Marina Blue

If you want to feel like a mermaid prince/ss, this is the scent for you! Fresh and fruity with a strong aquatic nuance. Almost green, tropical at some point. The aquatic notes kept the scent from becoming ridiculously girly girl. In fact it is strong enough to make it smell masculine when worn by men! I am a 25 year old guy and I'm loving this! In fact many of my choices are feminine fragrances as I find them have more character and variety than masculine ones. I would highly recommend this as an office wear for both men and women. It is certainly one of the more sophisticated offerings from PMdB and by right should receive more votes from fellow fragranticans! I was surprised to find myself the FIFTH person to review this wonderful fragrance!

I had this one before, honestly I think it is not an unique scent, but it smells very comfortable and clean. It could be most girls' very first fragrance in their life as it makes people very nice impression. I just got the 30ml one as I think the design of this bottle is not that good looking when it is in 100ml size.

This is a batch reviews for 6 perfumes I own from PMdB. In general, it is safe to generalize that most PMdB perfume are generic and synthetic smelling (not in a bad way), bright and uplifting, youthful and carefree, best used for spring and summer w poor to moderate staying power and soft sillage. Fundamentally, they are the kinds of scent that are not designed to be innovative, interesting, different, showstopping or anything for that matter, just something nice, unoffensive, nondescript and crowd-pleasing. Don't let the relatively complex notes pyramid of each MPdB fragrance mislead you - The scents are quite linear and most are too soft and fade too quickly to really deliver any development of notes. MARINA BLUE (light blue bottle w fancy cap): My first perfume from this brand. I was given 20 vial samples of it when I was an impressionable university student and was hooked. As I grew older, the scent doesn't have that wow effect on me anymore obviously, but I do find myself wanting to mist my body in it sometimes, especially on hot, humid summer days when I just get out of the shower or before bedtime. It is a fresh, aquatic floral scent on my skin w a very, very faint sweetness (no tartness like Pink Princess or Paradise Lys mentioned below). ---------------------------------------------- PARADISE LYS (orange bottle): Similar to Pink Princesse mentioned below, Paradise Lys also has a tangy opening but comes w a touch of fruity notes, which makes it less flat and less synthetic smelling. Once settled, however, the two scents are so similar that I often can't tell if I use Paradise Lys or Pink Princesse on that day. Paradise Lys has much poorer longevity and sillage compared to Pink Princesse. A safe scent for hot summer days. PINK PRINCESSE (pink bottle w fancy cap): I’d call this ‘orange princesse’ instead cuz the scent starts out pretty tangy, then it mellows a bit, but remains a sour scent till completely fades away. Refreshing and light. Your typical citrusy body spray for summer. Definitely not a sweet, fruity, rosy scent to me as the main accords show above. Body chemistry is really everything when it comes to perfume. REVERENCE (yellow bottle w fancy cap): Reverence to my nose is the most "proper" perfume from MPdB in the sense that it smells less of a good quality body spray / body splash and more like a true perfume - Still very generic but at least a true modern perfume scent, that's what I mean. Not a dupe of Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue, but it does remind me of that vibe for some reason. Reverence has better longevity and sillage than most MPdB perfumes and is suitable for both daytime and nighttime usage. I would advise against using on extremely hot and humid days, however. MARINA DE BOURBON (yellow bottle): the only one among the MPdB bunch I own that can be described as evening / nighttime fragrance and for cooler / colder days. It smells kind of old-school and mature (but not in a granny way) which is totally not the case with the vast majority of MPdB scents. I don't necessarily hate it, but I won't reach out to using it, either (It triggered a mild headache both times I used it). I find this scent to be best for ladies above 40 and for more formal events. Longevity and sillage are the best compared to any other perfumes produced by MPdB. EAU DE LYS (light purple bottle): All I can say about Eau de Lys is that it is fresh and soft, too soft, almost like an extremely subtle soap scent that lingers on your skin for roughly 5 minutes after showering then disappears completely. It is definitely not woody, rosy, or fresh spicy at all to my nose. I don't smell any amber, either. A very forgettable, non-offensive scent.

I loved it for the hour it stayed on. Dreamy, aquatic, a little green to my nose, and whimsical without being girlish (probably due to that slight masculine touch). It reminds me of sitting in a canoe on a still lake in quiet contemplation; lying in tall grass watching clouds go by on a spring day. It feels airy, but not superficial. It is tranquil and discrete. Stays close to the skin. Sadly, I will not repurchase due to its poor staying power on me.

This perfume to me is all lemon and sea, with a creamy, ambery base. There are florals, though I can't really detect separate notes, maybe a breath of lily of the valley. It's fresh and comforting all at the same time. A rather lovely summer scent.