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mefe999 – :
I was trying out different Lush perfumes the other day and tried this one on my skin. I was eyeing for some floral perfume such as Karma, Lust and then this. This one stood out to me. I really liked the opening of this but oddly, the dry down smelled like Sarsaparilla on me.
dj fresh – :
I like this smell but a good friend wears it which means that anyone she hugs also smells of it. I find it quite intrusive in that respect, but it’s a beautiful smell.
WOLGA – :
I am pleasantly surprised. This smells like a modern niche Chanel No 5. Like an updated youthful version with exotic sandalwood incense. Between the tuberose, vanilla and incense; the notes fit together like a glove.
rozikaverty – :
Jasmine, tuberose, vanilla. All notes I like. Not sure why this ended up smelling like wasabi and surgical gloves.
lizart – :
You need to be a frangipani lover for this.
I personally adore it and Sikkim Girls gives a beautiful rendition of it.
I would say this is Chanel Beige’s slightly older and definitely hippy-er sister.
They both revolve about frangipani and it’s heady, intense aura, but while Beige is cleaner, creamier and eventually turns soapy, Sikkim is way smokier (which i LOVE) and as most of the people here seem to agree, evokes south Asian markets and unlit incense.
If you smell it from the bottle it’s very smokey, but it’s much more low key on the skin which i think would be a plus for most people.
I don’t get ANY tuberose from this (Bummer) but SG is so good that it can be forgiven.
Rashidos – :
A year ago my husband and I went to India, as I was walking through London and the thought of India came to me….I long to be in beautiful India again.
I was walking through Oxford circus and my feet brought me to Lush, for someone who is always drawn to fragrances I never say no in trying anything new, especially fragrances. The ladies at the fragrance corner at Lush were helpful as well….and when I mentioned my love for Jasmine and Ylang-ylang, this was sprayed on my wrist….and this brought me back to India….to Jaipur markets. Floral notes, steeped in incense and spices.
As I got home, the single spray has settled calmly in my wrist, after two hours I can still smell it close to the skin. I asked my husband to smell my wrist, he said it reminds him of Egypt, of gypsy caravans and he loves how natural it smells….like a sexy skin scent.
As someone who loves oriental fragrances for it speaks of my heritage, this perfume is no doubt a TRUE ORIENTAL scent! This is not for the faint caramel gourmand enthusiasts, this is a BOLD, confident, sexy, carefree fragrance.
For me it is —- INDIA IN A BOTTLE!
igofon – :
Oh, you dirty thing, you. Sikkim Girls smells so carnal it makes me blush. It has this strong animalic vibe on my skin, something resembling the afterglow-y sweat. And it’s hella strong and long-lasting.
I think I will try layering it with something citrus-y to make it more work appropriate. Ha.
nazoferon13 – :
Lush Sikkim Girls is a box full of Satya Sai Baba Nag Champa Incense cones miraculously transformed into a glorious golden nectar of a liquid and bottled for our delight and revelry. I am completely besotted with it.
This incense is unlit, there is no smoke in here. Although there may well be a genie waiting to grant your wishes and get you into lots of the best kind of trouble!
Off with the lid then, spritz and Oh! What is this? I was expecting white flowers and this is an old fashioned spicy thing – hang on a minute, what is happening, it’s growing on my skin, getting bigger and bigger until I am surrounded by an outrageous triffid like floral spice bomb and now I’ve got to stand in the queue at the supermarket smelling like this, how embarrassing. Great big wafts of Frangipani (known in India as Champa Flowers) and warm tuberose (made rubbery, moist and naughty by the resinous halmaddi note) sitting happy and smug amongst powdery sandalwood, all larger than life and waiting impatiently to be driven off to a wild festival or concert with after-party and they are not going to calm down for quite a while yet.
Whew, this one needs a bit of fresh air and some good fun, devil may care company to go with it.
Sikkim girls will gladly stay up all night rocking it’s way into the morning, in fact it can probably go without sleep for a couple of days. I can smell traces of it on some of my jumpers (oops, I mean 70’s posh hippy Biba dresses 😉 days and days after I have worn it.
