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Drolukserokz – :
I know I shouldnt be writing reviews as soon as I’ve laid hands on the bottle (my kindly postman has just gifted me lots of presents!)
Divin Enfant is sitting on my skin nicely and warming up on one arm and this on the other. The issue here is that all I feel is disappointment! This smells medicinal on me, I’m not getting any beautiful lily, which is what I was dying for, just odd aquatic notes, hints of powder and very little else with an overlay of medicinal scent.
On top of this, it’s hardly strong, it’s about 20 degrees here (not bad for England) and things usually bloom quite well but I’m really just not getting anything from this, certainly nothing I’d feel classy or ethereal with.
Good job I didn’t pay £200 for it, one of my less fabulous blind buys. Perhaps I’ll update this in colder weather…
Update:
I’m waiting for proper autumn and winter but I’ve found with this cooler spell that I finally am starting to get it. It’s like a cold foggy day by the water watching the swans with grey skies, it’s like the beauty of a ballet dancer, ethereal, graceful and slightly sad. I’m using it sparingly to help myself diet, as I’d love to be that thin and graceful standing by the water someday. Some things inspire comfort or a brisk confidence when you need it most, others just inspire you to want to be better, sometimes I love these aspirational ones most of all.
ingush – :
This is a very friendly Lily fragrance. Not overpowering. Pretty yet seductive. This is the lady like scent for wearing at night. It’s classy and exotic. Certainly an interesting combination.
Forget the headache inducing plastic lilo of the oriental lilies. This is virtuous Madonna Lily. I can’t really pick up the cream but I do get the fresh aquatic and grapefruit notes up front. The jasmine is very to the fore. The citrus, mellow and aquatic note lift and freshen the jasmine and Lily. They keep it cool and airy if that makes sense.
Florals are tricky with me. Many start off with great promise yet fall at the dry down and others are just too much for me. It is particularly curious as I am very keen gardener and I favour all plants etc with fragrance.
This doesn’t alter dramatically along its timeline for which I am grateful. The Lily and jasmine wain a little and then I am a more aware of the ambrette and violet. The ambrette is the last note to fade. Im so relieve the ambrette has not ruined the scent for me on this occasion.
I wish it had more sillage. The longevity is moderate. I think it’s a beautiful floral and it’s name really suits it.
debuter – :
A limited range of D.S. & Durga fragrances has recently touched down on Australian shores. First on my list of fragrances to try from this house was the eagerly anticipated, heady white floral, simply named Durga. Turns out that Durga was so popular that they ran out of stock almost immediately. I was bitterly disappointed, (especially since I had travelled a fair way to find a store that stocks D.S. & Durga in the first place), so I reached for a tester of White Peacock Lily to brighten my mood by testing another white floral from this house.
White Peacock Lily is a stunning dew-kissed lily and jasmine scent. I feel like I’m one with nature when wearing this fragrance. I had a bit of a giggle when reading the official scent description from the D.S. & Durga’s website, “A lone peacock floats over cream lilies, oleander, and a sea of alabaster violet. Orchestral pads of harps and horns drone. Pale blue fog hangs in the far woodlands.” To add to the imagery, the perfumer has listed a note of ‘fog’ as one of the base notes. Not sure what fog smells like, but I’ll roll with it.
White Peacock Lily is a Spring and Summer scent, no question about it. It’s very fresh and watery on my skin, with a sparkling grapefruit accord dancing delicately on top of the refreshing jasmine and lily bouquet. It would make a stunning bridal scent, especially if planning an outdoor wedding in a picturesque garden. As a matter of fact, I am considering this scent for my own wedding day.
The drydown maintains much of its freshness, however, there are some added notes of dry vanilla, cabreuva wood and ambrette seed. White Peacock Lily has excellent longevity on my skin and moderate projection. Now that D.S. & Durga is becoming a more accessible niche brand, I urge more perfume lovers to try all that they have to offer. They don’t come cheap, unfortunately, but their fragrances are of a very high standard.
rip11978 – :
I wonder if this reminds anyone else of Zaitsev’s Maroussia? White Peackock Lily is far more natural but there’s something about the jasmine and also something I experience as similar to civet r a cat-pee-like note.
With White Peacock Lily it’s more like boxhedge – that scent you get from wild flowers and leaves if you’re right in the midst of them, whereas with Maroussia it’s more a synthetic old-fashiond civet. Maybe it’s the ambrette.
