DonJuanDeCat

... that spring is coming. And summer, of course. That it's finally getting warmer. Tried to comfort you because you kept whining here that it would be raining and cold all the time (well, today it's actually raining a lot again, but still... :D). But you never believed me and stared at me in disbelief when I arrived more and more with fresher scents, just to report about such summery scents.

And now? Now it's warm (as I said, aside from today's rain...), for the most part anyway,... tsss... so don't say I didn't tell you. But you guys are always whining, as we all know. Hence, I can see it coming that you guys will soon be whining that it will be TOO HOT in the summer, tss... what whiners all.

But there is also a solution for hot days fragrance-wise: Namely such fresh and loose scents like this fragrance here! Bad luck, however, if you are not necessarily on figs and something too simple scents should stand, but you should try it in any case times, I think... :D

The scent starts immediately with a nice and very authentic fruity fig, which gives off its unmistakably beautiful, but every now and then also quite slightly dry or stuffy scent. However, it is loose and light (and especially green) and just fits into the summer as well as a Parfuma in the madhouse!
He he, well anyway, the just mentioned stuffy immediately subsides, and the fragrance continues to smell like figs, and I must say, the scent is extremely reminiscent of Philosykos by Diptyque.
The scents of grape leaf and crocus mentioned in the top note, however, I can hardly perceive...
The fig smells quite long alone, only in the base come hints of woods. But otherwise it remains so and it does not change much more. The fragrance has turned out very simple, but also beautiful.

The sillage is at best below average and therefore unfortunately not very strong. You have to stand very close to the fragrance maniacs to be able to perceive the fragrance on them.
Therefore, the shelf life is also not particularly long, but rather fleeting... well well, so four to five hours are indeed in, but at these times the fragrance is really only weakly present on the skin.

The bottle is hemispherical and has facets all over it, so it looks like a fruit that's been cut in half and peeled or something. It has a light green/yellow gradient and ends with a clear rectangular lid. Now isn't that special, but still looks quite nice.

Hmmm... my first sniff immediately told me: this is Philosykos by Diptyque! Hmmm.... how awesome!!! Because I love Philosykos! And yes, the scent here is indeed stated as a twin and I can only confirm that this scent here smells almost as exact as the great scent from Diptyque. Because even with Philosykos, you basically smell only the fig the whole time, from beginning to end, and it smells fresh and green and just beautiful.

So who always liked Philosykos, but found the fragrance, which is actually quite simple, a bit expensive, finds here at the much cheaper Italian Summer Fig a great and above all equivalent alternative!

Thus, the fragrance is a great summer scent. And yes, damn it, the summer COMES CERTAINLY!!! :D Even now in April, it's supposed to be unusually warm, even up to 30 degrees in some places!!! Even though it's supposed to have rained looooong loooong and a lot today.
And even if now between the beautiful, warm days should still be some cooler ones, it will be warmer. Hot, really really hot! Puuuuh.... :D
Then you're lucky to have such loose and nice smelling fragrances that aren't heavy and are excellent to wear during the day, or even in the evening!

Oh yes, my rating reflects my preference for fig fragrances and is also so high because it really reminds me of the great Philosykos. If I were not a fig fan, the fragrance would land but because of its beautiful scent with me still so in the 7.5 - 8.0 range!

Aaaah, cake, I love cake! But somehow the love of cake seems to run in the family. If we are somewhere to visit or have visitors, or someone has a birthday or somehow such an occasion just takes place, and sitting together the first tea or coffee is served, then screams (yes really, screams!) my father immediately in the round: "Cake!".

Stupid only that one never knows whether he wants to express only his joy to the cake, or whether this should be a question whether there is also cake or even a request that one should obligingly finally serve the cake. We all just hear "CKEY!!!" :D

Well, but I'm pretty sure you guys here like cake too. The question, of course, is what kind of cake do you like, a subject on which one could certainly argue, he he he :D

I smell pretty good pistachios as well as almonds at the beginning. At first you can smell very briefly the salty scent of these nut fruits, but then it also becomes sweeter. Now it gives off a nice, powdery, milky note that smells pleasant (I'm assuming this is from the milk and iris). I can't smell the dates, honey might be present, but I would say the scent is just sweet without really being able to smell the honey exactly now. Possibly you could compare the scent to milk with honey or something, at least with a little imagination.
Only a little later comes so a pastry-like or cake-like note to the fore, where you could think of cake. This could then well be the cereals.
Anyway, the fragrance remains sweetish, creamy-powdery and gourmandig also in the base. In the base, there is still stated ambrette seed, but I feel as if I smell rather still musk.
Much later, the fragrance actually smells only powdery and iris, which is also very nice, only this phase no longer further reminds me of cake.

For a gourmandisch oriented fragrance, the sillage has not turned out so particularly strong and is therefore rather above average, which means that it is perceived from normal proximity just so a little. From a shorter distance, the perception is therefore all the better.
The shelf life is already eight hours, only the power leaves the fragrance quite quickly, so that it is already quite weak on the skin after half the time.

