Bravi

This was love at first sniff for me, but I waited 6 months before posting this, because, you know how things are to us when they are shiny and new. The flavor of the week so to speak. But this has held up for me in all that time. I find it to be intoxicatingly beautiful, in an almost sensual way. If smell were a texture, this would be silk. It’s smooth. So smooth. There is nothing sharp or jagged here for me. The notes most apparent to me that I would be able to pick out without seeing them listed here are, tuberose first and foremost, followed by a nutty quality (I don’t have confidence that I’d be able to distinguish walnut over any other nut), milk or cream, and honey in the background but strong enough for me to pick it up. Despite having gourmand qualities, this fragrance also has a clean and fresh side to it as well. Not quite soapy or shampoo-like, but close to it. It’s just a vague idea that’s present though, and not the main characteristic. It has a lightness or airiness that compliments the heavier notes so beautifully. It never feels like a heavy fragrance and I appreciate that. The performance is really good, I get 5-8 hrs with it depending on the weather and my activity level. I’m actually shocked to see that some people complain about poor performance. I would never label this perfume in that way. It also projects more than I expected it to. People around me definitely notice it. I wouldn’t call it a room filler, but it’s definitely not shy. But because it has the airiness, it stays in the non-offensive realm. There is a sweetness to it that goes beyond floral sweet, but I’d say that the sweetness is balanced well also. To me, it’s not cloying or overly sweet. But that’s definitely something I feel each person needs to decide for themselves. I feel that this fragrance is very feminine. But I almost always view tuberose fragrances as feminine, so make of that what you will. I feel beautiful when I wear this. I love it!

I was binging YouTube Perfume content one night. I came upon Eloise of "Eloise Scents," who raved about Thameen "Bravi." I like Eloise a lot. Her perfume preferences oftentimes resonate with mine. So, I found a "new bottle minus a few sprays" of Bravi at a great price and snapped it up. I thought, "Why not?" Bravi is gorgeous. Blind buy success, I'd say. As a side-note, I ADORE tuberose-centric fragrances. I've likely owned/own/sampled nearly 50 tuberose perfumes in recent years. Matiere Premiere "French Flower" and Nishane "Tuberoza" are loves. Bravi opens with a detectible citrus accord, which I imagine is bitter orange. I do not detect much ginger in the opening (which is fine, as I'm not a huge fan of ginger as a strong opening note). A thick, syrupy, honeyed-tuberose immediately emerges. The mid-notes are heady. Honey and tuberose dominate. This is not bubble-gum tuberose, nor is the tuberose cloying, indolic, or overly-green. And I definitely detect a lovely, creamy, milky, nutty-walnut accord from mid-to dry down. There's vanilla in the base. Not sure I smell anything akin to tobacco, which is a note I love. Bravi is creamy, lactonic, nutty and with tobacco but never suffocating, or dense. Bravi wears in an ethereal, lightweight and diaphanous manner. I really love this stuff! I'd say it's a must try for any lover of a creamy, honeyed, tuberose fragrance with a twist. Glad I snagged a 100ml bottle!

I lived with this perfume on my wrist and clothes for a full day, travelling on a coach to London to see my friends in Hackney. I am usually a little fearful of gourmands - I don't like smelling like a dessert, probably owing to spending my university years when I had yet to round out my personality smothered in Lolita Lempicka... Then, Baccarat Rouge has always made me feel nauseous. I get it - it's a commercial masterpiece but to me it smells of a dropped middle class cake. THIS. Bravi is how you do gourmand. I got every sense of the honeyed hazelnut, playing with the flowers. It felt perfect for that daytime bit of travel from city to city, warming my cashmere jumper, incubating on an empty bus. This is a lush creamy, sparkling tuberose. It's like someone threw a glass of champagne over a bouquet of tuberose and you're sitting next to them having a conversation about the wedding that went south - and relieved it isn't yours. I also get that one could amp it up with evening wear and I get the connection to the opera. It is a very Diva scent, a very safe blind but but also unique enough to garner interest. EDIT: Womp, looks like this just went out of distribution.

This is the most comforting smell to me, at first try it really reminded me of the dark blue nivea lotion, even though the only note they share is the bergamot - the comfort probably comes from the women in my family all using that nivea lotion😄 It just makes me so happy. The perfume has really good staying power and sillage in my opinion, at first I mainly smell the ginger with honey, like a really honeyed ginger tea, a bit later it gets really creamy and I start to smell the tuberose and the walnut to calm down the sweetnes of the honey a bit, tho it never gets cloying with the ginger and the citruses. The rest of the time it doesn’t really change, which I like as the drydown is beautiful. Not sure if this is my style, but I am really tempted to buy a bottle purely because how comforting it is. I believe it can be worn throughout the whole year, maybe not in really high heat, but I’d imagine this would be lovely on a summer night.

I read an article about THAMEEN perfumes...a brand I'd not experienced. I ordered a few samples. Each one is very good...very appealing. I fell *deep* for BRAVI and ordered a 10ml. While enjoying the travel size I felt I needed to have a full bottle. Why? It's not like my perfumes selection/collection is in short supply. Funny how our minds work. I ordered a full bottle (new) then saw a partial bottle for sale (on Mercari) and bought that, too. (I'll gift that one to a good friend.) BRAVI...to me and my nose...feels comfortable//comforting like Jardin des Misfah meets Ex Nihilo *Explicite* and something else I can't quite put my finger on. BRAVI is perfect just the way it is. This morning....on a whim...I added a schpritz of Lush *Cardamom Coffee*. Extraordinary. 10/10