Please don’t be put off though, I am prone to getting a bit dramatic. This is very lovely and has a wonderful way of getting really close and familiar with my skin chemistry. Although it’s quite strongly floral, it smells natural and feels like it’s become part of me and if applied with a light hand is wearable at any time.
It does have a soft rubbery, resinous, woodiness in the base although the notes are not listed, this must be a result of the benzyls added to the gorgeous floral absolutes. When it gets very warm I can definitely smell some naughty rubber of the latex kind – you have been warned.
I don’t really get any jasmine amongst the other flowers but I get a fair amount of smoothed out spices shimmying around with them, and courmarin is there in the base to sweeten and hold it all together. There is a delicious creamy warmth here.
Sikkim Girls is different from, but shares some outrageous type DNA with my 80’s favourite YSL Opium 1977 (pre-reformulation).
Sillage goes from moderate to massive to good and longevity on my skin is awesome.
This one will be staying on my favourites shelf and although I wear it whenever I fancy, really I should keep it as my get-ready-to-get-wild go to.
Must-try amazingness 10/10
Serjikfox – :
My review is for the solid perfume, sampled during the coldest and driest winter my area has had in a long while. Some other reviews mention Sikkim girls is very weather dependent, so maybe I should do a Spring review.
I think Sikkim girls is a timeless, ageless classic. If I pulled the label off, I could see this on the grandmother I never had from Brooklyn, wearing a Hawaiian floral print muumuu and a big straw hat on Rockaway beach. I can see it being worn by a mom at a water park, wrangling small children with floaties on their arms. I can see it worn by a tween girl, maturing into hipness over the summer between school years. The girl is at a pool in LA designed to look like a lagoon. And on myself, I picture the vacation to Thailand I’ve always dreamt of. I’m on a small, fairly isolated beach laying in the sun at waters edge and the air is thick and heavy with flowers. My skin is oiled, and basically being singed by the sun but I don’t care because I am VACATIONING. Maybe toasty skin is the expression of the animalic note others say they pick up in Sikkim, well bended so it’s more of perception than an actual note? The inclusion of water in these scenarios is not meant to convey aquatic or salty tones to sikkim, but the message that the wearer is summering, HARD.
It’s linear and simple. The comparison to Chanel no. 5 doesn’t really register with me because No. 5 is aldehydes, aldehydes, aldehydes, but I see where some of the notes could connect for others. I get frangipani and vanilla mostly. The frangipani is realistic and smells amazing. I get some wafts of vanilla candle occasionally, but I think it might be due to the fact that it’s a wax solid perfume. I like it enough to buy the liquid version, but I looks like production has been discontinued? The good ones are always so difficult to get.
Kos 78 – :
Wow! another amazing Lush white floral! I actually love this more then Lust. Sikkim Girls is very heady spicy Nag Champa incense. I totally agree with the reviewer that called this the “ hippy dippy Chanel No 5” Wonderful stuff! Amazing silage! And like most Lush scents, might not be for everyone, You’ll either like it or hate it.
Tim1974 – :
This is a very interesting perfume. It changes depending on weather. A lot. I wear Sikkim Girls when the weather is warm but never when it is hot or cold. But not only the temperature makes the difference, maybe humidity?
Whatsoever, there are moments when Sikkim Girls are pure heaven – sweet frangipani, intoxicating and creamy white flowers with an animalistic touch.
blv242bedyWelty – :
A floral fragrance that, at least to me, doesn’t exactly smell floral!
Sikkim Girls is powerful, mysterious, sensual; on my skin, I think the tuberose is the most prominent note and it gives the fragrance a creamy, vintage-like quality.
Though it’s made of white flowers, there’s nothing white about it: I think it’s color could be burgundy.
