Lost Paradise Urban Scents 2014

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7.3 / 10 137 Ratings

Lost Paradise is a perfume by Urban Scents for women and men and was released in 2014. The scent is floral-powdery. It is still in production. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Fruity

Fresh

Chypre

Fragrance Notes

Osmanthus

Musk

Jasmine

Magnolia

Citrus notes

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Marie Urban Le Febvre

Ratings

Scent

7.3137 Ratings

Longevity

7.8113 Ratings

Sillage

7.3116 Ratings

Bottle

7.5100 Ratings

Value for money

6.018 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 06.02.2024.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/30/2021

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Ttfortwo
40 Reviews

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Top Review 35

Osmanthus, very different

We were sitting in the courtyard of a ruined fortified castle in the middle of summer in southern France. By the way, I do not want to remember for the life of me where that could have been, but it smelled headache-inducing overwhelming from the thousands and thousands of tiny orange flowers of a picture-perfect shrub with rich green shiny leaves. The scent was intensely sweet and powerfully fruity, and I was entranced, secretly snapping off a little fexer in the hope that I might be able to root it and take it home that way. Until my husband said that the scent reminded him a little of toilet cakes. Bam! Klosteinchen!

And so my relationship with the osmanthus got a mighty crack after only a short time.
And my not overly passionate, yet so far untroubled relationship with Fragonard's "Ile d'Amour", an unspectacular and rather in the fresh direction of going fragrance with osmanthus as a core note, also.
Today I wear "Lost Paradise", Marie le Febvres homage to the unbridled, unrestrained draufballernden fragrances of the 80s with a powerful dose of osmanthus.

It is a very le-febvreske homage and thus: slim, transparent, floating. The fragrance doesn't copy, no, the fragrance describes, and it does so with quiet, melodic words. This is not the 80s-typical pasty, compact brushstroke, instead she inks a feather-light watercolor on wet paper.

I have to admit that I sometimes have a hard time with fragrances by Ms. Le Febvre. Their beauty, which is present without any question, opens up to me more through what I would now like to call an intellectual approach, less through a sensual-emotional one. I feel the same way about "Lost Paradise."

The entrance captivates with a very feathery peachy velvety fruitiness, soft, sunny, delicately sweet, far from the chumming up grumpy compote, which I so many fruity fragrances from the outset offended. Add to that a teeny citrusy sparkle and a bit of herbaceousness, it's beautifully dabbed on in an airy way and prevented from floating away with a velvety golden-yellow ribbon (the jasmine?) thrown loosely over it.

You first have to get it right: to incorporate a riotous note like osmanthus in such a way that it seems downright fragile.

In the course of time, a delicate warmth comes to it, a very soft spice supports the hitherto extremely fragile glassy structure gently from below. The fragrance becomes a little more stable, the colors a little more intense. So the fragrance lingers for a long time, eiderdaunig, quiet, friendly.

And then fades very slowly into this friendly velvet powdery peaceful warmth.

What about the toilet stones? I noticed them, of course; Ottoman-wise, I am probably spoiled for all time. They have me but - and this is a very big compliment for this gentle fragrance - not disturbed.

That's something.

02/18/2021

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 8

Flying back to the 80s

Hello my fellow sniffers, welcome to another scent commentary from me. Today I want to babble about a fragrance brand that might be a little more unknown to some, Urban Scents. It's a small fragrance house in Berlin run by Marie Urban Le Febre, who also makes the scents herself. Here, the raw materials for the fragrances are hand-picked by her and even for the bottle there are high standards, which I personally find pretty great, because especially with niche manufacturers, the flacons usually look very sparse and too puristic for my taste.

Anyway, have been able to test a few of these fragrances so far and most have pleased me quite well (well, the Singular Oud has not really met my taste, but bad is the fragrance therefore not really... really rather cruel was the Vulcano, which was but eh limited and probably more art than fragrance should represent).

