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EmmiLou on 6/11/2011 9:25:00 AM more reviews by EmmiLou

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Green    

This is just gorgeous: a lovely blend of spices and green notes that is both fresh and comforting at the same time. The notes seem to rise as those from an orchestra, and the overall impression is so complex that I’d find it hard to order it into a sequence. I get clove, and cinnamon, and a sharper note I guess is the shiso. I also get, delightfully, a cola note – possibly sarsaparilla?

This fragrance would be most suited to autumn, when the smell of leaves turning creates a both bitter and comforting fragrance and when walking out, wrapped in wool, feels both invigorating and warming.

Although its an unusual scent and very complex, I can’t imagine anyone finding this offensive and so look forward to when I can buy the full bottle of this to envelop myself in its beautiful scent.

EDIT: I ordered a full bottle of the parfum strength - the little inkwell flacon is so dinky! <3

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*TOP REVIEWER* tessture on 12/22/2008 8:00:00 PM more reviews by tessture

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

Incredibly incredibly expensive. However, it's lovely. Never having tasted Shiso, this went on exactly like the experience of walking into a local import shop and stopping right next to the incense wall, where 100s of incense in stick, cake, coil and powder perfume the air. Deep resins, powdered woods, indescribable exotic florals, a million beautiful scents of blessing, worship and simple decorative scent...this is it. Both my sister and I would love to own and wear this incredible scent but it's just way too ridiculously prohibitive. I understand it's all natural, but that also means it has no real shelf life to speak of. 2.2ml in a tiny micromini bottle costs $45. The little pot of solid, in which the scent is diluted with that of beeswax, costs $175. A wonderful, evocative, lust-worthy scent, but unless you're Bill Gates, the price is beyond ridiculous. Only Ayala Moriel strikes me as being as equally overpriced, and I love some of hers, too. I own none.

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Rydenfan3 on 6/22/2008 1:42:00 PM more reviews by Rydenfan3

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination   Hair: Red   Eyes: Blue    

This is probably my favorite of the Aftelier fragrances. It doesn't do anything odd like scare my pets or turn to the scent of burning rubber. Instead it smells almost exactly like the Shiso leaf. It's a nice spicy-sweet scent that's definitely not like anything else on the market today. VERY expensive as a small 2 ml bottle is $45 and I probably wouldn't repurchase due to the price point & the fact that while it's pleasant enough, it doesn't seem very "me" overall.

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jemimagold on 4/6/2008 7:15:00 PM more reviews by jemimagold

Age: 36-43   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

To me, Shiso smelled like camphor wood and powder and then drfited down in an hour or so to level out into a soft cinnamon incense fragrance. I could definitely envision an ancient Kyoto teahouse (where geishas typically entertained). It smelled like something that a dignified, sophisticated Japanese lady might have worn years ago.

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*TOP REVIEWER* ayala on 1/13/2007 11:21:00 AM more reviews by ayala

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Green    

Shiso parfum is said to be based on a Geisha powdered-perfume formula, and it does not disappoint in that way. Shiso smells immediately mysterious and dark tea houses, where the accentuated facial features and expressions of pale-faced Geishas wrapped in many mysterious layers of silk kimonos wrapped in obis that were stored in protective camphor closets and smell of such. It smells of shiso, that unusual Japanese herb used to wrap meats and sashimi, and that has a complex aroma that is both green-herbal, powdery and spicy (it has a distinctively cumin-like nuance about it). Other apparent notes are camphor, agarwood and spices, but they are all blended to a powdery, woody, herbal and spicy-warm concoction that it’s difficult to smell any note in particular besides the shiso, camphor and agarwood that realy stand out.This is exactly how I would have imagined a perfume that dusts a Geisha’s artfully-made-hair to smell like.

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*TOP REVIEWER* SpinDiva on 7/21/2006 4:24:00 PM more reviews by SpinDiva

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination   Hair: Other   Eyes: Brown    

Let me first explain that my no response on would I buy this again is a price motivated response... Annoyed at the TINY sample I received for a hefty price - as well as the overall price of the scent, which I think is too high.

That much being said - I really like this scent A LOT. It does indeed smell a bit like Shiso, which is a VERY favorite taste of mine - but it has a lovely spicey scent as well - touch of corriander (a little green - like the Shiso) perhaps... touch of sweet cinnamon. Seems to last well - and the notes stay true through the drydown

OK - so I won't BUY it - but I will GLADY wear it again, should a bottle come my way!!!

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