Luxuria

I went to Selfridges and was testing perfumes as I need three new additions to my collection and I was going through lots of niche perfumes carefully on my list. Halley was love at first sniff but after walking around for 20 minutes the strong overwhelming musk note came through and it overpowered everything! It’s not as sweet as Halley as there’s no peach and passion fruit also, the beautiful sweet rose but it’s very very similar. This smells expensive, unisex, and well put together. It’s aromatic, slight green note that balances out everything. There’s a beautiful vanilla in the dry down that is like cashmere! If you don’t like sweet perfumes you would like this. There’s something that reminds me of the opening of Good girl. It lasted a few days on the card and I couldn’t stop smelling it. On my skin it fades pretty quickly but on clothes it lasts a few hours. I wouldn’t repurchase but I still really enjoy this scent on its own or layered with peach and passion fruit.

This scent is the sweetest, creamiest, leather scent I’ve ever come across. The composition of this fragrance is smooooooth. Luxuria is luxurious. I don’t really like leather scents but this doesn’t scream leather it’s just very creamy and deep. The flower’s are creamiest almost lotion like. There’s a bit of fruity rasberry sweetness encircling the silky vanilla, musky, leather. Depending on your feelings about leather you will love this or be disappointed. I don’t like strong leather but I like a pinch of it to add something to a fragrance. I don’t want it to have the staring role. I find this sexy, musky, and intoxicating. I have to have a full bottle. Some days fragrances’s smell different than they did at another time. Today the opening of this is very strong on the cassis. It’s quite green and leafy in the opening with some fruity raspberry for the first hour.

Wonderful high-quality perfume! One of those blended florals, that I have to resort to reading the triangle presented by the perfumer to deconstruct. The base is rich, between the vanilla, suede and amber it smells like the amber is some accord of a mysterious resin or wood left to age a bit, and added in a minute quantity to allow the white florals to not be crushed. The vanilla and suede are in a delicate balance to keep the already sweet combination of notes from going to gourmand-level sweetness. The florals are round and heady, powdery and strong. It will be hard to be interested in wearing a more mass-market white floral directly after wearing this. At first spray I almost dismissed it because it is so thick and some days I don't like this level of sweet, but I recommend sampling if you like sweet florals, vanilla florals, and/or suede notes.

Perfect wedding scent **Memoize London Luxuria** I discovered Memoize in Milan earlier this year. Apparently they sent a bottle to Meghan to wear. They are an ethical and locally sourced British brand. We all know meghan likes to support small and upcoming businesses. I don't believe she would wear Jo malone, Its just not special enough. I tried Luxuria and at £177 it is quite a price point for a perfume, but then again you hope to only have one wedding day so it should be a special one!

This one is GORGEOUS!! Lovely Rose and lily of the valley in the top notes, very very wearable, hints of vanilla and amber at the base, this is a very well rounded perfume and definitely one i will be wearing regularly. A great day time, through to evening scent, and certainly can see me wearing this all year round!