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nura – :
Granada is a sexy and sophisticated white floral with an almost gourmand dimension. It opens with a juicy burst of orange blossom and jasmine, but then takes a vanillic turn with toothsome tonka and the enveloping toasted almond scent of heliotrope. A splash of tart grenadine cuts through any potential powder and the composition blooms into a delectable warm floral-gourmand nectar.
This is one of few white florals that doesn’t turn cloying or musty on me. It’s like finding the perfect little white dress – one that hugs your body in all the right places, yet is totally comfortable. Wearing this, I am transported to a small Mediterranean village in the springtime. I sit on the rooftop of an old but elegant villa, where the air is fragrant with jasmine and orange blossom. The sun dips into the sea, casting its fiery glow on my sun-kissed shoulders (wearing said little white dress), as I sip my Grenadine cocktail and munch on fresh Turrón, perfectly content in the sweetness of the moment.
blazetime – :
What a well done fragrance. White florals with a touch of vanilla. Such a pretty white floral too. Great for the warmer weather. This is a very sophisticated, a great wedding fragrance.
Longevity seems great and sillage also. Worth the money. I will buy again when I run out.
Love.
zakdvl – :
I really like this combination of white florals and heliotrope along with the syrupy sweetness of the Grenadine. Nothing heady or indolic here just a pretty sweet (but not cloying) floral that works well in hot weather.
I wish more perfumes had a Grenadine note – takes me back to happy childhood memories of ordering shirley temple “cocktails” and eating deep fried mushrooms at a restaurant my Dad worked at.
I get decent longevity from this one 5-7 hours. Projection is moderate for the first 1 or 2 hours then after that it’s a skin scent.
zelenyi_green – :
To my nose this opens as a basic white floral that I’ve smelled so many times..then on the dry down, about 2 hours after applying, I pick up a subtle sweetness and a wee hint of citrus. It’s okay, nothing synthetic nor cloying, and all in all fairly soft sillage and moderate longevity.
Nice for the high heat and humidity days of Summer that we get here. But nothing that stands to me as unique or different. Still, this is nice enough. I just wouldn’t pick up a full bottle, as there are just too many other similar scents that I already own or have owned.
However, at this price level, I feel like the fragrance needs to be exceptional and perform strongly and this just falls short on both counts for me. “Nice enough” does not really net the hefty price tag for me here. *shrug* To each their own!! 🙂
alekden2010 – :
Well knock me over with a feather! This is some delicious jasmine. Jasmine and grenadine syrup, somehow without being too sweet. Fun evening al fresco cocktails with classy girlfriends who have been long overdue for a night out together.
Then warming down to some smoky tonka and a touch of silky heliotrope as the big girls wind down instead of going all night — the type who know that they have to get home early to get up for work the next day.
Grenada is sophisticatedly flirty without being sexually overt or too serious. Big joyful floral love!
zTz – :
Perfection!!! EVERY WOMAN SHOULD SMELL LIKE THIS!!! This is perfection. WOW!
ad2616 – :
I’m wearing a very small amount of this, from a dabber vial. Initially, I smelled the Jasmine, and its green nuances. I wondered if I might have detected the whisper of tuberose.
Moments later the heliotrope emerged, and a hint of tonka, powdery and slightly sweet. I hadn’t checked the notes, but I remembered it being described as a jasmine and vanilla perfume. (A very good jasmine, and strong.)
After this, I became convinced I was smelling orange flower, which I don’t get along with. It was at this point that I began to develop a headache, and I checked out the notes. I found I was smelling correctly.
I am far outside of my fragrance comfort zone. I enjoy dabbling in jasmine, but orange blossom nauseates me, unfortunately.
I see that this perfume is inspired by the Spanish city of Granada, and I know no Spanish themed perfume could be complete without orange blossom.
I just know that I would enjoy it much more without that one troubling note.
The powdery sweetness of heliotrope is beginning to become more intense, thankfully. The jasmine is easing into the background, and the orange blossom, while still too present, is beginning to round out its own edges.
