L'innocence de L'air

This scent is a mandarin, ambrette and musk scent. A tiny hint of rose but not overwhelmingly so. The wear is definitely on the personal side, but she is a beautiful skin scent.

This scent has achieved something quite unique. It’s not potpourri, however it is a scent that sort of feels like potpourri’s distant, more sophisticated, more worldly cousin. Frutiger-aero potpourri with long hair blowing in the wind on horseback. This is what I imagine a romantic French fairytale smells like. Oo la la. You gotta be dressed down nicely for this; if maybe you’re in Europe in a place where everyone pays extreme attention to detail to their fashion no matter the day or hour, this would be super versatile for everyday wear. Besides that, your personality has to match or you have to be ready to look as sophisticated as you smell.

I don't get the generic accusations, this smells neither like musk nor rose to me. It opens with an incredibly green note, almost celery-like, I could not believe that was supposed to be a mandarin. There was no citrusy sweetness to it, it was a very sharp, snappy, green vegetable smell for me that lasted a long time. I will test it on my skin next time, sadly both my arms were already taken by two other perfumes I was testing out.

Very light and airy, reminds me a little of Parfums de Marly Valaya at first spray. The rose is very fresh. It’s a very clean, light, ‘just out of the shower’ type fragrance. Can get the mandarin a little in the dry down. Sits very close to the skin. Due to its refreshing airy nature and slight citrus scent I will probably use this in the height of summer.

When I first smelled this, I had no idea what any of the notes were, and I thought it was an iris/orris perfume with some citrus and aldehydes. After 5 minutes, whatever my nose picked up as iris passed, and then I got rose. The middle reminds me a lot of Atomic Rose from Initio, but the drydown is much lighter and more subtle and skin-like.