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MariaS 3 years ago
I want to bathe in it. I can make the 75ml bottle a single use.
Let’s set some things straight about this perfume. I have read so many things about it before buying it that discouraged me, so I had to test it many times to be sure and come with a review.
The smell:
The smell is a warm hug from a person you love. It just hugs your senses with its sweet floral vanilla scent. It’s a cozy, lovable, feelgood, feminine perfume that calms you every time you smell it. Is it extraordinary like the collection says? Nope! It could be a usual everyday perfume (not a niche perfume). It is not complex, it doesn’t change with time, its linear. But you know what? I don’t mind. We don’t have to buy only complex perfumes. Sometimes a simple beautiful smell is all we need.
The performance:
I tested it 3 times on my wrist before buying it and all the times, it stayed on my skin for about 5 hours. After buying it, I have to admit that the performance is not very good, especially after 2-3 hours. When I move, I get the smell but not the whole of it like the opening or like when I had it on my wrist. When I touch my neck and smell my fingers it is there on my skin but I am not getting the smell in the air. Same happens with the clothes. It stays for about 4 hours and then you re getting a faded smell.
Value for money:
I believe it is a very beautiful scent but it is expensive for what it provides. I bought it half the price and I wouldn’t have bought it either way, because with the same money, I have bought more complex perfumes with better performance. I would pay for the whole price, only if it was an extrait de parfum and lasted longer (don’t care about the complexity as I said before).
Audience / Occasion / Season:
It is not unisex, its definitely 100% a feminine perfume! Occasion anywhere you don't want to turn heads with your smell, a date, a cozy home gathering, a coffee with your bestie. As for the season I guess spring autumn and winter. I haven't tested in in summer... If we ever get out of the lockdown maybe next summer I ll update the review to tell you if it's appropriate for summer. I believe not.
Conclusion:
It is a beautiful delicate elegant everyday quality perfume with poor performance. I absolutely adoooore the smell and I needed it in my collection! I would prefer it to be an extrait de parfum.
Thank you for your time! Stay safe and smell good!
The smell:
The smell is a warm hug from a person you love. It just hugs your senses with its sweet floral vanilla scent. It’s a cozy, lovable, feelgood, feminine perfume that calms you every time you smell it. Is it extraordinary like the collection says? Nope! It could be a usual everyday perfume (not a niche perfume). It is not complex, it doesn’t change with time, its linear. But you know what? I don’t mind. We don’t have to buy only complex perfumes. Sometimes a simple beautiful smell is all we need.
The performance:
I tested it 3 times on my wrist before buying it and all the times, it stayed on my skin for about 5 hours. After buying it, I have to admit that the performance is not very good, especially after 2-3 hours. When I move, I get the smell but not the whole of it like the opening or like when I had it on my wrist. When I touch my neck and smell my fingers it is there on my skin but I am not getting the smell in the air. Same happens with the clothes. It stays for about 4 hours and then you re getting a faded smell.
Value for money:
I believe it is a very beautiful scent but it is expensive for what it provides. I bought it half the price and I wouldn’t have bought it either way, because with the same money, I have bought more complex perfumes with better performance. I would pay for the whole price, only if it was an extrait de parfum and lasted longer (don’t care about the complexity as I said before).
Audience / Occasion / Season:
It is not unisex, its definitely 100% a feminine perfume! Occasion anywhere you don't want to turn heads with your smell, a date, a cozy home gathering, a coffee with your bestie. As for the season I guess spring autumn and winter. I haven't tested in in summer... If we ever get out of the lockdown maybe next summer I ll update the review to tell you if it's appropriate for summer. I believe not.
Conclusion:
It is a beautiful delicate elegant everyday quality perfume with poor performance. I absolutely adoooore the smell and I needed it in my collection! I would prefer it to be an extrait de parfum.
Thank you for your time! Stay safe and smell good!
Femininity Overload
As everyone is giving attention to Ani, I decided to write a review about this perfume that stays in the shadows, which is almost the source of its inspiration (shadow puppetry). I hope I give the perfume the description it deserves and to you all a good picture of it.
The Brand:
Nishane has become one of my favorite brands. Their perfumes smell quality, they have a great performance and I blame them for raising my standards in perfumes. After I bought their perfumes, I see one of another brand of the same price and I m like “I would better buy a Nishane in this price”. Why? Because they are quality perfumes they smell amazing.
