Lakmé

“The worlds of fragrance and opera were brought together for three nights in March 2019 when The Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, asked Roja Dove to capture the essence of their new world premiere production of Lakmé.” This is maybe my most delicate, subtle and ethereal scent which I own. It’s fragile and innocent. It’s sensitive and elegant. So amazingly beautiful! 😌 Lakmé is a bouquet of fresh, soft and warm roses. 🌹 It shines in all kind of weather but I love it most when it’s warm enough. Lakmé is the pure quiet luxury. 💎 It opens up with sparkling aldehydes and indulgent Rose de Mai and Taif Rose shines from the beginning until the end. The concoction remains quite simple yet enchanting and fresh. Woody and powdery base of Sandalwood and Orris with Musk creates a soft bed for the roses. Is it redundant if you have Turandot? Absolutely not! ✨ Turandot is more complex potent bouquet of many other flowers together with roses and Lakmé is more a rose scent. ✨ Turandot is Chypre and Lakmé is powdery, velvety floral scent. ✨ Despite those stories behind , Turandot is a scent for the queen and Lakmé is a scent for the princess. 👑 Top Notes: Aldehydes*, Citrus Notes Heart Notes: Lily of the Valley, Rose de Mai*, Rose Taif, Magnolia, Peach Base Notes: Pink Pepper, Cypriol, Casmir Wood, Sandalwood*, Aoud, Benzoin, Vanilla, Orris*, Frankincense*, Labdanum, Ambergris, Musk *being the main notes Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more. 🤗

Received this when I was supposed to receive Turandot. I’m sure glad I did. This has got to be one of the most beautiful fragrances in the world. It really reminds me of visiting the famous rose garden and music box museum in Japan. I want my future wife to smell like this😍 This is predominantly a rose scent, and is along the lines of others from his Gulf Collection. If you’ve smelled Aoud or Sultanate of Oman this shares some characteristics, so it’s most definitely a unisex scent. Subtle, soft and airy sweetness of fruit and flowers but not too sweet because of other ingredients balancing them out. The frankincense and aoud do something so beautiful in these fragrances. This makes me think of the fullness of love. Lakme just makes me look up and say “O my God!” Fitting, because it is God who has given the gifts of scent, materials, and people that can bring them together in the most beautiful of ways!

An awesome rose amber fragrance. Fresh rose up top and moves towards that buttery sandalwood amber rose in the dry down. This one is really well done and i went crazy when i first came to know about it. Got my hand on it immediately to see what the scent profile is like. Liked it a lot and this is one of the best rose i smelled. BUT, for the price point I do not want to go for this. Don't get me wrong it is extremely beautiful but in my opinion it does not justify the price point. I would rather go with the Oud silk mood from MFK, there lies no comparison between these two but i think MFK justifies the price point and has some beautiful rose fragrances in its collection including even fresh roses. Anyhow if you can afford it without causing a dent in your bank balance go for it. It really is beautiful.

This fragrance is stunning. My only complaint is that it is almost to "loud" or strong. It will absolutely fill a room and it doesn't take over spraying to accomplish it. I am a man and I wear this fragrance frequently. It could be described as "feminine leaning" due to the florals however this is one of my most complimented fragrances that I own. In typical Roja fashion it opens with a beautiful touch of citrus but that disappears quickly. It has this beautiful dewy rose with a white floral vibe that doesn't let the rose completely take over. The base is complex and woody. I love this more and more each time I wear it. Stunning!

My experience with Lakmé was polarising. At first I fell in love with how minimalist it was. I’m always looking for a beastmode but transparent veil of subtle perfume perfection. So I sprayed it onto my neck 8 times. The official atomiser is very fine and gives a delicate puff of light and dry mist. But then the magic ended, as I (nor others) couldn’t smell it until they were about 2cm away from my skin. A 2cm sillage is a dealbreaker however wonderful it originally was. I couldn’t even detect it on my clothes or scarf the next day. So no scent description from me this time as I nor my close associates can smell anything.