Shining Moon

This is impressive. There is a soft pink pepper and cedar that are so welcoming. I immediately got the sense like I am home, somewhere familiar and comforting. There is a softness also that comes through from the floral notes but this is not obvious florals keeping it in the unisex realm. I can see this being 'my skin or better' for some people depending on skin chemisty

Probably the only skin scent I would consider buying today. I finally smell something :D the peppery opening gets calmer as time goes by. It is accompanied by some floral notes and the freshness of cedar. As people said below, this is very cozy, familiar, friendly, nice. Thinking about getting a FB.

I love most of the notes listed for this fragrance, so I was excited to try it out in a sample pack. Unfortunately, everything for me is pretty overwhelmed by the rose and pink pepper. A nice enough scent on someone else, but not for me. Very intimate, not very long-lasting.

Frist Impressions from a sample: Shining Moon smells different than the other more natural smelling scents that I've sampled and loved from Perris Monte Carlo. I don't get any correlation with the name Shining Moon and the scent itself. I'm not sure why but it gives me a touch of a middle eastern vibe. On my skin I mainly get a peppery floral rose forward with a synthetic woody back bone that gives it a push in projection in the opening. It gives me a warm feeling so I'd think this would smell best in Fall/winter. It smells well composed and blended and the rose note smells lovely to my nose but the ISO E Super and Cashmeran pushes it to place that smells too synthetic for my taste but if you like these notes then I could see this being a love for some.

The color equivalent of this smell is mousy grey.... Pink pepper is the only thing I smell here, and it just makes me think: "....aaaand? Where's the rest of the smell??" It smells unfinished and weird. Even when the pink pepper calms down I only get pink pepper, but this is probably dependent on the climate it's used in. It's slightly cool and relatively dry here.