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For me, it has kind of a tobacco beginning (not like Tobaccovanille type, but like dried brown tobacco leaves, ready for usage), that is mixed with notes of vanilla, incense, patchouli and a bit of animalic. The chocolate/cocoa note is in here too, it reminds me of the chocolate from Ore by Slumberhouse - a dry and dusty one. At the drydown I get a nice sweet patchouli with wood. The composition is rich and interesting, a certain curtsy towards the gourmand genre, but with pinpoint references in the classics (and again I'm not talking about Tobaccovanille here:)).

I like it the most of the line. A floral-musky beauty, it was this one which aromatized the whole package of the samples.
It starts with violets, roses and some other yellow flowers soaked in the most delicate musk. A little later, gentle leather with resins appears, pleasantly setting off the floral bouquet. Silky-powdery gorgeous interpretation of "Shalimar & Co." for me, it lasts extremely long and remains just as beautiful until the end.

Chamomile is a quite rare guest in perfumery compositions. This fragrance is one of those unique creations, where a bitter chamomile is so large, that you can smell it there, almost during all the phases of its development.

Soleil de Jeddah combines this rare plant with raw oud, dense amber and rubbed-till-the-dust roots, which with time transforms into a delicate scent of leather, or even suede, with noble wood and dry steppe herbs nuances. It is very beautiful and lasts forever. For me Soleil de Jeddah is like an aromatherapy - I can just inhale it from the bottle and be happy. :)

In 2008, Reminiscence released the Les Notes Gourmandes series, consisting of four fragrances: Do Re, Mi Fa, Sol La and Si Do, which obviously is the name of the notes of the musical scale (in French, Italian and some other languages).
Later, in 2012-13, the fragrances were renamed, and the line now represented by Heliotrope, Guimauve and Dragee.
Do Re (aka Heliotrope) is definitely for gourmand lovers. On my skin it is mostly Almonds (= heliotrope) and Coconut. But the scent is not as simple as it might seem: it has some green (almost minty) freshness that the fig leaf probably brings in, and a soft vanilla woodiness in the base. Beeing essentially a gourmand, the composition is not overly sweet - it is pleasant enough to wear in the heat, and I think it will be great for adding more colors to your vacations on the beach.

From the initial spray, it reminds me quite strongly of the classic modern Shalimar, but rather closer to the Cologne version. This is a very intense bergamot/lemon accord with Shalimar's characteristic "leathery” (resinous) nuance. Very quickly, after 5 minutes, a very bright note of vanilla appears - undoubtedly nice and pleasant, but it seemed to me that it stands alone, as if it were separate from the rest of the composition.

This way the perfume lived on my skin about two hours: the familiar shalimar-y citruses and a new note of vanilla, hardly mixing, appeared alternately, one or the other. As a result, a classic citrusy resinous component has won.

All in all, it is very well made fragrance, and, probably, one of the best recent Shalimar flankers.