Vohina

Vohina is a sweet peach/honey fragrance. It opens with a very natural smelling peach. In the dry down the honey and hay come in to make this a very natural smelling fragrance. It reminds me of a peach tree we had in our back yard. When it bloomed it's flowers smelled just like Vohina. Perfect for those of us who like sweet fragrances. It goes very well with the hot summer days.

Vohina is a beautiful perfume, extremely romantic and evocative. It's like a poem in a deserted autumn landscape! . I feel a little melancholy, I don't know what it is but I feel this. Perfume not suitable for everyone ..... I like it very much, I love it! Sillage: 7.5/10 Longevity: 8./10 Scent: 9./10 Overall: 9./10

Sweet breezy hay and peaches - lovely. Completely linear. Uncomplicated but really nicely blended.

Leave it to Pierre Guillaume to take a concept of sweet perfume to a different level. Vohina is a sweet but not sweet perfume at the same time. Effect is achieved by mixing the super sweet honeyed notes with aromatic lavender and layering it with something purely abstract and airy. It is like sipping a sweet, nectar-like cocktail at the abstract art gallery opening with high ceilings, skylight windows and lots of white space filled with sunlight. Modern, yet comforting and happy, minimalistic but also romantic. Vohina does not smell holistic and natural to me, but I don’t think it is intended to. The abstract notes create this spacious and airy feeling that is central to the composition of this perfume. The scent opens with lovely honeyed notes of peach and lavender. And yet this abstract, fresh wind note wraps around the composition and lifts it above the earth like a cool wind on a spring morning. There is not much development in the scent. It becomes very light and sheer after 30 minutes while still retaining its original structure and composition. Don’t expect much sillage or longevity here. This is certainly a modern take on the honey central composition. I have to be honest, I do not normally like scents with abstract notes as they smell, well, synthetic and artificial to me. This synthetic note in Vohina sometimes reminds me of an inexpensive hair product (which bugs me) but sometimes it smells so fresh, airy and lovely (which I absolutely love), so this dilemma leaves me a bit conflicted about this scent. I will give it 7/10. I certainly enjoyed wearing the sample, but I am not sure if I will invest in a bottle. Definitely sample before buy.

Top note, 2 seconds after spraying: swimming pool changing rooms and glossy hairspray. 20 seconds later: caramelly lemon and peppermint tea. I'm either having a stroke or this is a stroke of genius. The peppermint tea turns into hay. I check the notes on fragrantica: hay! The swimmingpool changing rooms turn into summer: so, hay! The caramelly lemon (whatever that was) is gone. This is a super fresh exciting summery floral, and although where it says peach I get non-specific fruit and/or flower (could be the tiniest hint of jasmine only not quite as good as that), it comes always with that nice low rumbling undertone of minty toothpaste freshness that is... hay. Vohina is Slavic for bale of hay, did you know? Nope, it's not, I made that up. But Vohina = bale of hay in perfume terms. Going on my wishlist. NB 2 hours later: the swimmingpool is back - it's an open air one, so it's probably an association of wet chlorine feet running through grass, i.e. the scent of hay. Rename it to VoHAYna already.