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jekabeliy1986ntl – :
This is a tricky one… Just when you think you’ve figured that note out, it switches gears & loses you in the dust of another note… A lot going on here but definitely leans feminine… No doubt I’d rock this in a new York minute!! Boozy green notes at first but then it fades into the tuberose, suede, violet, iris, patchouli plum!! Definitely worth a try…
Longevity and projection is through the roof!! The name is so fitting!!
beh358speagoessenda – :
The opening is very fruity (plum) with a soft boozy quality (cognac). It’s not girly fruity, the boozyness and also something darker lurking underneath makes it feel slightly mature, not necessarily age wise, but in an experienced kind of way. This is a scent with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. And it feels like it has an agenda. It knows what it’s doing.
The scent slowly becomes more floral. It’s a deep, sensual, intoxicating floral smell. It lures you in and makes you a bit dizzy. This is an intensely overpowering scent. It might seem sweet and almost innocent in the beginning, but that’s just an act.
From the heart and all the way down to the base the darkness that has been lurking underneath for so long slowly appears and grows stronger. It is a honeyed ambery darkness softened by hints of exotic slightly toxic flowers. A beeswax note becomes more prominent in the base too. It doesn’t smell waxy, but more sligthly sweet and fatty, and together with the suede note in this fragrance it’s giving the amber a creamy, intimate skin like feeling. Very sensual and alluring.
When the honeyed amber takes over this fragrance reminds me a lot of Olympic Orchids Golden Cattleya.
I could easily imagine a woman like Milady de Winter from The Three Musketeers wearing this scent. Apparently pure and innocent in a sensual and elegant way, but actually very tactical and deadly.
I love it! An absolute stunning creation!
Longevity is great, on my skin it lasts about 8-10 hours. Sillage is pretty huge right away, then it calms down to medium strength before it settles into a skin scent after about 5-6 hours.
Revann – :
Now this one is interesting!
Boozy honey wax & clay, on a dusty leather, with white floral fruitti touch in a a dry garden. This might sound weird somehow, but it just whiffs back and forth within the above mentioned notes.
I sense the honey, honey wax, tuberose, suede, violets, champaca, iris, plums, with hints of styrax, and musk mellow for the animalic note.
This is impressive, and sensually animalic, with traces of devilish naughty bits.
vladimispicy61 – :
I have come across Quartana 6 months ago & have had the chance to test the whole collection several times. Venetian Belladona was one of those I wanted to love, but somehow I still can not decide what I actually think about it.
The opening has a quality that I dislike, it’s something too green. Mossy & damp. Green scents are not down my alley. Having said that the drydown it beautiful and very feminine, seductive and wearable. Yes, plum is prominent in the drydown. It evolves in a floral oriental supported by the plum.
Overall a floral oriental with a greenish earthy opening. I guess if you want all in one this is an interesting choice.
kievlyanenoviymagaz – :
1st sniff: Oh, another Lutens knock off by way of Tom Ford; then, ‘oh it’s a Black Orchid copy;’ sniff again, booze and cumin, ‘ah, it’s actually London;’ but it’s a growly London, not the gentlemen’s clubs, but the beast that lurks the underground sort of London. And this is just the first three minutes. It is so much more.
Every single time I smelled it, it was different. Crystal clear iris, then humid honey, then animalic tuberose, then sweet leather. On and on, never quite repeating itself.
And I do mean on and on. Well over 10 hours off a very small spray. Projection was about 10 inches off my skin for the first several of those hours, which is good because this is whiplash inducingly interesting, but at higher volumes could easily empty a room.
The open on my skin is very animalic, and moments of that open do occur in flashbacks throughout the lifespan, as well as a big dose of honey, which some people struggle with, so, as always, sample to see how it works with your skin.
Also, there are probably a lot of aroma chemicals at work here, so be aware if that’s an issue on your skin, but on mine this always plays out as a endless intrigue.
This one is a reenactment of the Kama Sutra on a fur blanket laid out amidst damp flowers and sweet soil. It kept me coming back for more and was never, ever, boring.
Deroxxcrsm – :
One word…STUNNING