Panettone

This is actually very similar to Teisenddu, but it is less sweet, a bit more floral, and overall the citrus and orange notes are not as realistic, more artificial. Bottom line less gourmand and a bit more… potpourri-ish? Like walking into a store with a mishmash of holiday candles, rather than literally smelling like a unique festive dessert. For those reasons I prefer Teisenddu.

This smells like orange sugar cookies , with some cinnamon , very warm yummy baked type of scent it’s very realistic gourmand ,

To me, this walks a fine line between Fanta and creamy orange biscuit. It was love at first sniff when I sprayed a friend's sample on my skin. It smelled like freshly baked orange cookies. So I got a 3mL decant of it. But when I sprayed it on my clothes for the first time, I was confused, because it smelled like orange soda! So now I had doubts about getting a full bottle, because I didn't want to smell like Fanta. But I started wearing it regularly, and I did end up liking it enough to want a full bottle. It's amazing, as long as I spray it on my skin.

A month before I got this, I was eating panettone and wishing there was a way to bottle that heady scent you get when you open a box of it. One sample purchase later, I am blown away by how perfectly they recreated the smell! Immediate strong rum and candied orange-- in fact, my first impression was that the scent was a little *too* cloying, the candied fruit kind of smacking me in the face and drowning everything else out. But never fear, after half an hour I started to get some of the bready, vanillic base notes that really anchor the scent. After that I was more and more thrilled with the just-out-of-the-bakery scent that kept floating up from my wrist, so warm and cozy and indulgent and holiday-y. I was even more happy when, after a full night's sleep, my wrist and pajama sleeve still smelled of the incredible cozy drydown, vanilla and bakery and something deeper that might be the florals coming in (though this is definitely not what I'd call a floral scent!). The opening is exciting and technically correct but the drydown close to the skin is my favorite part. I'm sad I only bought this after the new year, it's a cold-weather, pre-holidays scent for sure. I can't really see myself wearing it out-- but boy, am I gonna enjoy spraying it on a night in!

I'm so sad that I'm not getting what the others are with this perfume. To me it's quite unpleasant, a harsh opening of bitter orange , ginger and something kind of bitter, pungent (maybe the carrot seed or davana?) It definitely ruins this scent for me. I don't get any bread-iness, any vanilla, no soft, fluffy, doughy panettone. Very disappointed.