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Vitals54055 – :
I love it! On me it smells so gorgeous, and everyone tells me so all the time – so who can argue with that? It’s beautiful with so many lovely flowers, I especially smell the taif rose and jasmine and lily-of-the-valley, they’re so beautiful, and there’s delicious plum and peach, and the a really fine earthy herbaceous patchouli. It’s one of my favourite perfumes. And it has great longevity, 12-14 hours, and my husband adores it on me. Beautiful!!
asencka – :
Merci à Jovoy de nous faire connaître ces pépites d’ailleurs….
Le flacon est très élégant, faceté et rond il me fait penser à un Balenciaga des années 50…. Nostalgie quand tu nous tiens. ;o)
123vavan – :
The sweet greeny watery type.
Osmanthus, black current, grassy, bunch of citrus collection (minus the oranges), then soapy mature figs. Some washed sandalwood, maybe bit of tuberose and thank GOD no jasmines & lily of the valley, it would have ruin the composition. There are pink flowers and i think it’s the taif rose but not sure so far.
Delicate to be specific and clean calming type with hints of sweets and grassy notes. Well constructed.
Edit (15th Aug 2017) it whiffs between citrus, sweetness, and cosmetic back a forth with hints of fruits, slight soap, and the sweetness of Taif roses. This is quite strange, as i almost track every single note shown above in bits. Something clean, soapy, yet slightly fruitti and sweet. Just quite confusing and kind of alluring. I don’t see it chaos rather than weirdly constructed. Very interesting!
ivan135 – :
Very green, fig-leafy, and complex. It has the potential to be very beautiful but there is also something bitter underneath. The bottle is absolutely beautiful. The fragrance has a lot of iris and wood. There’s a tiny hint of rose but it isn’t at all a sweet one. Oakmoss grounds the scent in the drydown. This may not be for me but it’s certainly pretty and different!
vazik – :
I wanted to love this — especially because the opening reminded me of a fog-covered, enchanted forest straight out of a fairytale — but after thirty minutes an aggressive patchouli began its nonstop assault on my nose.
After reading other reviews on here, I had to check my sample to see if I was actually wearing Pure Mariposa. Strangely I was, even though I didn’t get any orange peels, gardenia, or smoke at all. What I experienced was some of the purest, freshest dill at the opening and from there it went downhill — obnoxious patchouli and ghostly hints of sandalwood and iris that teased my senses, but never came into full bloom.
It’s incredible how our chemistry can take a gorgeous perfume and transform it within minutes into Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde on our skin. Pure Mariposa was a disappointment that lingered on like an ex who just wouldn’t get a hint.
I thought I had found my ultimate fresh dill and moist moss fragrance here. Sadly, I will have to keep searching.
5/10
kosta_kgb – :
Opens so beautifully, so ethereal and invigorating! My 2ml sample vial came on a card listing notes different from those shown above – no rose, no patch, no fig… really it’s as if our database is listing notes from a different fragrance.
Here’s what the card says: tuberose, gardenia, orchid, orange blossom, oak moss, sandalwood, ozonic air, amber and musk.
The orange blossom and ozonic notes truly sing a gorgeous airy and sweet melody for 15 to 20 minutes with just a hint of the other florals wafting close behind. Suddenly the sweetness vanishes and the bitterness of oakmoss sours the orange blossom and takes over, riding in on an ambered sandalwood tide driven by a gale of musk.
Just 30 minutes in and throughout the remainder of its 7-8 hour duration Pure Mariposa is nothing but a cloying musk clinging to bitter, desiccated orange peels. I resisted scrubbing and endured to gauge the longevity but it was not pleasant.
Never have I experienced such a beautiful and promising opening leading to such a dismal dry down, and it happens so quickly! I even tried reapplying at several intervals to enjoy the opening again but the musk dry down completely overcame it each time – there was no going back.
Butterflies do NOT smell like this.
dfervcxs – :
I really love this scent! Invigorating, uplifting, citrus with a peaking of bitter peel. The peel is my fav! It’s very linear, but amazing!
Fadymnnah – :
I too tried this off of a peel away sample from an NM catalog. It grabbed me right away. The beginning notes was a bright spicy and green floral with an aquatic airiness about it, complex, and far from generic. It then eased into powdery notes, calm sophisticated, comforting. Osmanthus seems to be the predominant note. The drydown is slightly dry woody notes of cashmeran, patchouli and sandalwood.
Pure Mariposa smells expensive. It IS expensive. It smells of a modern chypre, a bright, sweet, fruity, pared down version of Patou “1000” without the musky notes. Hearty thumbs up with this one.
BTW, I hate the hinged cap because spraying one side of yourself is okay, but changing hands to spray the other side of yourself is a problem since you can’t see the nozzle and where you’re aiming at.
briniotbank – :
I tried one of the paper samples of this that came in a neiman’s catalog. I was very intrigued by the scent. I got a sample of it at the Neiman’s store & fell in love with it. I bought it yesterday & wore it today. The longer I have it on the more I like it. It is a bit strong at first but that dissipates quickly. The scent is very fresh & very feminine without being sweet. It is very sultry without being overt & in your face. I absolutely love it.
Teliks – :
Ok , I had to go to Neiman Marcus and try it on , I was so curious about it . What I got … a bitter citrus , not fresh or clean , a litle bit cloying . Kind of a heavy department store smell .
Maybe my expectations were too high.
canada goose jacket – :
fresh but weird scent…drydown..is a cloying nutty smoky (think ur fireplace and throw orange peels in and let them dry out…took days to take off my skin…good last power..but the scent is kinda like beautiful(C KLEIN)..but with burnt notes…im not fond of.