Poudre de Riz

I can't justify how much I love this but, boy, do I love this. It's a fascinating melange of gray and sweet notes that shouldn't work together but absolutely do. It really doesn't smell like much of anything on blotting paper and it takes a moment to open on your skin. It opens with a balsam-cedar mix that seems restrained and tight. A few minutes later several sweet notes (to my nose caramel, coconut, maple syrup) join with a fascinating reinforcing effect between cedar and maple. The overall effect is a sweet wood effect, like very freshly cut cherry or maple wood when it's still sappy in the spring. I'm struggling a bit with the name, probably because of my affection for Poopoo Pidoo, which really does smell exactly like old fashioned rice powder. I don't get that at all from this--it's probably more like Dumont Bourbon Vanilla than rice powder. In any case I recommend it but it's hard to categorize. I agree with the woody musk but I'd suggest more gourmand than floral. Sillage: intimate, 1-2 ft Persistence: good, 3-5 hours Fabulosity: Brandy Alexander with Daniel Craig Value to price ratio: time will tell 6/10

I got a sample of this perfume and I can say that I like this quite a bit! As the name would suggest, it has a very powdery component to it. There's a dryness coming from the tiare (which is very strong) and rice (more of a medium strength), but a creaminess which underscores it from the basenotes of maple and light sandalwood. This fragrance has a vintage feel to it. To me, I can visualize a kind of 'Gibson girl' smoothing out a wrinkle in an otherwise immaculate tablecloth in preparation for tea on her family's balcony. A warm breeze drifts through the vase of delicate, pale flowers on the table, mixing the sweet blooms and cream pastries with the dreamy essence of a Summer afternoon. The whole scene is cradled in a sense of picturesque grace. All that being said, I'm relatively new to niche fragrance, in my early 20s, and scents tend to read more sweet on me. It lasted about four hours, with moderate sillage. The opening felt a little sharp, in terms of suntan-like-tiare, but give it about an hour and it becomes a light and pretty gourmand fragrance.

I’ve been wanting to get a full bottle for a couple years and completely missed that it was on sale on luckyscent. It should’ve been meeeeeee I’ve been singing this bottles praises for ages now and I miss out I can’t believe it lol. It’s really beautiful. My sample of it probably got the most compliments out of any scent I’ve ever worn. It’s likable yet interesting and complex despite what you see being said below me. Maybe their chemistry wasn’t a match for it but on me it’s this yummy fresh gourmand that’s mature and sophisticated without smelling like you stole grannies bottle out of her boudoir. I’m a guy but androgynous and scents like these are perfect. It’s feminine but not extremely so that people are gonna put it on those videos of hyper feminine scents to seduce men that are all sugar bombs. This has restraint and is beautiful for its own sake

This stuff is worse than crack! Not that I know how crack works, but it can't be worse than this. Once I start wearing this, I can't stop. It's all I ever want to wear. Every 2-3 h I need a new layer and I don't care if I can still smell it on me or not, I just want more. I want to drench myself, swim in it, you name it, I want to do with it. Strangely, I never bought a full bottle. Yes, it's good, better than good, sweet, powdery, flowery, woody. It's deceptively simple. Smells like slightly smashed makeup kit, suntan lotion and maple sirup. I have this feeling that it's little too expensive for what it is and I would go through a full bottle in record time. My bulimic behavior with it frightens me. It's the fluffiest thing ever.

This is beautiful! ...An incredibly comforting and fluffy scent. I love when a powder fragrance has that vintage makeup bag vibe to it without smelling too mature as some powders do, or too immature (e.g. Johnsons). The key is the *rice* powder- it is truly something special. It is sweetened by vanilla, caramel, maple sap and coconut milk. I know there are other notes in this (Tiare, Sandalwood, Tonka, Iris, Benzoin, Balsam, Cedar) but if I DIDN'T know what they were and I sniffed my wrist I would simply say "Horchata and Rose". This is a soft, powdery, floral gourmand masterpiece, So lovely. I sniff my wrist all day long.