PennyPearl

PennyPearl

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PennyPearl 3 years ago 13 2
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A morning in a spa in the Orient
On quiet soles creeps this fragrance and then claws itself in the brain and in the heart to provide there really for enthusiasm...
At first, the cardamom and the tart tea are the main actors in the opening, the sweet fig has little chance to stand out in the first seconds, which is why I first assumed the fragrance would be more masculine, but then the sweet fig peeked out like an opening flower and pushes the cardamom a bit to the side, although it still remains present.
I find the combination of all the notes very beautiful and coherent!
Something gives the fragrance an oriental touch; it reminds me of the smell in the Moroccan little shops full of lamps and carpets in Marrakech, I smell a slightly sacral note, somehow incense like on the incense souks in Salalah, Oman, but in a gaaaanz light and subtle form.
I feel like I'm in a spa and can't stop smelling my wrist.

In fact, this is how I once imagined "Crystal Noir (Eau de Parfum) | Versace": creamy soft and nobly spicy, which I didn't like as much, but the Gris Charnel is just that for me: creamy, sprayed in a noble mist, elegantly spicy and subtly sweet, and it still retains its everyday suitability.
I also find him unisextauglich, both men and women can feel well scented with it, even if it radiates something very feminine for me personally.
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PennyPearl 3 years ago 11 5
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8.5
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The classy doll with vintage lipstick
Finally, the fragrance has found a new home with me after a beschwerlichne way from Italy; the parcel service in Germany has struggled very hard with the delivery and it took days until he was released from the warehouse, but it is now done (respect, people who regularly order abroad, I do it only if it can not be otherwise. Last delicatessen spreads in Brussels as Christmas gifts, that also worked out uncomplicated, but I was told by the parcel service guy on the phone, it is often lost house number when you order abroad. Well good to know...).
Angefixt by the doll fragrance topic in the forum I was curious about "the doll's house", because I'm also looking for it from time to time.
In the case it was then a blind purchase, but I wanted to risk, even if you can not yet much to the perfume research; I found, for example, only an English-language video on YouTube to the fragrance.

The series "lost paradise" of Nobile 1942, to which three fragrances belong, among other things just also the doll's house, promises morbid charm of surreality.
La stanza delle bambole" also triggered these ambivalent associations in me, even before I could smell it: the sweet innocence of a Babyborn doll, the shrill plastic dolls like the Cherry Merry Muffins, the Lolita sexiness of a frilly Barbie and the above-mentioned morbid goosebumps factor of old porcelain vintage dolls on old dusty velvet sofas, similar to horror movies.
All of that should make up this doll scent; the sweet 90s synthetic and powdery vintage charm, the melancholy of fleeting utopias, the loss of guileless lightheartedness, but also the wink that we can always keep the playfulness.
A fragrance that pushes open the door to childhood and to very old times, when we were not even alive, escapism.

But to the scent, when I actually finally got to spray it on:
It starts with a "dusty plastic" note, which is the closest way to describe it.
I smell doll hair, it's not synthetic-berry-sweet like, say, Cherry Merry Muffins dolls.
I also find it definitely powdery (in the YouTube video it was said that it is absolutely not a powder fragrance, but I disagree with that), sweet it is not at all in the opening.
It is a very authentic doll scent, I think all the time, a large doll sitting on my lap ;)
I wouldn't have minded a little more sweetness in the opening, it does get more marzipan-vanilla-y as it goes on, but if you're expecting the "berry-tinged" plastic sweetness of a my little pony, you might be disappointed.
You should like powdery vintage vibes; you get a slightly sweet doll plastic note paired with creamy makeup that alternates with the powder jar.
Personally, I find the fragrance very intriguing, especially how this authentic and intentional plastic note was created, and do not regret the blind purchase, but also would not have minded minimally more sweetness.

The red padded box is very chic, as is the bottle, however, the Flakondeckel is annoyingly loose when you put the perfume in the box.
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PennyPearl 3 years ago 13 2
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The beautiful mother with her child
A freshly lotioned woman in the morning in a white linen dress with an equally freshly bathed and lotioned toddler on her lap; the Hipp candle lotion comes to mind.
Pure, innocent love, I don't think of lovers rolling between the sheets in this.

It starts with an almondy sweet opening, defintitv not marzipan but proper crispy to creamy almond.
Very milky and soft, gentle like bath foam or an intense body lotion.
The flashy almond note then fades a bit and you're left with a white-creamy, slightly sweet scent, well-groomed without going in the soapy-clean direction.
As it progresses, it turns into a very pleasant fluffy-sweet musky wisp.

It's absolutely suitable as an ever-goer, a fragrance for every day, an everyday companion that doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't bother anyone, but probably doesn't stand out spectacularly.
However, one smells pleasant and he would like me as a bright almond cream everyday fragrance with delicate vanilla and the well-groomed body lotion notes also good; whether the price for it is then justified, everyone decides for himself.
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PennyPearl 3 years ago 5 2
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Who stole the gold from the perfume...?
I was very curious about the fragrance, because it sounded really nice and I also believe that many people like it well; unfortunately, I am not one of them.

It starts off very nicely with sweet freshness like a lime cream sprinkled with sugar, but not gourmand-esque.
Something about the opening I find ordinary, but not bad.
A delicate rose-soapiness creeps in, but retains the sweetness.
Then it gets less nice (for me); I smell pungent incense, as the patchouli note makes its presence felt, dulling the scent and muffling the other scents.

Patchouli with rose is not my favorite combination anyway, unfortunately.
The whole thing reminds me distantly of "Lady Vengeance | Juliette Has A Gun" , though not as extreme, coupled with sugary sweetness.
Fragrance tree and leather seats in a hot car, so I felt at the time also the perfume of JhaG.

I personally do not like so well, the patchouli gradient, which is getting stronger and stronger, annoys me and is not mine.
It becomes nice only when the other components push the smoky patchouli smell aside for a short time, then I quite like to smell the wrist before it becomes musty-smoky again.

Under woman in gold I have imagined radiant vibes.
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PennyPearl 3 years ago 17 3
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A sugared sky, waving green....
Until recently, I was on vacation and have emptied there a small filling of Sintra and then bought in the airport; accidentally spotted from afar the scents of Memo and in the general stress and bustle I rushed there (we were not too late at the airport, but you have to plan due to the pandemic yes partly more time for everything).
I became aware of Sintra because of its name, because I actually wanted to go to Lisbon last fall and also wanted to make a detour to the castle in Sintra, which I had to cancel because of the pandemic.

The green herbaceous prelude, paired with the creamy marshmallow sweetness, which I actually also perceive almost immediately, fits surprisingly zut together; in fragrances like "Ani | Nishane" is me the combination of sweet & green too brute and unpleasant, with Sintra it is very balanced and interesting.
The sweetness is "steamy", as I often feel with fragrances with neroli; a romantic summer night in the south, chirping crickets, sweet wine and a sunset in various pastel shades.

It reminds me of "Les Notes Gourmandes - Guimauve / Mi Fa | Réminiscence" because of the marshmallow note , but with Sintra this note is more grown up, noble and soft.
The drydown of "Reckless (Essence de Parfum) | Roja Parfums" is also similar, but Sintra is much more potent, intense and spicy.
Sintra has a dry sweetness that never drifts into the sticky, kitschy, he does not impose itself, but is well perceptible-
Linear, but very nice!
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