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defender007 – :
I love this one.. don’t let the name fool you. Even though there is a hint of LOTV I get a lot more of the rose, dark leather & neroli at first and then in the dry down more of the sandalwood, vetiver & vanilla… but that tranquil dew dew dew all the way through!!! Leans a bit feminine but I’m a man and I love it! Projection is a good arms length and longevity is a good 4 to 6 hours… Definitely worth a sample.
NalsurMRN – :
This is an interesting one, because it doesn’t really smell like lily of the valley. It doesn’t really smell that much like a floral scent at all. It has a soft floral feeling that comes and goes, but this is mainly a balsamic, leathery, slightly sirupy and boozy woodland type of smell.
I must admit that I don’t really enjoy lily of the valley notes in perfumes, I find it too sharp and soapy a lot of times. So this more conceptual take on lily of the valley is so much more my cup of tea. I really like this scent.
I associate this fragrance with the forest and its surroundings from the children’s book “Ronia the Robber’s Daughter” by the swedish author Astrid Lindgren (for those of you who have read the book or seen the movie or TV-series).
This is the smell of an shadowy scandinavian forest inhabited by all sorts of woodland creatures, both animals and creatures from folklore (gnomes, dryads and other nature spirits, both benign and more mischievous).
It has a combination of moist, green, forest floor type of scents and more dry, woody. softly smoky and also rock like smells.
There is a gorgeous leather note in here, that reminds me of Ronias clothes and the fur and leather details in her home, the robber’s castle. Combined with a semi soft sirupy and slightly boozy type of smell it creates the atmosphere of the main hall in the robber’s castle, with the longtable, barrels of ale and mead and all the robbers singing and eating together.
Hints of something floral and softly green comes and goes, as I have said, and gives the feeling of spring or early summer. It’s like smelling Ronia roaming around the forest and performing her famous wild spring cry, out of pure happiness that winter is finally over.
I think this might be my favourite from Parfums Quartana (of the ones I’ve tried so far).
Longevity is great, I get around 8-9 hours out of this. Sillage is a solid medium.
ur_vlad – :
Sour wood filling, leather and the least lily of the valley which is the best as lotv is quite disturbing to my senses.
5 minutes in, it goes quite wool like with sour sweet neroli, and slight vetiver, with doses of sandalwood. It’s impressive.
It feels like a dew drop on plants made of wool and wood fillings.