Cinéma Scenario d'Ete

Lovely! Beautiful, fresh, delicious. Very natural smelling, and beautifully smooth, and also a little creamy as if there's coconut in it. Very limey at the start, then becomes more of a floral, especially jasmine but I can also smell the lovely amaryllis sweetness, and then it creams out into a lovely soft dry-down, which lasts a good 6 hours. Altogether it lasts about 9 hours. Very nice. And I get many compliments too. It's really elegant and classy, and I love it!

Why, oh why, did YSL have to make this gorgeous fragrance so light and sheer? Although I adore it, it seems to me more like a very expensive deodorant. Somehow I get hints of coconut in this although it is not a component...the lime is excellent and does not have the cleaning agent smell.I have it but it was a gift and I am not sure if I would purchase it myself as the import costs are substantial in my country. I would rather buy the glorious edp...

Scénario d'Eté is a light summer edition of the wonderful Cinéma. The perfume opens with intense notes of sweet and fruity mandarin, sunny orange and refreshing lime. At this very beginning the scent smells like summer, a mild breeze and puts me in a good mood immediately. I cannot pinpoint any of the heart notes (jasmine, amaryllis and ylang-ylang) but notice a soft floral accords that seems to have replaced the lime note. Mandarin and orange keep on smelling sunny and sweet. The base is a dream come true of warm notes. The peach note is sweet but not sugary, sickly sweet or sticky. It is just plain sweet, real, but fresh and soft at the same time and fits perfectly to the warm nuances of amber and musk. The base is really sweet, warm and cuddly despite Cinémas's signature vanilla being a no-show in this edition. The sweet mandarin stays until the very end and contributes a lot to the overall "sun goddess" feeling. Yes, I do feel like THE sun goddess while wearing Scénario d'Eté! The scent stays close to the skin but lasts for more than 6 hours.

Gorgeous bottle, beautiful scent, however, I would not repurchase. Why? Simply because it stays on me for about 15 minutes tops - my deo has more lasting power!! I get the top notes of mandarin and lime but that's about all I get. A perfume has to last longer for one to ascertain the mid and base notes! Feel a bit cheated that it is marketed as a perfume when it vanishes in fifteen minutes. Sigh! Take 2: Was such a hot day today that I reached for this once again, for want of a citrussy cooling aura ...what can I say? Second time lucky, I guess. Smelling divine and its still there one hour later! Beginning to sense the YSL touch in this now! Don't mind spritzing this more often so it stays longer. Very refreshing.

On my skin it is very similar to Roxy - they have some main notes in common... Sunny ylang & peach dominate, quite delicate. Just too sheer for my taste. A distant "breezy" relative to Cinema, living in the hot hemisphere :)