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cfc488JeomiWogkig – :
This is a strong and very intoxicating scent for cool weather. It’s the type of scent that you cannot stop sniffing your hand. It is not a new smell for me though, I’ve smelt this before in an old feminine scent, I can’t remember the name.
It is so well blended that hardly you can detect individual notes. It’s a floral/powdery and very spicy-green scent with dominant mint, iris, very strong amberwood, strong heliotrope, strong incense. The rest notes are very mild. This is not a sweet fragrance although has a mild sub-sweet vibe. And I also feel tiny traces or rose at the background.
The vibe is deep with rich body, almost arabic but refined & well blended with a vintage (victorian era) feeling witout being dated or old school. It has zero similarities with Dior Homme line as someone says. I highly recommend it especialy for mature women, quite sexy smell, but anyone can wear it although leans slightly to feminine scents.
Solid performance with longevity 11-12 hours and heavy sillage/projection for the first 2-3 hours.
mishka-gura – :
I am in love with this perfume!
When you smell a new perfume you often immediatly draw parallels to another (or several..), already existing perfume/parfumes. Not this one. This is completly uniqe. And in my opinion, this is also very unisex.
It starts of very sharp, I smell both oakmoss and ceder (even though it´s not listed) and I also smell gin and juniper. No sticky sweetness here! Then the mint takes over the scene and completly dominates for a good long while. Several hours later, the most creamy mint candy cane scent finds it´s way up my nose. The incence and powdery iris in the background makes the perfume stay “grown up” and not become sticky sweet and childish.
This scent has personality and boldness!!
Edit: One spray last at least 24h on me..
windzor2008 – :
There used to be a deodorant called Soft & dri. Mentha Religiosa does not smell like that. But it is soft, and it is very, very dry. Almost astringent, like sucking a lozenge which is 50% alum (should you ever want to do such a foolish thing). You know when you walk into a cathedral, specifically, I imagine, somewhere in France, or perhaps a small town church which has been recently censed by a troupe of small boys bearing belching thurifers, hymns have been sung, contrition has been expressed with Hail Mary’s aplenty and the congregation have drifted out, half to the kitchen to prepare Sunday dinner, and the other half to the pub to wait for it? That. Through open double doors a cool spring breeze blows, whipping around the pews, dancing on the pulpit like some heathen at large, ruffling the flowers a bit before blowing straight up the priest’s vestment and catching him right up the apse as he pops a tic tac into his mouth to drown the lingering aftertaste of ribena and communion wafers. Vases of slightly sagging heliotrope jostle with the fragrance of a vanilla pastry crumbs which someone dared to consume in the corner pew throughout the sermon. That vanilla …. it cannot be silenced, it bounces up against you from the first spray, audacious, itt’s warmth and comforting scent at odds with the dry, almost metallic incense note which carries it. I waited a long time for this – and I am delighted with it. Dear Rose, once again, you have produced the raging yang to the receptive yin of White Song. Two dresser favourites. Love at first sniff.
GoldMan26 – :
Was so intrigued by reviews and thanks to nicest Ioli19 I have this scent now all over me. Wow! I was waiting for something like that for years, for something really different and not weird, yet slightly weird and astonishing. I only recognised the chalky mint and powdery iris without checking out with notes. Thought it would be suede though, because it really has something from Chanel 28 la Pausa, – powdery luxurious touch of some expensive stuff…Mmmmm, its beautiful, that’s all I have to say, it is light, yet full, like when powderness of Iris is zoomed in till the end along with mint, which at times smells anis or even wormwood-like (aromatic-witchery) and heliotrope with incense are just a frame, very French, makes me happy!
eva1sha – :
This is a bit peculiar to me, like chewing gum after a cigarette on a spring day. The word aftertaste comes to mind…
somex – :
This is most definitely on my list of future fbs. Its really scrumptious. I can see why some think this is peculiar or weird. I think 4160 Tuesdays fragrance were viewed that way at the start but open your fragrant mind and with patience you will see the beauty. Im probably a typical eccentric Brit so it seems quite normal to me lol
The mint is very evident on the opening but its not harsh in any way. The petit grain and citrus keep everything fresh without being piecing.
The vanilla and resins lightly sweeten it to perfection. I love how the iris cools the whole and the incense gives just the right amount of definition.
Good sillage and good longevity. This has zoomed up into my top 10.
xfail – :
Dear Rose Mentha Religiosa is a peculiar scent.
On the first sniff I am thinking a minty aftershave but there is something very pleasant about it and it keeps wafting about and constantly changing. I keep thinking I smell citrus blossom, then I smell a bit of 4160 Tuesdays What I Did On My Holidays and then I smell a bit of Penhaligon`s LP No:9 which also has that slight shaving vibe. It smells clean, slightly soapy, in fact it reminds me a bit of my grandad’s shaving soap yet it is incredibly pleasant and I can’t get enough of it but I can not express it properly in words. This scent is a fragrant shape shifter of some sorts. It is multilayered and these different layers are popping out every now and then and keep confusing my nose.
So odd yet strangely pleasant and comforting. I will need to give this good wear several times but I think I would certainly consider a FB or at least a large decant in the future.
SABINA – :
God what a fabuuulous bottle! I love the perfume, it’s extraordinary. Elegant and super refined – and wholly feminine! Beautiful. xxx
lavren4iuk.stass – :
This juice is simply beautiful and well composed. A highly blended combination of Dior Homme Intense and Cartier Roadster. Thumbs up!
i270771 – :
Opening is a bit harsh and loud, as the mint, bergamot and Iris come shouting at you all at once.
Then the mint cools you and soothes you, before the Iris envelops her rich floral lustre.
Petigrain, is this green, herbal, bitter ‘stench’ that makes this otherwise sweet (vanilla and amberwood) concoction interesting and modern, relevant with the help of frankincense.
The heliotrope, amberwood and vanilla guarantee a well-rounded dry down and outro.
A rather interesting, albeit wonderfully weird composition, but that’s its charm.
I find it not dissimilar than Amouage’s Sunshine Man, however this one is a bit lighter and perhaps a bit more feminine and floral.
Definitely worth a try, but guaranteed a marmite effect type of fragrance: you either love or loathe it!
7/10. Possibly a bit better than “Sunshine” Man? You’ll be the judge.
xmasundel – :
To sum it up, this perfume smells to me exactly like Tic Tac mint drops. It’s nice 🙂