Velvet Gold

This is the scent of caramel in between liquid and solid stages. Imagine you're making caramel from scratch. You caramelize the brown sugar mixture first, and then add shaved ice, producing a burst of steam and turning the mixture balsamic to the soft ball stage. As the scent fills your kitchen, you pour yourself a cup of Earl Grey tea. My mom used to make this in winter when I was a kid, using her Grandad's recipe. This beauty opens with a caramel burst of MacIntosh toffee, violet and faint pink pepper and intensifies picking up powdered rose, patchouli and Earl Grey tea. This is in the scent profile that includes Intense Cafe Montale, and Crystal Rose Swiss Arabian. Comparison to Intense Cafe Montale: These are quite similar in the drydowns, however Intense Cafe has the coffee note in the opening which this doesn't have, also this one has the animal notes which come across as earl grey tea (probably due to the tannin found in tea and leather). Coffee or Tea? Comparison to Crystal Rose Swiss Arabian: Very similar again, with Crystal Rose being a bit sweeter and more rosy, and not having the tannin note which cuts the sweetness. Comparison to Delina Exclusif Parfums de Marly: These have some similarities also, although the opening of Delina Exclusif is more recognizably like Delina, but dries down very close to this scent profile to my nose. I don't get tea in DE either. Overall: Well above average performance, and I'm really enjoying the tea note - it goes so well with this scent profile IMO. it's a love for me!

First day with this today and I know it still has to macerate thanks to all the lovely suggestions but DANG I LOVE IT. I can only imagine it gets better. There’s something sexy about this in the dry down. Beginning opens up with Carmel drizzled over fermented fruits with a vanilla base. Once it is dried down I get the pink pepper more mixed with a musk that doesn't go to animalic on me personally but my skin tends to do well with musks. It’s balanced perfectly with the powdery violets and I see this being good for year round if it is worn appropriately. Beast mode scent so keep this in mind before you spray on skin to test especially since not even a hot bath could get this off my skin (not that I’d want it to be off lol). This smells completely different on skin so keep that in mind too! I can see this working in summer if you enjoy gourmands since it layers very well or on summer nights if sprayed lightly due to the powder notes. Can’t wait to see how this goes in fall and how it macerates. I can see a man wearing this but it does lean more feminine. Never smelled roses vanille or gentle fluidity gold so I can’t speak on if this is similar but if I ever do I’ll try to update this!

Oh man, this is intoxicating. I cannot help but let out an audible "Oh my God!" every time I bring my wrist up to my nose. The woman who wears this is unique and feminine. She goes on luxury vacations and is the best dressed guest at every wedding she attends. She commands the room with her presence and she's certainly not afraid to stand out, while also embracing her femininity. I mean...this is absolutely divine. It's very feminine, quite sweet, yet sensual and grown up. You don't get much powder at first spray. In fact, you are hit with that caramel violet combo instantly. The powder really shines on dry down and the rose and musk come alive. It's a scent that evolves. Each time I smell it, I pick up a different note. Please do not base your opinion on this scent from the bottle or even when sprayed on paper. The fragrance really shines when it interacts with your skin and natural chemistry. The perfume smells nothing like what I smell off the bottle. This is not for young girls.

This is what I imagine a princess would smell like - a caramel, powdery violet vanilla cloud of pure hypnotic heaven. This beauty is an all occasion safe scent that envelops you in the sweetest, most elegant cloud with a pretty decent longevity and projection, but never really getting into gourmand territory. Now, there's also this animalic note that can make it or break it for you. On my case it shifts a lot - sometimes it bothers me and it feels to noticeable, others I don't think much of it. I think it depends a lot on weather and enviroment, but for certain, this note is always there and present. I could say it resembles a bit of a skin scent/odor perhaps? It helps to make this vanilla into something more natural, I would call it "lived in". It's also what grounds this into not transforming into a caramel/whipped cream pastry scent. This is elegant, gorgeous but also subdued - a secret beauty found in silence outside of the spotlight, with a story to tell.

OMG y'all!!! I ordered this perfume a few days ago, as part of my current Middle Eastern obsession phase, it arrived an hour ago and I've been frantically spraying myself because I cannot get enough of this caramel, violet (lipsticky), slightly powdery, rosey, patchouli, musky and vanillic potion!!! Imagine MFK's Gentle Fluidity Gold but with waaay more punch (strength) and longevity! I haven't worn it out yet so I know nothing about sillage and projection, but I do know this; I like this better than MFK's and it is INTOXICATING! Also, despite the fact that this has both violet and powdery notes listed in its composition, this does not smell super powdery to me. As a reference, this is a lot less powdery than Prada Candy, which I own and love (it also contains caramel), but you have to like powdery perfumes to wear Candy, not so much Velvet Gold.