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My Signature
627 reviews
This is undeniable brilliance in a bottle from the high priest of smell himself. It's a different thing every time I wear it. I think that now I'm familiar enough with it to get over the influence of marketing copy and other people's opinions, this genre-less gem has resolved in my mind as honey-iris. The iris is the same found in Heaven Can Wait, very unsurprisingly, and L'Eau D'Hiver shares more than a passing resemblance to Girl by CdG (for Pharrell Williams) and perhaps therefore has its roots vaguely in Fahrenheit.
Same perfume/formula as Synthetic Jungle, different name. Apparently people were put off, not realising the name was an artistic choice, and that the perfume is no more or less synthetic than the next. I'm relieved, as Synthetic Jungle/Nature is a bold and unique perfume, almost unwearable admittedly, but I love it.
Lemon sherbert opening which, while it smells nice, I don't want it on my skin. The dry down is great but the opening, pffff. It's like a bag of lemon sweets that have been left on a sunny dashboard. The vanilla is the strongest lasting note on my skin and together the lemon and vanilla drown out everything else. It sort of smells like a coke float, when you put ice cream in coca cola. If I didn't have New York Intense I might love this more, but NYI does it way better.
Gorgeous bone-dry fruit and osmanthus with an iris backbone. It reminds me of L'Atessa but with the fruit stones thrown in. Though they're apparently top notes, the fruits come to the fore in the drydown for me, with the opening dominated by rooty iris and osmanthus.
Love! It's a serious, woody, floral patchouli that doesn't smell like anything else I know of. The woody base is wonderfully contrasted by the playful peony flitting across the top. So far there's no earthiness or skank, it's a clean, fruity patchouli note. Like many of this line, it manages to smell high-quality and not designery at all while being super cheap.
Relentless, brutal, migraine-inducing. I love the first few seconds but over time I'm worn down until I can't bear it anymore. I get a headache every time, and so have to ask myself why I keep doing it. Well, I'm out for good this time, luckily I only bought a decant. Everything I've tried from MP has been beyond beast mode, and makes clothing smell for months on end. That's not a good thing in my book.
A grandiose journey through roses, rhubarb candy, body odour, creamy vanilla, floral skank, metallic sheen and burnt sugar. After a few hours it's just iso e super and ambroxan, but what a ride! Absolutely wonderful.
Love it. Smells like a Strangelove perfume, superb quality, original and, most importantly, utterly beautiful. On the skin it's completely different to card tester. Put it on you!
To me the opening is like Santal 33, then within 5 minutes it calms down to a gentle vanillic wood. Very polite, very unremarkable and very forgettable.
Very good for the genre (a genre which doesn't really interest me). Very strong performance, after showering it's still going strong. Is that a good thing? I don't think so.
