Velvet Iris

Beautiful! Powdery, Iris, Chocolate, dry, Sandalwood and opens up and gets a bit warmer after time. A more Complex and a more quality version of Givenchy Gentleman Boisée. 8 / 10

Wonderful perfume! Very Scandinavian and very Japanese simultaneously, fresh and deep, very contradictory and harmonious! Love it.

So high quality and niche smelling scent Really smells like you took a swim in an Iris pool for 2 hours

This scent looked very promising due to the notes and i am personally a big enjoyer of Iris and certainly gourmand fragrances however to my nose this smells lightly... off. I still very much enjoy this scent however due to the blend i dont pick up on many of the notes listed and i get more of a shopping center kind of smell. That sounds super weird and i really enjoy this brand so i want to obviously promote it in good fortune however this kind of smells like a cleanish primark to me or something or other. However its probably just a mix of strange skin chemistry and incorrect smelling or something as the other reviews seem to endorse this quite highly so take what i say with a grain of salt. edit: Okay its been over a month since i posted this review and ive been wearing velvet iris more and ive come more to terms what its really about. This to me opens with a beautiful sharp yet not piercing bitter orange. Velvet iris carries this orange throughout the whole life of the fragrance however develops into a more iris, floral woody fragrance to me. The best way to describe this is that its a freshish floral with a beautiful orange with a slight dryness in the background that comes from the wood. I still find chocolate and caramel hard to detect for me personally however this is a really nice sweet fragrance. Like i said this was not an immediate love for me. I couldn't really pick out any notes and just thought it was weird however with time and thought ive actually wrapped my head around this and can defo reccomend to people of all ages for both male and female

I don't get much dark chocolate, I think it's the non-reformulated version. Quite earthy notes predominate. A rooty and fresh iris, grassy vetiver are very obvious. I don't think it's sweet. As the fragrance progresses, the woody notes grow and a note like dry cocoa begins to emerge. It is very unique and magical. The only problem is that it quickly fades and completely vanishes in one hour :(