Comments on: Max Mara Le Parfum Zeste & Musc ~ new fragrance

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:08:07 +0000

LOL — you really better get a few mls!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:56:30 +0000

I think that's why I love Cruel Gardenia…and, some critics I found out are over the moon about it too. This makes me feel much better about loving something so vilified. I don't think the silage is great either, but that's o.k. because it definitely IS a skin scent. It's seems so personal. It seems to become part of my skin and I feel like I have been kissed by an angel, and it became a part of me. I could wax poetic about it all day. It is a good thing the silage is minimal because it really does make a great wedding fragrance, a lot of sights list it as such (The perfumed Court, for one). It doesn't smell like any flower in creation but maybe in Heaven. Listen to me go on, I better get a few mils. before I perish.

Thanks, You've clarified so much Robin …Viva la Cruel Gardenia!

: > D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:30:16 +0000

Sillage means the trail of scent you leave behind you, powerful sillage means people can smell you from a distance, close to the skin means they can't. Skin scent is a more amorphous kind of thing — hard to explain but often people mean something that seems to “meld” with your skin and smell like “your skin but better”, if that makes any sense.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:48:57 +0000

Thank you Robin. Another question: I thought silage meant lasting power. Erin said that Cruel Gardenia has bad silage. But CG last all day on my skin. Also in here, I guess I'm wondering what a *skin scent* is? And is silage what other people smell? or is it what is left in your wake?

Thanks Robin also for the link.

Joy,

Becca

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:10:43 +0000

Datura is a flower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura

We grow them — they smell lovely!

And transparent means sheer, light.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:09:47 +0000

Forgive my ignorance but what is datura? This sounds crisp, if the lasting power is good, I may try a sample. As long as I'm educating myself what is transparent?

Thanks,

Becca

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:34:38 +0000

I only tried it on paper — but have to agree. Assume this is their citrus-y summer version (?)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:24:55 +0000

I thought the original Le Parfum was already “transparent” enough as it was – it smells very light and subtle to me, and on my skin fades away to imperceptibility within the half-hour.