Tulaytulah

Hmmm unsure. It's smelling like baby powder on me.

I wanted SO BADLY to love this one. The bottle is a masterpiece, I love almond and cherry blossom and had been struggling to find those notes in a not-too-sweet juice that works for me. The reviews I've read are positively glowing. Indeed, the first five seconds after application are perfection. Unfortunately, my skin does something hideous to this once the alcohol evaporates. I do have an unfortunate tendency to get Play-Doh or plasticky effects from otherwise lovely scents (Hanae Mori, What We Do in Paris is Secret). Tulaytulah confirms for me that this must be a byproduct of whatever is used to create almond scent, because that effect is turned up high with with this one. . . almost literally. I smell like burning plastic! Just an awful, noxious, chemical odor. I resisted the urge to scrub because, again, I really wanted this to work. At about hour 3, the suede background comes out, but still I smell like a chemical factory. Sigh. Hopefully there are other ingredients that can create the cyanide accord I'm looking for. TL;DR if you've read the notes and like them, this is probably exactly what you're looking for, UNLESS your chemistry does the Play-Doh thing.

This fragrance is not launched yet, it will be released end of this month or end of May 2016. It was first shown in Esxence 2016 and it has that amazing milky almonds essence. The story behind this is Tulaytula which is a historical city that was famous of the co-exist the 3 cultures-religions Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. I can't wait to get my hands on this masterpiece.

The cypress is really, really intense in the opening, giving it a smell somewhere between standard men's cologne/aftershave and "fresh scent" bathroom cleaner. I don't care what the drydown is; I never want to smell this opening ever again.

Not sure if I'm a big fan of this or not.. Sorry to start like this. But to me this is a very two-faced(?) smell. On the one hand it is creamy floral with an almond twist on a smooth suede base, almost edible.. a trustworthy smell reminiscent of childhood memories and warmth. On the other hand, it has a bitter synthetic note, like an expired baby cream. I didn't even notice this bitter note until hubby said it smelled like Sudocrem (for those who are familiar with it). I normally stay away from almonds, but like this scent, and the bottle is very pretty. I would probably wear it if I had a bottle, and would probably either get used to the synthetic note and not feel it or it would drive me crazy and ruin the scent. Interesting perfume, definitely a like.