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Spectruoz – :
On me this smells like a more masculine pipe tobacco then fades into cherry and vanilla. Not a good fit for my chemistry.
SO masculine on me that I gave it to my husband but on him smells like a rich blend of roses, almond and vanilla.
jekas1 – :
I like Loukhoum, but I don’t love it. The first half hour of wear time is dominated by the warmth and slightly animalic purr of honey over a soft and mild powdered woody base. Had the opening reversed with the drydown it could have been love, but alas.
Not that the drydown is bad by any means. It is perfectly respectable as a powdered almondy woody base. Its sweet but not terribly so, certainly not the ethyl maltol overdose of so many other sweet scents. For my tastes the drydown is just lacking something that would elevate it— maybe a stronger and berry tinged rose note would have made me love it? Or perhaps a hint of honey or spice to warm it back up, or even some icy aldehyde to make it sparkle? IDK, for me it just feels incomplete after the glorious opening. So close and yet so far.
dorinu – :
The slightly medicinal hemlock note is really interesting. It blends with the creamy sweetness in a really interesting way. It almost makes the baby oil scent bearable. This is another one like Back to Black that would be amazing if it wasn’t for that baby smell.
oprosnikov2201 – :
Okay, wrote a review in Spring, and here is my new exprerience with this perfume:
UPDATE: I tried this one again, as I still had my sample. I found it pleasant and very close to a real eatable loukhoum. Since, I am really into gourmands, that new try was enough to actually enjoy this one, now. Probably because it is getting cold with winter coming, and the smell felt rich, feminine and comforting. Got myself the new gorgeous bottle. Four Seasons has a $25 coupons which bring the price down to $95. Enjoy!
wikini – :
I was searching for years to find THE parfume that will replace Hypnotic Poison which I have been using for a long time..can say that Tobacco Vanille was the only one standing first in row until I discovered this beautyful scent – LOUKHOUM. I got so many compliments with this parfume – it is absoletuly the winner! Very happy with it – it suits me fantasti and it is very long lasting.
OPEN – :
At the first spill I bring back to my trip to Istanbul. In the great bazaar, the air was filled with sweet scents: sugar and honey, but from the lukum rose the aroma of rose-raspberry rose, rose, rose,in the almond and fulgora of mulberry juice, of citrus, mirra. A sweating sweetness with a dark underworld.
DDML – :
i was looking forward to liking this, but it’s a plasticky, biting, bathroom air freshener on me. bummer.
BreetEthece – :
Like the review below, I too get some unpleasantness with the opening and heart notes.
The dry down hours later isn’t bad but I doubt I’ll even use my 2ml sample up.
Great longevity!
fransishko – :
This has all the notes that would normally be a win for me. But it is not. I smell the sugary almonds and honey upfront but there is something unpleasant too. Almost like a stale marzipan paste that is wet and heavy. Gourmand is tricky and just throwing a bunch of sweet notes together will give you gourmand but not much else. To all who love this and wear with pride, good for you, but this is a pass for me.
lexus92 – :
This is a cult fragrance but I feel that there’s a lot of hype over nothing. Loukhoum is not extraordinarily different from many of its gourmand, sweet, almond-y counterparts on the market these days. It’s a bit cloying and not as powdery as I expected it to be. It doesn’t smell like Turkish delight and it doesn’t evoke far off lands or bazaars. It’s just sweet and gourmand in a nutshell. Not very complex. It’s simple sugary sweet with not much evolution and mediocre longevity. For what it is you can spend a fraction of the price and achieve the same result, unfortunately.
вай ) – :
This reminds me a little bit of Lorenzo Villerezi’s ‘Teint de Neige’ but mixed with rose water / turkish delight. However, there is something in this that turns my stomach. Sorry, I really didn’t like this one at all 🙁
Gafar82 – :
This smells good, but somewhat plastick-y. It has a strong plastic overtone. Sweet. Vanilla. Plastic. I don’t think it would be something that I could wear on the regular.
Medium sillage, moderate longevity.