Good sillage too, and lasts quite a lot.
andron19 – :
I am just mesmerized by this. I smell no white flowers, at least they don’t present themselves in the usual way. Do you know when you walk in front of an Indian restaurant on a hot Summer day and get a whiff of the strong spices? That is how it opens on me. Then it gets creamy and the magic begins. Sexy and unique
Efur – :
This is a really brave fragrance. All creamy florals (heavy emphasis on frangipani) with a slight incensey vibe lingering beneath it all. I was surprised to see it voted as mostly a fall and winter fragrance because on me, Summer is the only season I can even dream of wearing it. In cold weather it smells like a traditionally “masculine” cologne and wood chips. And there’s not even any wood notes in it! lol It’s possibly the most weather dependent fragrance I’ve ever owned. In the heat of late spring and early summer it’s one of my favorite fragrances of all time. But when the weather cools and I attempt to wear it I have to talk myself out of giving the entire bottle a one way ticket to the trash bin. Very odd and polarizing in that respect. That said, we get a very stark contrast in seasons here where I live. I would wear it every season if I could get away with it. Perhaps those in warmer, milder climates could.
When I am able to wear it, I adore it! It has amazing longevity and decent silage. It has a immediate calming effect on my mood. Possibly because it reminds me of the temples I visited in Thailand and the Ashrams of India. Imagine that, something called “Sikkim girls” reminds me of none other than Sikkim India. lol Anyway, This is how perfumery was meant to be approached… as artistry.
This is truly a LOVE.
dega24 – :
Wow this is amazing. Smells like freshly cut flowers, earthy a bit, slightly dusty in the way only lush can pull off as a unique signature note! Love it, smells expensive.
osa.bumer – :
Sikkim Girls starts out with the only, exact replication of the scent of plumeria (frangipani), that I’ve ever encountered. I had a plumeria tree in my back yard, and the white and yellow flowers smelled just like this! Then the tuberose does what tuberose does, and takes over in a big way, and it, somehow, melts into magnolia champaca. How does this happen? Clearly it’s the work of a genius nose! Overall, perhaps because of the name, the whole of the scent connotes huge, purple orchids and cardamom. This is Sikkim in the summer; there’s no mountainous, frozen expanse here…it’s humid, and sweaty. Lush marketing claims this is the “heat of Darjeeling” (which is in West Bengal, south of Sikkim). I would likely buy this if the cartoon on the bottle, and the name didn’t bug me so much. Maybe if the “Darjeeling” claim hadn’t been there, it wouldn’t seem exploitative. The whole ideais taken from a photo, (which can be found by Googling “Sikkim Girls photo) not a memory, which is certainly acceptable when it comes to creativity. It just seems to take the individuality out of the two women in the photo, and referring to them as “girls” seems patronizing. The perfume is lovely, and my critique may be inspired by pessimism. As a perfume, there’s nothing else like Sikkim Girls, that I’ve ever smelled, and it’s fabulous that a mainstream brand still treats perfumery as an ART.
fdp588intitytek – :
I bought myself a warm bomber jacket in a second hand store. The jacket smelled so cool and spicy. I felt flattered to step in the former ‘shoes’ of a person that uses such a brave fragrance. Somewhat I knew that it was a woman although the jacket was hanging in the men section. But this is not a feminine scent, it was a girl wearing a boys smell but her chemistry turned it sweet. That girl is androgyn even though the only thing that is so was her bomber. And that smell. She dresses appropriate to her mind, careless and a little blowsy but the result is trop cool. Very unusual that such a fragrance is of a like for me, usually I’m the shy, powdery, violet flowers one. Maybe time for change? And just today, wink, some days before the new year I entered lush and found my jacket trace. I anyway wanted to test out Sikkim Girls because of the name that makes just BAM. The bottle and label are well chosen.
My very first impression was: Old girl – but only for a whiff. Right after it just smells spicy, soapy. They sell a bar of soap named “Gewürzseife” in Germany, really similar. Greatgreat! How bizarre to find out that there are no spices, instead such feminine notes. You could say it has something ‘organic’, a joss stick kind of incense, but only if your nose touches your skin. The longevity and projection is potent, it might get too harsh for people around. With this one I might disturb everyone but it makes me feel good and I will wear it with pride. In winter at first.
xBERLINx – :
I’ve bought a 10 ml and experimenting with it as a man. I wish I knew why I couldn’t help but associate it with old ladies at first sniff. Did my grandmothers’ generation use a lot of frangipani? Or tuberose? I went a long way in a short time after that to come to the realization that Sikkim Girls is actually masterful. I like the idea of using no oils, only absolutes. There’s a peculiar, inexplicable darkness to it, too, despite the all white floral ingredients plus vanilla (which I loathe by itself). Nevertheless, Sikkim Girls can get borderline cloying – be warned about that. Definately not the ideal pick in hot weather and mornings.
