Description
“Melt My Heart or meltmyheart is for falling in love. This hypnotic fragrance contains a core of pure orris butter, said to hold the heart of another completely in thrall.
The sensual blend also includes rare and seductive oudh, stimulating mandarin, purified ginger, deeply magnetic sandalwood and luscious dark chocolate.
This eau de parfum is beautifully presented with a custom-designed 24 karat gold-plated cap. meltmyheart was composed and formulated for strangelove nyc by founder Elizabeth Gaynes and master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, with creative direction by Helena Christensen.” – a note from the brand.
Melt My Heart by Strangelove NYC is a Oriental fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Melt My Heart was launched in 2016. The nose behind this fragrance is Christophe Laudamiel. The fragrance features ginger, bergamot, nutmeg, sage, agarwood (oud), dark chocolate and orris root.
alex.t – :
Wow.
This perfume is extraordinarily good. This one comes close to taking No.3 spot Amber Absolute is my No.1.
Rich indulgent Dark Chocolate swirls around with a tinge of sweetness painting an ombre creaminess into the noir Cacao flavor.
At the heart of it, once the chocolate rises up to make your mouth water, there is a deeper earthier Orris note. Like lush Violet flowers. Only slightly powdery, keeping their luscious juicy form.
The Oud in here is most interesting, it is subtle. Not nearly animalic nor medicinal as I was expecting. Is this Hindi Oud? It is quite similar to the Oud I experienced in Russian Oud & Russian Musk.
Then there is a warm nuttiness to this scent. It stays closer to the skin. Nutmeg or Macademia? Like a milk chocolate Macademia nut bar Lindt makes?
So in short, imagine the most decadent brownie with nuts & nutmeg sprinkled with violet flowers on top.
This is close to epitome of Chocolate gourmand.
I love it because it is not sugary and not overpoweringly sweet at all. The dank Violets make it sexy and ground it expertly.
I did rush my seduced self over to Luckyscent to buy this but the price broke my heart. I suspect some of the $475 is attributed to the gold plated cap..I really hope they make a version without this added white elephant on it. It is also one reason I am deterred from buying By Kilian. I don’t want to pay $100+ for a box!
For now I will covet the 3-4 drops left in my sample.
If you love this but can’t buy it try : Slumberhouse Ore, Areej La Dore Russian Musk and perhaps Hiram Green’s Slowdive.
Obviously these are not the same as Melt My Heart but you will love these I’m sure.
Bobs – :
How awesome to have feedback from the perfumer in these comments! Luckyscent just started carrying this line so I’m very much looking forward to sampling these fragrances.
DjTiGrA – :
This is a good chocolate frag, smooth, sweet but not cloying.
On the other hand, after seeing the discussion of oud here, as a oud enthusiast, I want to say something about oud. Only low quality and cheap real oud smells animalic. Fine wild and aged oud from prestigious origin like Vietnam, Brunei, Borneo etc. does not smell animalic at all, their smells are complex with sweet/floral/nutty/winey/minty tones but refreshing overall. However, since such oud is extremely expensive, they are nearly absent even in the niche fragrance market, but they do exist. Besides that, the concept of ‘animalic oud’ is probably a marketing strategy which serves as an excuse for synthetic oud notes failing to represent real oud.
But oud is not a prominent note in this one, so no worries.
rif8688 – :
I love this fragrance. After trying all 3, I found Melt my Heart to be the most unique and purchased a full bottle on the spot. Oud is present (real oud), but more subtle in this composition than the others, and blended perfectly, resulting in a beautiful fragrance that couldn’t offend. The fragrance is absolutely unisex, but quite feminine when I wear it, opening with chocolate and a wonderful earthy tone from the orris root. There is almost a boozy quality to the chocolate, which I love. Within minutes the earthy note softens and the fragrance develops a more powdery accord, with the ginger, and nutmeg present in the background. The ginger in this fragrance isn’t overpowering, which I love. It is in fact very subtle, resulting in the entire composition being more creamy, not at all sharp or overly spicy. A very beautiful fragrance.
samohin – :
Dear sniffer,
Thank you for your fair and understandable feedback which always open interesting questions and debates.
Real Oudh does smell very animalic. Your description is one of them. It actually ventilates, like a good red wine after a few minutes to 10 min of spraying on skin. This is normal for good quality oudh, especially when not twisted by strong notes such as Patchouli or Rose, which would be one way of doing it ala Middle East as you describe. Is however not the case of this fragrance: Orris root and bitter dark chocolate, and real ones, which you cannot miss in this fragrance, are not so typical in that combination.
I would wear around my neck, and some people would as you say. People like to wear anything from charms to precious other dangling things such as diamond. Orris root is already much more expensive than gold, so deserves to dangle up there, in my opinion. A scent can be precious, or fun, to wear and to carry: to scent oneself in boring meetings or to scent someone else as a romantic effervescent or ephemeral souvenir. In fact I wish strangelove would have a less visible silver version for guys.
Again, thank you for your feedback, got me inspired,
Christophe Laudamiel (disclosure: I have created the scent and do like to work with stangelovenyc)
adargoWog – :
One of those “authentic & pungent” ouds directly from the Middle East.
Smells of cowdung on steroids, literally.
Packaging is tacky and despite the golden plating, which, why would anyone wanna wear a mini perfume bottle (that is not even pretty or intricately designed) around their necks?
These people can afford any high end necklace around their neck, so think, folks, think!
I hope (and I am sure) it will make someone happy somewhere, but it ain’t me.