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.

As someone who doesn't really like overwhelmingly powdery and musky scents, I was pleasantly surprised when I blind bought this and loved it! The caramel, violet and vanilla balances out the powder and musk and makes this enjoyable for me. Long-lasting and projects really well. I have a cold and am super stuffy and congested right now but I can still smell this on me sitting at my office desk. It's a BEAST performance-wise. The bottle design is gorgeous and regal. I'm always amazed at how some of these Middle Eastern perfumes can be such a perfume trifecta: smell amazing with beastly performance, beautiful bottle design and affordable compared to its counterparts on the market. If you want an affordable, better performing option to GFG, I highly recommend!

I have 50+ fragrances in my collection and this is in my top 10. I love this. Honestly considering a backup bottle of this and of junoon noir. If you have both, try then as a combo. Thank me later. Saying this smells like roses vanille is a insult to this parfume. Roses vanille smells more like delina that it does this, as this smells lamper exactly like gf by mfk. I kind of get it. But if you want roses vanille and but this, you would be dissapointed. And i have roses vanilla which i bought as a blind buy (i hate it) and this would have went in the trash if they smelled alike. But i do understand the same undernote. But not the one i find in initio, delina and roses vanille. I cant stand them. This however is chefs kiss.

Okay, GFG has been on my to buy list for the past year but i could get myself to buy it. When i figured Orientica had somewhat of a dupe i had to atleast try it to see if I like the GFG DNA... what can i say, i love it and i immediately made this my signature scent. This just screams me... Wore it today for a date and guy could not get enough of (me) sorry the parfum 😉 I also got the 11ml of Gentle fluidity gold so i sprayed them side by side and either my nose is still new to this fragrance game or there at the top and all i can say is when we talk of dupes, this one is spot on and performs way better in my opinion. Long story short, i live this fragrance and already ordering my back ups...

I just have to say that I absolutely adore this fragrance. To me, it doesn’t smell animalistic at all; instead, it brings back so many memories of my childhood. This scent reminds me of a juniper bush... yes! I used to play hide and seek with the kids in my neighborhood, hiding behind those bushes. No one could ever find me because I would stay hidden for so long, just relishing the aroma of juniper berries. I wore this fragrance during a day out in the countryside, and my best friend remarked that I smelled like bacon... I’ve never received a compliment on this one, but honestly, I don’t mind. I wear it mainly because I truly love it;

This perfume is for a feral kitty. It’s thick and animalic. It basically purrs. If you don’t see yourself like this you might be better off with something else. There is definitely something in this perfume- I think it’s the musk- that can be a challenge for some and entirely off putting to others. The thing about wild, untamable creatures is that they don’t care about conventionality so this perfume goes about it’s day effortlessly being itself, which is to say: bold, edgy, and soft at the same time.

I have the original MFK GFG and it’s one of my favorites, pretty long lasting, but doesn’t project as much as I’d like. Velvet Gold is absolutely identical to it, but definitely more projecting. Perhaps if I put my nose right on each of them, GFG is more well blended, but in the air you really can’t tell, and if you weren’t to know it’s a dupe, you couldn’t spot any differences. Yet need to test the longevity since I got it only a few days ago. Highly recommend!

Absolutely delicious and stunning! Am yet to test the longevity, because just got it, but no doubt it’ll be long lasting. It smells identical to MFK GFG. I’m so pleased I waited until Velvet Gold came back into stock and ordered it rather than be impatient and splurged on GFG. It’s sweet, but bright. I can smell a tiny bit of sour cherry in it, even though it’s not listed. It can be a 365 days a year 24/7 type of perfume.

Powdery violets and caramel toffee are the strongest to my nose on this perfume's opening, gets rosier and much more vanillic as it dries down. The musk reads slightly lactonic on my skin but the animalic notes surprisingly don't stand out. A wonderful dupe for MFK's Gentle Fluidity Gold, I'd say this is much sweeter and projects much louder, at least off my skin. Cool/cold weather appropriate.

I don’t have any idea how gfg smells but this is so good. I can smell vanilla, powder, caramel and musk. It projects like a beast and lasts so long. It is sexy and feminine, is powerful and it smells more niche than most of niche perfumes. In the dry down this smells so similar to dama bianca and I would say better version than DB bc it projects more and last more. I love this 🤤

I don't know how to describe this perfume, this is something unusual but so good. At the beginning, it's a strange smell, but after a few minutes, drama starts. I sprayed it only once on my shirt on chest, early in the morning, all day I feel the smell around me, and even here as I write this it is 23:30, temperature 19 degrees.. A must-have perfume in your collection

I don't perceive any animal notes. The opening is a little sweeter than I'm used to, but then that sweetness softens and becomes a beautiful fragrance, with good projection and reasonable longevity. It's important to remember that these Arabic fragrances need to rest for a few weeks to develop their true potential.

Lovely musky powdery caramel vanilla for winter, good sillage and staying power and most important, not to sweet and not suffocating me, event with this summer temperatures..... Reminds me of Orchidee Vanille Van Cleef & Arpels which I have, so i'm not buying full bottle Edit: well, i got it anyway😀

Such a beautiful fragrance. Not airy like GFG but its syrupy in the opening and also less spicy than GFG whitch I love because GFG its just too spicy for me. Actually I like Orientica more! Great quality, long lasting, and bottle is sooo cool!

It is the closest to it's original. I've tried 3 dupes. Well worth the price tag. However, there is this odor in the first 15 minutes or so that smells like how a very old aldahydic perfume smells and then it settles and the perfume shines.

This is a strong powdery musky scent, you are hit with a caramel violet combo, if you are looking for a perfect dupe for mfk gentle fluidity gold?? Then this is a perfect rich caramelized, musky scent for you.