Don’t trust reviews online, this is not a skin scent nor a safe blind buy. Got a sample, tried it and had to give it away it was awful on me. Like cheap men deodorant but on steroids, and it wouldn’t wash off. On the other hand I find it surprisingly pleasant when I smell it on someone else, go figure.

I mean for the premise of the fragrance probably I should give it five stars but I truly found it atrocious on me so the bad review stays. Wish we could split reviews, a vote for the perfume itself and another for how much or not we like it.

The exact smell of dunking Gentilini Oswego biscuits into a glass of milk. Very buttery. Cozy. This eau de parfum has a definite weight to it. Warm and enveloping and cocooning. No fuss no high concept but does wonderfully what is supposed to do. Lingers on skin. Very edible but you have to have a taste for butter and all things dairy and sweet.

Regarding sweetness to my nose it manages to smell distinctly sweet without veering into saccharine and cloying territory. It’s sweet more like a shortbread than like a frosted cupcake.

Take Amouage Gold woman and pare it down, taking out all those big airy 80’s floral aldehydes. Now pare it down a little bit more until all you have are the powdery floral facets of the naughty skanky core of the fragrance. This is exactly what I smell when I wear Poudrexstase, Gold woman reduced to the naughty bits. But, despite the marketing, it’s not so filthy that it can’t be worn in public, in my opinion.

It opens aromatic, medicinal, sharp, and slightly bitter. Slightly spicy, but cool spices not like cinnamon.

After a short while it evolves into soapy florals, but florals which lean towards a traditionally “masculine”, whatever it means, kind - likely due to an iris that make it veer towards an ever so slightly severe scent, not lipsticky at all.

I haven’t detected any hints of animalic notes on my skin, unlike with the first three fragrances of the brand, just as a personal comparison.

Eventually the fragrance ends as a pleasant barbershop-y woody scent with still detectable hints of iris. It is all in all perfectly nice, although definitely not for me (from the brand I’m more partial to Poudrexstase, Ambilux, and possibly Heliodose) but it surely is good to smell on someone else.

The drydown lasts quite a long time but it’s not eternal, I would say around 8-10 hours maybe.

On a side note, I went on and on all day smelling my arm until I remembered the perfume it vaguely reminded me of, at least in some aspects: Iris Nazarena from Aedes de Venustas, which I still don’t wear but prefer it to Corpalium in the drydown, as far as I remember from trying it at least a year ago.

Very polite skin scent, tried in extreme heat and humidity sits closest to the skin. Possibly ambrox and musks. Vaguely lactonic, saliva but in a nice way (?!). To my nose all in all almost too evanescent to pick up.

Will try again during colder months.

Finally tried this out yesterday, I've been curious for a while and was frankly a bit skeptical about the hype. Was I wrong though. I don't know what is, but there's something that I find very compelling about this perfume, playful but not in a juvenile way. So much so that I keep sniffing my skin, where the scent still softly lingers over 12 hours later in a cozy delicate drydown, and am amazed at the projection on the paper strip, where the full symphony of notes still fills a room. All the fuss about smelling like lady parts is sort of true in the way I think some jasmine fragrances tend to do. On that matter, in the first minute after spritzing it reminded me a bit of Mugler's Womanity, probably due to the ambergris note (caviar accord in Womanity), but it passed quickly evolving in a beautiful and like I said earlier compelling, delicately fruity floral composition, fresh and airy despite its room filling tendencies; I'm surprised to like it because while I do room filling, I'm usually not really keen on fresh and airy, leaning instead more towards dark and torbid, or stuffy. All in all I like it a lot, and I really really really wish I didn't because the price is a definite no no for me.

Came across a bunch of my mum's miniatures from the mid 80's - mid 90's and OH MY GOD I've just tried this one, probably not in the best storage conditions but still wearable and I am absolutely in love! It opened with an animalic blast which knocked me off my feet and I've finally understood the true meaning of "this fragrance smells dirty", so if nothing else I'm glad I got to experience a perfume with real civet and castoreum. Which leads me to the fact that the opening was borderline fecal in the best possible way (I sound deranged, I'm aware, but it's one thing reading how these notes behave, another one experiencing it) plus some nondescript white flowers. I couldn't stop smelling my arm every couple of minutes. Minimal oakmoss in my miniature and frankly couldn't be more grateful because I hate the stuff, which is only starting to emerge after nearly an hour alongside some plum that reads quite jammy to me, or it could be the effect of the honey note. Tried this at night and could still smell it in the morning with a quite dry drydown, tempered a bit by musks and amber. Reapplied in the morning and I got the same results throughout the day. I only wish it were more opulent in the drydown, don't know if it's due to the storage conditions, its age or if it's really the fragrance but even so I would gladly get a full bottle of this if it didn't cost an enormity and in any case I will try it again when the weather is cooler, although in the sticky 40*C summer heat is a beast and I love it!

It's an inoffensive although lovely perfume, airy and slightly watery, very cozy, very safe unless of course one hates any one of the notes. Wouldn't have bothered to write a review of it if it weren't for the fact that today I found a sample spray hidden and forgotten for who knows how long (judging from the other samples it was with I'd say a good ten years) inside an unused wardrobe, so likely very well preserved. I spritzed it and couldn't stop thinking it smells exactly like a deodorant/body spray I had and used to love when I was a preteen in the mid-late 90's, Impulse Zen, or at least the memory I have of it. The notes listed for the body spray aren't useful to solve the mystery but the overall similarity was, to me or my memory of it, uncanny. Probably would eventually buy a bottle for nostalgia's sake alone.

Wanted this for so long, finally got it in time for the Summer, which it doesn't really seem people's recommended time to wear it. The thing is, I'm not totally sold on the seasonality of perfumes, all the more because I think this is the type of scent that blooms with the heat, since I've caught it smelling kinda sweaty on me (and right after a shower, so I know it wasn't really me). Obviously it's "sweaty" in a nice way. Well, not really nice, it's sort of dirty actually, it's the slutty vibe the perfume is supposed to have. But it's not a constant feature, and possibly the temperature helps it develop this way. So to the people missing this facet my suggestion is spritz it during a hot and humid day and see if anything changes. Curious as to know if it changes during the colder months and becomes a tame(r) powdery floral.

I love what CT does in makeup, even have one of her lipstick (only one because of their price, would have more items otherwise) and it's fabulous, nice formula, great colour, good staying power all in a luxe packaging. So I really wanted to like this perfume and was very interested on trying it, but a tiny voice inside my head kept popping up saying: "this might be a huge disappointment", so I didn't actively went looking for it. In the end I got the occasion when an eager salesgirl came up to me inside a House of Fraser last winter. Biggest mistake ever. I ended up with this thing on my wrist that assaulted my nose and not in a good way. It smelled cheap and conventional and took a lot of scrubbing to leave my skin. Not only that but the fragrance literally stuck to the woollen jumper and coat I was wearing for daaaaaaays so that I had to wash the jumper and air the coat to get rid of it. Not a fan. I even got a sample one day and spritzed it again to see if anything had changed, but I still dislike it. But of course it's a very personal thing and I actually thought that I remember having smelled something similar on a lot of women in the past, so I'm sure there is a market for it.