Don’t let my dislike of orange blossom influence your opinion of this perfume. This perfume is decidedly not my style, but I can’t deny that it is a very good perfume.
nata_lg – :
Notes of bergamont, orange blossom,jasmine, musk and amber wood. I can really smell the floral , amber wood and bergamont notes. All year round day
sandro1971 – :
I got a sample of this when I purchased another perfume online. It’s very sweet – a bit too sweet for my taste, but that said, it is pretty. I hadn’t tried it for a while, so had forgotten what was in it. I was quickly reminded when I put it on – a big blast of jasmine, incredibly strong to start with. It settles though, and the orange flower starts to peek out. After an hour or so, I got the vanilla and a hint of wood, and a faint hit of musk. I don’t know why, but this makes me think of Cerruti 1881, except this is better done. The notes are easy to pick out in this one – each of them has a voice in this scent, and they all speak up at different times. Seven hours out and it’s still going, but has settled in to a very sweet, powdery fragrance, almost old-ladyish, with a slightly sharp edge. I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t make me feel happy, like some perfumes do. Nice, but it’s not for me.
ivanevt – :
I smelled orange blossom, heliotrope, vanilla and tonka bean all stewed together. It was really lovely but very little sillage and after about 3 hours the scent had faded completely.
motogen – :
The first couple of minutes – ah, love! The bottle, the name, the notes, the first crispy and sweet waves of air.
Then all that air gets stuck between the old walls in a backyard of a provincial bar on a hot midsummer day – and lasts there forever…
Sweetness gets almost sticky giving me headache, and there is no movement in this jasmine-tonka boozy soup, everything is perfectly still.
It takes a windy chilly day and constant movement to pull this off and bring some life to it, IMO. I couldn’t wait to wash it off, so disappointed. Staying power is monstrous.
It also reminded me of other boozy perfumes from Ginestet.
garik1966 – :
I’ve found it at last!!!!!!!! The perfect white floral. It makes me want to sing on top of mountains and ring gongs through canyonlands! The perfection in the jasmine here lies not in the jasmine itself, but in everything else brought together to support it. For me, that is primarily tonka – it provides a warmth and headiness that jasmine flowers have on the bush but that somehow manage to disappear when jasmine oil is extracted for perfume. When you walk past a jasmine bush, try to think about the “texture” of what you’re smelling. Is it clean and sleek? Is it soapy? For me, the jasmine bushes that made me fall in love with jasmine smelled thick, lush, and velvety. They have a milky creaminess that just disappears during extraction. Here, the tonka brings back that heavy warm sweetess, and makes me just want to sink in it and be enveloped in its velvet forever and ever and ever. And ever.
The first time I sprayed this, I was watching a film that took place in Egypt, and the imagery in the film combined with the smell of this perfume just transported me into some kind of lala land filled with ancient pyramids, Islamic architecture, palm trees, warmth — all of those things we picture as the romantic Egypt. Needless to say, the perfume is, in fact, called “Granada,” and it is no coincidence that when I wear it, my mind is also filled with imagery of Granada, the beautiful geometric designs of the Alhambra (more Islamic architecture), the trees blooming with orange blossoms, the water flowing through the gardens, again more palms and more warmth. Really a transplanting fragrance.
mokrushnik – :
I tried. I really did. I wanted it work on me so bad, but sadly it is my bottle you see for sale now on EBay.
wjv644bedyWelty – :
“Granada” is a bottled femininity and sensuality. It’s absolutely gorgeous, I have no words how swooned I was from the first sniff. The start is lovely orange blossom with enormous yet elegant enough sweetness from heliotrope, BUT what I love the most is the dry down – such a sensual mix of jasmine, vanilla and musk – simply perfect, it has some dirty qualities, but it stays very feminine all the time.
Absolutely wonderful, excellent staying power, elegant silage, I’ll surely need a bottle of this.
Hunt down a sample if you look for a feminine and sexy sweet/dark scent that also is very elegant and versatile.
anoshkin26 – :
When I first tested it, I swooned. I bought a big bottle too soon in the store where I tested it after an hour, and now I’m just not sure. Need to revisit, but it may turn on me. So sad. I loved the idea of it. A French and Irish couple. I dance Flamenco, Granada, want so much to love it. I really hope it’s a goer. May want to trade, we’ll see…
38694 – :
I’m in love with this scent! At first smell it starts with a very intensive floral note, reminds me of white flowers, spring… Later,on the skin,the floral note become less intense and turns into a special and strange mix of sweeter notes, can’t define exactly.
The whole is not too sweet or vanilla (I don’t love the scents that become too heavy, don’t like the candy effect on the skin)
I love the olfactory complexity of Memo parfums, I like to find so many things inside the scent ….
Granada is one of my favorite fragrances and I don’t get tired of wearing it!
Very good persistence!
Demon78 – :
Very good! Floral, yes but I think unisex, it’s not invasive and heavy but very balanced. For all.
habibulin – :
Oh, if it were possible to eat a perfume, I would try this one with pleasure!)))
On my skin the heliotrope and African orange flower are very pronounced and sooooo sexy, mmmm… I have the impression that my own libido turn on towards myself!))) The symphony of jasmine, Tonka and vanilla is intense but so gentle, so feminine… This gem immediately was included on my wish list!