Floramalia

As won, so melted...
In spring I was able to buy a bottling here in the Souk first and a little later the three-quarter-full bottle of this fragrance over a very fair deal here in the Souk, I say thank you to the dear Parfuma here again. The fragrance should be my favourite companion this summer and possibly also next.
Nothing was it (and now I have to whine a little bit...) - what happened to me was the horror of everyone here, and the lovely bottle smashed to pieces on the parquet floor. It's stupid, normally they can take almost anything except tiled bottom and how stupid that the bottom of the outer packaging, into which I wanted to carefully stow the scent back, opened up unnoticed and the bottle just slipped through. No matter, enough whining (and "again what learned").

It could have been worse, because for days now our bedroom has had a delicate and extremely pleasant scent. The teen note in Thé pour un Eté, despite its astringency, is so clear and freshly tender that it never becomes obtrusive. But it doesn't get boring either, because the scent is far away from the usual, often very pleasant tea refreshers. The Mate note provides an airy and transparent smokiness and the delicate jasmine blossoms (not fat, not bulky, not sweet) contribute a pleasurable floral note so that the whole thing doesn't come across too serious in the end.
In spite of its airiness, the fragrance offers a good durability with absolutely sufficient Sillage.
For the rest of the summer, I will now be able to enjoy the bitter and flowery scent of tea "Valentino Donna Rosa Verde". But I will be looking for a new bottle of Thé pour un Eté in any case and in any case I will be looking at other fragrances from Olivia Giacobetti, because she seems to me to conjure up a direction that suits me very well.
And the summer? In the middle of August the time is approaching when some beautiful and hot days will come, but the summer will come to an end... the air, the light, the scent will change noticeably.

I don't like gourmand scents and I have my difficulties with vanilla. I only like them when they round off the base of scents in a certain, very well integrated way and give them softness and depth. I have decided not to write comments on fragrances whose main components I don't have access to, because I just don't think it's fair

Therefore, I would never write a comment on an oud scent. I very often read with a slight uneasiness comments on fragrances with neroli or orange blossom in which one complains about the so pungent note and the association with 4711. But this only in brackets.

Why do I still write about Cicuta? Because I imagined it to be completely different because of the fragrance pyramid and ordered it blind in joyful anticipation as a sharing bottling. Thanks again to the organizer!

Cicuta is certainly an absolutely high-quality fragrance, but it does not develop on my skin at all complex or multi-layered and only undergoes a minimal development.
The hoped-for citric opening is unfortunately completely skipped with me and also the spicy, herbal notes of coriander and borage, to which I was so excited, I cannot discover. A slight rosiness leads me directly to the gourmand, vanilla is accompanied by a slightly bitter note of caramel, which makes me think of a vanilla cookie that has turned a little too dark. In addition there is a slightly dusty and dry paper smell (which I notice similarly in the base of "Mirabilis", which I like much better).
That's it, that's it. An elegant cuddler - yes. But my expectation/hoping was different. Not bad, that's the way it can be, that's what makes perfumery life so exciting.

Already in my statement I had complained about the - let's say: very delicate - structure of the fragrance. And this circumstance is extremely regretted at the same time, because I really liked the little I could smell.

That's why I recently enjoyed participating in the sharing. Thanks to Strangelove for finding this great offer and organizing the sharing!

Now that I have been able to test the fragrance more extensively, my impression is that it is precisely this restraint that is the concept of the fragrance. Like Supi, I too would assume that Iso E Super is the actual main actor of the fragrance. A material, which, according to my limited experience so far, I can definitely derive something from. In Lalique's "Perles" this component fascinates me very much. Solar Bloom now has a quality that Perles also has: the scent emerges, just as one had thought it had completely vanished, suddenly reappears.

Solar Bloom evokes a woody freshness with a slight sweetness of coconut water. Orange blossom almost completely goes under with me and also bergamot or other Zirtusfrische I cannot notice.

For me a beautiful summer scent, no holiday scent, no South Sea or Mediterranean feeling, but childhood on the Isar. The smell of sunshine on Isar gravel (yes, they have a smell!), mixed with dried driftwood, now and then you can find a piece of charred wood from one of the numerous barbecue places that the last flood spread over the gravel bank. And above all: sun on the skin!

An enchanting fragrance, delicate and shimmering, disappearing much too quickly and unexpectedly recalling the rest of the day now and then.

I am now excited about "Nue au Soleil" and hope that the sharing will take place. Maybe an Isard scent, too?

While the original bottle obviously has a warm tinted pale pink, the bottling, which I got through a generous draw, was in a sweet gummibärchengrünen glass atomizer, which I find very pretty, but by its color may have influenced me first of all in my sense of smell.

I have tested the fragrance several times and tried to hide this slightly artificial green impression. That didn't help much, because Foliage develops a rapid scent on my skin in the first 15 minutes (I find such scents very exciting and sometimes a little exhausting to annoying) and starts incredibly synthetic, bitter, with a really chemical impression of nail polish remover. I like green and herbaceous scents, but this one frightened me at first and then quickly turned into exactly the kind of green scents I like. Grated leaf green, as if not the fruits mentioned in the pyramid had been used, but only their leaves and green. I find this phase very beautiful and exciting, and after the synthetic introduction I am happy about the authentic, natural green! Very fast, too fast for me, the fragrance changes into a delicate flowery, creamy and musky soft phase, which is so soft that I can't tell the difference between rose and peony and I can't even smell the jasmine. Here the fragrance reminds me a bit of Florabotanica, but is closer to the skin. After three to four hours I can only sniff out a trace, here, in the drydown, I perceive a trace of warm-bitter earthiness, almost like a patchouli note(?), like after a day of gardening in the sun.
An exciting fragrance experience, I will gladly use the bottling to the end, purchase candidate would be Foluage for me but none.
I would like to thank Frlsmilla very much for the test opportunity!

It took me a long time to take the courage to dedicate a comment to this exceptional fragrance, since Annette Neuffer's fragrances are a class of their own and I lack the experience to place them in an overall context, let alone to judge them.

In the beginning I perceive A Sanctified Rose as a somewhat impetuous and pure incense scent, which quickly develops a very light, pleasant powdery-dry sweetness, which floats cool and like a light mist over the skin. This floating fragrance is so beautiful for me that I want to hold my breath for a moment and time seems to stand still.

Over time I also perceive a fine and delicate scent of roses, but it is completely unsweet and of an ethereal lightness that may have been responsible for some of the comments that have been made so far to consider whether it is perceptible at all

After 4 to 5 hours, the fragrance on my skin is most beautifully developed, to incense, rose and some other magic, which I cannot identify, a beautiful and unflushed vanilla joins. The fragrance is never rough or edgy, but has a slight brittleness or crumbliness, which I find wonderful.

A Sanctified Rose sounds light and gentle and the next morning I want to capture the very last traces of this miracle on my skin.

The sample of this fragrance came to me in the nicest possible way and for that I thank you very, very much!