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BlooP – :
Well this was not what I was expecting. I am pleasantly surprised. Strangely it reminds me of Confetto by Profumum Roma with its powdery note (mimosa) …but where Confetto goes sweet almond, this goes to SUNSCREEN. Yes. The smell of SPF50+
I am sampling from a dabber so I imagine the top notes are muted …it opens more fresh salty spray and then BOOM there’s that sunscreen. Followed by a plastic pool toy and then sand.
Strangely alluring.
I want it.
grisha712 – :
The odd one out among Oriza L Legrand perfumes. Fresh and simple; makes me think of sea foam and shaving cream. It’s pleasant, if a bit boring.
Immaphapy – :
I agree 100% with TIWALII, let me just add that both flaxseed/linseed oil and immortelle (Helichrysum) are prominent base notes.
summer in a bottle
tulagstdkf – :
The actual notes:
Top notes – Maritime pine and mimosa.
Heart notes – Sea spray/sea foam, rush (plants) and sea salt.
Base notes – Helychrysum, linen and algae.
This has a lot of rather bad reviews, but I don’t agree with them one bit. This is amazing in my opinion.
It smells like standing on top of a cliff by the shore in France. The sea breeze plays with your clothes and your hair, and you can hear the waves crash angainst the beach below. It’s salty, refreshing with a hint of mimosa, and then it turns more into a pure saltwater smell, like you dive from the cliff and let the ocean embrace you with it’s cool waves and swaying seaweed. In the drydown it smells like your skin after a long day at the beach – warm, salty and summery. It’s gorgeous!
Longevity is great on my skin, it lasts more than 8 hours. Sillage is pretty great as well, it starts rather strong, but dries down to a solid medium. In the last hours on the skin it is a pleasant skin scent.
Alexx-62 – :
I was excited when i first head about thi coming out, because I enjoyed many of the Oriza L Legrand perfumes, and working my way through my sample box from the house was great fun and very interesting – I experienced scents unlike any others I have smelled before or since. So I added this new scent to my test list, and recently acquired an official sample of Villa Lympia.
Prior to sampling it I was of two minds, on the one hand I generally don’t really enjoy any kind of aquatic or marine centred perfumes, I just don’t find them particularly appealing or pleasing, they don’t seem to work for me.
On the other hand I had enjoyed many scents from this house, and some of them smelled nothing close to what I’d imagined before testing them, based on notes lists, reviews, and associated imagery. Also, Mimosa is a note of growing interest for me, and it’s inclusion here did manage to outweigh some of my watery concerns.
Sadly though this just did not work for me at all. I found it a strange composition that unfortunately just did not sit well on me or for me. I didn’t really get a prominent mimosa scent at all sadly, the sea notes were indistinct and although I kind of got some sand it was only becuase I knew it was supposed to be there to look for it, and also sadly the “sand” I’d found didn’t smell too good either. Actually reminded me more of builders plaster, when it has just been applied and is still damp.
Overall I got a sort of muddled combination of the damp plaster smell, along with a weird plasticky-rubbery sort of a smell, with an undertone I didn’t like at all.
I thought it smelled like a new tennis ball, in a newly plastered room, and also quite a bit like The Soft Lawn from Imaginary Authors.
Not for me
avatar180582 – :
I love Reve d’Ossian and was keen to try this one, as it sounded very unusual. But I agree with kishka, it just doesn’t work. I too get a light and slightly plasticky floral, not enough of the sea…
hifodetk – :
I love Oriza perfumes and own fb’s of Chypre Mousse and Relique d’Amour so I was looking forward to trying this one. Unfortunatley for me it just doesn’t work. It opens with a sweet plastic vaguely floral aroma which has a tiny marine note wafting through but then disappears just as quick and pretty much stays linear all the way through to the drydown which DOES smell like hot sand but not in a good way. I dont get any powdery florals or aromatic nice things – it just seems to me to be very cheap! And I hate to say this as the quality of their other stuff is great – I’m not sure what they were trying to achieve with this one but for me its definately not one I would wish to buy.