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StasikLawyer – :
Hmmmm….! it’s almost water & i can’t smell anything unless i stick my nose to me wrest!
This is not really a gardenia! It is more of a green jasmine, like a green cut fresh raw jasmine! maybe it has a bit of gardenia but mostly it is jasmines!
This is overly wear and very close to skin! that IF it stayed more than few minutes!
elebu – :
I feel like I’m smelling an entirely different perfume from the previous two reviewers.
Lady Day is not nearly as bitter as I expected for a galbanum-focused perfume. On a blotter it is thin and green, but on the skin it warmed out to this great plush, woody, green fragrance. The gardenia is a way in the back of the boat providing a tiny bit of floral ballast, but curiously I’d describe the scent experience as more similar to true amber, but if amber were green instead of golden – I know this is the vanillic spice of the peru balsam talking, but it’s a nice effect, even if simple. Perhaps that’s it: the simplicity of this might obfuscate the skill, but it is there nonetheless.
InDisguise-VPN – :
Lady Day is definitely not for everyone but it would be a hit with fans of green florals, like Cristalle and Mito by Vero Kern.
The songs of Billie Holiday are of the hopes and dreams of people, sung with a wistful and melancholic air of someone whose own life could have done with some realised hopes and dreams.
Lady Day combines the bitterness of her life and the sweetness of her songs in one. As with all of life, there will always be the bitter with the sweet. Galbanum as always is striking and uncompromising in its characteristic bitterness, there is a sharp and peppery almost astringent quality to the opening of Lady Day before the bitter and the green allow the gardenia to slowly unfurl its petals and release its youthful and innocent beauty.
Gardenia is noticeable but subdued in Lady Day, until the drydown where the herbal green elements seemed to have burned out, leaving the flower standing alone.
The projection and longevity is modest but Lady Day isn’t a perfume to be showcased on a night out, rather she should be listened to with undivided attention and silent appreciation of her unique attractiveness.
giksan94 – :
Oh, my goodness, this is just dreadful. Lady Day opens with a huge dose of bitter medicinal galbanum which is finally joined by green balsam and a gardenia note. But nothing relieves the misery of all that harsh bitterness. Why anyone would want to smell like this is totally beyond my comprehension.