Caissa

Currently I have 5 Mind Games fragrances and this is one of my favorites so far. Definitely a woody floral, really addicting on my skin but also familiar. It is reminiscent of Milk Bold By Commodity, even though the only similar note listed is the musk. It’s not fruity at all to me, but there is some nuttiness and the jasmine also shines. It also has some similarities to Gris Charnel Extrait, so if you like fragrances in that family you’ll like this one. Longevity on my skin is about 4-5 hours and even better on clothes and that’s without over spraying. Longevity of each of the mind fragrance varies quite a bit. I blind bought Lionora, it’s listed as one of the favs and I have to say I wasn’t really impressed with it. I think the deal breaker will be longevity, it disappears very quickly on me. I’ll give it a try once more but I think Lionora will be listed for sale. On another note, very high on my wish list is checkmate it’s stunning!!

I have loved most of the fragrances I have sampled from MindGames. This scent is very floral, but I do not think it automatically makes it feminine. Jasmine is a unisex note and that is what is predominant from the initial sniff. It is a light scent ,not in terms of sillage or longevity, but one that evokes a refreshing garden with a slight wind blending floral notes around me. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a sophisticated fragrance that will lift your spirits while also having some gentle heft. There is a bit of similarity to Xerhoff's Erba Pura. If I did not have that one I would be very tempted to buy a full bottle of this.

This is one of few that I liked from house of Mind Games. The scent is very sultry, evoking and mouthwatering but still somewhat refreshing. It opens up with cardamom and licorice and then morphs in white flowers/ ylang ylang mixture on base of sweet cacao and a little bit of musk. I can definitely smell something edible like freshly baked cake...I would say this is gourmand version of PDM Athalia (which is a masterpiece to me). Leans feminine and could be a great year around signature scent. Longevity is about 8hours with moderate projection. I would pay $345 to repurchase another bottle...this one is really nice.

I liked this perfume but it's very sour and fruity. Because it's so sour, it even reminds me of Delina with fruits. This white floral is very unique cause I am not used to them being so intense. Usually white florals are boring and ultra feminine. This white floral is simple and very tart. It's not powdery at all. It's zesty, green, slightly vulgar. I agree with people who even compare it to Kirke by Tiziana Terenzi. It gives me major Kirke vibes. I guess the amber-like synthetic base ambrocenide is what makes it unusual.

This is such a beautiful smell; it’s soft, warm, creamy, and delicate. Very much a unisex smell, but it does lean feminine. The bread smell is nice, and not too sweet like a pastry, with a light, approachable licorice. To me, this smells like a fresh loaf of bread, topped with anise and turbinado sugar, and white florals. Lasted around 6 hours on my skin, and I could not stop smelling it. If I cannot find a quality dupe, this might be a bottle I save for

One of my top 4 scents from Mind Games. I'd classify it as a going out perfume. It's classy, dark and sophisticated in a modern way. A bit mysterious and seductive. Feminine-leaning. I imagine a well-off person wearing it. Smells best in a fall evening. Deep white and yellow floral notes are prominent.

It's a very beautiful floral and fruity smell. I don't understand how people smell cigarettes or urinal. Not agreed at all. I get lots of compliments, lasts longer on clothes if not washed can last days. On skin about 8 hours. And for sure not even closer to Kirke or Casiopea.

Erba Pura vibe in the oppening. But after maybe 30 min or so, it's tone down to a more floral scent. Feminine leaning, but deffently a man can rock it. The second day on wearing it, receive a complimet from a colleague. Test it on a 2 ml decant.

When i intially sprayed it, it smelled like doctors office alcohol. i got familiar with it now its a favorite. I has floral notes with a hint of pepper. such a clean scent, perfect for the summer.

This smells closer to Kirke then anything else listed. However if you like this scent just go with Xerjoff Erba Pura. Lasts way longer and projects better for the similar DNA style.

My jaw actually dropped when I smelt this. A sumptuous, warm oriental. The ylang-ylang and gardenia accords give a sensual and intoxicating feel.

You know what forget the notes! This smells like a burnt aromatic cotton candy, think like a burnt caramel with spices and musk.

Quite sharp and peppery opening, with 5 seconds to catch the liquorice — black and juicy here — as well as the fougasse (wheat bread), just an earthy note to balance the liquorice here, in my opinion. Suddenly all that is gone, leaving space for Mediterranean white florals to shine. Within a few minutes they become musky-powdery (like high-end makeup), sweet, very feminine and soft. The jasmine, gardenia and ylang-ylang are wonderfully blended, and smell very organic. Some peppery notes in the mean time appear and play with your nose on and off. I was quite disappointed at dry-down, no cocoa and mostly gets soapy floral. So pretty overall, I can’t stop smelling my hand. Feminine, a head-turner. _____ Projection, sillage, longevity : 8/10 Originality, presentation : 9.5/10 Quality, value : 7.5/10 8.5/10

Kirke without heavy drydown. It starts with a lot of pepper but changes to white flowers and musk pretty quickly. It becomes very close to the skin in an hour or so. If not for the price it would've been a lovely perfume.

