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.....my alltime favourite!! The little heavy bottle with the decorative top arrived in a black velvet pouch (very accurate) in a black box, very well cushioned, so nothing should happen to it.

Perfume oil. A warm-creamy scent, cuddling to you and adding to your personality, not covering it. This is a scent for days when you are at ease with yourself. Imagine sitting cuddly with your sweatheart, candles burning. You're wearing something flowing, soft, nightblue velvety. Your favourite music plays in the background (not really techno), outside the snow is falling (a little melodram always adds to the atmosphere), you're sipping your favourite drink (IrishCoffee or punch would go well). Pure wellbeing.

If you like amber, your right on the spot with this one. The added patchouli adds a little twist, vanilla polishes the edges without making it to sweet. A scent that stays close, not daring to throw itself onto others.

Wonderfullll! Immediately I start charging for the kitchen, grin on my face, to rummage through my basket of sweets. Where is that Chupa-Chups (fruity lollipop), whereisit! With the first spray of Jezebel I was summersaulted – whoooops – at least mptingty years back. Then we didn’t have these Chupa-Chups but Ahoi fizzy powder (you could powder it on your tongue and it started to fizzzzzz). Something like cool-aid just not for drinking. The red and yellow mixed together. On top of fruit salad, juicy, yellow-orange. And with whipped cream to crown it.

Every one thinking “yukkk” right now probably eats hot dogs with onions and everything. Suite yourself!

But a few flowers are as well on the table. Yellow, white, maybe honeysuckle with jasmin or ylang. And somewhere around there a piece of toffee is hidden, the lighter one, soft and creamy.

What’s the name of that movie with Johnny Depp in the Chocolate factory? Yeah, that one….. It probably smelled like Jezebel right there.

Sophia is a goddess.
She is the mother you run to.
She gives comfort.
She is brave.
She is wise.
She is relaxed.
She is understanding.
She has a temper but isn’t bitchy.
She knows what she wants and most of all what she doesn’t want.
She is loving.

You read violet and might think, o.k., a flowery scent. Wrong.

This Sophia is earthy, voluminous, but also fresh in the background. It starts surprisingly dark with a patchouliesque aroma. There could be orange or tangerine in it as well, since the patchouli here doesn’t come across dusty, more succulent. From the concept the scent reminds me a bit of the creations of Les Néréides, whereas I still wouldn’t consider Sophia an oriental, the typical spices are missing. The scent is not as powdery as you might expect from a violet. This violet is fresh, succulent, just in bloom and dark purple. A breeze of caramel lies deep underneath. The added earthnote I associate with thick, freshly dug up farmland, moist and dark brown.

This all may sound quite “country” – but it’s not. Sophia is full of expression, for down-to-earth ladies. No frivolity here, straightforward directness and open gaze. The secret surrounding her draws you in her spell, but you’ll never notice that you're caught. That’s why you want to be around her, don’t want to loose her out of sight, and if it’s just to be comforted by her aroma.

Sophia Loren supposedly was responsible that this scent was created. I can understand that. She impersonates exactly the type of woman veiling herself in “Sophia”. She’s a happening of a women - like in the movies “La Ciociara, Franzesca or the marvellous Prêt à Porter (with Marcello Mastroiani).

If I can’t look like that at least I can smell like that. And I do call her my own and favourite right now.

This is not very nice. It starts very soft, caresses the nose with powdery, flowery notes but becomes stronger and prickly during the development. On my skin!

Something irritates my nose. I react to lily, even though I can not differentiate the smell here. It seems to synthetical. The development is quite fast. The base jumps out at me, but not so much the patchouli, which I like a lot, it is more a distinct and tart fern-moss-greenish tint, that produces itself here. Some of the Dzintars mens colognes have these ingredients but not as loud.

I like the dresses that I’ve seen from Vera Wang, but what she’s had mixed together here is not compatible with my perception of beautiful aroma.

This should be worn by modern, self-confident women who are complex and luxurious?
I’d rather stay old-fashioned and one-dimensional, thank you.

Wild, untamed and not at all rosy – that’s how Akaroa Rose acts. The scent is meant as reminder of the first settlers on New Zealand and their rose gardens.

The first settlers were probably wild, brave women and men who had nevertheless a sense for beauty which was reflected in their well-kept rose gardens. The scent starts indescribably shrewd with an almost rubbery green note, a lot of leaves must be in here, surprises the nose. But that is only the boisterous entry. After a while this defensive act calms down and a beautiful rose comes forward. But still not pleasant or sweet as you expect it from a rose. Very faintly powdery and still keeping this unusual green note from the head, very pleasant.

Akaroa Rose is an unconventional rose scent which lingers a long time. Put on in the afternoon I could still discover the tender-wild rose faintly on my wrist the next morning.