LES NEREIDES MUSC DE SAMARKAND: A springtime-friendly musk — soft, sweet and girly as all get out. It’s not quirky or experimental, just casually pretty from beginning to end, and with decent longevity.
The price point isn’t bad, either: $65.00 for 100ml (3.3 ounces).
Listed scent notes: white flowers, vanilla, powdery notes, white musk, labdanum, moss and soft woods. The moss note is very subtle, so expectations for a chypre-type experience would be misplaced. Think more along the lines of vanillic and powdery.
BOIS 1920 COME LA LUNA: Come La Luna is a nice piece of work, but it suffers a little (in my mind) in comparison to its partner fragrance, Vento di Fiori.
They’re both citrus, amber, woodsy scents with smoke wafting about the room, but where Vento di Fiori is full of life and mossy vigor, Come la Luna just kind of sits there on the chaise lounge, fanning itself while waiting for someone to bring iced tea.
That doesn’t mean it’s not attractive — the incense in its base is really quite beautiful, and it steers the fragrance in a softer, smoother direction than Vento di Fiore, which isn’t all bad news, I suppose. It’s not like every athlete needs to be a pole-vaulter, right?
Listed fragrance notes: mandarin, sweet orange, rose wood, pink pepper, coriander, patchouli, cedar, amber and incense. It’s probably important to note that I like Come la Luna better and better the longer it sits on my skin. The oakmoss, musk and birch in the base of Vento di Fiori is replaced here by cedar and incense, which makes for an altogether more plush and supple ride down the homestretch.
If you consider Vento di Fiori too masculine in nature, but you like it’s general structure, Come la Luna might turn out to be just perfect for you. Or perhaps you can do as Kathryn noted with Parfums MDCI Vepres Siciliennes and utilize the livelier Vento di Fiori for day, but with a chaser of Come la Luna for evening wear.
