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komar1972 – :
This comes in a set with Amber Star and goes for around $750. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a used but 90% full 50ml bottle of just this one for a very reasonable price. But I still hope to find Amber Star one day since that’s the one I actually wanted…
First off, the notes here are wrong. The sticker on the back of the bottle lists the notes: and Iris should be Orris and Carnation should be Cloves. Mandarin is actually Mandarin Peel and (if this part even matters the “Santalwood” is from Mysore and “Vetyver” is Haitian. (In quotes because that’s how they spelled it on the bottle but that’s not how I normally spell it.)
Anyway, on initial spray, there’s a heavy Play-Doh feeling that had me going “Really?? What???” But after about a minute a well blended sweet, powdery sandalwood-vanilla accord emerges with additional floral notes and spices.
You really have to give this at least 5 minutes before you start judging because it really does take it’s sweet time settling down. Benzoin and Cinnamon (especially together) are two of my favorite notes but I wish they were stronger here. I do get a sort of Panna Cotta feeling though with those two notes and vanilla + sandalwood + orris combined. It’s funny because the first time I ever tasted Panna Cotta, I was like “This is what angel meat must taste like” and I see below that MrZayas81 describes this as what angels smell like and I have to agree. Not a fantasy scent, but a realistic angel skin-scent, I totally see it!
I’m trying this out on a hot day in summer and I really feel like this is a fragrance that will do better in winter or fall. I would not pay full price for it, unless I was very rich, (So I do agree with mabelcruet too, there really is an Emperor’s new clothes thing going on. I’d pay $80 for a brand new 50ml bottle of this tops but $750/2 = $375 is a joke!
Even though I’m typing all that, I’m having difficulty typing at all because I keep pulling up my wrists to my face to sniff some more. It really does get pretty addictive!
Just ignore the 1st 5 minutes and this is a great scent. Even if you never buy it, the next time you’re at a niche perfume shop or major airport and are lucky to find a tester of this, definitely at least give it a try, just to have experienced it. The bottle makes it look like it should be a heavy Arabic Oud-based concoction, but in reality, it’s a soft, sweet, resinous, powdery, mild non-indolic white floral skin-scent.
svetapleshakova – :
Ultra sweet, cloying, extremely feminine vanilla floral fragrance with a timid hint of musk!
lsv.tula – :
I’ve spent the entire day with Star Musk, what a magnificent blend this one is, the amalgamation of extravagant semi funky musk and crystalline white flowers over sugary powder accord is literally celestial smelling, this scent is in my humble opinion a liquid portrait of what angels smell like in heaven.
Longevity: 10 out of 10
Projection: 8 out of 10
Versatility: 8 out of 10
Smell/ Compliments 10 out of 10
Overall smell: 10 out of 10
Instagram: Mrzayas81
ZLOI_3.25 – :
Sweet, strange, playful. Difficult to describe, but if you have tried baccarat rouge 540, this is very close.
RuslanRuslan – :
I got this as part of a sample set, so this review is based on that, not a full size bottle or oil.
I’m just not getting it with Xerjoff. I’ve sampled a range now and none of them have been anything other than ordinary. Nice. Boring. Bland. Run of the mill, inoffensive, office friendly. Is it my skin? Do I have a cheap nose? The price of this is astronomical and it quite frankly is absolutely not worth it.
First impression is overwhelmingly chemical-nose scouringly acidic. That dries down and after about half an hour I get a pleasant sweet vanilla which is evanescent and very rapidly ‘turns’ like souring milk, almost sickly.
At one hour in, it becomes a light, pleasant powdery-floral. Nice, but nothing that hasn’t been done many times before and many times better. There is the merest hint of a mild gentle spice and slight woodsy note and that’s it. It’s soft, minimal sillage and very poor longevity, about 90 minutes on me.
Personally I think Xerjoff are pulling an Emperor’s new clothes trick-these fragrances are marketed aggressively as high end must-haves, but honestly they aren’t worth the cost.
sergey1975 – :
Oh yes kossjenka, I absolutely agree with you! Lovely lovely. So elegant. Beautiful!
marat1976 – :
The most sophisticated bouquet of flowers I ever met. The perfect seductive ikebana… Soft and powdery.