Today I'm babbling about Lost Paradise, the lost paradise so, which of course makes me think again that you ladies are the root of all evil and we are flown out of paradise only because a certain lady had to nibble yes necessarily from the forbidden fruit,... okay, that she was influenced by a snake and I represent the story quite simplified, we leave out, he he, finally, I have to have per comment here necessarily what to complain :D

Well anyway, this fragrance is supposed to be more reminiscent of scents of the 80s, you know, those heavy scents that could hit like a bomb if you had applied a drop too much :D
That explains then also the just for these years so typical fragrance notes like oakmoss and patchouli. One may be curious whether the fragrance actually smells like one of these classic chypres and also radiates intense. I hope it times, because the 80s were great and not as bad as many think :D

The fragrance:

After a bit of a scent explosion where you seem to perceive all the scents at once, you finally smell the rose most at the beginning, mixed with citrus, a bit of oak moss, and more flowers that can't really be identified anymore. The sweetness then finally seems to come from the jasmine, with the musk also becoming more and more smellable.
Later, I still smell a rose, or at least a tart rose-like scent, quite strongly. Musk seems to blend a bit with patchouli, though more in the background, and oakmoss smells as usual.
At the end, you continue to have most oakmoss, a little patchouli as well as slightly acidic floral notes. Only with the osmanthus I am very unsure whether I can smell it at all, as I usually remember this flower as quite sweet and/or opulent, but can also, as so often with floral notes, just be wrong. But all in all, the scent turned out pretty nice.

The sillage and the durability:

The sillage actually turned out pretty strong and heavy as intended by the perfumer. You do not necessarily have to stand close to a person to smell the fragrance. Thus, of course, the shelf life has also turned out pretty good with over eight hours.

The bottle:

The bottle is dark blue and rectangular with beveled edges. On the front you see a white frame printed, and of course the fragrance name and logo. The logo represents an airplane propeller, which should indicate that the perfumer, so Marie Le Febre, is an avid pilot, which I find very great, by the way, because I myself like airplanes very much. The lid is slightly trapezoidal and chrome, which visually goes very well with the blue bottle. A great bottle!

Conclusion:

Sooo, so first of all, yes, the fragrance smells like a classic 80s fragrance, as expected, so with oakmoss scents and a very good sillage. But apart from that, it smells generally quite good and also quite clean. But you just have to like fragrance notes like the mentioned oak moss or generally have a soft spot for classic fragrances, so I think that younger girls so around the 20 - 24 years could start rather less with such a fragrance, and that these girls in the spring and summer certainly once again look totally hot and... um, wait, I digress again... :DD

Anyway, the fragrance is an all-rounder, I would say now, because it's hard for me to somehow assign it to a season. And you could use it... let's see, actually so daily I would say. At work, in your free time... well, maybe not necessarily for going out, but just for everything else. Who likes such fragrances, can test him times, because he is nice and you can also hardly smell anything synthetic/chemical-cheap in the fragrance, which I find good.

With that, I'm already coming to the end again and I'm pretty sure you could hear something from me again soon, mu ha ha ha :DD
Well then, have a nice evening and stay healthy :)

09/18/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Novalis
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Finally something else

So how do I start? The problem with special fragrances is that they are special.
The environment usually reacts in this way. Too hard they are all branded by Hugo Boss-Bottle, Jean-Paul Gaultier-Le Male, Dior Homme etc. undoubtedly the box-office hits and sometimes no bad smells.
Yet you serve the masses. For me there is nothing worse than to walk the streets and know/smell what the lady or the gentleman is wearing.
Only for testing:
I ordered a complete set of samples. I admit I didn't like them all, but LP did. With fragrances, it's one of those things. Should you like it, should it please your environment? You got it, you got it! Too often we adapt to society, too often we scratch our heads if we have done the right thing, too often we are torn apart what is right and what is wrong, too often we ask ourselves if the shirt now goes with our trousers- and, oh my God, the belt also with our shoes? Cut it out. You'll like that scent as long as it doesn't smell like a dung heap.
Admittedly, I chose a really bad time to test it.
Morning- 7 o'clock- in the office in midsummer.
"Oh, somehow he smells like men over 60," my colleague told me with "and too sweet"--gossip. I was service-he's also used more often for the lady.
Really? I didn't give a damn, and you know why?
Because I'm worth it! I think it's great, it's great, it's just something else.
Osmanthus from the beginning, some jasmine yes, light citric notes after about 30 minutes just like the oakmoss. Musk, patchouli, I don't know. I'll take it if ever later. Actually, he's the same for me from start to finish, in a positive sense.
Shelf life: loose all day long into the night.
Sillage: also the whole day but nice and quiet on a half meter, never loud and pushy.
Bottle: from me full 9 points. Why. Noble, blue bottle with silver-coloured cap.
To top it all off, the fragrances are engraved in the bottle. Great. Furthermore, Mr. Urban, an Austrian, is super friendly on the phone and takes the time to answer a few questions, even if his French wife is the perfumer.