VIRUSOOOO – :
Loukhoum smelled like a basic, boring powder bomb the first time I tested it. I unscrewed the sample vial and POUF: there was powder. Almond powder. Rose powder. Vanilla powder. More powder. It seemed too simple, the way every note was unharmoniously crystal clear. And for such a seemingly fluffy scent, the thing was creepily potent and long lasting. But I think that’s what warmed me up to it, ultimately. There’s something kind of fantastic about a sugary sweet powder puff that’s so unapologetically big and bold, like a horror movie kitten on steroids.
If you can’t quite dislike Loukhoum then you might as well just go ahead and marinate yourself in it. Like Angel, it’s the sort of scent I want to be enveloped by and suffocating under. A blanket of Loukhoum. Or an avalanche, rather.
More is more with this one.
Hoplreot – :
Opens with a mouthwatering Turkish delight, replete with syrup, rose, and candy-glacéed goodness.
Then, things evolve into the smell of the ‘burnt wick of a candle falling into wax’. So realistic in fact, that I ran around the house making sure nothing was on fire. Not since BeauFort’s 1805 Tonnerre, have I been *so* convinced of an incendiary. Digging through the fragrance pyramid, I’m pretty sure it’s the Almond x Honey combo that’s registering this way on my skin.
Covergirl84 mentions a plastic-y smell in her review, and I have a feeling we’re referring to the same thing. We may have received aged samples, and/or this could be a skin chemistry thing. Be sure to try before you buy.
zrc539Negeltzex – :
HONEY! Honey envelopes my nose as soon as I spray and let the juice dry down on my skin. *swooooooooooooon* So very delicious. Not as powdery (of course) than the Poudree, but that is just fine since I own both fragrances. I do believe I will wear this to bed tonight.Delicious!
dosin – :
Shame about this one. My first impression, on application, was a dusty, musty sort of dry wood smell. Then it dried down into an old powder compact sort of smell with a touch of almond. And that was it for me – no rose, no floral notes, definitely no vanilla or honey. All I got was a dry, dusty, musty smell, which made me feel irritable. I gave it half an hour to see if it would evolve, but no. It just smelt more dusty and eventually it sent me hurrying to scrub it off. Obviously doesn’t agree with my skin chemistry. Pity, because the reviews have been so good on this one.
grx-77 – :
I don’t think I have any other fragrances with a Hawthorn scent note. It is not over powering in Loukhoum, but I do get it, especially at the opening, and I think it could be creating a little harshness. But the opening calms to the lovely baby doll head vanilla type note when smelling skin directly, while sillage of angelic rose vanilla fluffy perfume delight hovers off skin. For me I can ‘see’ through the powder of this fragrance, it’s more of a puff effect on projection. I really like this perfume and it does have addictive qualities.
Initially I discovered KM Loukhoum at MiN in 2013. At that time the bottle was purple, not pink, but it was the stand up bottle. I revisited my sample recently and decided to bite the bullet, buying it off the Luckyscent site. Now the purple bottle has changed and doesn’t stand, which isn’t that much fun, and the plastic cap seems cheap and ill fitting. My biggest concern is that the new version doesn’t seem to have the great crazy longevity of my 2013 sample. But out of fear I haven’t tested them side by side.
I love Loukhoum and I’m not ashamed to say it, but at $120 for 50ml I want that long lasting powerhouse that I sampled. Regardless Loukhoum has a happy home with me and I’m glad I finally bought it!
tayfun05 – :
OMGawd this is good. I’ve had a bottle since 2004, then recently got a purple bottle, and nothing much has changed. The purple bottle smells a bit funny in the opening, but after that it’s the same powdery Turkish Delight yumminess. One small spray lasts and lasts. You’ll get delicious little wafts for hours. One of the best.
agafadon – :
This scent was shocking to me at first. It was powerful and it had medicine scent to it. Now, a few hours later it smells like Johnson’s baby oil, only the scent is stronger.
It is very very oily smelling, that’s the best way to describe it in my opinion.
I can sense honey, almond, vanilla, woody notes and rose.
Almond, honey and vanilla make it quite sweet fragrance.
