New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . I don't find the aldehydes in Maitresse to be soapy, the musk in here is a bit "dirty" but nothing on par with civet and there is absolutely no citrus. The main note, violet, which is usually a very high-pitched note to my nose, receives a sort of breezy support from the lotus note.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). A couple reviews below talk about it being a scent they imagine Marilyn Monroe wearing, I agree, but this is Marilyn in Norma Jean mode, not glamorous Marilyn on the silver screen, rather she is relaxing at home in a silk kimono after a long, pampering hot bath and indulgent skin care rituals. But then, after about 5 minutes, this scent becomes a subtle, light and sensual mixture of slightly wrinkled silk bed sheets, lace, powdery perfume and sin.

So after the ylang-ylang chills out I start to smell violet, jasmine, osmanthus and a touch of amber. It was the least I could do: he was young, likeable, and polite (something not easily found these days, right ladies? These last comments only confirmed what I had thought from the very beginning: all he wanted was to talk to me and he felt rather comfortable in my company (here, career and professional aspirations are not normally topics that one discusses with someone one does not know well). Every time I wear it, I get lots of compliments from men and women alike; at first I thought it was only because Maîtresse is a pleasing scent.

Not a declaration of a man-eater, but someone who is waiting for her man, and spend the best of their days together. The amber is pleasant in a subtle way as its sweetness is continually muted by the suede, must, lotus, violet, and ylang-ylang. It doesnt seem to age as well in the bottle as other brands do so I worry that I wont have it in my life much longer. It is powdery and musky but faintly so, I detect ylang ylang and osmanthus mostly and occassionaly iris, the other notes I do not detect.

They're just too dainty and ultra-feminine for me to pull off, I need a bit of an unisexy edge when it comes to these types of scents. I'm visualizing a very glamorous woman, in the 70's, stopping to powder her face before leaving for an engagement, and some of the powder floats down, landing on her suede boots.

In the years to come, I believe that my perfume collection may grow bigger and bigger, but if I had to give it up and just choose two perfumes, that would be Maitresse along with another one of my favorites, Caresse from Fragonard. An intoxicating purse-sized perfume with the passionate top notes of white lotus petals and delicate nuances of white ylang-ylang, caressed by the pure essence of osmanthus core and immersed deep into jasmine sambac. I chose MAITRÉSSE for my first experience from this brand because the original sounded too strong and vintage like. Not wanting to ruin the moment by complaining about all the things that had gone wrong that day, I agreed to what he said, and even gave him a little extra information about the event that had just finished (which he listened very patiently and attentively, by the way; but I would like to think that he was more interested in me than in the support activities my school has to offer). In closing, this is a nice, inoffensive spring/summer perfume, suitable for the office or a day out.perfume that she would discretely spray on every single morning before starting her day…it brings back the memory of her warm, tight hugs. A little mature, like the smell of a woman who has found her signature and the perfume lingers in all her clothes like it was there allways. Because there is no decorative packaging, we can purchase these items for less and pass the savings on to you.