Moon Dance

I smelled this before seeing the notes. When I came on Fragrantica I was pretty surprised. I get stank jasmine, violets, grapes, civet and incense. Tuberose is more of an afterthought honestly, the main floral here is jasmine for me. It’s animalic. Simultaneously sticky-wet and powdery dry smelling. There is that Robotussin fruitiness that others mention. My review may have not sounded flattering, but I really really like this. I absolutely do not want to smell like it, but I can’t stop sniffing my sample. It’s so unique. I’ve never smelled a modern perfume that’s anything like this; I haven’t smelled vintage Poison and it doesn’t smell like present-day Poison. This is very moody, sexy, and gothic. I picture it on a Victorian vampire. Edit: I've since smelled vintage poison (and its become one of my favorite perfumes,) and no, Moon Dance is not akin to vintage Poison besides the sticky plum/grape impression

It is very similar to ROMANTINA from this same house, which is one of my all time favorites! It's very much same frag, just more complex, rich and 'evening/date' type of perfume. A MUST HAVE!!

Yup, I sure love this! Mellyhelly describes it PERFECTLY!!!! Swoon!!! I love it, it's dirty and deep and a dark feeling of mystery, and beautifully feminine, soft, smooth, rich and fabulous. I LOOOVE it. Seductive and sensual. A deeply beautiful, womanly perfume. Wonderful wonderful wonderful.

One of the most fascinating contradictions in perfume is, when smelled directly on skin it represents a carnal picture of dirt, while the sillage is of a heavenly light creaminess. Moon dance may be considered distant, but as it glides along in its smooth orbit (not unlike the most famous moondancing star ever), its -weightless- trail will lift and corrupt all bystanders, their jaws dropped to the ground. Eternally denoted as beautiful.

Swoon! Moon Dance is an old-fashioned modern explotion of all the dirtiest white flowers. It reminds me a lot of older perfumes when ladies had a desire to smell like ladies and not bleached safe fruit&flower. Th SA pushed this to me, but I could not afford. Anyway I can still appreciate this wonder of raw smells that hit you right in your soft parts. It's an empowering scent that you will probably wear for your own pleasure rather than for crowd-pleasing, because it can be not everyone's cup. Definetely not for the faint at heart (nor faint at wallet). The opening is pure tuberose with its lovely dirty edge that SA politely insist calling "earthen". Ok, it is earthen and something more. Rose is very into the blend, it addsa nuance of poetry, then gradually subside. Natural or synthetical I cannot tell, but if it is synthetical for once in time a perfumeur could catch that musky fecal effect, vaguely similar to Kiehl's musk oil, which I don't like, mingled with white thick carnal flowers. Violet is less obvious. It goes on like that for at least 2 hours sending little clouds of both pure and dirty flowers, something that I experienced with beautiful Guerlain Idylle Duet Jasmin&Lilas (which I love) then it becomes more monodimensional, hitting on the musk effect, perhaps given by a good patchouli. It becomes more of a strong skinscent. Not my bf's fave for sure. I wouldn't call this an elegant perfume in a classy way, because it's more about raw sensuality, but nothing forbid to wear it for important events. If you can splurge, splurge on this. EDIT of the day after: It clings to fabrics and never let them go! And it keeps going from fabrics back to skin with a soft whaft of tuberose and musk. Definetely expensive but at least it lasts!