Serpentine Silver

Lovely! It is indeed much lighter than the original version, and it's so classy and sophisticated! Whenever I smell it, I'm thinking of red lips and black evening dresses. Wouldn't wear it in summer though.

It opens with a smell... I don't know what this smell is. I have no reference point to anything on earth so I will try my best starting with how it makes me feel and what comes into my mind first. It's cold, modern, sterile, expensively strange. Is this Mango blossom? Deanna Troi on planet Betazed should be wearing this, a soliflore for outer space! :)Then it warms into something more familiar and approachable but keeps it's refinement. Pepper blooms across the fragrance and then yellow powdery softness and sweet white creaminess from the tiare. The mango blossom recedes into the background but blended with all the rest of these notes changes into something truly unique and wonderful. The musk is subtle and fresh and an hour in the frag smells ebullient and warm, like fancy soap and oddness. Just kidding, at this stage it smells more conventional, but not boring. I could see someone wearing this with a summer dress, work attire or in a white blouse and jeans. A real class act. I'm so glad I took a chance on a blind buy with this! There is nothing like this in my collection and I have never smelled anything similar to this before. I haven't decided yet if this is a like or a love. Truly a special fragrance! :)

Absolutely different from the main one, I can see just nothing in common: light, fresh, airy. When the consultant in the shop offered it as a perfume similar to Natsumi (my ex-fav), my first reaction was: you must be joking. Indeed they are similar.I wouldn't mind using it for summer casual.

Sephora MENA is absolute shit. That said after taking all my money and reward points and assaulting me, one time, after a recent purchase, this lady of theirs goes back to get a sample she says and it was a Serpent Homme. Um... don't know what the fuck that was. The original female Serpent was a love for me at 16 because it smelled like gardenias and just some indolic not too much which gave off warm fruity. This decant she gave me however... What in the fucking world was that? An Arab prince with identoty issues? Like, Christ, what the fuck? I get it was supposed to be subtle and refined but it just feels lacking. They didn't hit the nail on the head but it's not much of anything that it's easy to see someone hyping it for what it is.

Serpentine Silver is a surprisingly 'yellow' fragrance and is based on the aromas of soft petals and transparent musk. I find the opening of Sepentine Silver very fresh and like a mix of sunny and aquatic notes. It dries down nicely with prominent mimosa, tiaré and a soft base of transparent musk and warm sandalwood. I fully agree with my fellow reviewers: Serpentine Silver feels definitely mildly aquatic, yet it is yellow, sunny but very airy and fresh at the same time, like a fresh sea breeze on a tropical beach in summer. The sillage is average, Serpentine Silver does not project far but the lasting power is excellent; it lasted 12+ hours on my skin. @gesch, thanks for providing the info on the notes.