Experience results: Can’t be worn by men. I’m giving it away to a girl.
Kozerog – :
Trying to think up a nice way to rate this besides saying utterly disappointed. I was hoping for a fragipani tuberose bomb. Nope, not this stuff.
I’m getting no tuberose or jasmine. I get an over spiced fragipani. It takes a lot of spice to drown out fragipani. It’s a creamy oriental at best. Not a good choice for a white flower lover and tuberose addict like me. But, survey says it smells really good on me. People want to know what it is and where to find it. And the longevity is excellent.
If possible try before you buy. And give it at a minimum 15 minutes before making any decisions about it. It will get more flowery with time.
Unless it starts to grow on me in a big way this won’t be a repeat buy.
kvn2412 – :
I’ve got a small spray of this. To me it’s one of those perfumes that you just can’t make your mind up about, I struggle with this one! Many of the reviews here make me think this fragrance would be right up my street however I just don’t think I get along with it. I’ve sprayed some on, I’ll keep sniffing it as time passes but I still can’t make my mind up. I’ve put it in my charity donations bag (along with Flowers Barrow) and taken it back out again a number of times! I think I’ll be donating this one to someone who likes it.
SABINA – :
Soft opening for a LUSH scent. Sikkim Girls begins with an almost bland whisper of sweet white flowers. And then, all at once, it’s a heady, rich white floral cloud; honeyed and lightly indolic. And then it’s soapy and clean. And the cloud blooms again. It dances back and forth in these flowers; heady/indolic and then clean/soapy. I can actually feel the seductive sway of the sikkim girls in the interplay of the floral back and forth. It never sharpens, grounded in a vanilla that softens all the edges. These girls are definitely coy, always staying just on the sweet side of things. It’s gorgeous but not an easy scent, LUSH strong once it gets going; and goes for a solid 6/7 hours. And those white flowers are not prettied up, they’re the whole sexy shebang.
artur0701 – :
Magical, sultry and bewitching delight. I never had such beatiful jasmine scent. Srong and sensual, amazing , enormous sillage and longevity.
First- jasmine cloud 9. This jasmine keynote lingers throuh all stages of the scent changes , then the sweet frangipani hits in, fast following by beatiful tuberose. All the beauties are adorned with soft but yummy natural vanilla , making the stron flower scent sensual, sexy and cuddly.
Pure exotic delight from magical far – away land.
xxxsahaxxx – :
This fragrance changes so dramatically in different weather conditions. Its warm and very humid here and its filled my office with tropical flowers. Its all so intense and almost hypnotic in its affect. It definitely blooms in warmth. Its much more low key in a cool atmosphere and I think more animalic.
My first thoughts were of jasmine then frangipani. Ive smelt the actual flowers and they are definitely present. Its quite an astonishing fragrance with 3 floral heavy hitters. On me the jasmine and frangi have managed to smother the tuberose. An extraordinary feat indeed.
I think the vanilla saves the day. Three competing divas need something to soften them up. I suffer from migraines and my first thought was OMG. Thankfully this has not happened yet.
Its definitely a casual wear fragrance for wearing at a bbq perhaps where there are lots of other smells wafting around. Sikkim can hold her own there.
Not bad longevity and the sillage varies on the weather.
Ramzyuga4 – :
I’m a man. I feel like I can pull off all the mainline lush scents apart from this one. Too feminine, makes me biased but this is my least favourite from lush. It’s an interesting spicy floral. If you like karma or lust, this perfume might be for you as seems to take elements from both.
There are interesting notes to this fragrance but they don’t add up to a satisfying whole. Some of them clash and it comes across as unrefined and it has a bit of a damp dirty washing undertone that almost ruins the whole thing.
Also the packaging is ugly. Whoever they got to do their labels can’t draw faces.