Mostly a sparkling floral that loses its projection after a few hours. Absolutely leans feminine and, though it smells quit nice, it's absolutely not worth the $340 price tag. 8/10 scent. 6.5/10 overall.

An interesting gardenia fragrance. Not something pioneering, but nice. Not a monster, and the longevity is low, but a really nice scent. Like it.

Testing this blind from the discovery set, this opened up fresh and a little soapy and turned more jasmine and floral with a slight citrus top and maybe some juicy fruit (grape?). Not sure, but it remained fresh for several hours slowly morphing into a soft aromatic and more green tea and sweet grass vibe towards its end. Looking at the notes now, there's a lot more listed than the relatively simple fresh and clean vibe this fragrance projects. While the pink pepper, jasmine, gardenia, ylang-ylang, and (debatable) fougassette "bread orange-water" notes are detectable above the musky and ambrocenide base, I don't really get any sense of the licorice, cardamom, and definitely not the cacao, even if they add to the late aromatic moments. Enjoyable but for me more of a nice home fragrance over a personal fragrance but each to their own.

I gave Caissa 3/5 for teasing me, then letting me down. #blueballs The unisex opening is rich but fleeting, and fades away like the dream that it was. What we’re left with is a typical floral powdery musk. Better on skin than on paper. The nuances just don’t resonate on paper. Fairly harmonic but low-fi compared to the opening. Like Prada L’Homme but ...L’Femme; worse and with a feminine lean, albeit a bit deeper and more nuanced. Erba Pura similarities are resonant. MIND GAMES, PLEASE BOTTLE THE OPENING.

I adore the beginning. The licorice is prominent and, along with the pink pepper, really brings out new aspects of the florals. Once the licorice fades, I'm left with white flowers that aren't unnatural, per se, but they feel very generic. It's like the gardenia bath cubes I bought my mom for Mother's Day when I was a kid. I had high hopes for this scent, but it's middling at best after the initial beautiful opening.

It's not bad. Decently floral, and as someone who isn't a fan of florals this is pretty palatable. It's not simply floral, there's definitely other aspects to the fragrance but honestly it's hard for me to distinguish the rest (probably due to my inexperience with this type of scent). Smells good but doesn't particularly impress me. Not worth it for the price IMO. 6/10

I do like it. Doesn't have an orange blossom note, but that's the vibe I get from it. It's nice but a rather unremarkable white, classy floral smell. Sophisticated. But there are other white florals out there that last longer for a much lower price. Would wear it if someone gave it to me as a gift, but I wouldn't buy a full bottle myself.

Pepper, Fougassette, and floral undernotes. One of the better options from Mind Games, an underrated option, but too expensive for what it is.

Very much a woody floral that I did not care much for. One of their weakest of the line in my opinion. Amazing sillage and longevity though.

This has a similar DNA to Kirke or Erba Pura but less loud and less scratchy. For me Kirke was a scrubber but this one I can tolerate (perhaps because it is not as loud). The opening is way better that either Kirke or Erba Pura and I wish it was linear and stayed smelling the same throughout. However, the dry down has a very similar musk to the Tiziana Terenzi musk which I personally don't get along with. The longevity is not nearly as good as Kirke or Erba Pura and the price point is high. Glad I only got a decant because this is not for me.

All I get is a huge whiff of over applied pepper and a hint of too sweet chemicals. I’m glad I got a 30 day sample because my God if I bought this on a blind buy I would have lost it. It was so peppery and overly sweet in the worst way it made me nauseous. I do not recommend if at looking for a soft sweet floral perfume. This ain’t it.

On paper it was amazing, such nostalgic, uplifting flesh scent, like something from my childhood, but not outdated at all. But on skin it was way too much musk. Sorry, but this one is not for me. Performance not bad though.

Caissa smells like candy-scented cleaning product (if that exists). It has the syrupy quality of Side Effect by Initio without any of the redeeming qualities. It really does smell like Bath & Body Works hand sanitizer.

Caïssa is a humid, creamy, sweet, warm, floral‐amber bomb with tropical white florals, warm spices, edible notes, synthetic amber-woods, and soft musk. Not sure it descends from the heavens as the description notes.

This is a baby Kirke and it's not a compliment.

Phew! Jasmine, ylang ylang and gardenia? This is a punchy floral that would have been better using only 1 or 2 of these. All 3 is too much. I pitched the sample after the first spray and I couldn't get ridof the smell after multiple washes. Mind Games has some lovely fragrances, but this one is not for me. As for the price I REALLY have to love a fragrance to buy 100mL in the first place. It stinks (pun intended) that they don't offer a 40 or 50mL size. It's just 10 mL or 100.

I wasted a lot of money on a couple discovery sets from this house because most of the fragrances are like this one...full of screechy aroma chemicals that oddly don't even last that long.

