Lilac No.4

I looooove this! I immediately was smelling a lilac bush, and the pavement's still wet from rain. Not overtly so, but this scent can definitely be sexy. I love to spray this in my hair:) edit: in astronomy we make use of "averted vision". Sometimes you can see stars more clearly if you look at them in your periphery, off center, rather than straight on. The vast majority of the time I wear this I smell all lovely lilac, but occasionally- particularly on a hot humid day like today- I'll catch this faint glimmer where all the petals are gone and that headiness gets.. intimate. Almost like body odor, this urine/sweat dimension which doesn't smell unnatural, because funkiness resides in the plant kingdom too, but is just never something I find when I smell it directly. I don't really find it offensive, it's there one second and gone the next, but just something I've noticed. Personally, I haven't found that cumin spiciness that others mention. All lilac bush heavy with blooms: purple, green, and rich brown earth. The flowers are in focus, but the ground is not

not the sweet and soft lilac that would accompany the storybook mood-board dream of vintage lace ribbon, picnic blankets, and freshly picked strawberries. This lilac is steadfastly of-this-world. It's that of the lilac bush in the public park in brooklyn. There's crushed leaves, dogs off leash, trash wafting from down the street, you brought your book but you forgot to bring a blanket to sit on and you're starting to feel the damp grass through your basketball shorts. It's a wonderful humid fragrance that shows you don't need to fantasize about something in order to find the romance in it.

Glistening and feral. Your crush just stole a kiss from you in a private garden in the rain. You’re not really allowed to be there because you live in a flat down the road and not in one of the £4.3m houses around it, but it’s pretty and the gate was open. You amble home and the sky goes from moody and overcast to clear and pink-tinged. Street lamps turn on and concrete shimmers under your feet. The smell of wet lilacs lining your road mingles with the scent of your crush, still lingering on you. The 63 to KX station zooms past. Smells stunning and lasts forever!!!!!!

As others have said, this is the most photorealistic lilac scent I've smelled outside of directly sticking my face in a blooming, wet lilac bush. It's walking along a sidewalk in a residential neighbourhood on a hot May or June day after it rained, catching a heady whiff of lilac floating over from someone's yard. Green, earthy, humid lilacs that are maybe a day past their peak and about to wilt in a couple days. This lasts forever on me, my clothes, and my bedsheets. It instantly cheers me up whenever I wear it and makes me feel so pretty. It is perfection.

Know I’m writing this about a Lucky Scent perfume sample but I couldn’t help myself— this is a prime specimen of a horny floral, which I consider my specialty... I would swallow this perfume sample whole like a pill just to feel it beyond smell (if it wouldn’t send me into a hypochondriac spiral). I have absolutely nothing to say about longevity or sillage or performance really at all, I’m just spiritually enamored with the realism of the singular lilac note. This is a fresh flower dripping wet then maybe smashed and rubbed all over you (my dream)

This is childhood exploration in the patch of trees next to your elementary school where you break twigs and pick flowers that you bring home to lay in between the pages of your books, to me this is innocence in its purest form, my first memory of the patches of lilacs in the parks of where I grew up. Great longevity and sillage.

Green, purple, realistic lilac w/ hints of dirt and broken branch. This goes a tad powdery on my skin but remains a strong purple floral. Very much looking forward to ushering in the spring with this one. I layered this with Philosykos and about fell out of my seat. Potentially my favorite layering combination of all time.

A perfectly realistic lilac tree, including the sticky-sweet crushed petals littering the ground beneath. Linear and lasting. I'm obsessed. Thinking of buying another bottle because I'm scared about "limited/seasonal." But I guess a real lilac tree doesn't bloom year-round either.

I love this lilac scent--very realistic extremely well balanced between floral, green, and wet soil. It's not really sweet or powdery/pollinated--and it's also on the lighter side. Edit: worn this a couple times and am just now picking up on the cumin note others have commented on

True lilac. Soft, voluptuous, fresh - at once virginal and libidinous, beastly but tender. A deeply romantic stench. Divine

This is the tangible representation of burying your face into a lilac tree in the spring.

Extremely green lilac!! Actually to diebfor if you want a green wet lilacs. Love her.

Cold, stemmy lilacs on a spring morning walk. Creamy-indole tuberose in the back.

Picking blooms off the lilac bush and stuffing them in your panties.

bought a sample of this on my quest for the perfect lilac perfume, and while it's not what *I* want from a lilac (preferring photorealistic scents) this absolutely does for lilacs what Lush's Lust does for jasmine. beautiful fresh, wet flower opening, then almost immediate drydown into something old lady but in a sexy way - a classic warm white floral that's definitely in-your-face indolic but never animalic or barnyard. now after a few hours on the skin it's backing off a little, and im starting to see the listed petrichor note peek through, bringing it full circle back to the cool wet of the opening. really like this one.

Lilac no.4 is an intriguing summer scent. The opening is a very powdery and crisp white floral, almost to the point of being too much, and quite literally evokes a freshly cut lilac. But once it settles onto the skin, it turns into something almost provocative. On my skin it condenses into a lilac syrup, sweet and warm, which I find to be rather intoxicating and a unique floral in my collection of samples. It wears close to the skin and lasts for a couple hours. To me this is definitely meant to be worn on the skin and in the heat of summer, sweat makes it come alive faster.

heady, reclining lilac dreams, traveling in ultraviolet as you climb the upward rickety wooden stairs to the L train. it follows as you stop for a park hot dog in ankle-wrapped sandals; someone just blew a pink animal balloon. edit: i finally acquired this. layered it with my roll-on Demeter thunderstorm oil (on the last unseasonably warm rainy day of the year) and it was heaven. edit may 2025: sadly as my bottle has sat for longer, i'm noticing the cumin-y note that others are mentionin. kinda wishing that my bottle still smelled how it used to, but it's growing on me.

there's something carnal, almost frightening about lilac no.4 — like how I would imagine a venus flytrap to smell. the snapping of bared fangs accompanied by a bitter green note; vicious little purple tongues budding into a fleshy, voluptuous efflorescence. I know lilac is meant to be delicate, innocent even, but in this scent it imposes, like the flat spine of a knife beneath your index finger. a carnivorous sort of floral, it cries bitterly for its freshly broken stems, viscid ichor dripping from its wounds: a bittersweet memory of innocence, when you still had it.

a dirty and fleshy lilac with a visceral bite. opens as soapy and delicate before quickly turning into an animalic and earthy blend. there is something almost lecherous about the way this develops. reminds me of body odor and musk and spices and heat. ive never came across a soliflore this dimensional. this is the evil older sister to the baby faced and wide eyed régime des fleurs’ tears.

this perfume introduced me to a true photorealistic scent. wet flowers in the burgeoning onset of the warm months. this speaks to thee kind of summer that you never have in tropical countries. this summer is the explosion of life after dark frigid months. it is an assertion of fecundity, of the return of vegetal things that are resilient, fruiting.