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My Signature
627 reviews
It doesn't smell bad but it does smell boring and cheap. I don't get coffee, it's just a super generic spicy rose that's been done a billion times before. Like I said, not bad, but you can get many others like this for way cheaper.
Smells 20 times more expensive than it is (or sadly was).
With a name like this (The Devil's Diaper) I had high hopes. What I got was a perfume that smells like many other Lutens perfumes. Which is not to say it's bad, but it's so close to those several many others that I feel totally bored by it. Think Le Participe Passé meets L'incendiaire meets Ecrin de Fumée meets Périlleusement Votre. And in fact here, the synthetic oud is scratchier than in the aforementioned ones and is already irritating me after five minutes. Big fat meh. Update: it's mostly a labdanum soliflor, I don't get any of the other notes, just synthetic oud, some resiny sweetness in the opening, and labdanum.
I love this, there's something fresh and sunny about it, a little bit of body skank and a warm nutty base. To me it's not christmassy, it's joyous and springtime-esque. I don't always want beast mode perfumes, so this is perfect for times when I want a little spritz here and there with a few minutes of bedazzlement before it becomes polite and discreet. The orange note smells like Baptême du Feu, but this quickly dissipates and the scent becomes totally different to BdF, although I'm assuming those who like one would like the other. This could be the daytime scent before applying BdF for nighttime devilry. Update: OK yes, it dissappears after one hour, but I'm OK with that as it cost me peanuts.
Suffocatingly strong and dense. But it does smell good. It's kind of similar to Reflection Woman. I'd say if RW is a light sorbet this is a fatty, creamy ice-cream version.
Rufus Hound is one of the most irritating, obnoxious people on the BBC, from what I've heard this fragrance fits the bill.
I went to the Paris boutique today and I'm wearing this on one wrist. It's not a soupy tonka (although it's sweet), it has more of a burnt sugar, woody feel, very nice. I expected it to resemble Tonka Impérial or Fève Délicieuse but it doesn't, other than being a strong tonka scent. While it's a departure from the usual Dusita floral bent, it still retains something of their DNA. As for the aforementioned Guerlain and Dior cult classics, I prefer this to either of them, as it's less scratchy than the Dior and less saccharine than the Guerlain. Pissara never misses, and this is no exception! Also, I thought I wasn't getting the white chocolate, but it comes out after an hour or so, really lovely. Despite the gourmand note list, it still smells like perfume rather than simply being cakey/foody, and the almond gives a boozy edge.
The subjective experience for people who spaff a load of money on LV perfumes is always superlative, it seems. Every scent is "the most stunning" of its kind and "absolutely blind buy safe". What this tells me is that these people indeed blind bought these perfumes and are now gaslighting themselves into believing they weren't ripped off for some generic, schmaltzy dross. I haven't smelled a single LV perfume that I'd pay 70 euros for, let alone the crazy deluxe prices (even grey market). This is cuckoo bananas BS.
Smells like a kids' perfume or like some sort of theme park ride (Professor Burp's Bubble Works for anyone who grew up near London in the 90s).
So bland. What is the deal with these LV perfumes? To me they all smell like copies of much cheaper, much hackneyed scents I've smelled over and over again.