I don’t believe, I would wear it, but I consider it interesting and complex scent. It has a great sillage and longevity as well.
nissi555 – :
Sweet, light roses with some nutty influences. A very delicate gourmand, nothing too sickly sweet. I found there was a very distracting powder note. Not like confectioners sugar which would have fit, but talc powder. Very makeup sort of note and it didn’t blend at all with the otherwise delicious confection.
navomeliqyan – :
Loukhoum is a sugar puff cloud of powder sugar roses, candied almonds, and baby powder. Add in the nostalgic smell of a baby doll and there you have it. Sometimes in life it just feels good to smell as lighthearted and innocent as this fragrance. This lovely perfume garners complements, lasts for hours, and has good sillage and projection.
klem1998 – :
I’ve wanted to try this for ages, it’s received such incredible reviews and sounds so luscious. First, I get a strong impression of Petite Robe Noir: cherry. I do love cherry, and almond often smells like cherry. I was completely unprepared for the fragrance to smell exactly like Lorenzo Villoresi Teint de Neige. With a hint of cherry. Well you could have knocked me over with a feather. I never expected this. There are some differences, such as the occasional whiff of cherry; it seems to come and go in waves, which is very interesting and something I’ve rarely encountered before. Since I spilled some of my decant I ended up applying a lot more than I wanted, probably 1 ml. I have fragrance consuming skin and so far I can still can sniff lovely rich satisfying wafts largely undiminished in strength. Usually the first half hour indicates whether the fragrance has any legs.
Next the honey comes to the fore, which is the first real difference from Teint de Neige. I still get that strong makeup powder scent I love so much and which I never expected I’d like at all.
I’ll amend my review later if Loukhoum lasts more than the obligatory 2 hours on me. If you love the powdery aspect of Loukhoum best, I’d advise you try Teint de Neige. Joseph Jivago’s Sweet Dreams is very, very close to Teint de Neige if the price of TdN is too steep. As with most expensive scents such as those made by Lorenzo Villoresi, your money buys you more longevity and subtlety.
Note: The Loukhoum has very good longevity, I was quite pleased. I find the cherry note to be richer and more luscious than Petite Robe Noire. Definitely bottle worthy; the hype is well deserved. Be aware that JJ Sweet Dreams has doubled and tripled in price.
33shark33 – :
I am currently on the “wait” list for this lovely perfume to be shipped to the company. Apparently, they are updating their “bottle style”, which is a very nice updated purple with an elegant top. This, to me, is an everyday anyway kind of fragrance. It’s powdery, soft, a little sweet but the almond gives it a new sense. It’s a very nice fragrance.
maloy) – :
This was an accidental find, but it was clear from the outset that this was a perfume of the highest calibre. Then I saw the name and thought “Loukhoum? THE Loukhoum? The one that everyone’s always talking about and I never thought in my whole life I would try?” It seemed like it should belong in the Dior Poison collection… style, heaviness and the bottle. It’s also as strong as a Dior Poison fragrance… or a Guerlain. It struck me as high quality, unique and classic. The smell is sweet, but the amazing thing is, it’s not top-heavy sweet; the sweetness is buried deep within it. The sweetness is the unchanging heart; the centre of the dark purple rose. And yes, to my nose it smells purple. I’m probably swayed by the appearance of the bottle, but I guess senses intermingle when you’re having an experience like this. It’s powdery too, but that isn’t the focus. It’s “dusted” with powder, like loukhoum. The scent is dense and gluey, like a very, very sweet jam. To me it’s not sickly sweet, but it is quite arresting how deep it is. It has the same depth as Shalimar. Finally, I have to say that there is one regret. And that’s the $249 price tag. It’s going to be a long time until I have saved up for this one… Worth it.
федя – :
That moment when a treasured fragrance failed. It happened with this. I have no idea what REAL ‘Loukhoum’ smells like, but if this is it… i’ll pass
(2015 formulation): In the opening I got a middle-grade Rose-vanilla candle and Jet-puff marshmallow creme. Greasy-like. Very powdery. Not bad, but the ruination happens during the transition into the base. I SUSPECT that this is the honey note appearing.
Well, it has the medicinal aroma of that dark-brown dental substance used to fill dry-sockets. In the pine tar family. It is not very strong, but disturbingly noticeable. TO ME! With a little thick baby-powder thrown in.
As i’m typing this (Oh, NOOOO).. that plastic-rose smell is happening. YEs, sirs/madames. It’s really happening. The rose is a PLASTIC-like, thin, ‘tea-rose’ smell.
