Artemisia

Perfection. Artemisia has absolutely no faults or flaws. If Snow White has a scent, this is surely it. Artemisia is breezy and warm, sweet and comforting, like a 73 degree Spring or Fall day; always flowing in perfect harmony. This is by no means an "innocent" or "naive", it is a Wise Humble Goodness. It is a breathe of fresh air, and a sharp Right turn away from all the fragrances with no faces. This radiates a beautiful smell all around you, and leaves memory scent trails where you have stood or sat. It is truly divine. Artemisia is not masked behind powder or musk, vanilla or amber, floral's or citrus. Yes, there are similarities with Cashmere Mist, but that is very much clouded by strong musk and powder, while this keeps a perfect balance. I can not put the notes in proper place, but it is creamy, green, sweet and light, but lasting and silage is above par. It shows slight acidity, but stays neutral the whole way through. Initial spray is sparkly green with acidity, and the middle is more powder sweet, while the drydown is mixed perfectly, sweet light crisp yet a heavy silage. All I can say is this is absolutely Enchanting...I really love it. It makes me very self assured, but also self aware...A true Beauty this is. Update: This gets even better with time. Have it on your skin throughout the night and wake up to an enchanting smell. Spray it on a coat and find that a week later a glorious smell is coming from your closet.

This fragrance is very elegant. I associate it with something a woman making a name into "a mens' world" would wear. And after all it was made in honor of Artemisia Gentileschi, the controversial and celebrated painter of the Renaissance. Long neglected as a serious artist, her work was often attributed to other male artists. Reclaimed as a feminist icon in recent years, she is now rightly seen as a serious and groundbreaking artist. She also spent some time in England at the court of King Charles I. Her most famous work is the chiaroscuro masterpiece “Judith Beheading Holfernes.” It has nothing to do with the ancient queen Artemisia, the plant nor the deity Artemis like many think and are left disappointed. For me the scent starts of with nectarines, apples and green foliage. After some time the flowers and vanilla kick-in. Beautiful flowers and wrapped up in sunshine and butterflies. The end is warm, powdery and earthy - mainly musk and oak moss with the rest of ingredients lingering somewhere there as to remind of themselves. I wouldn't describe the scent as fresh at all. On me it has a lot of presence and warmth and this is making it more suitable for the fall/winter season, or perhaps a cold summer evening. And the bottle just got me - very beautiful! Artemisia is truly unique but yet comfortable scent!

A favourite of mine among the Penhaligon’s fragrances. This is a soft, creamy, woody and warm floral musk. It is beautifully blended and smells great from application to dry down. I don’t get any hints from the green notes or apple but what I do get is prominent musk, subtle sandalwood, really nice interpretation of violets, light vanilla, and the teeniest breakthrough hint of oak moss (oak moss isn’t a note I love, it sometimes assails my nostrils, but here it plays an inoffensive supporting role). I can not individually smell the peach, even though I quite like peachy fragrances. I feel like it’s there though, adding some juicy sweetness that’s just out of reach. While this is suggested as a powdery fragrance, I don’t think it’s overly powdery. Not like some of its counterparts, but there is a subtle powdered cosmetic undertone. Overall a really gorgeous, snuggly and feminine scent - lovely in Autumn (when I’m now wearing it in the Southern Hemisphere). It smells great wafting off a light scarf. Love.

So romantic. A whiff from a bygone world, when girls from wealthy families stayed mostly indoors and learned to speak French, do needlework, and play the piano. I once knew a woman who had grown up like this before World War II started, completely shielded from (and unprepared for) real life. I am happy that many women have the option to go out into the world these days. But it is beautiful to sniff at Artemisia and dream of being a girl in a pretty white dress, sitting in a room where powders and hair brushes are nicely laid out on a vanity, expecting the whole world to be one big, pretty, lovely smelling room. Surprisingly I cannot detect the violet in Artemisia - even though it usually is strong on me. I get musk and a juicy nectarine and a sweetness that reminds me of glucose tablets. Very, very delicious. Flowers? A lot, but I cannot tell you, which. Same with wood. Artemisia is so deftly blended, that I cannot analyse it further. Very longlasting, but with only moderate sillage.

I've had this fragrance for over 2 years now, so I've had time to let my thoughts on this marinate... Obsessed with the way it smells once it's settled on the skin for at least a couple hours. When you first spray it it does give a medicinal, almost bug spray like aroma that others have mentioned in their reviews.. But if you can get past that, this is a gorgeous and complex scent. I have an aversion to generic, linear fragrances, so I like to be challenged by the experience as a whole.. For me, I can look past that because of how unique and truly "niche" this fragrance is. This feels like freshly shaven legs on white pure silk sheets. THAT level of satisfaction from the crispness and smoothness. It's cozy, clean, intimate, with a hint of milky sweetness. I'm very picky when it comes to powdery scents to avoid giving "old lady" but this powdery note is light, fluffy and cloud like. Just dreamy and angelic. This would be my signature fragrance if it had better longevity and sillage.

