Pon Farr

EDIT: layer this with justin bieber's someday. smells great sweet, soft powdery, soft flowery, kinda fruity. detectable sandalwood and vanilla. it is quite lovely. (i'm at about 30 mins into this first spray, may edit with more later) it did dry down to strong/soapy light/floral smell. EDITED NOTE: i do think it would be better in warm weather. it smelled nicer to me when i warmed up my hand. other than that not bad for a cheap (i paid $12.79/3.3oz fragrancenet store on ebay, free shipping) great fragrance for a trekkie! being new to fragrances i haven't experienced many smells. i have mostly chanel perfumes so this is very different for me. since i'm new i've read a lot here on fragrantica (learned a lot THANK YOU!) and heard people say something like "green, like freshly cut flower stems" I TOTALLY smell that description in this PON FARR. am i the only one? i smell it when i put my nose closer to the skin. (EDIT i now wonder if that was an early version of the "soap" smell that comes later...?maybe? my nose is still new at picking out individual scents and figuring how scents smell together) i am getting wafts of sweet powdery flowers with sandalwood/vanilla. i am a star trek fan which is why i purchased this BLIND from fragrancenet. i am happy with it :D live long and prosper

Though this fragrance definitely doesn't "leave logic behind" I was more than pleasantly surprised! Reading over the notes, there's no mention of patchouli on the packaging and I can't detect it on my skin either, a huge relief since I'm not a fan of that note. Pon Farr smells like a shower with an apple blossom body wash, very clean, fresh, and soapy. Suitable for warm weather and inoffensive enough to be worn to work. It's not terribly unique, but very safe. The longevity is decent, about six to seven hours on my skin, but the sillage is nearly non-existant. After the first twenty minutes or so it settles into a skin scent. I agree with LoriAlyse83 when she says it's really more of an EDT. Admittedly, this fragrance is very linear. The smallest development is only apparent in the drydown when the vanilla and sandalwood add some warmth to the floral and soapy notes. Overall, I feel that the quality is spot on for as inexpensive as it is, and I'm really loving this for summer.

I wish this perfume would have boldly gone where no perfume had gone before... Sadly, it didn't: instead it rather timidly stays grounded, clinging to mass-market appeal in concept: a breezy-fresh fruity-floral with a cooler- rather than warmer- character. I fear that, in the wilting heat of the planet Vulcan, under the sweaty spell of Pon Farr, this perfume would have simply gone ((*poof*)). That being said, it isn't without its charms. The drydown is a light, lovely white musk with woody accents; traces of the fruit-and-flower bowl still clinging after 8 hours. Bottle-design is pretty nifty, though! Both the old and the new.

I got this perfume because I do love star trek, and it wasn't very expensive. The scent is strong but in a way that isn't like a hug. It sits a long time on my skin before it to eases into a pleasant smell. I find it sharp at first and not very sexy, but fresh after a while. I do enjoy it, but as a base scent after I come out the shower. I wear it with other perfumes as this is missing something for me. Pon farr happens every 7 years maybe that is why I expected something else.

I owned this perfume back in 2011, I remember forcing my mom to order it online for me and being so excited to receive it as a young trekkie in a country where Star Trek TOS wasn't much of a thing anymore. I remember it being very fruity and sweet, with a bit of a powdery finish to it, I genuinely liked it but then again I was like 15 or 16 so that tells you everything you need to know. Cute for a trekkie, nothing special fragrance wise tbh.