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edizireeniurb – :
Starts out promising with vanilla and almond, but later on orange blossom interferes too much in order to enjoy it.
AureliaGoro – :
I was sent samples of the first four fragrances by the company when they first started up and I have to say I wasn’t impressed by any of them – they all felt overly sweet and quite amateur. I ended up using them in the bath, Sulmona included. It smelt more like something you should put on your food than on your body.
Kanistra – :
Disclaimer: This is my review of how the fragrance plays out in MY nose and on MY skin. That’s it and that’s all. With that being said…
…Hateful, horrid stuff.
I could never have expected such a profoundly negative reaction from a scent that, at worst, threatened to be a little boring. Even the promise of uninteresting simplicity didn’t deter me from trying this out because, well, it still sounded delicious. Some things are just plain GOOD without any gimmicks or tricks involved. So I had hopes for this one.
But, no.
I can’t begin to explain why, but from the moment I uncapped my decant, I was unhappy. And not just disappointed, but actually UNHAPPY. I think it was the thought of the money I’d spent for it… But I tried it on my skin anyway, still hoping. After all, fragrances do change. This changed for the worse. The way it developed on my skin is indescribable, but let it suffice to say I was nauseated and after only a few minutes had no choice but to go and scrub it off. And the most ridiculous part about all this is that…IT BARELY SMELLED LIKE ANYTHING. It wasn’t overpowering…it was just wrong. I don’t know why. But don’t be discouraged if this is something YOU want to try. In fact, I have my 3ml decant available if someone would like it. PM me.
tom123 – :
ah. This is the kind of almond scent I don’t like. I have been exploring the almond note recently, a note I thought I really disliked when I first started my fragrant adventures – I associated it with harsh, bitter, medicinal, even with infection to some degree. Basically, I had some pretty negative connotations and links in my mind and was wary.
Then I “discovered” Mandorlo di Sicilia, it took me a couple of tries but I have fallen for it now, I realised my old beloved Lucky Day had almond, and I loved L’instant Magic, L’amandiere, KM Loukhoum, My Queen etc and loved them all! So I thought maybe I was totally wrong and almond is a sure fire winner!
It isn’t. Sulmona contains the almond note I dislike – bitter, antiseptic, synthetic, medicinal. It reminds me of medicated hand soaps, disinfectant, really not pleasant things. I cannot quite place the *exact* thing I am connecting with this but I think it is a medicated soap in the public toilets!
Anyway, if you like these kind of bitter medicinal almond notes this might work for you. But this, I don’t think it is at all sweet. The back story of “magic world of sweets and fairy tales and evokes the best days of our lives.”…er no, unless the best days of your lives were falling over when playing out and being taken into the public convenience to wash your bleeding knee! I am not really getting any vanilla, if there is orange blossom it isn’t like any I am used to, and no sugar for me 🙁
Really disappointed, I had high hopes. I will definitely give it another go under different conditions, maybe in winter rather than summer (British summer, which doesn’t really count does it!) or maybe it would layer with something else? I so want it to work! I am tempted to have a go at dabbing a little on underneath my L’instant edt which is so soft to see if it creates a l’instant magic vibe?
reasonable longevity and sillage, nothing amazing but respectable enough.