The dropper bottle for this is thankfully no longer in production. The atomisers eliminate some of the unpleasant musk. I liked the solid perfume the best. The one off cream they made one Christmas was not worth the price.
Титов777 – :
I just tried this on in the store today, and at first I was disappointed. It wasn’t love at first sniff to say the least. Maybe it’s my skin chemistry or maybe it’s just my personal preference, but smoky incense scents smell absolutely disgusting on me, like ashtrays and things that were never meant to be burned. The only incense scents I liked were Tom Ford Sahara noir and a Tauer perfume, and those were more resinous than smoky.
After about half an hour, the smoke smell of the top notes faded, and all I could smell was this exotic floriental scent. The florals were rich, strong, and unusual– I’m not even sure which flowers they are supposed to be, but they do smell a bit tropical. This isn’t just the usual sweet jasmine. There is this hint of spice that adds a bit of an edge, but it’s faint and stays in the background, giving the heady florals some depth. There isn’t a really obvious powder note that I can smell, but there is this feeling of powder (so hard for me to explain) it’s like looking through frosted glass instead of a clear window. maybe the opaque powdery texture of the smell is what makes people compare this to classic scents.
I was expecting more of a bombshell scent, but once the smoke scent fades, this perfume is very soft and stays close to the skin; more sensual than outright sexy.
iko6 – :
Only have solid to go by but yikes errrrrr it’s awful smells like an incense stick not for me 🙁 but my mum got it for me so bless it’s in zee collection unworn tho shame.
82mitka – :
A pretty straight forward oriental scent without spice or sweet warmth. A white flower scent that smells unmistakably oriental. This is great for an evening, uncomplicated white floral that makes you dream of an ancient Asian village. This smells vintage but exotic vintage. Ancient vintage really. A wonderful new relic.
FriendJames – :
Sometimes on me it’s just pretty flowers, other times a joss stick (particularly according to my husband.) It’s really very comforting.
Whilst I love the liquid version I did not appreciate the solid at all. It does posses a soapy vibe that is all but absent from the liquid.
The solid version of All Good Things on the other hand is a winner, save for the glitter, why Lush, why?
darthfigo – :
I have the solid perfume of Sikkim Girls. It’s kinda nice and sweetly smoky smell but reminds me too much of some cheap soap. I like the fact that is has natural ingredients but there is still something too “man-made” and artificial about this scent which I cannot appreciate at all. I like Lust from Lush/Gorilla Perfume’s much much better!
6/10
ninja auto – :
A hippy-dippy Chanel No. 5, if you can imagine it. Wonderful.
azot.ges – :
raw jasmine, so floral and girly sexy. guess it doesn’t last so long at least not on my skin
seaman1980 – :
Floral, spicy…very unusual smell, I smell flowers, neroli, vanilla, patchouli in that order when I wear. Kind of a hippy smell, which I love!
My favorite scent by LUSH Gorilla line. The liquid smells much better than the cream pot that LUSH sells.
RoksiTi – :
Sikkim girls is a very intriguing perfume. Under the tropical frangipani and tuberose, there’s a very nice smokiness. That particular smoky effect also feels lightly incense like. I’m not sure where it comes from, but I’m guessing the vanilla used has its rough aspects enhanced rather than blurred.
After Lust, I was expecting a bomb, but Sikkim is less in your face. Strange, considering it is tuberose rich!
What I mostly get is the frangipani, which combines aspects of gardenia and jasmine, and a banana like sweetness that could be related to ylang ylang or the frangipani star of the show.
Up until the third hour there is hardly any change; it’s all white creamy dreams. But tuberose is invited to the party, so she has to make her presence known. Mostly in the form of a cool camphor breeze that cuts through the sweetness as she briefly exits the scene.
And this is Sikkim on my skin. White flowers, small intervals of tuberose camphor, and smoky tendrils in the background. Utterly beautiful. Quietly meditative.
Long lasting with average sillage.
