Miro

Immediately after spraying it on, I immediately thought of "Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume", the two smell similar, I'm really amazed.
I immediately sprayed "Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume" on the other arm to compare directly...yup, the two are so similar that I seriously considered putting "Youth | Zarkoperfume" on my WL and saving myself the pricey CC.

After a few minutes, however, you realize that they are two different fragrances. "Youth | Zarkoperfume" smells much fruitier, fluffier, peach, melon....
the CC is woodier, harder ...and slightly salty.
I fear the worst, namely that "Youth | Zarkoperfume" will also go on the WL. I hope it has a lousy shelf life. "Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume" has a very good shelf life because I've already spent almost 10 ml of my AF.... and I'm sure I'll buy it at some point. It's worth the price to me and if Youth doesn't make it, it's out (thoughts from a perfumer who is bravely fighting addiction!).

However, I wasn't even aware of CC's woodiness until this test. Until then, it was a beautiful, fruity sea buckthorn fragrance for me. And what a good fit it was for my relaxing Rügen vacation, I realize how unisex "Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume" is...the silly barriers in my head, but maybe it's interesting for one or the other to know. However, I really like the tart, fruity, woody fragrance.

One hour after application.
Unfortunately, this fruity fluffiness recedes in "Youth | Zarkoperfume". Flattens out, I hope not into insignificance, not that there remains only a flattened plum with a little musk...I am a little disappointed.

Two hours later.
It has a lovely fruity scent, initially fluffy and powdery. Later it becomes more restrained, but the plum remains. Light woody notes now come to the fore.
"Youth | Zarkoperfume" is a beautiful, totally pleasant fragrance!

After three hours.
"Youth | Zarkoperfume" becomes more woody, it is similar to CC, even if it is sweeter overall, great fragrance, more feminine. I wear it for about 7 hours. I think it simply has more fragrance progression! If you like that, you should go for Youth, because :

"Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume", on the other hand, is a beautiful piece of driftwood that was washed up on a Danish beach straight from the North Sea. Feels strong, totally unisex! Dreamlike! Slightly fruity, salty and woody and the whole thing feels firmer, not fluffy and soft. And it stays like this for many hours, I don't notice a fragrance gradient like I do with Youth. The longevity is incredible. When I apply it in the morning, I can still smell it 12 hours later.


Zarko fragrances are the complete opposite of oriental perfumes or lush floral scents.
They are beautiful, Nordic fragrances. I love them, as I live on the Danish border.
They are light and strong at the same time.

My notes are a bit older and I now own the "Cloud Collection | Zarkoperfume" I like the power and the straight scent progression better.

It's no use.... it was reformulated and yes, it certainly smelled better before, lasted longer and at all. But nu it is just so that we have to live with the new version.
Thanks to the souk here I now hold a bottling of Samsara in my hands.
In the top note we start floral. I smell ylang ylang. I love the stuff and here it does not come across sultry, the green notes make sure of that. Such perfumes I hardly know from today, but there will certainly be.

There are also immediately many flowers announce themselves. I smell a large bouquet of flowers, the largest share of which is jasmine, but I also perceive narcissus and carnations.
Likewise, there is something soapy, clean. The perfume smells bright and clear.
I see a white table in the garden with 4 chairs. A pitcher of lemonade, some cookies, and glasses and plates....behind are gorgeous flower beds and perennials. It's warm but not hot and there are bees buzzing around too. This garden is in harmony with nature. There is no English lawn or even gravel beds. Many varieties of flowers, shrubs and wild herbs bloom here. Squirrels, birds and butterflies feel at home here. Here I can sit , just be there and relaxed perceive the life around me.

I think I'm describing my grandma's garden right now. The scent reminds me of the beautiful time I was allowed to spend with her. She never wore perfume, by the way. It's more the feeling that comes up in me when I sniff Samsara. I feel well taken care of, loved and safe.

Later, the scent becomes a bit more powdery and vanilla, accompanied by sandalwood. Maybe Samsara evokes a little retro feeling in me, but this is not an old-fashioned, unfashionable fragrance. I can well imagine that he worked in the earlier version much more oriental than today.

I find the fragrance really beautiful and for me I can say that Samsara could accompany me in any situation. To work, Käffchen with a friend, to go for a walk . I would always be well scented, never would it be too much and I know no one who wears it. So in real life I don't smell it anywhere

I was allowed to test the fragrance the last few days and would like to write down my thoughts on Mukhallat.
I like the house of Montale, have tested a few perfumes, some fullsize, some bottled and am really open to new bottles from them. Here at Parfumo Montale is not that high on the top scale for many users, is too synthetic for most.

