Details:
Victorian Garden
Black Baccara
Notes:
Victorian Garden is a vintage-inspired floral, created with visions of labyrinthine stretches of green bursting with romantic blooming flowers. Rich soil is the backbone of this blend, from which rises up sweet carnations, dogwood, sandalwood, daffodil, hyacinth and roses wrapped in English ivy. A complex, old fashioned type floral blend reminiscent of perfumes of the Victorian and Edwardian era.
This is the perfume that made me pull out Jazz Funeral the other day, though when I compared I realised they are nothing alike. Jazz Funeral is much deeper, richer and melancholy. Victorian Garden is quite light and bright, despite its soil note.
In the vial and when first applied, this smells like damp earth and flowers. There is a watery element as well - it makes me think of a lily pond. There are no particular floral notes that stand out - I can't distinguish carnation or rose or any of the others, it's just a blend. As it dries down, the rose comes out a little more prominently than the other flowers - though could just be me, as rose tends to amp on me a lot of the time. Mostly it's a pot-pourri floral blend once it dries. It's nice, but it's not especially interesting or at all unique. The sillage is quite low for a floral - it stays close to the skin. Longevity was medium, maybe 4 hours or so.
Rating:
3/5
Day 24!
I love how you do reviews from so many different companies! Lots of new ones in my list. That would be dangerous.
ReplyDeleteI have two imps of Juzz funeral but I never wear them... I wore it once and no one liked it. It's all moss and dirt on me. I just put a little bit on my wrist. I don't have to go anywhere today!
I agree, Amanda! Actually, all of you lovely ladies inspire me to try new companies I've never heard of! I love it!
DeleteI'm fickle, I can't be faithful to one company - I want to try them all! I'm the same with makeup. ;-)
DeleteI don´t think I would like this, the soil yes, but a floral pot-pourri... ick!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I love florals but this note wasn't a favourite.
DeleteI am feeling a lot of floral love these days, especially the watery florals :)
ReplyDeleteI can't get into watery florals - I think that's why I can never find any summer-appropriate perfumes in my collection!
DeleteLove some of Black Baccara...this is not one of them...it's not bad, just not me. I am just crazy for Cleopatra...one of my all time favorites by BB, but what I don't like is that she uses grapeseed oil as a main carrier which tends to go rancid. If I have the perfume oil on the shelf 6 months...it goes bad and it's so sad since I love it and pay a lot too!
ReplyDeleteI only learned about grapeseed oil having a limited shelf life recently (and after I bought the BB samples), and it's definitely put me off buying any full sizes from them, because I've never gotten through a bottle of perfume in 6 months. Even ones I adore I've had for a couple of years and they're still half full.
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