Golden Nectar

Gorgeous, sweet, feminine, elegant, sensual, warm, powdery, delicate, charming, enchanting, delightful, classy, sophisticated, cozy Golden Nectar is such a beautiful, elegant, sweet, and unique ambery vanilla fragrance! It’s a vanilla forward fragrance with the golden warmth of amber, orchid adding a touch of floral, and the musk and suede grounding it and rounding it out, while adding a pretty, soft, and creamy powdery scent! Truly lovely! I have a friend who is originally from Bulgaria (I’m in the US) and he says that whenever I wear this that I smell just like these Bulgarian candies he used to get as a kid! Sweet and delicious! I get great performance with Golden Nectar! A few sprays last me all day and I can still smell it on me the next morning! The projection is nice too, people can typically smell it from within arm’s length! It’s such a lovely, pleasant, intriguing, and indulgent scent that’s also inoffensive, so it’s a very easy reach. It’s beautifully sweet, but not overly so, and never heavy or cloying. This is a fragrance that works great all throughout the year, is great for all ages, and would be a great signature scent! I’m honestly surprised that I don’t hear people talking about this beauty more! Just for reference, some of the other sweet and/or vanilla fragrances that I really love include Gold Sugar, Kayali The Wedding Silk Santal, Kayali Vanilla 28, Kayali Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar, Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmallow, Nest Vanilla Bourbon, Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid, Donna Karen Cashmere & Palo Santo, Burberry Goddess, Ralph Lauren Tender Romance, Ralph Lauren Beyond Romance, Marc Jacobs Daisy Love Eau So Sweet, Phlur Vanilla Skin, SDJ Summer é Amor, SDJ 62, VS Vanilla Lace, and B&BW Vanilla Romance. I also very highly recommend the Nest Sunkissed Hibiscus perfume! It’s one of my absolute top favorites of all time! I also just wanted to comment on how gorgeous, charming, elegant, and even rather unique the bottle is! I think that about all of the Nest perfume bottles! They look stunning being displayed! However, Sunkissed Hibiscus and Golden Nectar are my favorite designs! I also really appreciate how beautifully crafted even the travel spray bottles are! I really love that because I usually carry a travel spray of Sunkissed Hibiscus in my purse during the warmer months so that I can have it at all times considering it’s one of my all time favorite fragrances! So, I really appreciate being able to pull out such a beautifully designed travel spray bottle! There aren’t too many houses that put that level of beauty into the travel bottles, but I wish more would!

OOF yeah, the opening is super lipstick-y. Dry, powdery, waxy. The smell of my mom's old clinique lipsticks that she never wore. I can still see all those pale green tubes in her pink makeup carrier kit. When i read the notes, I thought i was going to get a dryer, "fluffier" version of Midnight Fleur - which also features vanilla-orchid and amber. I usually love everything by Nest, so i was quick to purchase a mini 7.5ml sample. The opening was a little off-putting. As i said, straight up lipstick- which a lot of people LOVE, but it's not my favorite thing. It reminds me of my mom's tacky coral pink lipstick colors. There's something a touch fruity or almost bubblegummy in here too- so I do understand the "lipsmackers chapstick" references. However, after about 10 minutes - at least on my skin - The vanilla and the suede stand out the most. I actually start to detect a bit of woodiness and, dare i say, faint caramelized nuttiness. It reminds me of Elie Saab Girl Of Now- but someone sprayed it in the next room. But it also gives me like 15% of that 'fluffy' spun sugar vibe that you get from Burberry Her, BR540 and AG Cloud, etc... What can i say, i went from being "unsure" to "like" and then "love" in the span of 20 minutes. This is treading gourmand territory to me, so I think it's better suited for cooler weather. (fall or early spring?) It's not syrupy or sticky sweet enough to be a proper winter gourmand out in the cold. Though it would be nice and unobtrusive for indoor holiday parties- the fancy kind where the decor is predominately gold and silver with warm lighting and lots of wine. I gotta say, the sillage and longevity isn't as potent as most of my other Nest fragrances. I was expecting more of a presence with this. Overall 7/10. Would consider purchasing a full size bottle if I weren't poor- just for the sake of having it and adding to my Nest collection. It would be 8/10 if it lasted longer. P.S. anyone know the nose behind this? this doesn't smell like a Jerome Epinette creation Edit: it lasts a lot longer on clothes and almost smells like orange soda... My husband keeps saying i smell so pretty. So here we go, might have to buy the bigger bottle, lol!

Initial opening is fresh (30 min): There must be some fruitiness in this somehow, some kind of sweet citrus in the opening, but also a hint of honey, with subtle amber warmth and vanilla base. Mid is the "heaviest" (1 hour or so): Opening continues and less strong, but vanilla and suede pops in now and then creating an almost airy and lactonic feel, quite creamy. I get jasmine and the rarest but definitely there soapiness. I do agree with getting a slight lipstick vibe now and then, but no crayons here. I get more floral, suede, powder and honey, on subtle base of vanilla that is not gourmand. It ́s warm, cozy and on the edge of solar. It could read as getting cloying, but it ́s not, it ́s like a thin veil that envelopes you without being suffocating. Dry down is airy (4-5 hours or so): Soapy powdery jasmine, iris and suede with airy vanilla. So nice! The last hour is just amber to me, which I am not sure I like. My clothes the next day just smell like amber. Notes absolutely missing from the list above: sweet citrus, honey, jasmine and iris. There ́s something about the opening that is similar Lalique Soleil Vibrant, but Golden Nectar is less fruity and the warmer, more powdery and honeyed version of that. If you like Lalique Soleil Vibrant and want a more powdery, warm cozy vibe, and soapy dry down and amber in the end, then Golden Nectar is it.

I really love this scent and have made it my go-to for "head empty need smells for work" kind of mornings, but I will say this much - it is definitely a scent that you need to try on your skin before committing to it, I wouldn't call this a safe blind buy. On the paper tester this scent was an almost too-sweet honey scent to my nose, and while I thought it was yummy it didn't stand out to me at all (especially not in the middle of a busy Sephora). It wasn't until I was encouraged to put it on my skin that I really got to see the scent take shape, because on me and with my skin chemistry this perfume takes on a sweet almond and floral scent. I don't get much of the suede or musk until those top notes have faded, but even then I think the blend of those two with the vanilla base works. There's some powder to it on the tail end as you'd expect from the musk, but the suede and vanilla keeps it in check which is great for me as someone with an aversion to powder. Sillage and longevity on this are both moderate, in my experience - an arms-length scent for the first couple hours and an intimate scent for another two at best

Beautiful, easy to wear daytime ambery vanilla scent. It’s not super unique or anything, but it does smell nice and garners compliments. I think this would be office safe too. It’s a pretty linear scent; doesn’t change much as my skin warms it up but that’s fine with me. It smells great straight out of the bottle and I don’t feel self conscious about wearing a “strange” or super complex perfume when I wear it out (cause that can sometimes cause adverse reactions from folks... you know lol) It’s not a super favorite and I do think it’s very overpriced for what it is, but I’ll definitely use the 10ml spray I have for the office, doctor, etc. it’s perfect for that. UPDATE: I’ve been wearing this a lot lately and I’ve really fallen in love with it. It has this deep sweetness to it that just makes it so addictive. Longevity is fantastic as well as silage! I take back what I said about it not being a favorite... it’s definitely turned into a favorite! I’m getting a full bottle, I love it so much. The travel spray isn’t enough! Lol