Miu Miu: Lily of the Valley Heaven Grounded with Oud

Miu Miu by Miu Miu
Floral
Danile (Roche) Andrier

Miu Miu is an Italian high fashion brand fully owned by Prada. Their fragrance Miu Miu is a green-white floral with woody nuances. If you love lily-of-the-valley, you have found a gem among perfumes. There are plenty of this floral together with fresh green notes, plus a bit of rose and jasmine.

When the scent dries down, you get to experience an interesting twist. You will discover akigalawood coming through powerfully in the base. Akigalawood is a unique combination of earthiness combined from patchouli, pepper and oud wood. It is not overpowering as we are used to from some oud fragrances but present enough to come up with an alluring unexpected edge.

Miu Miu is bright enough to be worn during spring-summer daytime. It is a grown-up aroma for a classy lady. It does remind me of Aqua Universalis by MFK; luckily, it is available for a fraction of the price.

Sweet Lolita Lempicka: Cacao with Cherry on Top

Sweet by Lolita Lempicka
Floral Fruity Gourmand
Anne Filipo

Lolita Lempicka is a French fashion designer. Her fragrance Sweet is a flanker of a super popular Lolita Lempicka perfume – the apple-shaped purple one with star anise and liquorice. I quite like the original Lolita Lempicka. It is a unique bottle and a unique scent with a fairy quality to it. Sweet with sour cherry and sugar on top is a fairly mass pleasing fragrance. It is sweet yet not so much as the sweetness is grounded with cacao, iris, musk and cashmere.

Sweet is also a gentle scent. Do not expect anything rich and heavy. It is a beautiful uplifting perfume. Cherry can sometimes give medicinal vibes reminiscent of cough syrups etecera. But not in here. It is a nicely done cherry. The staying power and projection are not amazing, but good enough for me to keep the scent. On top of that, the Floral Fruity Gourmand family is hardly ever disappointing.

Butterfly: A Rollout of Sticky and Sweet in the 90s

Hanae Mori by Hanae Mori Butterfly
Amber
Bernard Ellena

Hanae Mori is a Japanese fashion designer. Her perfume from 1996 Butterly is meant to be a fruity bomb. Imagine a cocktail of strawberry, blackberry, blueberry and black currant. I love my berries and sadly, I do not get any of the above. Butterly is an ambery floral scent, based on my experience. I smell ylang-ylang, sandalwood and amber.

The fragrance is a sweeter stickier Sexy Amber by Michael Kors. Unfortunately, the lasting power and projection are pretty good, especially for an Eau de Toilette. Frag people compare Butterfly to Ylanf in Gold by M. Micallef which I do not like either. A long story short, this perfume falls into ambery sweet scents with no zest. I know that a taste in fragrance changes over time but at this point, it is not my vibe. It is on my return items list.