Sleeping on the Roof
Floraïku (2017)

It comes across as a bit generic at first, but there’s something intriguing beneath the surface. A mix of lightness, soft musk, and gentle green notes gives it character. The name feels fitting—you can picture yourself on a rooftop in the evening, with cool air drifting in from nearby gardens, carrying a clean, crips quality. Definitely worth a revisit.

An interesting juxtaposition of lily and smoke. The lily is traditional, soapy and a bit powdery, backed up with a white flower accord. Meanwhile, there's a smell of a just-snuffed candle, smoky and waxy. Given time, a smell akin to soapy cilantro or green bell pepper comes in and eventually takes over as the prominent smell, eventually leading to a base that's mostly just light soap with lingering lily and pepper.

The combination is clever. I like a proper lily perfume, but they tend to all smell alike, so the addition of the smoke and pepper is really ingenious and enjoyable. The base is a bit thin and dull (I'd had hopes for something more satisfying from a perfume of this price point), but not bad. So I'm voting thumbs up!

Light to medium, clear, floral. Borders on powdery, wispy. Clean. Refreshing. Gets better with time. A lively, feminine thing but, not overly creative or different. Reminds me of something by Elizabeth Arden. Not worth the high price though I do enjoy its simplicity.

Mild musk flavor later on. Nice.

She bumped me with her
Coach bag of tools and vintage
Diorissimo

Gentle reminder
Of business before pleasure
And perhaps as well

The fragility
Of our various pleasures
In their dependence

Upon wrenches, drills
And WD-40
Which I hate to say

Goes really well with
Vintage Diorissimo
In a subway car

In the dead of night
When nobody thinks that your
Girlfriend is a thief.

Bathing on a Summer Evening BY Felix Vallotton