Illyria: Katharina
A strong, willful blend with a soft, utterly lovely soul: white musk with a trickle of bright, sharp apricot and orange blossom.
In bottle: mmm. Apricots and a faint orange blossom note. Bright, light, and shimmery. beautiful!
Wet on skin: definitely apricots. Beautiful and almost ethereal, the white musk is very pretty here. Soft. The neroli peeks out every so often. Color impression is a definite soft orange, and sweeter than the bottle smell by a hair.
Dry: I think this is in danger of becoming grandmothery to me. It must be this type of white musk :( The apricot is beautiful, but...yeah. The neroli has almost all done, too. I would definitely like a bit more of that orange blossom! And much later, it's definitely turned grandmothery. And this thing STICKS. I washed and it's still there, and the throw is still pretty strong (like, can smell it while typing on my keyboard sort of throw).
Verdict: it started out so well, but ultimately a no. I wonder how to tell which white musks work and which doesn't?
In bottle: mmm. Apricots and a faint orange blossom note. Bright, light, and shimmery. beautiful!
Wet on skin: definitely apricots. Beautiful and almost ethereal, the white musk is very pretty here. Soft. The neroli peeks out every so often. Color impression is a definite soft orange, and sweeter than the bottle smell by a hair.
Dry: I think this is in danger of becoming grandmothery to me. It must be this type of white musk :( The apricot is beautiful, but...yeah. The neroli has almost all done, too. I would definitely like a bit more of that orange blossom! And much later, it's definitely turned grandmothery. And this thing STICKS. I washed and it's still there, and the throw is still pretty strong (like, can smell it while typing on my keyboard sort of throw).
Verdict: it started out so well, but ultimately a no. I wonder how to tell which white musks work and which doesn't?