Really simple tart floral but a beautifully executed fragrance. I will agree with those below who say it’s not original or inspired; I would argue unique in the sense that every few “classic” florals are crowd pleasers - this is. For being a floral it’s relatively neutral and non offensive. The gardenia and jasmine combination is dominant and familiar yet somewhat modernized. It’s a not a powdery floral, it’s a traditional white floral combination making it more sharp, tart, and green but I think the beauty of this fragrance is its balance which is difficult for white florals. I don’t see the Kirke or Erba Pura similarities, I think it’s closer to something like Cassiopea by Tiziana Terenzi or a greener and less citrusy Yin Transformation. It’s a creamy green (not overtly grassy or outdoorsy) and slightly tart, not citrusy per se but almost a sourness that adds a realistic element to the florals. I don’t think it’s as grandma as everyone is making it out to be. If Gucci Memoire had a brighter, juicer, fruity sister. Memoire is gloomy spring day when it has just rained and everything’s dark and green; Cassia is bright spring day when it’s sunny out and the flowers are blooming.

This smells just like navitus soir Exclusif!!!! How had no one else made this comparison!??? Literally soir Exclusif but soir Exclusif has a delicious marshmallow note in it that cassia doesn't have. I love sior Exclusif one of my favorites from navitus and to be honest soir Exclusif smells so much just BETTER than cassia! It's just got so much more too it! Soooo much more to it! And sior Exclusif lasts until you wash it off and the marshmallow note just yumm! If you haven't tried it get your hands on sior Exclusif!! Sior Exclusif and chocolate queen and brand xo are probably the best in navitus collection ...

This fragrance is quite transformative. The opening is white florally but several hours later, I smell something like Royal Amber by Orientica (also a dupe for Erba Pura by Xerjoff) it is insane how it transformed from day to night. It’s definitely a fragrance you can wear all day without reapplying. I tried this baby at Nieman during an event, and the dude literally shower me with two sprays and sprayed twice on my right forearm. I smell good the whole day too lol

On my wrist, it was immediately reminiscent of another of my fav scents. I couldn’t place it at first, but then I walked over to my collection. This is remarkably similar to Commodity's Milk on my wrist. It’s almost indiscernible. The price difference is appalling though. Both are quality fragrances, but Milk definitely delivers better and it outperforms this scent. I’ll stick with Milk, but I’ll keep my sample of this in my purse.

This is the only fragrance from this line that I would not wear out in public as a man. I have limited knowledge regarding feminine designer fragrances, but this is your floral, fruity, vanillic women’s fragrance. This is your niche Dior Joy. So it’s not original, but it’s good. Whether it’s worth the price or not, that’s a question for someone who follows women’s fragrances far more closely than I do

Strong pepper and licorice in the beginning. The florals are the star of the show and are prominent all throughout the whole fragrance. There's a pleasant musky and powdery scent in the background. Its overall a pretty clean, floral fragrance. Feels like I've smelled this somewhere else before. While it's very well blended, it's also a bit too expensive.

Headache inducing white floral. The sharpness from the opening is what remains after it dries down and it pierces my sinuses unpleasantly. On paper it smells so clean and floral, but on skin it smells chemically. If you like the opening you'll appreciate this super long lasting scent. All mind games scents dry down accurate to the opening.

This is a beautiful mass appealing white floral. It's a little green, earthy, woody, and sweet enough to feel feminine without being a popsicle. It reminds me a lot of other niche white florals, but I'm hesitant to name names because it's not opinionated enough to recall something specific. 8/10

Floral and gourmand notes, promising profile...but on my skin this is hairspray and insecticide chemical mess. Maybe is the ambrocenide/ambroxan/ambrocrap they used here, maybe is some other fugly aromachemical but this is giving me a migraine and I need to wash it STAT. Horrible, chemical mess.

smelled all 10 mind games fragrances tonight. of the 10, i enjoyed caissa, castling, checkmate, and blockade the most. and of those, caissa was the clear front runner for me. the sweet, crisp white florals dry down sooo dreamily on my skin. honestly, probably FBW for me. 🫶🏾

I am not a fan of this one. It is mostly ok, but there is a pissy base note that I just can't get over. Additionally, it is too close to the skin and even on clothing, the silage is poor. The top floral notes are ok, but the cat pee makes it a big fat NO for me.

pretty deep woodsy floral. nothing special to me... smells like when you walk past someone and you smell their perfume but not a head turner. not my taste. a little old fashioned, almost floral air freshener vibes. meh

Hard to describe any notes in this. Just something vaguely nutty, and something other vaguely reminiscent of a doctor's office. A ton of musk, I want to say. It has a burnt sugar smell to it as well. I think I hate it

This is lovely. If you ever had Mr. Bubble bubble bath as a kid well this is exactly what it smelled like but perfected as a great fragrance. Decent longevity and soft projection. Expensive but really nice!

This is by far the worst fragrance from mind games. To all the guys reading this I dare you to smell this fragrance and tell me it doesn’t smell like a used urinal cake and cigarette ashes, I’ll wait.

And I think we have a new frontrunner for Most Overpriced House. Seriously, these are like rack store designer quality fragrances with Neinman Marcus pricing.

Fruity fresh floral with a slightly woodiness. To me, this smells similar to Tiziana's Cassiopea 70%, and V Canto Stricnina (30%).

They should have called this Coyote Ugly as I sprayed my wrist and now I get get rid of this smell. I may have to bite my arm off.

A slick modern floral. There's a strong aroma chemical hum that is persistent for hours. Longevity is beastly.