Armani Si but not so fruity.

Warning : this is NOT sweet If you are planning on getting it because of Toffee note, or think it would be jammy sweet rose scent same as Roses Vanille. I think you might be disappointed. Cinnamon and pink pepper are th prominent notes in here. It's much more spicy than sweet. I think it reminds me of Flower by Kenzo a little bit, same vibes

This smells like a lighter version of Velvet Vanilla by Mancera, gorgeous.