Aki

It is very interesting at the beginning. I sprayed it and after few minutes i felt like being wrapped in very soft and creamy cloud of some cherry seed/amaretto character. Wow, I thought! But then I sniffed it next to skin and the scent there was much more intensive and sharp. Very dusty, very powdery, but in any way moldy or heavy. I was stunned by that surprising interaction of scent itself and its sillage! It's like you used two different perfume, one sprayed directly on the skin and another one - in the air around you. However, this feeling lasted just for the first 30 min or so. As the time passed, powder disappeared and the fragrance got sweeter and softer, of course not in banal syrupy way. What I felt later was a beautiful composition of musk and amber, the one i don't usually find interesting in other perfumes, because it's quite common and plain. But here.. It was like musk and amber were sitting on the opposite sides of scales - one moment musk is dominating, other time - amber. A very elegant drydown. I would like my clothes or clean body to smell like that. Very very carnal scent, which is suitable for any season and any daytime - exactly as you natural body smell, you can't just leave it at home. As for me, I prefer wearing fragrances that make statement, so I would like to try layering Aki with something else, because wearing Aki seems like wearing nothing, like being naked. Very interesting relationship, i never experienced anything similar with any other perfume yet... Maybe that means we belong together? :)

Super clean classic and elegant start, with a fruity ylang, whiffs of cedar and patchouli on a black ambergris and a lot of musk. Vetiver and rosewood give sparkle. Initially it is quite creamy reminiscent of expensive moisturizing creams then, it becomes even clearer, powdery and soapy as it dries. Quite feminine, classic seduction, with a nice clean, tidy, pleasant trail. Definitely more daytime. I am a man and personally enjoy drydown more, when the ylang loosens its grip.

Slightly old fashioned smelling at application but that faded quickly. I get the rosewood while the musk and floral notes are more retiring. A soft fragrance with an underlying candy like sweetness to the opening and middle and just a fleeting bit of manliness from the cedar. The drydown does bring a bit more cedar and more masculine vibe but never takes this fragrance into definately male territory. Not overly long lasting which is a disapointment.

A very pretty old school fragrance. I can see why other reviewers have called this old ladyish - it's powdery and elegant. However, I think there's soemthing very pretty and almost fresh about this, it's comforting and refined. Very similar to Agent Provocateur's Strip.

Autumn in a bottle!Seductive, powdery, warm scent.It`s like golden light in the mid-October and last whiffs of south wind predicting some chilly days which are on a doorstep. Amber is a star of a composition, perfectly mixed with rosewood and some woody accents which prevent Aki from being too sweet, delicate and elusive. Some musky and powdery accents are also present in the base.No fruits and no flowers but a pure class and feminity expressed by high class ingredients and their fluid communication.Loving Habanita (old formula you will probably love Tann Rokka`s first perfume. If Aki means autumn in Japanese I can imagine a geisha- girl,who is sitting in the ochaya and holding kokyu in her small hands.A perfect make up and haidressing, a small smile-she`s waiting for her companion.She`s concentrated, reconciled to her role, but still missing her home, parents and siblings like we miss summer :warm, sunny and happy days.Beauty and reflexion..