![]() An intensely sweet fragrance wafted in the window, haunting in its familiarity. Sitting by the open window of the freshman dorm, I was homesick and melancholy. Years ago, I was an 18-year-old innocent in her first year at a women's college in Macon, Georgia. The smell of tea olives in bloom can be as hard to pin down down as a ghost drifting through daylight. Thankfully, this is Nature's perfect design. A perfume so rich and rare it makes the heart ache and can only be taken in small doses. The elusive, mysterious scent that you catch on a sultry afternoon in the Deep South. This scent is a lovely, understated floral, and like another reviewer mentioned, a little childlike. On me it's subtle and faint so I would need to slather it to really notice that I'm wearing it, but my chemistry tends to eat just about everything in sight. Once Mokey dries, all levels of the scent are noticeable: a wafty layer of sparkling lilac, a sweeter, warmer middle composed of violet sugar and osmanthus, and the orris and stephanotis round out the bottom. Violet is one of those notes that almost always smells like floral glue on me, but not here. The lilac remains, but not so crazy out there as in the wet stage. Normally orris smells a bit off to me, but I'm barely registering it I think it's tempering the lilac and bringing a roundness to this scent.Ī little longer in and I can smell the stephanotis, light and non-soapy. As it warms into the skin, some of the violet sugar brings it down a notch and the sweet warmth of osmanthus chimes in to temper that initial stage. It's just that I can't wear scents in this range, alas.Ī soapy and high-pitched floral lilac beginning. In fact, for a purple/blue/ultraviolet scent, this is definitely the prettiest and best blended I've experienced. ![]() The orris wasn't as rooty as it often goes on me. ![]() Even the osmanthus, so often headache-inducing, was pretty mellow in this scent. The violet note was never a problem as I feared it would be. If it had been like this all along, I would have been able to wear it. Three hours: Pure violet now, but very soft and pretty. I could see this as something people would desire, but I can't wear it. It's mostly a soft violet/orris with some osmanthus on top. Two hours: Much softer now, less sharp inside my brain. One hour: Mostly osmanthus now, with a touch of violet sugar that smells like a violet-flavored sugar pastille. Wet: The purple/blue notes are intensifying. In the vial: Violet, orris, and osmanthus. But Mokey is my favorite Fraggle, so I had to give her scent a try! I tried this even though I was pretty much guaranteed not to like it based on notes.
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