Nuff said, I won’t hang around for the base. Could be a batch issue. IDK.
196715023 – :
Gorgeous, very sweet and feminine, heavy long lasting scent. It IS extremely powdery, no doubt about that. If you don’t like powder this one is not for you. Probaby one of the sweetest, girliest scents I have ever tried.. and I love it. I do hate how they changed the bottle though, totally agree with whoever said it looks like batman on acid now (which is hilarious by the way) I have the old pink bottle but it’s a shame I’ll probably never be able to find another one when it runs out.
Anyway, to me this smells like very sweet honey and baby powder. Not much rose, but that’s okay. My boyfriend says it smells like deoorant to him though, but I could really not care less what he thinks when it comes to this perfume… it is my absolute favorite going to bed scent. 😉
Oh, and a slight edit about sillage/longevity: Sillage is actually fairly soft to moderate on me, but I can definitely smell it. It lasts a *really* long time, it’s one of the few scents i can go to sleep in and still wake up smelling.
Love it!
Edit– there is a clear difference between the old version in the tall bottle and the one in the pink bottle. Pink bottle version is MUCH more powdery, tall bottle is more musky smelling. Tall bottle is also stronger and dries down to more of a fuller scent, pink dries down to mostly just sweet powder. I still love both. I’m also curious about the newest version, would love to get a sample to compare!
skaner – :
It opens okay – as a sweet floral (but no rose, and frankly no resemblance to loukhoum at any stage, other than the sweetness).
The hawthorn is quite distinct, and pretty true to life.
This is a mild warning in itself, as hawthorn trees in bloom have a faint whiff of unwashed clothes about them, along with the more conventional honey tones.
However it dries down into a powder of sickly intensity.
Worse – it is a powder with a dirty edge to it, a slightly sickening unclean quality.
I scrubbed this a couple of hours in as it was making me feel nauseous.
However it is also quite persistent and it is still lingering, several hours later.
Desperately unpleasant.
Very disapointing, especially considering I adore KM’s Datura Blanche.
indebroponi – :
I recently bought this for my wife, and she finds it on the edge of headache, as many said before. I think it’s a harmonious scent with a lot of powdery and sweet note, I don’t get any almond note, just sticky violety-rose powders, it’s fun and playful!
abagrevatil – :
L’Artisan Parfumeur Traversee du Bosphore is one of my favorite perfumes of all time so I wanted to give other Turkish delight inspired perfumes a try. I received a sample of this from Lucky Scent.
The opening is super-powdery, I’m talking Johnson & Johnson baby powder scent! But oddly, it’s NOT unpleasant! The rose, honey, almond and vanilla (levels of intensity in that order) come together to give a definitely Turkish delight-ish accord but it’s way too rose-heavy to ever be mistaken for real Turkish delight in my opinion.
But it’s supposed to be a wearable perfume and not an edible food-product right? So with that in mind, for me this is a success but definitely might not be for people who can’t tolerate powdery scents that well.
I still prefer Traversee du Bosphore as my go-to Turkish delight scent but I definitely like this one and want to try its flankers. I would describe this as romanitic, pink roses, sweet, mysterious, unusual, smoky and flirty.
Enjoy!
shura13 – :
It took me a while to fall in love and finally purchase this fragrance.I am so so happy I did. It is the epitome of sweet. But an elegant, ”expensive” intriguing, feminine, sensual, playful sweet. It feels so thick, like a real piece of loukhoum. Slightly powdery, sweet vanilla, the almonds are not bitter and do not stand out, they rather enhance the composition giving it a ”nutty” sweetness. The rose is fantastic, it makes it so sophisticated. Ever since I’ve got it been wearing it morning till evening. Great longevity and projection too. I really really adore this thing! I do not find it similar to HP…Hp is much more ”bitter” liquorice-y and almondy. One negative side, I HATE the bottle:( it is not the same cute pink bottle with the white cap as in the fragrantica photo:(
witalic2008 – :
I have little samples of both Loukhoum and Loukhoum Eau Poudrée, and I’ve dedicated this weekend to a little comparative study between the two (while going about the rest of my life, obviously; I’m not THAT obsessed yet!). Friday evening I wore Loukhoum Eau Poudrée, Saturday evening I wore Loukhoum, and today Sunday I’m wearing them both side by side. I’d already worn both of them a couple of times before, so I already knew I love both of them, but I wanted to pinpoint my opinion and especially the differences between the two of them.
