Néroli Intense

I love this one. Orange+orange blossom+ tarragon with the added waxiness of beeswax. Heavier and sweeter than Cap Neroli, but I don't find it too heavy. It smells pretty natural without any soapiness or any cleaning product or dryer sheet or sunscreen that I get from other OB or neroli colognes. I've been wearing it almost every evening because I find it calming and uplifting at the same time. I have scent-glue skin, and I have to say the longevity is only around 3-4 hours on me. Boo! Lasts longer on clothing. The base has that dusky, bitter oakmoss thing going on. Not my favorite part, but the 1st hour or 2 make me so happy that I can stand the part I don't love. Alternately, sometimes I can smell white musk in the base, but other times I don't detect it. I got the 30ml bottle and it's almost 1/2 gone already in less than a month! I don't think I've gone through anything that quickly in like 5 years. It doesn't smell like Neroli Potofino to me. That definitely has a more beachy feel with some soapiness.

This is like nothing I have ever smelled before. Of course it has the immediate hit of neroli, but also, underlying it, something so sweet and sensual... part of me thinks of toffee-apples beside an autumnal bonfire, but then another part is basking in a warm sunlit summer meadow full of bees and flowers. It is a truly delightful fragrance - possibly a little bit "sweet" for everyday use, but... this for me is the scent of high late summer, as it just begins to tip over into early autumn. Absolutely brilliant scent.

I have been seeking a quality, natural smelling neroli fragrance ever since I heard Profumum changed formula. The best part of this one is it has that magical Guerlain-like sillage that floats throughout your personal space so you aren’t holding your wrist to your nose to get a reminder of what you put on this morning. My only caveat is that this a tiny bit too sweet for me (although others will surely disagree). Otherwise a neroli masterpiece.

really great neroli fragrance. captures the narcotic white floral zingy aspect of the bitter orange flower

A fresh take on a fresh-scented favourite. This is one oddly green-grass-ish and slightly soapy treatment of neroli - always one of my most beloved smells in the world, but obviously the tarragon in here is really playing up its identity as the smell of a PLANT, and a very lovely one at a very lovely stage too. The scent itself does have distinctive character, so stifle your yawns about 'yet another neroli' and give it a fair sniffing. On me it tends more to high, fresh zinginess rather than the sweeter more mellow blends I know - it's definitely sharper and brighter then Tom Ford N Portofino or Yves Rocher Secrets d'Essences - and that does set it apart from the rest of this large, orange-blossom-scented field (orchard?). It's a rich, dark green, too - with that almost-bitter snap and sting you get when you tear a fresh lemon or orange leaf. I had thought/hoped that the beeswax might make it a little mellower and longer-lasting yet, but on me that doesn't come through with the same clarity as in L'Artisan's Seville a L'Aube, for instance. And it's pretty one-note - it seems to hover almost forever in the same clean, smack-your-face green fresh moment - which may be a plus or a minus for you. Doesn't have the fascinating evolution from citrus to darker spice of Neroli d'Ispahan, or the Janus-faced flit back and forth between neroli, tea and warm amber of Neroli Outrenoir, so although it is beautiful it's maybe not quite so clever as those - though it's only a little cheaper. Still, the Nicolai is perceptibly classy, seems loaded with good ingredients, and the soapiness never gets too close to reminding you of domestic chores. It also has pretty impressive life for any sort of citric scent (on me, up to 7h as a skin scent, with 3-4 of high-intensity performance, which is a really strong showing.) Factor in its longevity and price, along with its beauty, and we may just have a winner. Deserves your time to try, at the very least, if neroli exhilarates you - it's a very respectable product indeed.