Sorry, an obscure and clumsy reference to one of my favourite Apollinaire poems.
A dear friend from overseas sent me a sample of a fragrance I was very unlikely going to be able to try, and I had sampled it on Saturday, promising to list its notes.
It’s Fresh’s Pink Jasmine eau de parfum, which claims to be ‘…strikingly beautiful and completely romantic’. I rather agree with the latter. It took the entire day for this lovely, slightly fresh floral to really develop - kind of like watching a flower open or bloom, you know?
Here are the notes:
The top notes of a fragrance are the ones you smell instantly upon spraying the fragrance onto your skin. I instantly got the orange rind, it was nice, not too citrusy and slightly bitter. When it did develop, it’s hard to tell if it was the lilac I could smell, or the peony and possibly magnolia. Lilac and peony can be very…typically ‘perfumey’ (think obnoxious English traditional ‘grandma’ scents). I think it was actually just the lilac and peach I got. Magnolia, peony and jasmine can get ‘faecal’ or but I do taste some of that woodiness and creamy floral (magnolia and peony). What the hell do you reckon ‘precious woods’ smell like?! A bit fanciful? I think so.
Have yet to try the cream, that will bring out the florals, I suspect. I do hope my Fragrant Elf pal is reading this and is as excited as I am!
I also had some fun with makeup, might later on put in a swatch of what was used.
all MAC I think…
Non-Conformist fluidline as eyeliner on upper and lower lashlines
Sunday Best e/s as base
Iris Print on outer corner, blended towards middle of lid, and finishing there (so that base e/s shows on inner corner of eye, or was supposed to, at least)
Flirt and Tease sheer shimmertone blush (this was really nice)
Dervish lipliner
Glamoursun lipglass, my new love! It has this slight neon green pearlescence - very slight, nothing scary, promise! Love!!!
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