I don’t know if I succeeded: I’m not entirely sure I would be able to tell the difference in a blind test, and I’m not sure at all which one I should save up for a full bottle of…So this review will be about the both of them.
These are both very sweet scents, and they both smell like real Turkish Delight turned into perfume: not too realistic in a sticky or overpowering way, like you’ve rubbed candy all over yourself, but not synthetic at all, either. The scents are quite heavy and strong, very long-lived. You can wrap yourself in them like in a blanket if you want – like all the best winter gourmands they can really be used for comfort. The question is whether you’d want to stroll around in public wrapped in a candy-scented blanket, being an adult and all, but I think it’s just sophisticated enough to work as long as you don’t overspray.
The differences between the two are quite subtle as far as I can see. Wearing them on consecutive days I could hardly tell them apart, but now that I’m wearing them side by side I do see some differences. The original Loukhoum is a bit more syrupy, a bit sweeter. It’s also very well blended: I can’t pick out any individual notes, it just smells like a more sophisticated perfume version of Turkish Delight.
The Eau Poudrée is what the name implies: a bit dryer and more powdery, which makes it just that bit calmer and less sweet. I can also pick out the various notes better in this one: I smell sugar, almonds, rose and vanilla working together beautifully but not quite forming one homogenous smell. I also think the Eau Poudrée could work in the warmer seasons as well as the colder ones, because it’s just that little bit less powerful.
CormCoipExpep – :
A very intense and delicate aroma at the same time. An explosion of sweetness and femininity kept by notes of hawthorn and honey and condensed in a heat and woody notes and musk that makes it wearable even to a fine and polite man. A great unisex scent.
alex_ss – :
Very interesting, it reminds me a bit of barbershop aftershave!
fokus68 – :
Lovely sweet perfect turkish delight with a dusting of sweet powder. This is a much better loukhoum than Jo Malone’s Rose Water and Vanilla. The notes in this are so beautifully blended that it feels like you can actually taste the turkish delight in your mouth. I’m not a gourmand freak but this is definitely lovely and I would consider buying it if it wasn’t so pricey!
Quowviagiva – :
I had high expectations on this one. A terrible disappointment. Smells cheap and the stink radiates. No need to try again.
fedorkin – :
Is it in any way similar to L’artisan Traversee du Boshpore? Now I can answer this question myself. No, I love TdB but Loukhoum suffocates me. As if confectioners sugar stopped at my throat and nostrils.Did I apply too much? I can’t say since I don’t dare to test it twice.
jlc820JeomiWogkig – :
Sweet and powdery. I didn’t mind it, but something about it smelled like a toy that I had as a child. Maybe one of those Strawberry Shortcake dolls…but not Strawberry Shortcake herself, obviously. One of her friends. Although I did not mind the scent and it smelled nostalgic to me, I didn’t really care for it.
cergec – :
Instant headache and queasiness.
Very similar to Montales SOD.
vk07091974vk – :
Keiko Mecheri’s Loukhoum does smell like Turkish delight, but I find it more heavy, with a strong oily trend. The longevity is great, the sillage is average. To the gourme fans who like this line of perfumes I would rather recommend Montale’s Sweet Oriental Dreams, which I consider as more lasting and closer to the original loukhoum smell, without the oily nuance.
Janecasinos – :
I would be interested in a purchase or a trade.Please PM me. Thank you.
blodyMarry – :
Actually it’s doesn’t smell like a Turkis Loukhoum but still nice perfume and very long lasting on skin.
Anuar – :
This one wasn’t instant love, more like instant intrigue.
It’s starts off with an intense blast of sweetness, but then I get an almost medicinal note. I’m actually reminded of something I’ve smelled in a pharmacy. Ah, then there it is! Light pink sugar! A young girl twirling her frilly skirt! The almonds come out and it becomes delectable. The medicinal note must have been the slightly bitter almonds working their way toward the surface.
