Shalini

This perfume is beautiful, if you can smell it, that is. The tuberose is fresh and oily, more similar to Narcotic V. than Tubereuse nue, and I like it. The tiare flower makes it smell like a tropical garden, not like a beach. It's a sophisticated, elegant, feminine scent. The dry down is slightly musky and it has a hint of sandalwood. Said that, it's a whisper. While trying to smell something, I accidentally spilled some of the vial that I got from Aedes. My first reaction was "OH NO! I'll smell this forever". The second reaction was "what? where is it?". I soaked a blotter in the spill, and set it aside, close to a blotter where I sprayed Tubereuse Criminelle 24 hours ago. After 30 minutes the TC blotter had a much stronger smell than the one soaked in Shalini. This would be a 10/10 if the performance wasn't so abysmal, especially for the price.

Opens with blast of fresh green neroli then powerful tuberose, rather oily on me. Delicate tiare adds discreet natural sweet, but this is low sweetness in general. Yellow sandalwood base supports very elegantly, a restrained musk adds a little plush, but thankfully, on my skin, no overtly animalic dirtiness becomes evident. This is very elegant, just short of sumptuous, nicely done. Clean without being detergent like. This tuberose does not go sour on me like some others. I could happily wear this all day long and then some. It’s a heady white floral, superbly blended and balanced without being bombastic or overbearing. C’est magnifique!

A perfume so beautiful that it makes me crave that I should have been born a woman so that I could wear this beauty in public settings. This bewitching Floriental opens with a beautiful neroli note and then proceeds to a heart of tuberose and tiare flower before settling into a base of sandalwood and musk. The perfume is superbly blended by master perfumer Maurice Roucel. It leans straight feminine with pronounced sillage and projection and lasts for a day on skin and clothes. Drop dead gorgeous creation For now I have to be content to wear this covertly at home. It would be devastatingly beautiful on a lady. Enjoy!

I love all the parfums from Shalini created by M Roucel. His most exceptional work. I met Shalini many years at Bergdorfs and she is lovely and beautiful and very passionate about her parfums. Over the years, I have a built a collection of all her fragrances including the new Gold which is excellent. Jessica is so sweet and helpful in fulfilling all my requests and orders. Most perfume houses nowadays use a lot of chemicals and it is rare to find a creator who wants to use the natural essences. Congratulations to Shalini and M. Roucel for creating this beautiful house.

I met Shalini at a personal appearance and she gave me a vial card of the perfume. It is most beautiful fragrance I have smelt in a long long time. It took me a summer I spent in the South of France. Maurice Roucel is the master!! Shalini mentioned that the fragrance has her 3 favorite white flowers - tuberose, neroli (hence the memory of the summer) and tiare. I love it!! It is like being bathed in sunlight:) Guess I have to splurge and get my personal bottle from Aedes!