Tambourine Dreamer

Although I don't think, based on the marketing, this is the feel that the house was going for, I find this a sweet, gentle, motherly, yet still youthful and romantic scent. I get a distinct mental image/emotion from this perfume: it's like a young mother seen through the eyes of her very little daughter, looking wide-eyed at her mother's boudoir, seeing her jewelry, makeup, skirts, high heels, and even her tights and slips, knowing, but not quite believing, that someday she too will have a woman's face and a woman's body, and will know how to make herself beautiful with all the mysterious little brushes and trays and pots, wondering what she will look like as a bride, as a real, grown-up woman! Remember that? When we might play dress up with scraps of pretty fabric or old heels and costume jewelry, but we knew it didn't look quite right, because we still had little girl shapes, and the world of womanhood seemed so alluring, yet so far away? Yet, here we are.... Anyway... lily of the valley, with its utter sweetness and femininity, does that for me! And it feels classic and timeless. Since I am drawn to classic things, and I am a 31 year old mother and two of my children are little girls, this scent it really feels right to me! I love to think that this will be the scent memory my children have of sitting on their mother's lap for stories or playing at my feet as I get dressed. And for all the talk of mothers and story time, I have to say I also find the smell sexy. It could be a wedding-day scent. When I say it's sexy, I mean maybe not sexy like a black strappy bandage style ensemble, but like a long, fitted, white silk, backless negligee with lace. Since I'm a romantic at heart, I really do love it! Final notes: I don't find this perfume heavy or cloying at all. It's not super powerful, but that is a plus for me. I don't really want you to smell my perfume unless you're hugging me! ;) My husband gets "fresh linen" and flowers and this is his favorite of my collection. Like all Pinrose scents so far (except maybe the signature "Pinrose") I wasn't irritated after wearing it all day and my asthma wasn't triggered.

This was definitely love at first sniff. I'm a lily of the valley fan in nature, but I'll agree it can go sharp and unpleasant in fragrance quite easily. However, in Tambourine Dreamer, the LotV is stopped just short of pungent by a kick of grounding Ylang ylang. I can scent out almost all the notes for just bits of time, and the result is this sugared lemon but floral but grassy but creamy jasmine-y goodness. How lovely! Also, I swear this fragrance made me feel cooler in the hot sun, so it might have some calming and clarifying properties to it (makes sense with the ingredients). I can see where people felt it was similar to Heaven from Gap due to its delicate sensibilities, but this one is just a tad deeper and earthier. It's on my "want" list for sure.

I am in LOVE with this fragrance! Winter is long and cold where I live, and as we go into March, I am so ready for delicate spring time scents. I've been wearing my heavy oriental fragrances for months and this is like a breath of fresh air! The lily of the valley is powdery and subdued ,this is not a headache inducing power floral, it's softened by the musk and the perfect thing for when you just want to feel feminine and pretty. I

I bought a rollerball of this and Garden Gangster, and ordered a fb of this a few hours after trying it. It's a very clean floral, and I think it will be perfect for summer. It does have lots of lily of the valley (which I love) but it has a bit of 'soapiness' which keeps it from being too sharp. I think it will be going on my favorites list for sure!

I usually steer clear of lily fragrances (too funereal for me). But upon testing my sample I found that this is a lighter lily, well balanced with the other white florals. There's also much less sillage than I'd expect, given the notes listed--although I am noticing that the scent comes out more about an hour after drydown. The musk is noticeable, but not as much as I thought it would be. It's nice. Probably not enough to make me spring for a bottle, but nice! I can't imagine anyone finding anything daring or outright objectionable with this one.