Product Review: Gloves in a Bottle Shielding Lotio.I've heard that the scent morphs a bit in warm weather, so I'll be excited to try it out! (Assuming it ever warms up around here!) I think this fragrance would do alright in any season. I would be more inclined to wear this in the fall/winter months, but that's really just a personal thing. Do use a light hand though, as more than a couple sprays will start to knock people out - the EDT is potent! (My sample vial is a roll-on, which is perfect) It's warm and inviting - the woods do a marvelous job of adding complexity and depth. I can detect a hint of strawberry juice in the dry down, but it is a strawberry in the vein of cotton candy, rather than fruit salad.ĭespite all this talk of chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, this is no tween scent. you guessed it, a fruity floral! It really doesn't smell anything like a fruity floral though. Anyway, the listed notes are blackberry, strawberry, black currant, bilberry, rose, jasmine, sandalwood and rosewood, which would make it. Which is nice, because I usually hate vanilla, so I'm not sure why I'm loving this. This aggressiveness fades quickly, and then you're left with warm, casual sophistication.Īlthough I smell a vanilla/bakery note throughout, there is no actual vanilla in here. It's as close to a gourmand scent as I've ever liked: on first blast, it smells like a vanilla-chocolate martini at full strength. These are outfits that, in my opinion, call for a fragrance like Pink Butterfly: Instead of using words to describe this scent right away, let's try to do it using visuals. Which is how I ended up with a sample-sized bottle of Hanae Mori's Pink Butterfly. Yet, this fragrance is far from your typical juvenile fruity perfume. But my doctor says I need variety in my diet, which I chose to interpret as "go buy more (different) perfumes". Its reminiscent of luscious blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries. *shudder*) Now, Paris' offering notwitsthanding, I don't think there's anything wrong with fruity florals - in fact, they can be downright lovely. I did only pay $20 for it, and I can't stand it now, but I did at one point wear it daily. All those faceless, mass-marketed Escada LE-type scents? I'm there. If you will recall, I am a fruity-florals kind of girl. So, you know how there's this stereotype out there that pregnant women crave crazy things like pickles and ice-cream, or ketchup sandwiches, and what-have-you? I don't know if that's actually true, having spent very little time around pregnant women.īut if changing tastes is what it's all about, maybe I do have a handle on what it's like to be preggers. It’s available at stores like Macy’s and Sephora for $130/100 ml and $99/50 ml.Aka: It's like I'm pregnant, except I'm totally not. Hanae Mori “Butterfly”includes notes of black currant, wild strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, peony, sandalwood, Virginia cedar, Brazilian rosewood and almond tree. To be sure, you need to like gourmands to wear this if you do occasionally have a perfume sweet tooth like me, this is one of the best. This is just enough of an edge to remind you this is a grownup perfume and not a pre-teen body spray (or an actual cupcake). It might all be too much, but what keeps Hanae Mori on the right side of history is the delicate florals – rose, jasmine, peony – and a slightly sharp, soapy green note, similar to the dish-soap note in Rochas Tocade but with half the intensity. It’s not just melted sugar (ethyl maltol), but caramel sauce with butter and cream. There’s the custardy aspect of ylang-ylang, the milky aspect of sandalwood, plus a toasted almond note like nuts in a graham cracker crust. This big pink glow is offset by a deliciously creamy base, all the materials chosen for richness. The primary fruit note is strawberry, but it’s more abstract than literal – like a pop-art painting of a strawberry. Spray it on and you’ll smell a facsimile of a fruit tart from a French bakery: berries arranged just so and glistening with apricot jam. Butterfly, instead, was content to be pretty. Created by Bernard Ellena in 1995, just three years after Angel, Hanae Mori borrowed the apparently new idea of layering fruit over caramel, but skipped the massively pungent patchouli note that made Angel so shocking. The original Hanae Mori for women, sometimes known as “Butterfly” due to the bottle design, is a first-generation gourmand. I was recently in one of those moods, what Holly Golightly would call “the mean reds,” when such a palliative is called for, and my mind immediately went to Hanae Mori. My comfort scents are the equivalent of crème brûlée, which is to say, sugar and fat: perfume as mouthfeel. I can claim no such level of sophistication. 19 – perhaps because your mother wore it, or perhaps because the orris, vetiver, and galbanum are cool like a hand on a fevered head. I suspect there are those among you who, on an especially rough day, derive comfort from an elegant classic like Chanel No. Elisa on stress and the gourmand ways to fight it.
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