Description
“The Illuminum collection is for those days when you are in the mood for something exquisitely simple and stylish.”—Michael Boadi. The collection embraces 16 fragrances categorized in four olfactory groups (citrus, floral, oud and musk). Each group consists of four scents, while each of the fragrances contains eight carefully selected ingredients.
Skin Petals opens with apple blossom and wild berries, with violet and lily of the valley in the heart and the base made of warm amber.
It is available in bottles of 50 and 100 ml.
In addition to creating the composition, Michael Boadi designed all the packaging as well as the logo and the branding.
Skin Petals was launched in 2011.
neonomen – :
its just watery fruit.. apple blossoms and berries in a pond.. disappointing.. the name is misleading.. its nothing like skin ;(
foesskala – :
Ooo no, it’s overly feminine and totally floral. It says unisex so that why I wanted to try this one out but it was much too floral.
Opens with masses of indolic jasmine, the apple blossom (definitely not fruity)and violet with lilies (lots) all at full volume!
The berries and any fruity sweetness are at best in the background and come forwards a little after an hour but still dominated by the big white florals.
Later is smells exactly like other floral scents – hit of fruity berry sweetness but mainly thick floral waves. But maybe a woman can appreciate and pick out between the floral notes better.
For me, i couldn’t do it and I feel in general it would be much too challenging (gender wise) for any man to pull off.
It’s sad the apple blossom note is not a ‘full apple’ one because sometimes the fruityness does peak for a millisecond (and it’s very nice) before being suffocated back below the mass bloomage.
So in summary, this is just not for me – all florals, very few berries, virtually no woods or amber – but the quality is good in this one.
My rating: 5/10.
Scent quality: 8/10.
tumbKiftefe – :
Illuminum released a huge number of perfumes all at once. For a niche house, this raised slight alarm bells for me because I couldn’t help but wonder just how much care had gone into the creation of each fragrance. Michael Boadi is easily as prolific as some of the more mainstream houses (if not even more so) and while there’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, niche fragrances usually come with the unspoken promise of offering something different from what we usually see from mainstream houses.
Still, I was curious, so I ordered a sampler online. The fragrances are for the most part perfectly nice, but that’s about it.
Skin Petals is a very pretty, feminine, fruity floral. The apple is the star of the show. It doesn’t have much in the way of sillage but longevity is very decent (I got about 9 hours out of this). It’s a soft, carefree spring scent. I can’t imagine it offending anyone at all.
However, I can’t help but feel it’s been done before – and much more cheaply. There are so many fruity florals on the market and I just don’t feel this one offers anything different enough to warrant the price it costs. It’s not that it reminds me of one particular perfume, it’s just that it reminds me of so many in its vibe that it fails to stand out to any great extent.
There’s a touch of something aquatic about it. I feel Boadi has tried to create a crowd pleaser like L’Eau D’Issey or Gucci Rush. It read to me like a scent that’s been created with pleasing the masses far more in mind than it being a passion project of a master perfumier.
Very pleasant, but ultimately not full bottle worthy for me. I’d love to see something more exciting from this house.
learnwrin – :
When you produce as many perfumes as does Michael Boadi, the perfumer and creative director of not only Illuminum but also Boadicea the Victorious and the brand new house (2013) Electimuss, you’re bound to intersect with some of the perfumes in existence. What I found upon donning Illuminum Skin Petals was that the scent smelled incredibly familiar. It took me a couple of minutes to make the connection, but there it was before my nose, as clear as a squeaky clean abstract floral can possibly be: Bond no 9 Chelsea Flowers!
The notes of these two creations are completely different, but that just goes to show that the end result can be very similar, provided that the abstractions and proportions of fruits and florals are tweaked just right. Added to that explanation, let us not forget that the notes are just marketing metaphors anyway!
I highly doubt that this was a conscious act of plagiarism. Boadi hit on basically the same idea as Laurice Rahmé and friends at Bond no 9. People are wearing this type of squeaky clean abstract fruity-floral more and more, so Boadi’s vast collection would have been remiss without one.
The approach of these houses appears to be the same: to offer something for everyone in high quality eau de parfum and pleasing packaging. Skin Petals is not what I had thought it would be before donning it (I was guessing some sort of light musky skin scent), but it is a pleasant perfume.
Requai – :
Definitely get apple rather than apple blossom, pretty strong, sour and a bit overwhelming. Personally I don’t find it pleasant.
Xrundik-Enk – :
I perceive Skin Petals as an elaborated soft fragance rather for spring / summer. It definitely contains carefully selected ingredients.
It opens ups with apple (I assume the blossom) and then turns to a floral composition. The apple is present, though soft, not overwhelming nor sticky juicy. In te beginning I also smell a sharper nuance (reminds me to carnation, but since not listed, may be one of the other flowers). Then, this sharp nuance disappears and it turns to a very well balanced floral bouquet. Different, no mainstream at all.
If I had one wish free I would like to have this a little stronger. On my skin it turns to a very (too) subtle scent which however lasts for many hours. I still, prefer it stronger.