Dovana

It does indeed start to smell like Dove soap after a few seconds upon application. But not in a cheap way. In an olfactory homage kind of way. One expects to smell a resemblance and Dovana delivers in a playful experimental manner. An interesting aspect of this fragrance is that the smell of Dove slowly takes shape. It does not come out that way. And you only get to enjoy this brief homage for a while before it morphs into a different fragrance altogether. For the rest of its life, Dovana becomes a heliotrope-Iris scent, underlain by creamy-coconutty pairing of sandalwood and white musk. What a spectacular performance! Even under such high expectations, Sylvaine Delacourte proves herself a cool virtuoso.

I have received the sample pack La Collection Muscs by Sylvaine Delacourte, so let's review them one by one. Dovana is very beautiful and feminine; as other reviewers have stated, it is perhaps a tad too sweet to be worn by men, and a tad too mature to be appreciated by very young girls, but I don't think that they were SD's intended target group anyway. Dovana is not your typical musk bomb and, aside from musk, it features several other protagonists, namely vanilla, heliotrope, iris and mandarin orange, that give it its sweetish-talcum vibe. So, this is firmly aimed at lovers of lipsticky, powdery, make-up scents. I imagine that this is what a geisha would smell like.

Another beautiful fragrance by this line, though this one truly doesn't smell like the listed notes to me. On me, it's a musky and clean aquatic floral in the mode of Mimosa pour Moi and En Passant. The latter especially feels like its scent-sister. I get virtually no iris (and I'm a huge iris fan, so am used to detecting it in all kinds of fragrances), but I can detect a wet heliotrope accord and faint neroli. It does dry down to be sweetly soapy but in such a nice way. My boyfriend really approves of this one too. Poetic and kind. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This is a dry powdery, vanillic musk w/ violet, iris and almond. A touch of neroli keeps it from becoming too old fashioned. So soft and cuddly, like a cashmere sweater. I really like this one a lot and I think it maybe a love. I will have to wear it for a full day before I decide to pull the trigger and buy but it is lovely and very feminine. It reminds me of Violet Ida w/out the earthy carrot seed. It smells like a comforting violet-colored shroud, a perfect bedtime scent. Very safe and comforting.

This is perfect. Creamy musk without any kind of edge whatsoever. That gossimer iris, vanilla, heliotrope...all that it contains smell like pure powder, but not like "baby powder", no violet present, and doesnt smell like manufactured ideas of "baby smells". Gorgeousness! I like all of the Delacourte Vanilla Discovery Set, but I think it is among the Muscs that I will really feel emotional!