The story behind the perfume:
I love it when a perfume is inspired by something and I get that something from smelling it. Nishane has released 3 perfumes inspired by traditional shadow puppetry characters: Karagoz, Hacivat and Zenne. First two are male characters so the perfumes are masculine (Karagoz could be unisex) and third character is female so the perfume is a feminine perfume. Zenne in the puppetry, is a woman who is a symbol of beauty, confidence, she achieves what she wants at any cost and she is desired by every man. And this is exactly the feeling of this perfume.
The smell:
Dreamy, seductive, sexy, feminine, OMG it’s a masterpiece! It’s a fruity floral vanilla scent that doesn’t change with time. You get what you smell from the first spray, it just becomes more smooth with time. You get that sour smell of a grapefruit, with the intensity of the gardenia and the rose on a soft bed of sweet vanilla and musk.
The performance:
The performance is unique! On skin, it smells for hours and on clothes it smells for days.
Season/ Occasion
I have bought this fragrance on November and I am wearing it since then with cold weather and it responds amazing, but I believe that it is a fragrance for spring summer and early autumn. I personally don’t enjoy wearing it with a sweater because it gives me different vibes, more fresh, more delicate, more elegant. I could wear it on winter for an occasion with a silk dress and high heels. So, about the occasion, on spring and summer you can wear it at any occasion and on autumn and winter only on occasion when you are dressed more formal. It smells femininity.
Conclusion:
It is an amazing perfume for a woman. Its totally worth buying it. It totally stays in my collection for looooong!!!
Thank you for your time.
The Brand:
Nishane has become one of my favorite brands. Their perfumes smell quality, they have a great performance and I blame them for raising my standards in perfumes. After I bought their perfumes, I see one of another brand of the same price and I m like “I would better buy a Nishane in this price”. Why? Because they are quality perfumes they smell amazing.
The story behind the perfume:
I love it when a perfume is inspired by something and I get that something from smelling it. Nishane has released 3 perfumes inspired by traditional shadow puppetry characters: Karagoz, Hacivat and Zenne. First two are male characters so the perfumes are masculine (Karagoz could be unisex) and third character is female so the perfume is a feminine perfume. Zenne in the puppetry, is a woman who is a symbol of beauty, confidence, she achieves what she wants at any cost and she is desired by every man. And this is exactly the feeling of this perfume.
The smell:
Dreamy, seductive, sexy, feminine, OMG it’s a masterpiece! It’s a fruity floral vanilla scent that doesn’t change with time. You get what you smell from the first spray, it just becomes more smooth with time. You get that sour smell of a grapefruit, with the intensity of the gardenia and the rose on a soft bed of sweet vanilla and musk.
The performance:
The performance is unique! On skin, it smells for hours and on clothes it smells for days.
Season/ Occasion
I have bought this fragrance on November and I am wearing it since then with cold weather and it responds amazing, but I believe that it is a fragrance for spring summer and early autumn. I personally don’t enjoy wearing it with a sweater because it gives me different vibes, more fresh, more delicate, more elegant. I could wear it on winter for an occasion with a silk dress and high heels. So, about the occasion, on spring and summer you can wear it at any occasion and on autumn and winter only on occasion when you are dressed more formal. It smells femininity.
Conclusion:
It is an amazing perfume for a woman. Its totally worth buying it. It totally stays in my collection for looooong!!!
Thank you for your time.
Honey, I have the sweetest dark side
I decided to write my first review on this perfume so don’t be harsh on me.
This perfume was a love at first sniff. Usually when that happens I order 2 bottles asap but this time I didn’t because I have already bought 5 perfumes this month (damn lockdown).
Francesca Bianchi Perfumes:
I had the chance to test all Bianchi perfumes before I decide which one to buy. I love all Bianchis because they have an identity. You smell them and you say “this is Bianchi”. I love the fact that you can’t distinguish the notes. You can’t easily tell what you smell. You feel like there’s some leather but there isn’t any. My favorite of all was Under my skin but I believe is mostly for men. But anyways whichever perfume you chose its totally worth it. This woman did a great job and I believe a perfume of her deserves to be in everyones collection.
The Dark Side:
I read that F.Bianchi was inspired by the city of Marrakesh to create this perfume. I have never been there, but friends of mine who have, they loved it and told me that it’s a place that has a weird beauty that makes you want to go back but there’s also some darkness that scares you. And all of them brought back some Moroccan spices. And this is exactly what I get with this perfume. It is called The Dark Side but when you smell it is not Dark at all. It’s so syrupy sweet. With spices.
