Sicilian Limes

This is such a different fragrance than the name was leading me to expect, a very distinctively different scent. I quite like how unexpected this scent journey has been! In the first 10-15 minutes, I get a robust blast of limes and light woodsy notes. They are not bitter or sour surprisingly. I think the woodiness I smell off the top (linked with the limes) helps keep them out of the bitter range perhaps. After about 20-40 minutes, I get a strong smell of rosemary. It's very distinctive on my skin. This smell mixing with the still strong limes and cedar create an interesting smell. The smell moves from fresh to what others might be describing as slightly dirty. I would use the adjective "sticky" but not like a caramel sticky. I don't know if that makes sense. Anyway, it's been a couple hours... I smell cedar and--I want to get this out because it's really bothering me--I am smelling a sappy sweetness (think: Bond No 9 New Harlem but not so sickly sweet). It's conjuring the image of fresh cut conifers and their sappy, resinous quality. Is there immortelle in this...?? And now that we are 5 hours out, I now smell a masculine leaning cedar. It's back to clean and rather linear (not linear in a bad way). Either way this is definitely different. Overall, I love this. I don't know if this would do well on me in the hot summer heat, but this could definitely do well in fall and spring. If anything, I urge you to get a sample and test this. This is definitely not a fresh citrus scent. In the top it is but it is not how this perfume winds down. It's very atypical, and atypical (for me) in a good way.

Shay & Blue are such a surprise package with some really, really good fragrances expected to be linear but then have unexpected notes. This is a fragrance I would describe as being a citrus that could've been done by Amouage...well not quite but almost. You think mmmmm...Sicilian Limes nice... If the blood orange was anything to go by this is going to be zesty and accurate, and it is. The opening is sharp and does have a realistic lime feel but it's not quite in the league of something like Jade from Armani prive. The citrus is joined by a herbal note which works well with it and then a kind of cedary backdrop, no surprises there then. However that isn't the whole story because the main theme of this perfume is the early onset and progressive development of a curried cumin type note. This actually turns a bright zingy scent which appears all fun and games at first, into a pretty spicy affair. This works perfectly with the lime too, like lime pickle you serve with poppadoms or something? I can get why people wouldn't like this the drydown is very masculine and spicy in my opinion and also a bit sweaty like L'Artisan parfumeur Timbuktu. I liked it a long lasting citrus that dishes up more than I had bargained for.

Love this and blood oranges. Limey citrus that lasts and isn't sugary sweet or juvenile! Definitely unisex but not available on US site. The options that are available are cheaper on the UK site anyhow. Great warm-weather scent:)

A smoky/woody lime. Quite attractive. It's clean and masculine. It gives me the image of a well put together man. Impeccable hair, good clothes, spotless shoes. I'm happily surprised with this fragrance.

SHarp, bitter, fresh and yet warm and spicy and a bit dirty. I fail at describing this, but it's great, and lasts briliiantly.