Naked Dance

To me, this perfume is certainly ricey in the best way possible! I was actually shocked to see it as a middle note rather than a top note because it hits me almost immediately -- an earthy, musky, rice that dries down into your typical white musk. This could also be due to my bias of rice perfumes; I've been obsessed with the note to the point that my nose identifies and searches for it in any applicable perfume (I also have yet to train my nose to identify a "clay" note, so I'm not really catching that here). I'd say it's very close to, yet more complex than, White Rice by d'Annam (with lack of sweetness), but again, that could be my bias. Very delightful overall, and got many compliments while wearing it yesterday, although I did add additional layers of oils/other perfumes. This very well may become apart of my normal collection - I'd love to get my hands on a bottle! Update: Wearing Naked Dance again today and I definitely smell the Clay this time around. I suppose it might've been because I sprayed it into my hair rather than on my skin, so I'd imagine there's some different chemistry going on here. I just had to dip into my brain archive to remember the aromas I smell when in a pottery shop or when constructing with clay -- it is very wet clay like, but in a quite sultry way. In a "Naked" way. I feel that I pass and seduce others while simultaneously confusing or intriguing them -- unconventionally seductive. Same day update (for prev. update): I just keep coming back because this fragrance has me in awe. The dry-down is beautiful, I'm getting a delicious, almost sweet? sandalwood that I keep getting whiffs of as I move. Absolutely incredible!!!

“Lover, won’t you come over?” I’m enamored of this musky, papery skin scent. It has some notes that are L’Eau Papier beat for beat, but with a fresh and fragrant fatty-powdery soapiness from starchy rice, soft iris, and sunny orange blossom. It kisses your skin and dances into your heart. I could not resist a full size bottle after my two ml decant — it was the only thing I wanted to wear for the two days I waited. It feels like yearning — dust floating through shafts of light stricken across your eyes, irises aglow with memories and pining staring at the ceiling. It smells like home, but a home made for two. It’s strangely romantic for something so plainclothes (clay, green tea, olibanum) but that’s what makes it so poetic: it’s familiar and niche at the same time! This tension plays like the strings of a faraway guitar, reverberating through a complex olfactory journey from start (paintings and pottery) to middle (kissable skin and dried flowers) to finish (sandalwood and soap). How they managed to fit all of that in this fierce little bottle is beyond me. To close, will quote the Jeff Buckley song I mention at the beginning, because I do think it wraps in a perfect package the story my nose reads here, “Lonely is the room, the bed is made The open window lets the rain in Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams He had you with him My body turns And yearns for a sleep that won't ever come It's never over My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over All my riches for her smiles When I've slept so soft against her”

Naked Dance is my new favorite Iris fragrance hands down! I'm so happy I have this. This may not be everyone's opinion, I feel like when I am searching for something like a particular note, I really want that note to come through. If I want orange, I want to be smacked in the face with orange! If I am in the mood for Jasmine, then I want Jasmine! I am in the mood for Iris much more often than I used to be. I have come around to the flower and really enjoy it now. It has been extremely difficult to find a fragrance that concentrates on the flower and nothing else. Iris is very expensive and luxurious. Yes it is in a lot of fragrances, but it is a supporting character more than anything else. Even when it is supposedly the main character, I find other notes in the composition taking over that fragrance as a whole. I'm not going to break it down here because I'm sure we all know what I'm talking about. Naked Dance scratches that itch for an intense Iris desire. It is powder and cream mixed together in the best way possible. It smells luxurious and earthy. Because there is also an element of the rice, the creaminess of the composition is highlighted even more. That and also the clay. These elements create everything I love about a sweeter gourmet fragrance. I really enjoy creamy fragrances, but they are hard to find without the over sweetness attached to it. Naked Dance has done it for me. Thank you for that! That's all I have to say and that's all I need to say.

I love Guaiac Wood, and while searching for fragrances, I came upon this one. I ordered a sample from lucky scent (along with 9 others, all in the guaiac wood, sandalwood, earthy, or incense or bourbon variety). I am not a professional, so forgive me with my terminology. When I opened the sample, I got powder, floral, and slightly sweet- I guess those would be top notes, but I couldn’t tell you which floral notes they were. The second it touched my skin I got woodsy- like guaiac and sandalwood, but still powdery and light. I can definitely understand how someone would say there is a green tea like smell, but not a bitter green. It reminds me of earth and air. When my partner smelled it he said it was like waking up in the woods in Michigan. I agree with the woodsy smell, but it’s not a green and wet scent - something I would expect waking up in the woods - it’s more light and powdery. It’s rice and clay, than dirt and grass. I put it on around 1pm and could still smell it around 8:30, when I put some more on to remind me of the difference from application to dry down. Honestly, the biggest change is what you smell in the bottle versus how it smells on your skin. After that, it seems to stay the same. Overall, I really like it. It lasts, but it’s not pungent. I don’t think there is much sillage; it’s intimate, at least when worn on the skin. Overall, it’s a light and gentle scent and I find myself bringing my wrist to my nose to smell again and again.

Warm, powdery, nurturing. Maternal, in a way that will heal your mommy issues. Makes me nostalgic for a place I’ve never been, somewhere where fresh carpet meets art studio. The clay is true to life and the carrot seed is the best performing I’ve met – a rare treat considering how fleeting my nose finds it in most others. And the rice! (Starch lovers rejoice!). Feels like the sepia-toned version of Dries van Noten’s Neon Garden, which also does a beautiful orris meets carrot. Behaves like a skin scent, but if it were any louder I think that would actually detract from the effect. I’m really into these “new home” scents – you know, the smell of a model home or a celebrity’s Arch Digest loft. Would put Byredo's Desert Dawn, Fugazzi's Angel Dust, and Phlur's Somebody Wood in the same family, with Naked Dance being the most lived-in and grounded of them all. Also matriarch of the “pencil shavings” niche – think Room 1015's Sonic Flower, Glossier's You, or Universal Flowering's Burst!. Mental Snapshot: Being taken under the wing of your AP art teacher. She’s teaching you how to use a potter’s wheel for the first time and doesn’t care if you get clay on the suede of her Birkenstocks. Every smudge tells a story and what you call a mistake she calls a discovery. It’s figure drawing class and all bodies are beautiful. tl;dr: suburban bohemian 🎨🫶