Equistrius

Soft Iris meets creamy chocolate and smooth suede. Simply gorgeous. Love it.

Nice, cozy and calm in a very feminine way.

This is so soft and warm and long lasting. I've had it on my arm for seven hours and I can still smell it's beautiful aroma wafting up. The amber and sandalwood are so creamy and soft. However, I didn't enjoy the top notes. They're much too sweet and syrupy with an odd hay or dry wheat note. I dismissed it as a dislike and moved on to other violet samples I was testing. After half an hour, I noticed it had settled into a gorgeous violet and iris scent, resting on a creamy base. If you can wait out the loud beginning, you're in for a treat! Cosy, enveloping but gentle, not powdery. A touch of suede, touch of chocolate. A skin scent in a very sensual way.

This fragrance has a very sharp opening and then drys down into a more tolerable powdery violet fragrance. However, the violet in this is too overpowering in my opinion. This is going to be a pass for me.

With plenty of lipstick iris and supple suede, Equistrius is an over-inflated balloon of a scent that walks the line between cosmetics and leather. The iris is perfectly recognizable as iris yet doesn’t aim for photorealism; instead, it taps into the suede for a profile that signifies as a kind of glowing cyan blue. However, both the iris and the leather are coddled by a prominent yet anonymous “perfume” — a somewhat redundant scaffold that smells both sweetly oriental and vaguely musky. The result is a scent that's perhaps a bit too bloated with both the iris and the suede drowning in too many pillowy layers. As with others in this line, Equistrius is fairly linear (with a gradual slouch from iris to tonka) but it’s neatly blended with no spikes. It’s a little too distended and “perfume” for my liking, but for a boomy oriental iris, it’s a solid choice.