Emma44 – :
i am in love with this perfume. it’s a sensationally sexy jasmine. it’s overpowering, overbearing and not for the fainthearted. in my opinion it is a heady jasmine with a whole lotta incense…the incense is very intense. it almost smells like shisha and festivals. it reminds me of being at festivals and smelling of smoke and being surrounded by naughty cigarettes
ekaterunka – :
Another scent that hit the market in 2013, as part of the line of fragrances called “Volume 2” (released in 2012) and took inspiration in a tale related to the musician Sheema Mukherjee. She met a coffee-owner in Darjeeling, who claimed that his son-in-law had been attracted by two sirens (mythology) that lured him by shaking their sexy bodies, leaving him in a trance, with her feminine wiles.
Sikkim Girls is an exotic and seductive floral that captures the warmth of Darjeeling – town in West Bengal, in India. Is known for its tea industry and its name translates, literally, by Land of Thunderbolt.
In the fragrance composition, notes of jasmine absolute, frangipani absolute (aka plumeria), vanilla absolute, Angelica (tuberose) absolute and tonka bean, in addition to chemical compounds such as Farnesol and Geraniol, which enhance the floral aspect, Linalool, which gives sweet floral aroma and Eugenol, which is clove oil.
The result is stunning. Like all perfumes that carry notes of tuberose, the floral output is strong and vibrant. Here, the absolute that was used is almost narcotic: hot, sharp and fruity-type (smells like peach).
To give an idea to those who are reading this review right now, in one of the tests that I ran on my skin, I applied a drop on each wrist and received praise from my parents, who were in another room in the house. This perfume exudes a lot!
Actually, there is a touch of vanilla in the middle of the story, but amidst the scent of Tuberose and Jasmine absolute, it’s almost imperceptible, mere supporting role. Luckily, there is a strengthening of this vanilla nuance, thanks to the frangipani absolute, which must be of pink color, creamier and with more vanilla than the white, which is fruitier. On my skin, the nuances of jasmine appear more isolated after about two hours, when it’s easier to distinguish what has gone and what is yet to come.
Some say that jasmine’s powers are associated with the secrets of fertility, magic and healing. For a scent that symbolizes an almost magical tale, nothing could be more consistent.
For comparison purposes, I would say that Sikkim Girls is part of Carnal Flower’s family, recognized as the fragrance that has the largest volume of Tuberose already used in perfumery.
Although it is marketed as unisex, some people judge this fragrance as more feminine than masculine. In this case, maybe those sirens have bewitched me too, because I would be able to wear it very easily. It’s been more than 12 hours since the last application and I’m still in a trance.
Wraplealeva – :
In the LUSH store, after being nasally bombarded by everything else, I smelled mainly the strong frangipani note in Sikkim Girls, but having brought it home I find the opening initially dominated by incense. Strong & long lasting, indeed! (When I tried rinsing this off and applying my usual dose of LUST, I discovered that this makes a sensational base! Also works the other way around, of course!)
Sikkim Girls has a wonderfully intense presence. Two sprays turned my living-room into a bazaar.
Apply with a light hand and don’t breathe it in too closely – this is a room filler. A beautiful, powdery, heady floral, frangipani and burnt woods kind of room filler.
Садок – :
Exotic White Floral. (How often do you hear that together?)
Imagine Chanel Coco Noir, a warm bourbon vanilla, and a tropical Lei – there you have it! Sikkim Girls!
This lasts forever.
you have to wash this off (much like all of Lush’s Fragrances).
This was a recent purchase in Tokyo, Japan. I went crazy on the fragrances there – (had to while the US dollar was stronger than the yen!)
Fabulous.
Long Lasting, and clear representations of the oils in the fragrance this is CAPTIVATING STUFF!
Awesome powdery exotic white floral.
unique.
Biggest – :
I generally love Lush perfumes, white florals, and ‘tropical’ type scents but I strongly disliked this one to the point that I wanted to take it off soon after spraying it. I can’t pinpoint what it is exactly but the combination of notes just didn’t work for me and smells discordant. The resiny, dry, powdery ambery vanilla kind of coconut type base and florals don’t smell good on me. There’s a note in here that I strongly dislike and I can’t figure out what it is.
SonicJamp – :
I love this Lush scent. It’s an oriental floral.
I can put this scent in the same family of Coco Noir and Classique.
The opening is quite strong, a blast of white florals, a beautiful tuberose with jasmine and frangipani.