I love this! The initial scent that comes through is not necessarily my favorite part of this perfume, but I don't hate it. I can definitely see how others have perceived it as a latex smell. Though as it starts to settle after about 5-10 minutes or so, the notes start smelling more to me like a freshly watered green house. Not in a dirt sort or way but more like sweet wet leaves and flowers. It's also quite powdery as well, which to be honest I didn't really like at first but it's definitely grown on me and I think it fits well with the florals. If you've ever watered very fragrant flowers, the way the flower scent mixes with the water in the air and wafts towards you is exactly what this reminds me of! It's quite pretty! The longer it sits, the more I can pick up the nectarine as well. Every time I use this, it makes me feel like a fairy wearing a flower as a dress having tea in a garden.

I took quite awhile with this girl and I'm glad I did because it has become one of my favorite comfy fragrances. It's not something that I would wear to go out and it's definitely a fragrance that I wear for myself and goodness gracious I absolutely love the scents that I wear 100% for me myself and I. This is a fragrance that I like to spray once or twice on my scarf and take a walk in the snow with my girls. IDK what about it makes it super super comforting to me but it's like a nice warm hug for me. I think in the last 7 months of having it it has started to be a comfy time for bed scent for my girls also. Which is something I truly love because I am a huge fan of keeping a little bit of my mother's favorite perfumes that she wore when I was growing up on hand just so that when I want to smell her I always can and hopefully I'm making great olfactory memories for my girls.

A "clean girl" perfume for a lady of aristocratic origins, a modern blend but with a slight nod to the vintage. If you're the type of person who thinks a bit of powder and flowers = grandma smell, dated/vintage, then maybe this perfume is not for you right now(give it several years, tastes change) This is for the powder connoisseurs, who can appreciate some dove soap elements. Elegant, classy, sophisticated, soft, airy, clean powdery floral. If you like teint de neige and dama bianca, give this a try, they're in that same family. This is less sweet and more "niche" smelling than dama bianca, but they give a similar vibe. The sillage is very soft, and the fresh opening doesn't really last. But the drydown is really really nice. I sprayed this on clothes and the scent lingers for hours and it's divine. Very good out of the shower scent, or before bedtime.

On me, this is violet, jasmine, vanilla and MUSK-MUSK-MUSK. And I love it :) This is so very feminine - it has quite a gentle, soft quality about it but it's "there" enough to be noticed. From the notes listed, I thought this may be a bit too simple/safe for me...but I'm pleased to say it's not. I am blessed enough to live in a climate where it's sunny most of the time and I also have a large, beautiful garden out the back...I can easily picture wearing this perfume while sitting in the sun with a good book and a glass of white wine. Artemisia is elegant, lady-like, understated and all things CLASS. The longer it's on my skin, the more it envelopes me in such a warm, comforting, loving, FLORAL way. This is just beautiful. Thank you to the amazingly kind and gorgeous member here who sent me this decant - will be buying a big bottle when it runs out ♥

I fell in love with this perfume within seconds of smelling it in their shop. At first I was resistant to buying it as it's so expensive at £95 but I managed to buy some from their outlet in York for around £40. As much as I adore this perfume, for the price the sillage is extremely poor. It fades from your skin so quickly, so to get any last you really need to spray it on your clothing. As a result of this I found that I was using excessive amounts each time & my bottle ran out very quickly. I am very reluctant to buy any more of this perfume, which pains me as it is so beautiful. But thank you so much to the users of this website I will be checking out the recommended alternatives. Donna Karen's perfume seems to be a very reasonable price so fingers crossed I can find it in a department store to sample!

White, fluffy, soft, fuzzy, all the clean white adjectives you can think of, that is Artemisia. It is a beautifully done clean scent- just light, airy and fluffy enough, with a little bit of a powdery depth. Besides the apparent blend of musk and violet, it is difficult to pinpoint and break down all the notes in there, rather generating more of an imagery. It smells exactly like a white bar of soap in a luxurious white marbled bathroom. The soap is not drenched in water or creating foam, but at its dry form, placed on a white soap dish carved with gorgeous vintage-styled decorations. It is when you put your nose close to a dry bar of soap, and you are able to smell the clean soapy and muskiness, rounded by what feels almost like a slightly powdery texture.

I fell in love with Artemisia at the Penhaligon boutique and the scent stayed on my mind (one might even say I was obsessed with it) until I finally got a bottle of my own weeks later. This fragrance is simply dreamy. It is supremely comforting, and something about it reminds me of some fond memory I can't quite place. This is the scent of how bunnies feel, or how cream-colored Chantilly lace looks. The fragrance is soft, little more than a whisper. The opening is sugared nectarine or peach pie a la mode, buttery-crusted and warm from the oven. This gives way to notes of creamy vanilla and powdery violet. Artemisia feels drinkable, like gently-spiced milky tea served from bone china. I wear this to bed when I need to dream of being a princess.