This is definitely a special gourmand in a sea of sweet fragrances. It has a unique combination of notes that are blended together perfectly. You definitely won’t smell like anyone else in the room with this on. I know there are a couple more takes on Loukhoum (Turkish Delight) out there and I haven’t tried those so I can’t compare, but if they smell closer to the real thing than this I’ll be delightfully surprised.
I love it but I’m not “in love” with it as I actually prefer Loukhoum Eau Poudree and Loukhoum’s honeyed sweetness requires a particularly playful mood, but it’s definitely one of the best gourmand fragrances I’ve ever smelled.
nuloha – :
This is just so powdery on me. It almost makes me need to cough. It’s not an unpleasant smell though.
KPEMEHb – :
It was new year’s day 2013 and I decided to blind buy this perfume. I know what you all must be thinking, but I had a coupon! My excuse and I’m sticking to it. (Min New York btw, got it for only $82!). Anyways, when it finally arrived in it’s adorable pink bubble gum looking bottle I sprayed away…and just didn’t know what to do. The bottle looked so cute, the notes looked just right, but that baby powder syrup was making me just cringgeee.
I actually put it up for swap.
Although when I was talking to a friend about why I wanted to trade it away, I gave loukhoum a second chance and it clicked.
Loukhoum is a super almond powder scented with what smells like cherry syrup, roses, and honey. It’s dribbly ooey gooey sweet but so super powdery. Whatever it was that I imagined it smelling like when I bought it really didn’t match my expectations at all. Even though loukhoum wasn’t what I was expecting it was still great!
Loukhoum lasts forever, the silage is thick. If you want heavy, heavy powder with some intense syrup honey loukhoum style sweetness, you will not have to look another place!
Later on I tried loukhoum eau poudree and ironically that smelt a lot more like what I was expecting this one to smell like. If you haven’t smelt loukhoum by kieko before and you are mentally comparing it to be like white musk libertine by the body shop, forgetta about it!! This is 10x heavier I promise.
Intense, rich, powder, loukhoum, syrup, are all things I would tag this fragrance with.
Side note, I hate the bottle change. I think it looks like batman tripping on acid.
pavlyuk4 – :
Silky, smooth, soft and sweet. It isn’t as matte and the almonds aren’t as bitter as they are in its flanker, Eau Poudree. Personally I prefer this one. There is already an almond scent that I adore, Etro Heliotrope, on my wishlist, so I won’t put Loukhoum on for now. The top note of rose is beautiful, a softer version of the rose found in Mecheri’s Attar de Rose. Overall, this perfume doesn’t have the tang I usually associate with sweetness – it’s strictly sugary. I do like sugary scents, and this one is my favourite I’ve tried, but in the end I might prefer to eat that dessert if that’s what I was craving.
The only strange thing about wearing Loukhoum is that if I put my nose to my wrist to get a good sniff, I can’t smell it again for about 5 mins. Meaning that I try, but for some reason I perceive the scent as having disappeared. It’s like it momentarily shuts off a part of my olfactory brain! I highly recommend this scent to anyone who likes sugary scents.
Update: Now that the weather is warming up (in Ontario, this means it is no longer *bitter* cold, but hovering around -1C) I’m liking Loukhoum more and more. The rose, honey and almond seem more obvious than the sugar and vanilla I initially thought were heavy, and overall it feels powdery but light, texture-wise. The sillage is incredible and longlasting.
Reagetsadvefe – :
This perfume is very addictive, just like real rarhat loukoum.
It is incredibly, overly sweet but for some
mysterious reason I love it, in opposite to many other extremely sweet scents. I just adore the mix of cherry and almond sprinkled with powdered sugar (huge amount of it). After several minutes the rose comes in and is suprisingly (for me – not a big fan of rose) not annoying. This candy is absolutely not banal, very complex and has something poisonous, strange within – i guess it is almond which can be sometimes bitterly odd. I like this note, it makes the scent less obvious. So beware this beautiful yet dangerous beauty, it’s not that easy to handle, but it’s totally worth it!
Barbra37 – :
This is a girl bomb! Sweet, powdery, vanilla almond candy with a tiny tweak of woods. Seems like something men would like. I am not comfortable wearing anything this sweet but it is nice to try. On a side note, it takes away any sugar cravings. Seriously, I was craving something sweet and sprayed this on at a friend’s house and the entire craving went away. I may order a bottle just to use as a diet program. It does smell nice…but you MUST like sweet vanilla fragrances a LOT to be able to wear this one.
