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Overtoobtob – :
I have two bottles of this as I have to have a back up. It’s gorgeous. Several people have asked me what I was wearing because they loved it.
Dychorpcody – :
Just got a sample of this
Oooh
It’s lovely
Like other reviewers on first spray I got jammy rose and slightly medicinal blackcurrant but it’s drying down to a woody mossy loveliness
A bit sweet on opening but well worth it for the dry down
shota-leon – :
Strong blackcurrent and pear opening, drying down to rose and strawberry. There is something rather strange in the middle notes – very earthy and peppery. The name suits it very well, this is a rather naughty scent!
UneveAwaw – :
Ohhhh Myyy!!!! My 3rd 4160!!
This is like…..every female thats sniffd me has told me about it!!! My friend wanted a decant….I told her no as I knew I had my 5ml in the car relaxing in the glove compartment. NOOOO.
This is lovely period. Sweet oriental incensy rose on my skin. Has a slight resemblance to Aerins Evening Rose…..but sweeter, creamier, smoother…..Review soon!!!
777Vip – :
Opens with a strong berry and black currant combination. It is saccharine and reminds me of thick, fresh berry jam sitting on the kitchen counter with a container of fragrant powder just inches away. Mild rose. Then it introduces a berry-flavored cough syrup smell – at this point, I am really not into the fragrance.
The dry down evokes more wood and less berries, although the black currant note continues to play softly in the background. The powdery scent sticks around until well into the dry-down.
stvolovoi – :
Powdery rose with a malt undertone, as if I was wearing talcum in a rose garden with dewy roses, ale sitting on a distant table waiting, and fruit trees nearby. Very pretty, natural with the black current in more evidence in the drydown. Wanted to try this one for the strawberry note, but it’s not coming out on my skin. The accord is still luscious, this is lovely.
gaintsev – :
To sum this one up.. Great quality and Pink Sugars Mom.
Lizka – :
I am half way through the first run of the 4160 Tuesdays sample box and I have decided that although the idea, style and concept of what Sarah McCartney does, I should avoid their scents that feature fruity notes. Not because there is anything technically wrong with them, but because that thick rosy/powdery base (if it is a base?) that I termed ‘Lushiade’ they share with Lush bath and scent products make it hard for me to distinguish anything else.
This opens up with blast of lush (and Lush) strawberry which I don’t like in a fragrance. Other fruits are there too, caramelised pear is noticeable for example; and also a jammy (syrupy) rose. As well as a lot of powdery notes.
It gets a little less sticky with time, but still just to jammy for me, especially as any moss or chypre-like bitterness is just too hidden for my sense of smell.
All in all, it’s very nice in its own way, and I’d VERY happily bathe in this, but as a fragrance is just TOOOOOOO Midsummer Night’s Dream for me. In this sense, I think it accomplishes the perfumer’s objective.
I’ve rated as ‘like’ but it’s just under 3 out of 5 kind of ‘like’.
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Eight hours after applying and after washing up, washing hands, scrubbing carrots and chopping onions, and it’s still there, mellowing into a sweet and rosy and maybe just a tiny bit mossy softness. So, longevity on this of this fragrance is mega impressive so far. I’d say my rating is a solid 3/5 at this stage and if someone gave me a bottle I’d keep at least half of it 😉
It’s should have been called “Gran Titania”.
vitvlad – :
I have a sample of this but find it too sweet, sweet and fruity perfumes just don’t work for me. It is better as it dries down and it reminds me of the sort of wax you use for leg waxing or wax polish which is quite a pleasant smell but maybe not as a perfume.
xerasim – :
I have a sample of this and I cannot make up my mind yet on how I feel about it.
There is something about it that is very thick and dense (like me lol!), the visual impression that I get is of a dark wooden bowl filled with a very thick syrupy dark red jelly (I think “Jello” for our American cousins?) that is not completely set, but which hides something black and slightly bitter/medicinal at the bottom which is barely perceptible through the thick barely translucent jelly against the dark wooden bowl; you kind of know it is there but it really is only a shadow of it’s unknown form that is visible.
I find this slightly unsettling for that reason. I had wondered if that note giving me this impression could be an our note although none is listed. But it has that kind of opulent richness a hint of good quality oud can bring. Perhaps it is the cedarmoss?
There is a very rich fruity syrupy sweetness to this, which does for me threaten to become cloying at times, although thankfully it narrowly avoided crossing the line for me. The fruits however remain strong and prominent throughout the duration of wearing this pefume, becoming only slightly more abstract as time goes on.
It reminds me actually of stewed or pureed fruits, with the perfume from opening to late drydown taking us through the steps of cooking the fruits, from a juicy ripened berry and pear mix set in a pan on the hob, the sugar being added, and the whole lot slowly over time simmering down from solid pieces into a thick textured syrup of soft fruit.
The effect is not totally dissimilar to that of Sadanne from Slumberhouse except with blackberries and pears as well as strawberry, but Sadanne came straight to my mind upon wearing this, especially with the rose component which plays a big central role here too in MNND.
I guess the malt note is also responsible for some of the heady richness and thick sweet molasses type texture.
It is something of a challenge and puzzle to me, this fragrance. It contains several notes on which I am not overly keen, and plays heavily upon those aspects of them I usually dislike, particularly the fruits and the rose notes. And yet there is something strangely compelling here that draws me back, and at times there is an almost comforting warmth and coziness too. Can this be attributed to my mother frequently making jars of homemade jam when I was a child, the sweet heady sticky aroma permeating the entire house and lingering for days as she cooked down pan after pan of sweet ripe fruits and filled glass jars that sat firming up on the windowsills and counter tops? Maybe the malty notes conjure the yeasty malty scent that was my grandparents house when I was little, when Grandma handmade fresh bread every day, and Granddad brewed up his own beers and stouts in the little bedroom?
I need to spend more time with my sample of this and try and work out whether I actually like it and could wear it as a perfume. It is clear there is something about this which draws me and compels me to return to the little spray vial, and it definitely conjures some vivid imagery and reminiscences of my childhood. I am just not sure whether I actually like it as a perfume!!
One last comment, for those who prefer such information; this is a well blended and accomplished scent from a talented perfumer and has excellent longevity, lasting around 10-12 hours as far as I can tell from experiments to date. It seems to have a large sillage cloud, when sprayed on test strip and placed on the side in my bedroom, it filled the entire room with its scent, and single sample spray to forearm generated wafts and swirls of perfume for many hours.
arnik – :
I love this. Opens with a slightly bonkers blast of blackcurrant and pear and then almost immediately starts to settle down into creamy, malty, earthy, woody goodness, but the best part is the blackcurrant note keeps showing up again from time to time on me. It lasts for ages, too.
It smells like outside in the best possible way.
Julliett911 – :
I got a sample of these and plan to buy a whole bottle one day. The smell is intoxicating! It’s very sexy, mysterious and sensual,and yet refreshing – smells like a wild garden. I sense mostly blackcurrant plus some earthy and flower notes. It’s really powerful and longlasting, like other 4160 Tuesdays’s perfumes. Can’t get enough of it.