Description
Nectars des Iles is one of two fragrances by En Voyage Perfumes introduced in April 2011.
Mood: Invitingly amorous, juicy. Dreamy, narcotic, spellbinding.
“Nectars des Îles originates from the Caribbean and is homage to the delicious nectars and sultry flowers
of the islands. It recreates a bouquet of lush island flowers with bold creamy gardenia and tiare petals
at the center of the bouquet, accented with multi colored frangipani flowers.
The intense tropical floral
notes made with precious absolutes of Ylang Ylang, Plumeria obtusa, Plumeria acutifolia and Jasmine
auriculatum are softened with sparkling natural Hesperidian notes and osmanthus nectar. The opulent base
is composed of delicious sandalwood absolute from the pacific island of Vanuatu, Tahitian vanilla, rich
ambers, and elegant musks.” The nose behind this fragrance is Juan Perez.
saasha023 – :
The Frangipani, Vanilla, Amber, and a hint of sandalwood blend to make a creamy and fleshy Coconut opening. My first thought was “Wow, that’s a nice coconut.” Then I thought, “Wait. No, it’s so much more.” It’s very well blended and works beautifully. There is a hint of the osmanthus and Tiare in the background adding a bit of depth to the “coconut”. The dry down was a faint skin scent that consisted mostly of Tiare and Ylang-ylang with a hint of sandalwood. It lasted about 4-5 hours and mostly clung to the skin with low projection.
A very beautiful and well blended scent.
yulai – :
Juan Perez worked with house parfumer Shelley Waddington in two perfumes. Nectars des Iles is the one of them. It’s a white tropical floral and it’s much more easy going and happy than the others in the line that have a certain primness. Some bloggers said that it resembles Isabey’s Gardenia and i consider that a compliment.
It start’s with a juicy tangerine, but it’s more jasmine frangipani combo than gardenia in the middle section. The vibe is relaxed and summery and the longlasting drydown is pleasantly soft woody and ambery
win89 – :
After the “odissey” this little treasure has been into before arriving to me (from Californian shores to Italian Apennine Mountains), after having imagined the moment it would have met my skin, I’m finally able to review my prize from En Voyage contest: Nectars des Iles.
This fragrance is really close to my expectations: I can confirm it’s kind of a narcotic juice, thanks to the blasting ylang-ylang start..once I bought a ylang-ylang essential oil and the top notes of this scent really reminds me of the opulence of that flower’s extract.
I don’t know if it’s because of my not well educated sense of smell, but for now I can hardly detect the orange and osmanthus notes listed above, at least in the opening. To my nose the floral fruity nature of Nectars comes out after a while, when the ylang-ylang settles down into a creamy and honey-y melange of citruses and jasmine-tiare-gardenia-frangipani accord.
This is the most evocative and dreamy part: Nectars des Iles is not a beach scent at all, it’s more like having a walk into an intricate tropical forest full of many species of waxy and succulent flowers, whose warmth and sweetness is balanced by the delicate sourness of citruses peels from the trees above..that’s what I get from the heart of this fragrance.
The whole brightness of this composition makes me feel like I’m smelling a natural scent, no chemical components are detectable here…this is the way I’d personally describe a hand-made perfume, when my mind can easily picture a landscape of notes though I’ve never seen or smelled those flowers or fruits.
My exotic dream ends with a long lasting trail of vanilla and amber, blending perfectly with my skin and leading the fragrance towards a woody-musky base.
Nectars des Iles is not an everyday fragrance in my opinion: it’s something you should first enjoy privately, maybe you’ll need a little time to feel it as yours, mostly if you were expecting to smell the latest tropical summer launch. No doubt this is a wonderful and unique ‘fume, it’s just a little unusual to me…I’ve been wearing and testing many “exotic” scents through the years, and this is really different from all of them: it seems like a rather new olfactive world to me.
Lovers of opulent, rich, juicy and sultry floral notes (gardenia and ylang-ylang above all) are warned: this could be your next fragrance….I think it’s mine too 🙂
Warning: compliments getter, and men magnet