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immiscusbaf – :
Smells nothing like any of the iris fragrances I have tried before. Definitely not unpleasant though. In fact, it is rather pleasant. I get a cold, woody, raspberry-ish smell from it. Not nearly as challenging as some of the other reviews might lead you to believe.
ruslan619 – :
120 ml bottle here. The sprayer gives a good *wooosh*! The scent: very irisy iris. You think you’ve smelled iris out of Dior Homme? Try this. Not a safe blind buy if you don’t know what you’re getting.
naskar0 – :
It figures that this fabulous orris scent would be sitting inconspicuously right under my nose so to speak. At $25 for 100ml, I feel like similarly simple, true orris root scents (Prada Purple Rain I’m looking at you) have alot of explaining to do as to why they cost 15 times as much. Thank you to Rosie Cotton, fostermd and hadas for the dead-on reviews. I wouldn’t have otherwise tried this and found what I’ve been eternally looking for.
MeRin777 – :
I cultivate irises. They are a little hobby and a great joy. I started with 7 bulbs and now have over a hundred plants. I love irises.
This perfume smells like irises. It smells like the icy woody iris that I work with and love.
If you like iris perfumes but don’t have much experience with the actual plant, this probably isn’t a great choice. You may be happier with one of the lovely iris perfumes. Much of what people think of as an iris scent is not iris at all. Iris is sharp and bitter and cold and a touch sickening. It is not sweet or civilized- it leaves that to the violets.
The sillage on this is low. That’s great because most people really won’t love this.
I bought the biggest bottle and a backup. It’s heavenly to me.
Black_Frost – :
I am a true orris enthusiast, in fact, so much so that I sometimes will just wear pure orris absolute (the crazy expensive liquid with irnone percentage in the 90% range). I happened upon Demeter’s Iris when I was hoping against what I had thought were against all odds that I would find an inexpensive perfume that I could at least supplement my natural orris habit with at least some of the time. Well, I was shocked to find that this smells like really fine orris with a very high irone content. For those of you who complain that it smells cold, metallic and dry I have this to say, then why did you buy iris? You obviously did not know that those are all characteristics of what orris is supposed to smell like. This is the only iris perfume on the market that I have smelled that smells only like iris. Others I like but they are cluttered up with other notes which, although beautiful in their own way, are not welcome for those of us who just want to smell iris. The only perfume that is relatively close the Serge Lutens Silver Iris Mist, but it focuses more in the irone, alpha, beta, and methyl ionone, and iris nitrile (violet smells) and not the woody characteristics that natural orris possesses. Then on the dry down other notes make too strong of an appearance while in the Demeter Iris, it’s iris all the way. It is true that it could last a little longer but it’s great and certainly not expensive so I doubt if any of us are going to go broke just putting on a few more sprays throughout the day.
АНТОН2012 – :
I’m so impressed with Iris by Demeter. I received this yesterday expecting it to smell nothing like iris/orris, but it’s actually really awesome. It’s a very well-done and true orris note. It starts off a little carrot-y and it is rooty, slightly metallic, and gets creamier as it fades, while still retaining its true iris scent. So many iris fragrances have lots of other notes added such as rose, citrus, ambrette, lily. This one is the real deal, not dressed up or pretty-fied at all. Lasting power is decent but not great, sillage is also okay but not great.
VaseliskGame – :
The smell of this Demeter is deeply unsettling. It is so cold, metallic and dry that it truly made me nauseous when I unwisely took a large sniff. The olfactory equivalent of a brain-freeze.