Aerohopleneriaol – :
I’ve read some of these reviews. I’m tan, dark haired, brown eyed. My skin is probably oiler than most because at my age, I have hardly any wrinkles and my hair is still black with no grey. Given that, scents will react a certain to my chemistry. I tend to recognize a scene that will become “OILY” on my skin. Which I completely despise. I can tell immediately. A scent that becomes powdery, okay, because I don’t have powdery in my collection. So Loukhoum is my “powdery” scent. But really — it’s the queen of my collection. I don’t have all the other this and that. I have what i like. So this scent, I love. It has settled to a nice floral/marshmallow, slightly powdery finish on my skin. Sexy enough to have a man bite me. That’s all I need. My favorites are honey, vanilla, almond, rose (and it’s all in this bottle).
artless89 – :
WHY did they change the bottle? I read one review online that it has been adulterated 🙁 Oh man, say it isn’t so. Of all the Loukoum fragrances, Sweet Oriential Dream by Montale, Serge Lutens Rahat and Louve and the Du Sour, this is by far the best! Does anybody have a bottle of the pink bottle shown here that they are willing to swap anything for. Check my fragrances, I have many! Too many. This is why when I find a fragrance I love, I end up buying 2 or 3 or them. Just for this fact! They get pimped out 🙁 So disappointing. I wear this day, evening, and it’s great for a spray or two to bring on the sandman. Just pm me a message if you see something in my lineup you might want to swap. Sigh…..I hope it isn’t changed too much. Why do they have to fix something that isn’t broken? 🙁
Fast forward 9/14/2014: I still love this. I hunt down the pink bottles. It and SL SOD are very much alike on me. I do prefer this one a little bit more though.
Koik – :
Tried Sweet Oriental Dream yesterday and I must say that these smell very similar, almost identical, at first sniff.
Both SOD and this perfume start out very sweet in an almondy way, maybe with a little bit of orange or lemon in there, but just a bit – the sweetness takes center stage. Drydown time is similar to SOD, and I am not getting the old-fashioned baby powder drydown with this scent, not like Hanae Mori Butterfly. The drydown is pleasant, too.
I’ll have to decide between these two contenders, but they are both lovely!
tank54 – :
The most comforting scent I have ever experienced. Can’t be without it.
Ps. The old bottle was much nicer in my opinion. Don’t understand the need to change it.
I just found my review for Loukhoum that I posted on another site a few years ago… When I was clearly far more chatty.
Seeing the review reminded me of how I came about Loukhoum in the first place… A process of elimination. Comparing likes, loves & dislikes with other reviwers.
I had noticed that quite a few perfumes that I liked where often described as ‘ashtray’ by the dislikers. (Ashtray? That’s crazy talk! Lol)
To me KML sounded like heaven.. So i decided that if ‘they’ hate it & say it smells of ashtray.. Obviously I’m going to like it and set out to make it my 2008 Christmas gift to myself!.. here’s my old review.
“I ordered this perfume based on the reviews that I have found on here and elsewhere…. It is not easily available in the UK, so no opportunity to test beforehand.
So I ordered it and then spent 9 days waiting for it to arrive (Christmas post!) panicking more and more that I had probably just made an expensive mistake.
On the 9th day I arrived home to find it packaged on my doorstep.
I unwrapped it and spritzed it on and – uh oh! Hmm, not too sure about this one.
I had powdery – good, but maybe too powdery. No real sweet scents, it was actually quite spicey… not really my cuppa tea!
I asked my husband if he liked it and he said not really….. not good, not good!!
I didn’t give me a headache though…. which was great as I knew I could give it a fair trial over a few days.
So I tried it again the next day…. Mmm actually, this is quite nice.
It seemed sweeter and warmer.
I could smell the warm sweetness of the almond.
The spicey notes that I hadn’t liked from the day before were now a warm vanilla.
There was also a delicate rose scent and less powder.
Phew, this seems better. Maybe the fact that the perfume had been in transit and the contents were really cold had effected the way that they smelled