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акакий1212 – :
I, a certified gourmand lover, love this.
I can’t explain why, since I was fairly certain that flowery scents were not for me.
Maybe the honeysuckle and chocolate bring enough sweetness to the table for me to enjoy Secrete Datura? Or perhaps I just really enjoy Datura?
I do know that I generally hate Lily of the Valley, and while I can detect small amounts of it, I do feel that it heightens the composition. I also know that I have long loved iris, heliotrope and honeysuckle, but never tried them blended together. Turned out awesome!
Would I like more sillage? Duuuuh. Wouldn’t we all?
Would I like better longevity? Ditto.
Is it a smooth, inoffensive, slightly sweet floral scent that seems to appeal to a lot of different people? D**n right.
Loads of compliments. From grown men, young girls, old ladies, coworkers… It’s a crowd pleaser, for sure!
atrongebrurne – :
This looks heavanly.
krasotylka – :
Well, Im impressed. This is the best stab at recreating the datura flowers scent Ive currently come across. I grow datura (brugmansia) in large containers and are only too familiar with their extraordinary fragrance. So sweet and mesmerizing. I get datura, sweet honeysuckle and heliotrope on the opening. For some reason I imagine that this is what flower pollen smells like. Ive never smelt a fragrance similar to this.
I see what folk mean about the chocolate note and vanilla. They become much more evident after 15 minutes or so. Its most definitely a gorgeous white floral with some extra sweetness from the chocolate. Almost as mesmerizing as the datura flower. When they say datura has hallucinogenic properties they are not kidding. You can just about pick up the jasmine and neroli. The lily of the valley and the iris reduce the sweetness a touch. I always think of iris as a cooling note. Moderate sillage and longevity. A very special must have fragrance for lovers of white florals.
Glyxar – :
I had expected a strong floral – or, better, because of the warnings I read here I used a very light hand in applying this scent – and it’s as comforting as a blanket on a cold day.
I bought it blindly, confiding in the notes and the reviews (WOW! What a great job we all Fragranticans do!!!) and it was a success.
I love Secrete Datura, I truly love it and I am changing my mind regarding floral scents. And chocolate notes too …
I said this is comforting as a blanket on a cold day, that’s it: a beautiful, cozy scent. It’s a bit strange, different from many other florals (I see no “This perfume reminds me of …” has been added) and I cannot find a resemblance either.
I must confess that Pari88’s comment (“Lovers of L’Heure Bleue and Apres L’Ondee should enjoy this!”) weighed a lot on my determination to buy SD.
It’s true: the two Guerlain’s are atypical flowery scents in a certain way, a bit strange and decades ahead of their time (think that more than a century later we still wear and love them – there must be a reason for this!!!) and the same is true for Secrete Datura: it’s sweet but not as in the contemporary perfumes, it’s flowery but not so garden-type, it’s chocolatey but not in the direction of Mugler’s Angel.
I think you can better describe Secrete Datura by saying what it’s not that what it’s about.
It’s much elusive, mutable; if it were a poem it could be Thomas Hardy’s “After a Journey” with the waterfall and all.
If it were a piece of music, it could be Faure’s “La Pavane”.
If it were a place, it could be Budapest in winter.
A bit melanchonic, elegant, discreet, uncommon, shy.
Beautiful.
Fail Emotions – :
I just received my secrete daturah, however it is in the older style bottle with the deco nymph lady on glass, so this may very well be the original formula that is very different from what described here.
What I get from the older version is coconut soap. Not at all what I was expecting.
EDIT, After wearing a few times, I am now in love with this creamy goddess. Slightly tropical, very feminine and always classy. Longevity is amazing. Close to skiin, soft but with great power
The sandalwood in this is so authentic creamy indian type sandalwood. I love!
IT’s only a little soapy and that quickly begins to fade.
sasha_ – :
What a lovely bottle with the jewel and all! So..this is all floral on me. The powdery florals dominate with the lemon when I first apply it. iris/jasmine/lemon is what I get. Unfortunately I’ve never smelled Datura before so I can’t comment..it must be there. The jasmine is the main player here though and it gives the scent a slight creaminess.
I must say this is blended beautifully..it’s smooth smelling and all the notes are getting their turn. I was expecting something heavy from the flowers chosen for this perfume but it’s somewhat light.. the lemon lifts the florals and stops them from being heady, and the vanilla and sandalwood smooth them out.
It’s strange but this smells like a few of the “Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab” Florals I have tried. Mianly “Euphrosyne”…same vanillary smooth jasmine.
I unfortunately can’t smell any chocolate in the dry down..or anywhere really but maybe I’m just focusing on the jasmine too much.
Overall a nice we rounded perfume but not something I’d run out and buy.