Onto the fragrance-The smell:
From all the Bianchis, this one was an instant crush. At the opening, you get an intense smell of spices on a soft bed of oud or vetiver, some incense and some flower, maybe the patchouli. When it settles to your skin it becomes spicy honey sweet and you can smell that till the drydown when you mostly get a leathery honey smell. When you spray it the room smells for hours. Please Francesca, make it an air freshener I would buy all of it!
The performance:
This is where I kind of disagree with some comments about the perfume. I was expecting the performance to be from another planet but it didn’t. I am and active person and I move a lot but almost all my niche perfumes smell all day (almost 10 hours). If not on me, at least on my clothes. This one, I wore it everyday for a week from the moment I got it and all the days, almost in the middle of the day, I couldn’t smell it on me. At the end of the day I couldn’t smell it on my clothes either. So yesterday when I returned home I asked my man to smell me and my clothes and tell me what perfume I wear and he couldn’t tell. So I was a bit disappointed in that aspect of this perfume. Is it maybe my skin or because I was very active this week? I really don’t know. When I say activity I don’t mean I am a gymnast, I just don’t have a desk job. I still have a lot of sprays to prove me wrong because I really really adore this perfume.
Season/Occasion/Audience:
This perfume is mostly for cold weather, or at least a weather you need to wear a jacket. As for the occasion I believe it is suitable for any occasion. I could wear it to go for a coffee or at a business meeting. The perfume is totally unisex and can be worn by a man or a woman without getting uncomfortable comments like "you re wearing a male/female fragrance". Also, because its a complex perfume, I believe a person who is not into niche fragrances cannot appreciate the smell. This amazing smell...ah!
Conclusion:
It is a great perfume and its worth a try.
Thank you for your time my fellow perfume lover.
This perfume was a love at first sniff. Usually when that happens I order 2 bottles asap but this time I didn’t because I have already bought 5 perfumes this month (damn lockdown).
Francesca Bianchi Perfumes:
I had the chance to test all Bianchi perfumes before I decide which one to buy. I love all Bianchis because they have an identity. You smell them and you say “this is Bianchi”. I love the fact that you can’t distinguish the notes. You can’t easily tell what you smell. You feel like there’s some leather but there isn’t any. My favorite of all was Under my skin but I believe is mostly for men. But anyways whichever perfume you chose its totally worth it. This woman did a great job and I believe a perfume of her deserves to be in everyones collection.
The Dark Side:
I read that F.Bianchi was inspired by the city of Marrakesh to create this perfume. I have never been there, but friends of mine who have, they loved it and told me that it’s a place that has a weird beauty that makes you want to go back but there’s also some darkness that scares you. And all of them brought back some Moroccan spices. And this is exactly what I get with this perfume. It is called The Dark Side but when you smell it is not Dark at all. It’s so syrupy sweet. With spices.
Onto the fragrance-The smell:
From all the Bianchis, this one was an instant crush. At the opening, you get an intense smell of spices on a soft bed of oud or vetiver, some incense and some flower, maybe the patchouli. When it settles to your skin it becomes spicy honey sweet and you can smell that till the drydown when you mostly get a leathery honey smell. When you spray it the room smells for hours. Please Francesca, make it an air freshener I would buy all of it!
The performance:
This is where I kind of disagree with some comments about the perfume. I was expecting the performance to be from another planet but it didn’t. I am and active person and I move a lot but almost all my niche perfumes smell all day (almost 10 hours). If not on me, at least on my clothes. This one, I wore it everyday for a week from the moment I got it and all the days, almost in the middle of the day, I couldn’t smell it on me. At the end of the day I couldn’t smell it on my clothes either. So yesterday when I returned home I asked my man to smell me and my clothes and tell me what perfume I wear and he couldn’t tell. So I was a bit disappointed in that aspect of this perfume. Is it maybe my skin or because I was very active this week? I really don’t know. When I say activity I don’t mean I am a gymnast, I just don’t have a desk job. I still have a lot of sprays to prove me wrong because I really really adore this perfume.
Season/Occasion/Audience:
This perfume is mostly for cold weather, or at least a weather you need to wear a jacket. As for the occasion I believe it is suitable for any occasion. I could wear it to go for a coffee or at a business meeting. The perfume is totally unisex and can be worn by a man or a woman without getting uncomfortable comments like "you re wearing a male/female fragrance". Also, because its a complex perfume, I believe a person who is not into niche fragrances cannot appreciate the smell. This amazing smell...ah!
Conclusion:
It is a great perfume and its worth a try.
Thank you for your time my fellow perfume lover.
