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If you pay your main attention to the name of "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" you will get disappointed for sure.
So let's forget the name of this scent and take a look at the pyramide. The pyramide is exactly the plot of "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar".
Here I admit that the story which the name is promising does not suit to the story of the real scent.
I am smelling a fine floral-fruity fragrance, very ephemeral and floral at the beginning. Later "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is going slowly to become a more and more tangy and fruity scent. And then it is becoming sweeter and dense. For a certain time it's a fruity gourmand. Patchouli seems to be very restraining for me which I do not regret. Santal and musc are as well not obstrusive.
But after this developement "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is again a transparent fruity-floral fragrance.
For those with a particular liking of fruity scents it might be a wonderful though dainty perfume. I myself do not prefer fruity fragances but tested many and dare say that "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is unique in it's own way.
But now I tested it the third time. And this time a have fresh and new original samples direct from Roméa d' Améor. I just bought a complete set. Is it possible, that the vials and decants I had before were not quite fresh, openend many times dripped on several skins? Because despite of my disliking fruity perfumes I consider "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" now as an excellent perfume. The two times before I disliked it really. Now it seems to me a distinct and noble yet different fragance?

"Belle au Parfum de Oud" is an unique composition. Is is starting with an intensiv green and sweet note. The sweetness which I am perceiving is that of the balm mint. It's my especial perceiving and identifying of cistus/labdanum. And there are clear notes of saffron and nagarmotha. Lilly and Ylang-ylang might be playing a role but I can not smell them apart.
Which is pleasent for me.
At the first test I was considerung this scenting mixture a the finish. Because I stopped the test after several hours in order to have a shower.
But now "Belle au Parfum de Oud" is changing. It is going to become more an more sweet, cinnamon scent is appearing and a soapy note.
Sure, there is still everything I was perceiving at the beginning but now in the backround.
Sure, "Belle au Parfum de Oud" is an unique oud-perfume composition which I never before had smelled.
"Belle au Parfum de Oud" for me is obstrusive because I'm missing something. An antagonist, I would propose: something fresh, or something bitter, woody and/or smoky. At least I feel somehow uncomfortable with "Belle au Parfum de Oud".
The longevitiy is good, the sillage not to strong. It is declaired as feminine, but for men who love sweet scents it might be agreeable as well.

Admitting that I'm disgusted by lillies of the valley no matter whether they are natural blossoms or in perfumes and cosmetics. But there are exceptions like "Acqua Universalis" EdT and just "All about me".
"All about me" is a perfume oil with a good longevity and a fine but clearly sillage.
It is starting with a strong soapy note and a whiff of a delightfull lilly of the valley. The soapy ouverture is vanishing within a half hour about. And after a while the note of lilly of the valley is becoming stronger though alway staying in that delightfull and transparent kind. "All about me" is not only smelling like lilly of the valley. There is the creaminess of musc, a very remote whiff of citrus and a fine green linden blossom note.
Not only can I bear the smell of "All about me"I like it really at least!

Again I got a sample of a fruity scent. There seem to exist so many of it and I wonder whether the most are really neccessairy? But there are lots of other perfums I could as well ask for what they are in the world.
OK I do not like clearly fruitiy scents.
Despite of this fact I'm carefully testing every perfume. And I notice concerning fruity scents, in common they are all similar.
That is not astonishingly because it's not possible to produce fruity notes in perfumes from natural and fresh or dried fruits. They have to use chemical ingredients.
Though there are really agreable fruit scents and there are existing awful fruity scents. There are very artificial fruity scents smelling like jelly beans and worse, there are very sour ones smelling like rhubarb for instance. There are extremely sweet fruity fragances spiced with vanilla and santal, and there really agreable fruity scents, obviously made with great care.
But what about "Urban Motion Woman" ?
"Urban Motion Woman" belongs to the agreable fruity scents. The fruity mixture is almost naturally starting with a pleasant woody touch, spiced with something like pepper and mint. The woodyness ist not only staying but going to increase which makes "Urban Motion Woman" to a serious scent in my opinion. "Urban Motion Woman" is not smelling like stewed red fruits with custard.
At least musc and santal are dimming down "Urban Motion Woman" to a more creamy and smoothy fragrance.
I do not at all have the intention to remove "Urban Motion Woman" by srubbing it off together with my skin. For those who like fruity perfumes I would recommend "Urban Motion Woman".

Till now I tested several musc-scents. Usually they are a little bit like baby-powder and like body creams like Nivea and similars.
But "Musc" by Réminiscence" ist a very serious version of a musc scent. It starts with a whiff of citrus which gives way for a woody vanilla without pudding note. The musc is following. A short period "Musc" seems to become a gourmand through an almond accord. I'm not sure, but as well tonka and/or heliotrop note could be added. And then I am smelling a woody and not to dark patchouli. It is not listed. But I did not use any perfume with patchouli today and I'm now testing after my shower. I do not use fragranted body-care.
"Musc" is a very pleasent but tangy and woody but moderate creamy perfume for every day without blossoms. It will not disgrace the user by smelling similar to baby creams. It is for adults only.