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"Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan" is one of my favorite perfumes. From the first smell which reached my nose and my the sense of smell in my brain I was excited by it. But that is a sensory perception I already had by a lot of perfumes. But later, when I tested them again or even bought them, the excitement was dimished or even vanished. Only a "few" scents are staying to be my favorites, the love seems so be lasting for ever and those perfumes I want to own. Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan" belongs to my scents of desire.
Out of that "Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan" is belonging to the very rare scents which other poeple seem to perceive on me and for which I get compliments: "What a wonderful fragrance is scenting around here! Are you using this extraordinary scent?"
First I'm smelling an aromatical and bitter wood, combined with orris roots of an exellent quality, poudry but tangy. And it remembers me partly on "Bois Farine" by L'Artisan. And yes, there are appearing some flowers, heliotrope, Ylang-Ylang with it's sweet and thrilling notes, roses as listet. They are giving "Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan" an intriguing creamy yet bitter almond and even a slightly marzipan note. I know that marzipan is made from sweet an bitter almonds and if it's high quality a few drops of genuine oil of roses are added.
But the scent of heliotrop and tonka beans as well is causing this almond-marzipany note - if there are added genuine extracts which seem to be in "Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan" But fortunately this composition is not turning out to become a gourmand scent. There must be added more sorts of blossoms than listet. The bitter wood and the soft percolating blossom mixture is staying all over the very good longevity. And yet there is as well a faint dark-green note, a whiff of smoke which is annoucing a special vetiver which I can almost only imagine.
OK, now I had tried to explain and to describe exactly "Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan". But in fact if I'm smelling it percolating from my skin it's tremendous joyfully and exciting for me. I just love the sillage around me I love to smell like "the" "Les Impératrices Japonaises / The Great Empresses of Japan".

No, "Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV" is not a lightening but zigzagging anyhow in it's developement.
"Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV" is a wonderful scent for those who love perfumes with gardenia, tuberose, lillies, tiare, frangipani.
Though I had testet this perfume some weeks ago and noticed something negatively I now changed my mind. Again it seemed I had a bad sample of it.
Now I tested the fresh sample like usually, without taking a look into the page of the current scent I'm testing .
The start of "Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV" was slightly sharp, well this is obviously galbanum. And it smells soft-green.
And then I was smelling immediately tuberose, gardenia, tiare, lilly, creamy and delightfull. It remembers me similar to "Gardenia" by Chanel or "Do Son" by Dyptique. For some hours it is a wonderful sillage on me and around me. I' am really excited by Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV". I doubt that those maitresses had scented like this, when I remember all the reports and all which I have read about that time.
However, maybe they would had wanted to smell like this to impress Louis XIV.
And in this case there will have been some very young male "amanti" who had been liking it too .
But after about 4 hours there is only a faint whiff of flowers, something waxy left of "Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV".
What a pity I thought.
But though, it is a wonderfull perfume I thought too.
But then a heavy thunderstorm was going down here and I switched down my pc.
I opened some windows, watched the flashes. At the moment I intended to step on our terrace I saw a small sphere-flash zigzagging very strange one meter over our terrace an raising while vanishing. I was really frightened because I have never experienced a sphere lightening before. I was convinced that poeple alway had pretended such phenomenon.
When I stayed still excited and with a certain fear I perceived again almost as strong as before"Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV" percolating from my wrist like I have described above.
This was obviously caused by the little shock. Now it's still around me and on my skin.
If would not yet own "Gardenia" and "Do Son" I would put "Les Maîtresses de Louis XIV / The Mistresses of Louis XIV" on my wish list.

If there would already be a review about "Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love" I would not write one more.
Though it's a more dense scent with a stronger sillage then the before by me testet "Roméa d' Améor-Fragrances.
Also with "Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love" I had the problem, that I first had decants which had changed already.
This scent does not have a long developement.
"Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love"ist starting with a clearly citrical, green and creamy note. Out of this I am smelling immediatly with the top-note a green and tangy vetiver which is lasting but reglissing more and more.
Also an aquatical note is accompanying "Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love" from the beginning on.
Then a quite strong, sweet and anyhow slightly obstrusing flower mixture is taking place and and will be lasting until the end. Fruits? They might be supporting the flowers but I cannot identify them apart.
Summarized "Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love" is a sweet blossom perfume with an interesting aquatical note and a trace of green vetiver. Of course I can imagine "Les Grandes Amours du Taj Mahal / The Taj-Mahal's Eternal Love" only on women.

