happygoth

I bought this blind, because I read the reviews and they all sounded so nice. Elegant, expensive perfume! How could that be bad? I put it on, has strong throw and looooong wear length. And smells like Off bug spray on me, from the initial application to two hours after drydown. I can see how it might be lovely on someone with a different skin chemistry; underneath the DEET smell on me is something lovely and beautiful. Sadly, not for me, though. Oh, well, maybe I can swap it for something.

This smells like vanilla dryer sheets on me, which is a bad way of describing it, but is the closest thing I can think of. That said, I think this is lovely, and what I wanted Antique Lace to smell like (my skin gobbles AL right up and I can't smell anything at all). It's deep and light all at the same time, with this clean floral, and a warm vanilla undertone, and a nice long wear length. Like with my other post about Zorya V, the Zoryas have a similar undertone, and you can tell they're all related, but this one is the lightest, most youthful one of the three. I like it very much. (So if the Zoryas were all compared, you have Zorya V, the most mature, Zorya U, the warm, motherly scent, and Zorya P, the young, dreamy one. But they're all Zoryas.)

To me, this smells a lot like Scherezade wet, or at least what drew me to that initially. But then on drydown, it smells like what I wanted Scherezade to smell like and didn't. It's soft, smoky, incensey, with the best of the vetiver. After a while, it softens to a warm floral, with a little hint of that lingering incense. A very grown-up, mature, complex scent. Nice throw, good wear length. Another I may have to buy a backup of. Also, is it just me, or do the Zoryas end up resembling one another, a little, after a while? This one and Zorya P are so different at first, but start so smell like each other after you wear them a bit. *love*

I adore this. I'm not normally one to like masculine scents, but the amber warms the bay rum so nicely, and the oudh gives it such a lovely little sharpness, it almost smells like clove? I dunno, there's a spiciness to it that I can't quite put my finger on. Part of what may make this palatable to me over other bay rum scents (Alan McMichael, for example), is that this has such a low throw that it's not overpowering. Maybe it's the amber? I don't know, whatever it is, it really works. I think I'm in love. May have to buy a backup.

I don't usually like green scents like this, but this one... man, I have a backup of this one. To me, it's like the freshest granny smith apple and cut green grass wet, and then it keeps that crisp greenness pretty much throughout, but eventually shifts to fresh cut flowers (probably the tulsi?) It's one of the few perfumes I have that's consistent from opening the bottle through a few hours of wear. It also doesn't go weird as it fades. The green fades, but the light, crisp floral remains. It's a little green, pleasantly powdery, crisp afterthought. If you like greens, definitely one to try!