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Alach – :
I’ve had both Neroli and Orange Blossom by Demeter, and I don’t consider them identical …the orange blossom is a bit more powdery. Love them both! Can’t go wrong with either!
Basow – :
I’m reviewing The Library of Fragrance Orange Blossom but from what I can discern, this is the same exact thing as Demeter Neroli, just has different name in UK. This is nice, mild soliflore.
viktor_vik62 – :
After a 2 hr side-by-side, I’ve concluded that Demeter’s Neroli and Demeter’s Orange Blossom (not in Fragrantica database) registers identically on my skin. Both offer the perfect summer white floral as Jo Malone’s Orange Blossom and Dame Perfumery’s Orange Flower. And at a fraction of its price.
Reviewers below mention the longevity issue, but here’s the give-and-take. There’s a variety of base notes that help anchor a fragrance to skin. Some of the lasting accords include things like vanilla, amber, labdanum, patchouli, cedar, resins, and musk. While they carry the fragrance past the 3+ hr mark, they unfortunately add their own smell, thereby diluting the purity. Demeter produces soliflores, solifruit, and uniquely unaldterated frags. If they were to add base notes to stick the landing, it’ll no longer smell pure. Thankfully the price point’s good enough for me to spray once an hour and enjoy — given that I don’t like most commercially available base notes.
Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF, Takasago — are you listening? We need you to make some odorless ‘bases’ that ground a scent without adding its own smell! 🙂
McAdmin – :
In Florida oranges are a big resource. We have the best oranges in the US. I grew up around orange blossoms and orange groves and have always loved citrus floral scents. Neroli satisfies my citrus and floral itch. This is one big fragrant orange blossom aroma. It smells like sweet oranges high on trees which also grow white flowers. This is very sweet, tart, a bit like mandarin, with a little green note thrown in there along with a nondescript white floral scent.
This fragrance has it’s place. It smells great in spring and summer. It’s cool and refreshing at the firsts spritz and though not 100 percent like it, sort of goes into Maurer & Wirtz 4711 Cologne mode as well as Murray & Lanman Florida Water. This is a very Floridian fragrance which is what drew me to it. It is great for wearing to the beach on vacation or for sailing. It is unisex as it’s mostly citrus. Smells great, heady, sweet but strong. It doesn’t last too long but it has a longer life than most Demeter Fragrances. It might run up to 2 hours. I don’t like to spray too much but it has such a great smell I often spray the air in my home with it. My cat and dog love it.
Demeter still sells this online!
Enjoy!!
medoOdormup – :
A candy sweet neroli that will offend no one. Like most Demeter stuff, this is a photo-realistic soliflore that will sit close to you skin and be gone in a flash.
Along with her twin sister “orange blossom”, these scents are great for layering and punching up the neroli note in other ‘bigger’ scents without overwhelming them.
I also mix this or orange blossom with their salt air and thunderstorm for scent that makes me think of going to the beach in Florida.
v-l – :
A warm nectary fragrance, halfway between Demeter’s Beeswax and Orange Blossom. A lovely sweet scent for evenings or cool weather.
By itself Neroli makes me close my eyes and sigh happily, yet to my surprise it pales in direct comparison with Demeter’s Orange Blossom. Neroli is not as sweet, nor as bright. I expected to appreciate the subtlety of Neroli, but I honestly can’t decide which of the two I like best.
Anydayproonia – :
It’s ok, but I get way more sweet orange from it than neroli, and longevity and sillage are weak. I’ll use the bottle I have but will not purchase more.
user_143080 – :
orange blossom with a hint of musk. Its pretty but sillage and longevity are v weak.
ctac_triada – :
It smells OK. The scent doesn’t last very long. It’s rather disappointing to spend $40 on a fragrance that acts like a $12 bottle of something from Bath and Body Works. I’ll finish the bottle because it’s pleasant enough but I don’t think I’ll be buying anything else from Demeter.
mulseexotte – :
I wish these Demeter one note scents lasted longer and had more sillage. Pretty smell.