Greenfaerie

Each time I try this, it opens with the strong scent of apple cider vinegar. I can't get past it. I find it sharp and unpleasant, like apples that have fallen out of a tree and are rotting. There are some ok florals as it remains on my skin, but jasmine, ylang ylang or gardenia, I can not discern at all. I definitely smell soil or strong petrichor, which I like. But for me, Mother Earth doesn't smell like vinegar. I had high hopes and love earthy fragrances, but this is a hard pass.

While it has vintage characteristics it’s very modern to me. Big vetiver fragrance that I think is quite feminine because it’s powdery and has some sweet creaminess as it dries down. Something green about it that is hard to pinpoint. I find it extremely classy. Reminds me of Dryad to some degree, but French Affair is more salty and sharp. I used up my sample vial and will be purchasing a bottle today. Something about keeps drawing me back for more.

I blind bought this, as I LOVE plumeria. I have smelled lots and lots of it in real life, worn leis in Hawaii made from the precious flowers. This smells absolutely *nothing* like plumeria. Plumeria is all it's own flower. It is not like jasmine, ylang ylang, gardenia nor any other flower, really. It's sweeter and not indolic. Just apples and oranges with those other flowers. I don't even smell any flowers at all here. Maybe dried ones along with ordinary joss sticks. Some civet comes out in the base, and then I like the perfume better, but overall this was a terrible blind buy. I will be selling my full bottle for a very high price because, no doubt, there is actually someone who would pay twice the price that I paid for this awful stuff. Which is fine, as they may think it's worth it, and they are entitled to their thoughts on it. If you've got $300 and live in the US, I have a full bottle waiting for you!

I've tried a few by Dusita, and they are all spectacular. This one is puzzling. I'm not sure what roses have to do with Siam? I guess I thought I was going to get something more obviously Oriental in feel, with balsams and spices, but this was like an English rose garden in spring. Clove, vanilla and amber? Uhhhh--where? Nevermind the name and the disconnect with the scent, the perfume itself is lovely if you are looking for a fresh rose scent. Upon application it smells fruity and reminds me immediately of Fresh's discontinued Memoires of a Geisha. I owned a bottle, and they smelled identical at first. But then the soft, pure, sweet rose takes over. It's the kind of rose that is a smaller variety, very pale pink, but sweet. No soapy, potpourri nor stale Victorian roses here. Drydown reminds me of Crabtree & Evelyn's original formula Rosewater lotion. Next time I need a rose perfume, I will turn to this. I still appreciate it, even though it's absolutely nothing like I hoped for.

I had been wanting to try this for a while, and what a disappointment it was. Mostly I got a very animalic fragrance with something a little sour in it that never let up and that I did not like at all. Honestly, it smells very amateuristic. Not well-blended, unbalanced, and honestly just doesn't smell great. It seems confused about what it wants to be. It opened quite powdery, but that quickly dissipated. Then I got the sour flowers and castoreum. It never really evolved on me. It had low sillage, but it stayed on me, much to my dismay, the entire day. Probably real castoreum in there, helping it to last ages. Uncreative, uninspiring, and just plaid odd. Hard pass.