Zen Concentrated

This is a warm skin scent with rich floral trappings: Feminine, intense, lovely. It has this charm of making me let go, it's soothing, like the presence of a trusted woman friend. On paper or fabric I'm disturbed by its dry-down, but on my skin the fragrance works well. I take care to apply only on my skin, and only one layer, and I don't re-apply. The fragrance itself opens with a spray of hesperidics and rose (this is the spa part), gradually followed by stings of powdery florals. Further into the wear it becomes more buttery and luscious. At this point I can't smell the fragrance on myself anymore, just have this awareness of heightened radiance, then I catch up again as it cools down to a faint, sober, smokey violet. 10/25/2010 addition: Meanwhile I have worn it multiple times. I detected more notes, such as buttery, creamy pineapple, and after that hyacinth and part of tuberose. Top and heart notes mesh unnoticeably and this makes the joyful spa-part of the opening seem to last one full hour. After that one hour, however, the scent fades out all together, I just barely detect a thin trail of sober, salty incense.

If you scanned the notes like i did before sampling you're probably thinking 'what an odd perfume.' Indeed- pineapple, lotus, magnolia? it sounds really sweet, doesn't it? It's not. What it is, though, is a bonafide department store fragrance that knows it only has 1 second to grab your attention, and accordingly packs everything into the opening punch. This opens 'blue' to me, with a deep, meloncholy, rich floral blanket that is perfect for the evening. i wore this for an hour and half before going to the gym, where i was certain it would turn into a stinker. Surpringly it didn't, and on my way home it still maintained the floral frshness with no sign of skank. Props for that. To me this is a 'young' fragrance. I.e, as an oriental floral Zen is to L'Heure Bleue what Anne Hathoway is to Meryl Streep. Sweet, inticing, and up-and-coming. For the price this is a great deal.

another parfume that I love... is making me feel "girly" and it switch on my happy mode :) the price is reasonable. My frens like d smell too and they re getting it too. it is better to get from the counter as u may get few sample of it which is abt 3 or 5 ml. I use to give it away as a small gift to my gal frens. :) oh ya...spray 2x b4 I go to bed and zzzzzzz till morning the fragrance still stay on me !