The fragrance comes in a metallic, deodorant can-like bottle that is white with the name of the fragrance range printed large on it in black. The name of the fragrance itself has been written in pink. Not a pretty bottle, but there seem to be glass bottles as well, as you can see in the Parfumo photos below.

Hmm... sticky cake? Nah, so despite all the sweet scent notes, I don't think the scent smells "sticky". At all, what's supposed to be sticky cake? All I know is that cake makes your hands gooey and sticky when you eat cake or pies with your hands instead of eating them civilly with a fork... like a dirty sparrow, and then vehemently refuse to wipe your hands with a napkin, preferring to lick all ten fingers... only to offer someone another piece of cake afterwards with your licked fingers... bäääh,.... And the worst thing is, I KNOW guys like that who do that, so when I eat, if I unfortunately have to eat with them, I always sit at the other end of the table, far away from them, bääääh!!!!!!!!!! :DD

In terms of type, the fragrance is a gourmand, but unlike most of these types of fragrances, it turned out a little looser and thus doesn't seem soo heavy. On not quite too hot days, he could thus also be used in the spring. Otherwise, he fits of course super in the fall.

Since he smells not bad, he is well worth a test.

Soo, let's see who's birthday is coming up... oh, my dad this time. So he will probably scream extra loud for "KUCHEN" :D

Soo... here it is, the new fragrance from Jo Malone. Or let's say one of the new fragrances, as there have been quite a few new fragrances released this year, such as the English Fields range. This fragrance here is not limited edition though, so it will be part of the whole collection.

The fragrance is called Jasmine Sambac & Marigold. The name thus announces a floral fragrance. Jasmine, well, that should be obvious what it is. By now, I even know what you can imagine by jasmine. But Marigold? So marigolds?

Well, I emphasize here again and again that I have no idea about flowers. So that I would write now, that I must google immediately times after it, what marigolds are... but HALT! I know marigolds!!! Yeah, you guys wouldn't have guessed that now would you? However, it's not like I know these flowers out of personal interest or anything, but... well, because they appear in a video game called Plants vs. Zombies, where you have to put plants in your garden to stop advancing zombies. Pea plants, for example, shoot against the zombies with just peas, watermelon plants throw watermelons, or a chili can be used to torch a whole bunch of zombies with its fiery heat, and so on... :DD

And since there are marigolds in the game, I just know what marigolds are, but I still have to admit one thing: How marigolds Smell, well that I do not really know... :D

So, somehow you don't smell anything in the top note. At least not what is stated. Because right at the beginning I perceive a strong, but beautiful jasmine note. This one smells very natural and almost like sniffing a real flower. It is sweet, but still smells quite different from the jasmine you usually find in many (sweet-floral) fragrances.
This remains so for a while, until the fragrance becomes heavier. A sultry smelling ylang-ylang is now to smell, which I somehow once again not so much like. Ylang-ylang seems to be in vogue, by the way, as it often strikes me lately in new fragrances, such as the new Mon Guerlain Florale, where a very intense ylang note can also be smelled.
Well anyway, especially the beginning of the base is still quite strong Ylang-heavy, so that the fragrance seems quite sultry. Only then, gradually, the fragrance becomes milder again, which is probably thanks to the vanilla. However, the ylang-ylang itself also seems to mellow, as you can smell floral notes (which could now be marigolds, perhaps?) as well as jasmine, in particular, very well again. An actually nice fragrance, which will please especially if you also quite like ylang-ylang.

The beginning of the fragrance is quite weak, but so from the heart note he then seems to really turn on. Then the fragrance is some time well smellable and I think you also leave a small fragrance cloud.
The durability has turned out well, so that the fragrance lasts more than nine or ten hours.

The bottle is black (but transparent) and rectangular with rounded corners. On the front you can see a large label with the logo of Jo Malone as well as the fragrance name. The chrome lid is rounded / oval and looks like an old-fashioned doorknob. It looks nice.

Sooo, I must say that the new fragrance of Jo Malone can convince first already. He smells quite nice, even if he is too Ylang-heavy for myself. If you don't mind that, you'll get a nice scent that fits into spring as well as autumn. And I say here deliberately "the", because the fragrance is in my opinion in no way unisex, but absolutely feminine.

Well anyway, the fragrance is so as I said nice, but unfortunately now also comes a groooßes but:
The fragrance has no particular strengths and also nothing really distinctive in itself, because such fragrances have somehow always been there, because it basically only smells of flowers or flowers, even if these fragrances should be beautiful. That said, expectations here shouldn't be too high, but you also can't go wrong if you're looking for something (heavy sultry) floral, depending on just what kind of flowers you want to smell. So you can test him quiet times.

...uhh, in Plants vs. Zombies, as I said, you have to plaster your garden full of plants and flowers to stop zombies from invading your house and, well, eating your brains out. The marigolds, however, are just ornamental plants that can be planted in another garden, which you can then grow to resell for a profit. Oh, and in the game, of course, the flowers have faces and dance happily away, which looks cuter than real flowers :)