My choice is Montale's Pure Gold. Even the name fits - the blog project, still not that sure about the juice though.
Notes: neroli, Egyptian jasmine, Italian tangerine, apricot, white musk, vanilla and patchouli.
I get the whole neroli-tangerine opening although not quite in those words. More in the line, oh, what a lovely light green, citrusy floral opening full of sunshine.The fruity juiciness coming from tangerine (even though I said citrusy, it's no lemon of any kind) and the rest coming from neroli which I noticed that whenever I come up with floral sunshine in my mind, it usually stands for neroli. Which is one way of learning how to distinguish notes.
As I'd like to think that my fruity-floral days are over, every once in a while, there comes one that changes that. I loved this one from the first sniff of my already half-empty sample.
While smelling this for reviewing purposes, I wrote down that it smelled happy and innocent. I'm still finding it happy, but I'm no longer sure about innocent. I know why I thought it, because it reminds me of spring meadows on sunny days and carefree times, but I no longer think it's innocent like that, it's more sexy-happy. You know, slightly intoxicating and happy, the best way to seduce someone. :) My thoughts on why, neroli+jasmine+white musk (in an amount that I find not only tolerable but enjoyable and that's rare).
My guess on why it was called Pure Gold (except for all the yellow, orange notes in it) is because as evocative as it is of happy, sunny spring, the gold in this is the sun for me.
I took a look around the forums while looking for the notes and noticed this didn't get much love, and at some point, I even wondered if there are two of these perfumes out there smelling differently as one reviewer described it as woody-floral and another likened it to Coromandel. For the life of me, I can't find any similarities with Coromandel, except the fact that both containing patchouli. I could have sworn though that in the drydown, someone put in just a drop of aoud to tease us but that could well be patchouli working another miracle (I find patchouli an extraordinary note in perfume - so many ways it can go and you never which way it took until you smell the perfume).
So, go take a look at my fellow bloggers and what Kings' gift they are discussing today:
Redolent of Spices
Scent of the Day
EauMG
Parfumieren
Bonkers about Perfume
My Perfume Life
The Perfume Chronicles
Chicken Freak's Obsession
Notes from Josephine
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