The drydown is delicious: warm and very sensual, sweet, powdery and spicy.
Definitely an amazing, original fragrance.
I have the stick version, the lasting power is good but not huge, it’s a skin scent.
SULTRY.
RealNeo – :
I never thought I’d encounter a white flower scent that I don’t like, but unfortunately, Sikkim Girls is just that.
Perhaps it is simply that I couldn’t appreciate the warm and sunny spicyness of this one. I enjoy my flowers a little cold and wet, more reminiscent of nature than a bazaar.
Adcitty – :
Wow! I have resisted trying this perfume because I was aggravated with LUSH for their incessant discontinuance/reformulation of products that I love (Tuca Tuca perfume, Orange Blossom perfume, Coconut deodorant etc.) and I actually did sniff it when they first launched it and was not impressed.
Yesterday I was at LUSH and thought, why not? I sprang for the small spray vial and instantly became intoxicated. I get very strong frangipani and citrus; honestly I don’t smell jasmine at all and only a hint of tuberose. This is VERY animalic and I was going nuts trying to recall why it smelt so familiar. There is a similarity to Karma, but Karma is fresher and has loads of patchouli and orange (the notes claim lemongrass but it smells like orange to me). About 4 hours in it came to me: this is near identical to Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles! Many of the notes are different but the ones in Bal a Versailles that come most to life on my skin are citrus, frankincense and civet. And while there’s no frankincense in SG, there sure is something that smells like civet.
Aside from Jean Desprez, LUSH is the only house whose citrus notes don’t go sour on my skin. Seriously, if you spray a bit of Karma over JD BaV, you get SG and vice versa. I love, LOVE this but I can see how it might be controversial as civet goes peepee on some folks. I find it very sexy and exotic, love it!
Godric1991 – :
I have this in the solid, and I keep it in my purse. I’ve always wanted a fragrance that I could carry around with me and layer with other scents, and this does the job. It’s grounding, it smells like baked clay and oily tropical flowers. It’s sort of like patchouli, but definitely not patchouli. I almost feel like a hippie living on a tropical island would best describe this.
keke1993 – :
An exotic beach fragrance. Before you judge, this is not your typical coconut-sunscreen beach fragrance that gives us images of pristine and polished beaches like Florida, The Bahamas, and ones in The Mediterranean. Sikkim Girls evokes more untamed beaches. The beaches are somewhere in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia or Polynesia and are not filled with snooty tourists, but rather locals with market stands. Imagine places on the beach where the trees, the plants are overgrown and go into the water and you can see the roots sticking out of the ground; the waters are not necessarily clear blue either. The women sweat and fan themselves in the tropical heat.
The fragrance starts out rough. At first sniff I was turned off by it’s almost bitter like, smokey, and animalistic beginning. Within a short time the incense like flowers of frangipani, tuberose, and jasmine all nested on woody vanilla, bloom in the heat. I mean that seriously too, wear this in warm temperatures or just wait for this to open and ripen on the skin, it gets better. This is a sort of banana type sweet, floral, and dirty fragrance. LUSH always seems to create such dirty perfumes, in a good way. Reminds me very much of Annick Goutal Songes.
Overall: Unique, raw, exotic, beautiful, and actually quite affordable!
biglach – :
On me the top notes are both harsh and strong, but after a while it turns into a lovely floral scent. The jasmine and, I think, frangipani (which scent I am not familiar with) is strong in this one, and I like that. The vanilla is also, after a while, prominent. It’s seems somewhat exotic, but more smokey. My sister can detect a honey-like scent when I wear this, but I have problems smelling the honey myself, but it’s clear that something sweet lingers in the background. It’s almost woody – and it feels very natural. Almost like sniffing a boquet of strong-smelling flowers on the verge of decay. I prefer to wear this for evenings – it can be a little bit to overpowering for daytime, but it does wear well for work if you spritz just a little bit on your neck or wrists and blend it with some water or oil. The bottle and story is also quite cute, and I like the fact that it’s mostly made of essential oils since I’m on the hunt for mostly-natural fragrances. The scent last for a long time, the sillage is quite heavy.
George58 – :
This fragrance is very