serpentyne

I've had Dorian for a year or two now, and I was obsessed with it at first, got a little sick of it and so stopped wearing it, but I'm back on it now and it is wonderful. <3 Impressions: Wet: Mostly sweet vanilla tea and lemon, with a relaxing, sheer cover of lavender. Drydown: The lemon disappears, the vanilla tea sticks around and become creamier, and it feels like the scent warms up a little, with the musk coming through. The lavender sticks around but gets shrouded by the vanilla at this point. I do love it by itself, but it's always seemed too sweet for me to evoke the image of a proper, sexy Victorian gentleman as mentioned by the first reviewer. Just not enough fougere I think. So. I went out, smelt a whole bunch of different fougere fragrances (with the help of suggestions from the internet) and ended up with a bottle of Penhaligon's Sartorial. This beat out all the other suggestions by a far cry - it smells almost exactly like the fougere part of Dorian in my opinion. Layered a mist of it with a few dabs of Dorian and DEAR LORD THE SEXY. Highly recommend this combination. :3

In the imp, I got icy and mirror-bright - not sure about warm, though. Definitely floral and aquatic, delicately feminine. On skin, becomes slightly headier and warmth comes through. On drydown, still beautifully floral, but less delicate - seems to me to be heavier in a sense. Very pretty. (:

In the vial, "innocence defiled utterly" is absolutely right. Sweet, almost sickly sweet, with something darker and more sinister permeating through. Dries down into a less pungent scent on skin. Gradually over a couple hours turns to baby powder. ): And I wanted so desperately to love this too...