Pearl

This is my first Mancera purchase, but surely not my last. I have aoud blue notes, aoud lemon mint, Wild fruits, red tobacco,& black vanilla all on my radar.. I am thoroughly pleased and impressed with Mancera so far.. Never have I loved so many selections from one house at first sniff..Now to the fragrance!! First off I'm a masculine male and always feel a little funny about a fragrance geared towards women.. I had no idea that this wasn't unisex initially, until I looked it up here on fragrantica.. I was just sampling them all and fell in love with the clean/fresh powdery peach that lasted on my skin for 12 plus hours!! I'm sure at some point they will relist as unisex . It does have an awkward opening I must confess, a very stringent white floral type of blast.. However after like a half hour this thing powers down and develops into the fragrance version of a Bellini (peach liqueur/ champagne) for those that live under a rock..It just lasts and lasts, with this fresh powdery but ever so subtle peach bubble around you!! I wear this on summer nights, but it would be perfect for all day use in the spring for any casual occasions.. Mancera is truly a powerhouse of a house so if you love to smell as good as I do its a must to experience..Most of these are blind buy worthy IMO just check to see which notes suit you.. I give this frag a strong 9 in all categories!! How do I fell about it overall? JUST PEACHY!!!

OMG. I might have finaly found it: the Perfect Fig Perfume! For years now, I've been looking everywhere for a GREAT fig perfume, tried pretty much all of the usual suspects, but always came out disappointed. Philosykos? Great smell, very modest longevity and projection. Premier Figuier (Extreme)? Decent smell, absolutely zero performance. Fico di Amalfi? Gorgeous smell, absolutely zero performance. Un Jardin En Mediterannee? Same. Womanity? Gorgeous smell, fantastic performance, not *really* a fig perfume, though. And so on - disappointment after disappointment. And today...I sniffed THIS. Dear lord, the strength! It opens with a blast of fig, rose, and bergamot. Gorgeous, fresh, fruity, dewy. And it settles into a strong, rosey fig, which gradually transitions from dewy to musky (but in a good way). Comforting and cocooning. It's been a couple of hours, and I can smell it clearly whenever I move. And I'm outside, in freezing London weather. I can't WAIT until it gets warmer, if it's already projecting so well now! The only thing I would change about it, is making it slightly less floral, as it's almost evenly fruity and floral. I bought it just now - it only took two hours to fall in love. (Actually, it took about 5 minutes, but the other 115 were spent trying to rationalize my purchase. Black Friday, y'all!)

I adore this perfume!! I crave the scent. I don't find it forgettable at all. On my skin it is a salty, sweet, fig with Jasmine and bergamot. The ambroxan is savory! This perfume has a character that is hard to describe that I've never experienced in a perfume before. It has a grainy smell.... I hope that makes sense. You know how a pear feels , the skin And flesh has The juicy grainy texture.. well I get that same feeling in this perfume and I love it. The dry down is a sweet musk and creamy violet. I feel amazing wearing this and of course the longevity is outstanding! Sillage is a nice fragrant bubble floating around me all day. Imo it's bordering on gourmand ! My husband came home from work and I was wearing pearl, he hugged me and said. "Ooh you smell delicious!" . I only have a sample but I definatly will be buying a full bottle. It's flirty, sexy and fun. It also feels classy and it layers great with Modern muse (if you like layering).

I bought this perfume last spring when temperatures were already in 90s. A sampler set I bought first allowed me to tell it worked well on my skin as a fruity floral. I wore it often until summer when Arizona desert reaches over 120 degrees then it was too strong florals with hardly any fruit and zero musk showing up on my skin. It projected 6 feet at least with a strong trail and lasted 6-8 hours. The freaky think is I tested it in winter for first time today when it is 61 degrees and it smells like a different perfume! There are only 2 notes in cold weather that show up...fig and musk. It opened that way with zero fruit or florals. I’m not crazy about this new scent and will be putting this bottle away until it is warm outside again! I love this as a spring fruity floral scent but right now in winter it smells like raw fresh fig with cat fur and musk - yuk!

The first time I wore this I was kind of confused of how strong it smelled. I live in the Caribbean so I have not been able to experience the "shift" some people have mentioned when they use it on Winter. At first, to me, it smelled like the most oppressive grapefruit and rose smell ever...and I had to go out and did not want to get out of the house smelling like that but in the time it took for me to actually leave, it turned out into this lovely powdery musky fragrance that lasted for what seems a lifetime. I was complemented repeatedly and had to write down the name for one person lol. I reckon it is not for everybody, especially that initial 5-10 minutes but if you don't mind that, you will find yourself smelling amazing for the rest of the day. I cannot talk about notes and other technical perfume terms because I am kind of new at this.