Monte Carlo

A real sleeper of a fragrance. Fruity and refreshing. Blueberry is not a note I've come across often and this has the best I've smelt it in a perfume. The mint tea hangs about and combines with neroli and jasmine, then peach appears later. Good projection and longevity. Very nice for a summer's evening.

This was my first purchase of the 21st century! After surviving Y2K The Year 2000 arrived and I remember working as a sales girl at fragrance stores in Manhattan. At that time I would read magazines that advertised fragrances that had not yet arrived in the US. I would order fragrances from overseas in Paris or London. This was very expensive when it was first launched. I saved up to buy it. I waited a longer time to get it than the shorter waiting period I have now with products from ebay Amazon.cm Fragrance X Fragrance. Net Beautyspin. I thought I'd never smell this beautiful sweet fragrance again and lo and behold it was selling on ebay last year and I bought it. This smells like the most delicious mint tea. This is a fruity floral fragrance but it's more elaborate and better conceived than a lot of today's fruity floral frags. This opens with citrus and green notes. Right away you get a mint tea scent. On me it seems to last a long time so it smells just the tiniest bit herbal and green. But it wears off and the flowers emerge. There's jasmine and roses which always give a fragrance such luxury. This is a womanly mature rose, very strong as is the jasmine. The blueberry note is sweet but not cloying and it's there to keep the whole thing bright and cheery. When I wore it it lifted my spirits. It has peaches and vanilla and the dry down is green again with patchouli but the amber is the biggest player during the final stages of the fragrance's development. There could be some unlisted musk. It had a warm and sweet vanilla too. This was probably the first time I experienced both patchouli and vanilla in a fragrance. I would have to say that the vanilla surpasses the patchouli this time around. It's a lovely dark vanilla, not too sweet, just right. This fragrance smells like having a continental breakfast in a Monte Carlo hotel. I always get that same feeling. This scent whisks me away to a posh restaurant overlooking the marina in Monte Carlo where expensive yachts are moored throughout the coast and where millionaires mix and mingle. This is why it's called Monte Carlo because it takes you to a summer in Monte Carlo. I had not been to Monte Carlo in the year 2000 but now that I've been there I can confirm that this fragrance, with it's continental touch of citrus, tea, jasmine and roses, really does evoke a summer morning in Monaco. It's sweet, just a little bit gourmand because of the vanilla and blueberry, fruity, floral, fresh, warm and enchanting. I really love this fragrance and I will miss it when it's all gone because after I've finished it I won't be able to buy it again. It's been discontinued or it's very rare and hard to find. If you can get your hands on it, go for it. This is a beautiful perfume.