Earlier this summer, one of my friends had on this perfume that smelled amazing and when I asked her what she was wearing, I was quite surprised when this scent was her answer. After smelling it, I wanted to try it one of the next times that I went to Sephora. I was very happy to see that the sales associate dropped a sample of this scent in my bag when I was shopping there last weekend. I sniffed my sample when I got home and then went to the Sephora website to look up the notes. First and foremost...this fragrance contains a strong heart note of tubernose, not gardenia! I don't quite understand why gardenia doesn't always work well with my skin chemistry but somehow magnolia, jasmine, and tuberose always garner me compliments...
From the Sephora website, "Michael Kors is tuberose reinvented. Creamy florals explode into exotic spices, tamed by Moroccan incense. A fragrant creation with a wealth of personality that will capture the heart of every woman."
The notes are: Dewy Freesia, Tamarind, Chinese Osmanthus, Incense, Fresh Tuberose, White Wings Peony, Blue Orris, Arum Lilies, Cashmere Woods, Musk, Vetiver Haiti.
This fragrance reminds me very much of Annick Goutal's Gardenia Passion, except it smells much better on me and doesn't trigger an almost instant headache. The namesake Michael Kors fragrance is a rich, creamy floral with a good dose of spice. I have also found that certain fragrances with a strong mix of spices can cause the same type of reaction that I get from the gardenia notes but the blend on this one is just so perfect that it all works together. In many other fragrances, this note combiantion would give me an awful headache but all the pieces come toegther so well in this fragrance that I must go out and buy the large bottle of it. I find that this fragrance is stronger than I would want to wear in the warm weather months so I will save the rest of my sample for fall and then go out and purchase it.
The fragrance starts out as a freesia scent on me but then quickly deepens and the tuberose heart comes front and center. The tuberose note stays on my skin the entire time that I wear the fragrance however it does begin to fade after 7 or 8 hours of wear. The last notes of the fragrance to develop are the incense and the musk notes, these develop after an hour and then stay with my skin for the rest of the wear time.
The lasting power of this fragrance is one of the best that I have used recently. The tuberose note does cause the fragrance to last all day on me. I put this fragrance on mid-morning when I first tried it out and it lasts all the way until the end of the evening. This is one of the few fragrances that was still in evidence after I got out of the shower later on that night, I will never have to worry about re-applying this fragrance throughout the day. This is the style of wear that I tend to get from fragrances that contain tuberose or magnolia, there is something with my skin chemistry that causes these two notes to sink right in and last forever on me.
When I was looking at this fragrance on the Sephora website, I saw that it is offered in Eau de Parfums of varying sizes and seems to be the base fragrance for many of his body products (the bronzer stick for legs came out immediately). It also comes in a double-sized rollerball with the fragrance on one side and a shimmering gold lip gloss on the other. If I like the lip gloss shade, then the rollerball set might be the way for me to go but I know that I will at least buy one of the larger sizes in this fragrance since I can see myself getting a lot of wear from it.
photo courtesy of Sephora
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