Dove Grey

Getting rid of this was such a mistake of mine. The orris note is absolutely to die for! It's powdery without being anything clichéed that you're used to experiencing. Reminds me very slightly of Chantilly (the first edition), except less synthetic, less benzoin, and less beeswax, and less floral. If you have the opportunity to buy this, it's worth it.

A very interesting experimental floral woody musk with high quality ingredients. The perfume opens with aldehydes, pepper, tea, tarragon and faint metallic notes. The heart is lavender, orris, violet and tuberose. The perfume settles into a base of synthetic musk and cedar. The feminine leaning perfume has moderate projection and good longevity. Not entirely a successful experiment but very intriguing and wearable cold metallic floral. Enjoy!

Yeah, I'm going to concur with @deadidol here. Huge aldehyde opening, soapy, sharp, sweet, chemically, and generally feminine, although this bills itself as a unisex. It is the smell of a magazine strip of whatever an older, female pop-star would "design". I can't believe the expense on this bottle. I am rather new to the world of fragrance, but even I can tell that this is either cheaply made, or expensively made by someone without taste. Thankfully the horrid opening calms down to a tolerable matronly handbag, which you must like to wear this since it is around for HOURS. The sillage thankfully is moderate, otherwise I would have left work and taken a shower because it smells like I;m having an affair with an old lady with delusions of youth. If you find this appealing, go for Chanel. At least No. 5 actually HAS the musk it promises.

Even though I find this to be very bad, I’d say it’s the closest thing that this new glossy mag-aspiring “niche lifestyle brand” have created to actual perfume. It’s basically some isoraldine (violet chems) over an orris-y musk base, bodied up with holistic levels of aldehydes (C11 and probably C12). The soapyness has an acrid, bitter undertone, so I’d guess that lavender is to blame for that. Within 15 minutes, it smells exactly like an anonymous bar of soap (Dove, perhaps?) As with the rest of the line, it’s presented in a $2 Nemat bottle that’s been partially spray painted. Shamefully priced at $285 for 50ml, I’d suggest perhaps adding a decimal point after the 8.