Anyway,others are obviously experiencing this as a feminine floral, but I find it very unusual, I mean I’m not sure I experience it as a perfume so much as a strange holograph of slightly scratchy notes hovering above my skin rather than melting into it.
It does smell white – white, animalic and horticultural, and it reminds me a little of Luten’s Bas de Soie in the metallic musk used maybe? Looking at notes though WPL has noting much in common with the Lutens or Maroussia.
It doesn’t quite work for me, I find it scratchy, not creamy, it also makes my eyes water so it’s maybe just some note that doesn’t quite work for me.
I don’t dislike it, but I wouldn’t wear it.
AVANIAINADO – :
Woody, aquatic white floral (mostly jasmine, a bit of lily) with an undertone of patchouli. (I know it’s not in the notes list but that’s what I get).
The sweet whipped cream note is noticeable but small and not overwhelming.
Interesting and different.
Алехандра – :
@Ape Wilson, Thank you for the reply. I guess I will reconsider wearing it. I just have dogs and a baby and I didn’t want to pose a risk to them.
lottogle1 – :
@BeguilingBeauty all parts of the oleander plant are poisonous because they contain cardiac glycosides, which are separate from the aroma chemicals used to produce the oleander smell. Even if the perfume did contain the toxins, the worst poisoning comes from ingestion, ie if you drank a large quantity of a perfume containing the cardiac glycosides. Also, there have been zero deaths reported from topical application of oleander products, as the skin absorbs compounds differently than the gi tract, or not at all. A bit on you skin should be safe.
Mejtq701InsuffBooni – :
While I enjoy this for the heady lily scent (I don’t love it), I am bothered by the inclusion of oleander nerium. Unless I have it confused/wrong somehow, all parts of the oleander are poisonous. I only tried the sample I got twice, but now I’m thinking of throwing it out. I was reading about how dangerous oleander is in an article about Nerium moisturizer by an OB/GYN named Jen Gunter. I think people should be leery. Do whatever you want but in case you didn’t know oleander nerium was in this perfume, like me, now you do. I’m not taking a chance with my heart in case there is some sort of cumulative toxicity after repeated wearing, but thankfully nothing bad has happened from trying my sample twice. Kind of makes me annoyed that I didn’t read the full ingredient list carefully. I honestly have no clue is there is a safety risk in adding oleander to perfume but I’m erring on the side of caution.
acendflense – :
Lily, wild and slightly formidable with a vein of poison oleander. Green, proud and seared with the aloofness of sizzling grapefruit.
Peacock Lily is quite an uplifting fragrance despite the illustrious nature of the peacock, glistening with water droplets and strutting on plush moss underfoot.
More than a hint of green indole is detected here too, a little like menthol… medicinal, bitter. Salty, maybe some ambergris from the ocean and a misting of musky ambrette.
I like this a lot. Complex and fluorescent, if not slightly disturbing. A ghostly siren haunting the coast.
kharitovich – :
Strong white floral that remains soft while still being quite substantial performance-wise. Grey and mysterious, a good witchy smell.
limarx – :
I don’t like this, but then again I don’t like lilies.
Stealtsheax – :
So wonderful, framed by supportive notes till perfection, especially oleander is present and enjoyable.
I can not say I am a huge fan of lilies, yet this certain fragrance is insanely beautiful, like something exciting and ghostly, hanged between the sky and earth, – I do appreciate the image of the “fog accord”, that luckyscents included in description on their site. Feels so well blended, and esoteric at some point. Hypnotic and self-absorbing fragrance, better not be missed by lily-amateurs!
Tasha20090 – :
Water lilies on rose waters in a clean greenhouse.
White lilies, fresh mineral aquatic note, slight jasmines for the animalic factor, and musk mallow (DOSES to present the styrax), grapefruits for the sours, violets for the lavender color that supports the white sheer that is covering the greehouse, and there is an unknown element to my nose! something pink, it’s quite weird, it could be a pink ink, i know it’s weird but it never disappears.
As it goes calm, the blend goes quite floral sharp as i begin to smell earthy violets, and more interesting roots, not the humid fertile, but something quite clean! healthy, and very nursery.
This is quite floral, very floral greeny, and quite natural. i believe it remains close to skin as it’s delicate and quite white.
kronkin – :
A beautiful lily fragrance, but soft, not overpowering, fresh rather than cloying. Got me through a long, tiring day as I kept catching little bursts of it. Will go back for more.