Today I am wearing Feerie by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Firstly let me tell you that what made me buy this perfume
is the bottle’s lid. Oh my goodness, it
is something I needed to have on my desk to admire, it’s sooooo beautiful. It
is a metallic fairy sitting on a flower petal.
So what is the juice inside like?
Soft violets, oh dear I’m not a huge fan of violets, but
this one is very soft, a little like the smell of theatre makeup so I am coping
with it quite happily. To partner the
violet we have floral notes of rose, jasmine and iris that form an ethereal
layer once the mandarin and blackcurrant opening notes have floated away in the
breeze.
The perfume has green notes running through it, entwining
themselves around each individual aroma and coating them in a mantle of soft
leafy greenness.
The base notes are soft creamy sandalwood and vetiver and
round the perfume off perfectly.
The whole perfume is a fairy trail. I can imagine her dipping in and out of
flowers, zipping from leaf to leaf, branch to branch, tree to tree, hovering over
twigs and collecting dew, nectar , broken bark and other botanical secrets to
transform into magical fairy dust.
The perfume is gentle and powdery and innocent. It
feels fragile, I should be whispering and walking on tip toes and wearing
something pastel and floaty. It is a
little too clean and virtuous for me.
I wonder how the fairy will cope if I layer the perfume with
a spritz of black musk. Sadly I think it
will frighten her, tempted though I am.
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