So, to the fragrance...I don't even know where to start. Mukhallat starts off with a bomb of a plastic smell, very sweet to boot. Many write of their former plastic dolls...I can't relate to that association because I didn't used to play with Barbies or plastic ponies. I guess I didn't sniff my daughters' Barbies, but toys shouldn't be allowed to smell like that!
The prelude reminds me of when I was an apprentice. Learned in the dusty department store, DOB....Women's wear. Often I have unpacked there new clothes, each damn T-shirt was individually wrapped in plastic wrap, and so many times hit me there a smell of which I was really sick. Paint/chemical smell from the shirts + plastic bag. Some colleagues sometimes got rashes from it on their hands....and yes, that was over 30 years ago.
So, that's how I feel about Mukhallat's opener.
Is already unpleasant and brizzles in the nose, for almost an hour. Then it becomes more pleasant.
Strawberries I do not smell out. Yes, there is actually something synthetically fruity and would I have to commit, I would guess artificial cherry. In any case, and this is the positive, the miserable plastic smell decreases.
It becomes more pleasant and I'm suddenly standing in the esoteric shop. The red-haired saleswoman stands barefoot in front of the healing stones and advises a customer who is feeling stress and is wavering between stones , herbal tea and singing bowls when buying.
I stand there and perceive the smells of the incense sticks and the large number of aroma oils. Of course, there is also a lamp like this on. A tea light in it at the bottom, an oil and water mixture in the bowl at the top. A different one is used each day and that makes up the smell in the shop. I like it, but can't for the life of me tell what I'm smelling. I smell everything and nothing, but feel comfortable.

Mukhallat is for me one of the most extraordinary scents I have ever smelled....also as a perfume. In the esoteric shop I find it super and chilling, as a perfume I don't want to wear it. Maybe it smells good in the air though, so if someone wears it and walks by me.
The longevity is really good, as you would expect from most Montales. Still, this fragrance is different from the others, I strongly advise against blind buys! And for those who have only smelled this one.... Montale has really other nice fragrances in their range.

On my last holiday trip before Corona I tested Soleil Blanc by T. Ford in a perfumery and found it fascinating, but for the price not great enough. It was too overwhelming for me and since then I've been looking for it...my summer scent. I've been through quite a few by now. Monoi , Bronze Goddess, Sun die Gioia, Intense Tiaré.... So now I have come to a bottling of Terracotta.

In Terracotta is the jasmine, immediately perceptible and as I must unfortunately even totally pungent and unpleasant. This was really unexpected for me, the thought of washing everything off immediately was definitely there at the first test. It's not that I don't like jasmine scent, it's just been too much at once for me. This is then but after 10-15 minutes also past and only then I perceive Tiare and Ylang Ylang, quite wonderful.....the coconut holds itself discreetly in the background. Vanilla is there, but so tightly wrapped in all the flowers, so I find that does not take up much space.

I do find Terracotta to be a sweet scent, but not over the top. First and foremost, this is a beautiful, summer floral scent , which just exaggerates a bit at the beginning. Unlike other scents of this type, it evokes the least "sunscreen feeling" or even tropical feelings in me. Of it I perceive here only vibes and that makes him for me much more often tragbar.
So I could already imagine that he moves in at some point with me. Good mood he makes me in all cases!

Time for Love starts with a lot of tuberose, a very delicate peach and plum are also in the air. I have spontaneously good mood when I smell that...this is a lighter, fruity tuberose perfume, at least from the point of view of lovers of stronger fragrances with, let's say at the beginning but clearly noticeable projection.
I feel the fragrance at the same time firmly structured and yet light in itself.

After half an hour, it becomes even more floral. Ylang Ylang lets greet beautifully, but remains in the background. Both together equally strong would also be too much, at least in the lighter season.
I would now like to write that the tuberose at some point says goodbye completely and makes room for vanilla, but it does not. She only becomes airier, softer and softer because she makes a mini step to the side and lets herself breathe a vanilla kiss on the cheek.

To the durability I can say that I perceive him 6-7 h with 4 sprays. If I sniff it with my nose. That's okay, but not groundbreaking. Probably he would last longer on my skin, if I would spray more, but then he would be too heavy for me.

In summary, I would like to say that Time for Love is a really very feminine, confident fragrance. One is definitely noticed with him by others. TfL is like a beautiful, tasteful scarf that enhances an outfit....maybe in the color coral or salmon, mixed with some white. Just like you automatically notice a splash of color in clothing in a positive way, I smell Time for Love.