I don’t find it to be special.
mr.maloy – :
Edit & Update:
Full bottle arrived and a more thorough review:
This is the scent of dreams. Luscious. Magical.
Signature worthy. It is so unique, never smelled anything remotely similar. The Datura smell is quite distinctive; slightly sharp but also root-y and sweet. The datura itself, with the sharp, slightly camphorous notes, which in this perfume are translated with a soft citrus instead (a nice and more pleasing substitute) then comes in heliotrope, almost almond like, and a powder dark chocolate, almost loukhoum like. Very hard to describe scent, because it is absolutely unique and uncommon.
I have smelled the sacred moonflowers recently in my fathers native country and can clearly remember it, because they grew in all sorts of places like wild flowers.
I think that MPG did a great job trying to depict the smell of the Datura. This is most definitely a nighttime scent, to share with you and just one other, a lover, a friend, but not in large crowds or all eyes will be on you. I feel the same way with my Summer favorite, Magical Moon HM (different scents but similar vibes) This is strictly a night time scent, any season, but best in Spring and Fall.
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The love for this frag is unique as well; it is of absolute amazement and awe that it causes me to just stop for a moment when I smell it. It seems though, that others can smell this on me even when I can not. I have seen that when I wear this those around me who sniff it stop for a moment to take it in while exclaiming with wide, bewildered eyes, and even a kind remark, whereas I don’t smell a thing!
Intoxicating to say the least. Unisex depending on the man. For men with warmer and oily type skin, this can work wonders for them I believe.
Lovers of L’Heure Bleue and Apres L’Ondee should enjoy this!
Myncsnict – :
In her fabulous Perfumes guide, Susan Irvine tells us that a hallucinogenic flower, the datura, fascinated Jean Laporte so much that he had to make a perfume out of it. In ancient times the datura, also called nightshade, was used to induce lust, visions, and even death.
And indeed this must be the sexiest floral I have ever come across. It has an incredible, bewitching effect which wreaks havoc and induces those who catch its aura to find any excuse to come and talk to me whenever I wear it.
It is that most elusive of genres, the semi-gourmand elegant heavy floral, which so many people get so wrong.
It is also a very agreeable, lovely perfume that does not overpower, but creates an inexplicable, mysterious allure around the wearer, and it makes them also indulge in daydreams. All this, whilst retaining the fabulous quality of MPeG, without ever descending into headache territory. A masterpiece.
kapohkin – :
I’m not a big floral lover, but this one was rather nice. The opening was darker and less floral than the middle and base notes and I admit, that was my favorite part. It was not bad for a floral though, not bad at all. It’s certainly a grown-up (NOT aged-lady) floral, heady and elegant and seductive. I didn’t smell any chocolate, but Iris and datura and vanilla where definitely there. Lasting power was very good. A single spritz lasted for almost 6-8 hours on my skin.
bwr767Unlogrere – :
I’ve just smelt this…and I’ve fallen in love!!! It starts with the notes of muguet and jasmin, but soon turns into a beautiful, bright, powdery smell (on my skin, I can mostly smell heliotrope, and maybe vanilla). It seems a fragrance with two souls: the sweet floral and the tender powdery one. If you like fragrances like Heliotrope by Etro or Heliotrope blanc by Piver, or also Douceur de vanille by Les nereides, I think this is the perfect spring fragrance for you (and for me, of course 😉 ).
Anastasia-64 – :
A plain white lemony floral.
I’m hardly ever repelled by a perfume, but this one is quite awful.
I didn’t think I’d ever say this about a fragrance, but it smells like toilet or cheap soap for me. Sorry!
Fortunately, doesn’t last long and the sillage is poor.
Droper777 – :
I have sampled now several MPG perfumes and I have to say this; Secrete Datura is absolutely the Best One. My Favourite. And also One of them favourites in my whole collection. I just Love this.
sverdlovina – :
First I was not too sure about this one. First half an hour I smelled something too powdery to my taste (guess it is the heliotrope), nothing fresh like lily of the valley or lemon.
Then the frag started settling down unfolding its notes. There is the vanilla and there is the chocolate. Not exactly the dark, chocolate-cake chocolate but more like a tamed, powdered chocolate. My first idea was that it is a faint chocolate but that would have been a negative adjective whereas there is nothing negative about this one.
It is quite adorable, but do not expect much of those white flowers/iris at any stage.
akrasnyy – :
A very beautiful addition to any orange blossom lover’s collection and a downright gorgeous floral.
Secrete Datura was the first MPG I bought and it is a heady and intoxicating brew of lush florals. What separates SD from others is its lush green foliage that never leaves the composition and envelopes the flowers in an unravelling trellis of vetiver and dewy leaves.
It is a fragrance that Rapaccini’s daughter could have worn and still inhabited a normal world without losing her mystery and magic. A beauty.