It was a good idea to buy new samples of the "Roméa d'Amór" frangrances. Because when I tested for instance "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" several times in the past it smelled each time different.
One time which I noticed it smelled only acrical, citrical and like any fruit-mixture. It was each time a plain scent.
Well, now it is as well not a very diversely scent - the first time of the long developement. But now the fruits are hardly to perceive at the beginnig. Very fast I was smelling jasmine and as I now see in the pyramide: Champaca flower, a special magnolia which has an impressing blossom scent similar to jasmine.
I leave now my perception from the former tests. I only mention that in order to give the advice to pay attention in case of this perfumes to be aware of new and fresh samples or even a flasc and not a decant with unknown age etc.
The Jasmine-champaca mixture is tangy, slightly spiced, with green notes. And then the fruits are appearing but very soft.
The longevity is very good though "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is again a restrained and very light perfume. The sillage is hardly to describe because there is a sillage but anyhow indirect. All around me is smelling of "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" and in a wonderful flowermixture. But close to my skin over some hours I'm only smelling a more pungent scent of jasmine and champaca. But around me "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is unfolding like a fan all listed ingredients and I can even smell the fine green mastix, which is listed as pistachio together with the creamyness of santal.
A long time "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is a tangy scent and is seeming to be just plain. But it was becoming more and more a complex dainty flower perfume. Basically "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is a wonderful fragrance. But one have to cope with a more imperceptible and tender scenting perfume.
I cannot deny that "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is a noble perfume and not at al a boomer. And of course for my opion "Les Princesses de Venise / The Princesses of Venice" is a feminine perfume for ladies of every age.

When a perfume is named "Les Grandes Prêtresses Incas / The Great Inca Priestesses" I' m expecting an extraordinary scent.
A long time ago, about 35 years I had the possibility to visit a very exclusive and private exibition of the art of the Incas; "The gold of the Incas" in Switzerland. I remember that there was explained that the "Gold of Incas" were in common their ability of biological galvanic, which they applied to cover not so precious materials. And what I out of all remember is that no face, no depicted animal no mask, nor sculpture had a hint of a smile or any kindness or tender expression. They all had frightening, painfull and dreadfull expressions of cruelty. That culture did not seem to have hope and no confidence.
I can't help, but since then, if I watch photos of the people of the Andes I yet seem to recognize in their faces a certain expression of the art of their ancestors: Gloomy and depressing. The descendants of the prehistoric Inca may forgive me.
Out of that we have the idea of cocoa which they drank, bitter and without sugar and of people chewing coca-leaves.
But concerning the scent "Les Grandes Prêtresses Incas / The Great Inca Priestesses" I'm not smelling something like the bitter and woody scent of real and fresh grinded cocoa-beans nor do I know the smell of coca-leaves. I assume the smell of coca-leaves as a green taste and scent.
But in "Les Grandes Prêtresses Incas / The Great Inca Priestesses" the ouverture for me has something disgusting, a smell of old yeast.
But this smell I had already in several scents and there must be responsible a certain ingredience I cannot identify. For instance in the top note of "Memoirs of a Trespasser" by Imaginary Authors" had the same smell. Similar smells I experienced in certain mono-santal-scents.
Fortunately this note is vanishing every time I tested "Les Grandes Prêtresses Incas / The Great Inca Priestesses" after 15 minutes.
Then a very shy fragrance is apearing, green, fresh, some spices, something woody and a slight bitterness. This is followed by a weak but delicious flower-mixture, creamy and green as well.
This very weak and detaining fragrance is astonishingly long lasting.
Ignoring the for me really peculiar beginning it is a well composed scent with a sillage which I can perceive only a few centimeters away from my skin.
I wonder if "Les Grandes Prêtresses Incas / The Great Inca Priestesses" could be characterized as a real perfume as weak as I experienced it every time I tested it. Just if I'm pondering the price.