This is a lovely powdery violet scent that I find quite hard to describe as there is a note to it that makes me feel quiet nostalgia, a bittersweet longing entering in my mind the longer I attempt to focus on what it is I'm smelling. It is a comforting scent despite that disquiet I feel; as the reviewer below mine said, it really does feel like a warm hug though I'm not sure why it feels that way to me. Perhaps this is the scent my late brother in law wore - the kit was originally his but given to me after he passed before he had time to use more than one vial up, or perhaps there's just simply a note of my childhood buried in the formula for it. In either case, I'll definitely be buying at least a large decant of it if not a full bottle.

This is like a really beautiful luxurious soap. Like you just had a bath in the Ritz then went downstairs in an elegant dress for afternoon tea. Clean, Fresh, Powdery and Feminine. It's elegant and it's also a little bit sexy in a soft and clean way. Delicate violets, tea, vanilla, and musk. It's perfectly balanced, the slight sexy sweetness balanced out by the tea, touch of oakmoss, musk and florals. The more I wear it, the more I notice the beauty of it. Completely office appropriate, it's gentle and you just get delicate wisps of elegant gorgeousness. The dry down is a more sensual skin scent with the tea, very soft vanilla and amber coming through. This is a LOVE for me as a clean beautiful daytime scent. This really lifts my spirits.

This fragrance was one that I often smelt on paper and could never understand as to why it was so popular. I could not smell ANYTHING. Gradually I familiarized myself with the scent. Someone had remarked previously that it is best to think of a strawberry dusted in icing sugar. Its now a fragrance I enjoy wearing for personal preference. It definitely comes across as feminine. I love the soft, un-offending musk of the scent. Everything within this scent is very soft. It smells great on a nice summers day. I once however smelt it in the hot Indian weather and did not enjoy the scent at all. In hot weather the notes smell to sweet. This is a subtle scent and is not well suited blasting out.

Got this from a fragrance swap today and I'm absolutely in love. It's a soft, comforting powdery scent . Lightly floral with some tea in the background. Can't seem to get enough of it! I thought I was reminded of iris but it doesn't seem to be one of the notes. My only issue would be that while it lasts really long (I can still smell it after 6+ hours), sillage is super poor. More or less a skin scent for me, I can smell it only when my hands are close to my face, or if I deliberately sniff at my wrists. Really wish the performance was better especially since Penhaligon's ain't cheap. Nevertheless, I'm tempted to get a full bottle of my own!

I would believe you if you told me this is how the gates of heaven smelled like🕊👼 Truly angelic, white floral with a powdery vanilla moss finish. I for some reason correspond this with this soviet fairytale enchanted princess named Vasilisa the Beautiful. Full of elegance, kindness, grace and beauty. If you need for a more recent reference- this smells how Inika's solo voice sounds like singing Jericho. I am probably going to invest in a full bottle because it's such a fitting fragrance that I would love to be one of my signatures✨️ Sillage is intimate and longevity is more 4-6 hours Zodiac Trio ⬆️Libra ☀️Pisces 🌜Aquarius

The smell of adventure, the smell of death, passion, love and magick. I wore this fresh out of the store in Edinburgh and ended up in a cemetary where I watched a man die and gave him CPR until the ambulance came. This scent will always reminds me of that! This smells like clean air with whipped cream and hints of sandalwood. Artemisia is balanced and beautiful, slightly like sweet spit and sweaty thighs. Artemisia is sexy and it removes articles of clothing. At first sniff I found Lily of The Valley right away. Major notes of vanilla and aldehydes creates a whipped cream smell. Lovely fragrance, a must try!

Alright I will try to summarise it for those ones who are particularly into life experiences. When I was a little girl, I remember distinctly what it felt like when you smell your new doll’s hair and skin. Now after that plastic (which I personally like and find absolutely unique) comes a soft baby powder which keeps you warm. The amber is quite light and breathy so this perfume won’t choke you in summer. People normally feel very comfortable around it. For me it’s one of the new favourites, particularly because it’s a childhood smell.

Oh my, how soft this one is! Creamy-powdery, warm and delicate. A subtle blend of musk, vanilla, violet and jasmine. Quite a romantic perfume. The powderiness and soapiness reminds me of Salvatore Ferragamo's Signorina. They are different when it comes to notes, of course, but this softness somehow brings them together. Artemisia could be Signorina's older, more mature and elegant - but still very feminine - sister. It stays very close to the skin, and not for a long time in my case - about 3 to 4 hours. I wish it would last longer.