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karmellion – :
This is a lovely, pretty floral/plum/patchouli on me. It’s lovely – sweet and herby, rich, smooth, fulsome and luscious. Beautiful. It lasts about 10 hours, and keeps a very nice strength, so that I get so many compliments all the time! It’s such a gorgeous bottle as well, and the colour is very very pretty. It is such a lovely bottle to hold, to hold and feel; it’s soothing and comforting in my hands. Lovely. It’s really a very elegant perfume. I do love it.
Xeroxdhdom – :
LaMaroc……thank you! I too, have tried with little luck to explain to many folks I know, that EDT and EDP can be totally different scents! Sometimes, (more often than not,) the notes are completely different. They are more like sisters, than twins. Sometimes the EDT and EDP might even have the exact same notes, but they are in different amounts, so one note might smell more noticeable in one concentration than the other.
I wish fragrantica would list both EDT and EDP for some scents to be reviewed separately. A lot of times, they just have the general fragrance listed and if folks are not mentioning WHICH concentration they are reviewing, I’m left wondering which one to buy.
Kalabrod – :
I have edt. Didn’t realized at the time that it was EDT because tester bottle was EDP. Oh well. This is very 80s. With those powerhouse fragrances that just reached out and hit you on the head lol. Natori EDT is not THAT overwhelming but its noticeable. I think EDP would be too much for me as I don’t care for strong orientals and that’s what this is. Technically its floral oriental but its very deep, dark and spicy with some sweetness. This screams “nighttime”. I don’t see this on someone young.
So far I kind of like it but I don’t see myself wearing it too often, mostly because its too spicy for my taste and I have to be in certain mood to wear that.
_alex_77 – :
To many of my non-fumehead friends, it’s hard to get them to understand that, despite what the fragrance company or its representatives are trying to tell you, an eau de toilette or cologne is not just a “lighter” version of the fragrance they are used to wearing. Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle variations were one of the first I remember trying to go in depth to show and describe the marked differences between the “concentrations” and why some people felt their beloved fragrance had turned on them when they bought the wrong version.
This is all to say that while I love the original Natori eau de parfum for flaunting its rich ’80s fragrance heritage with its bold and polarizing aldehydes, patchouli, and not-your-mother’s laundry musks, Natori eau de toilette comes across to me as exactly a lighter version of its black bottled predecessor. It feels like the above mentioned ingredients were either eliminated or the concentration of them was thinned so that the florals could shine through. I have worn it over the last several days in Midwest summer heat and it seems to recharge itself with body heat and sweat. So while it is an eau de toilette, I find myself still able to smell it on myself hours later. Which is remarkable for me, because with most perfumes I cannot smell anything unless I put my nose right to where I sprayed it, or bring my clothes up to my nose. As with the eau de parfum, this has great last power on fabric.
The bottle color is perfect. The black lacquer-esque, weighty bottle with the even more weighty matte, zen-stone cap of the eau de parfum perfectly prepares you for the oriental luxury inside. The eau de toilette’s bottle is the same shape and heft, letting you know it still means to seduce but with sunset colors and translucency. Like a piece of Josie Natori’s beautiful, finely crafted silk lingerie but in rose or lilac pastels instead of knock-em-dead black.
So I could just say, if you enjoy the eau de parfum, but find it too ’80s, overwhelming, or for evenings only, definitely try the eau de toilette. I think it is definitely worthy and safe even as a blind buy. I had the edp, but had not tried the edt and obviously had my own successful blind buy!