Roses, Iris, Violet and Patchouli here smell like a watercolour painting looks like. They blend seamlessly with each others like all other notes as well and they are beautifully melancholy and nostalgic. Iris and Violet are easy to detect in the opening but they fades away and show up in a different way. This is not powdery for me, not even that vintage powdery like which feeling comes from the smell of Iris and Violets which both was used in make up powders back in times. This is not dry, it feels wet for me like like still slightly wet painting. If iris and Violet tend to hide Raspberry shows up after the opening. It's not so fruity, it's subtle and it reminds me of lipsticky scent which on the other hand is created by Raspberry and Violet together. This lipstick is not waxy, opulent layer, it's a lipstick which has been tried to wipe away with water and oil. It's not lipsticky like Misia or Lipstick Rose, not at all. Raspberry is not juicy one either. I don't think this as a sweet scent, Vanilla in the base is not clear like it's in many perfumes but I can get a tiny whiffs of sweetness here and there. Vanilla does make this concoction warmer, keeps it away from ice cold side where iris and Violet stays in many perfumes. And for those ones who are not familiar with Les Parfums de Rosine: Rose is the star of the show - pastel coloured, dewy Rose, not "jammy" one nor fresh, utterly pleasant and easy to like. Patchouli is dancing with Rose from the opening until the final part of the dry dow. Ballerina No 2 is nothing which I have smelled before. Actually it performs perfectly and shows up somehow like a whole picture now when it's raining a lot - than yesterday in sunshine. One other scent which I love the most when it's raining is Une Rose / Rose Tonnerre (this is nothing like that one though). On the other hand, one scent which comes in my mind when smelling this one is Opus V - Woods Symphony by Amouage . It's very different as well but with some small similarities, I see the same kind of scene when smelling it than I see now when smelling Ballerina No 2: watercolour painting, here wet roses and iris, roses and Orris in Woods Symphony. Those similarities are more feelings than than realistic similarities and Woods Symphony is "dirty" and animalic because of Oud and Civet, and Ballerina N°2 is very innocent. This scent is feminine but I will test it on my husband's skin. Patchouli maybe does some magics on men's skin making it more masculine on them. My intention wasn't to write this long text now since I just got this scent recently but this is how I feel. I will come back later and I will complete my thoughts about this beauty. Thank you for reading. Thank you for reading and if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes