The Garden of Hesperides

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Gucci Gorgeous Gardenia DUPE. 🤭

This smells like a bee had collected nectar from a gardenia flower and made honey with it. IT'S SO GOOD. 🍯 🐝 💐 And it's so versatile??? You could easily wear this on an outing, at school, or even on dates.

Miel Bébé by Le Monde Gourmand, released in 2018, is a honey scent with a citrus accord.

The notes of Mandarin orange, honey, praline, and sandalwood make this a really great summer fragrance (think: Gorgeous Gardenia), but the honey note is distinct enough for those with experienced noses to differentiate between the two. Despite the lack of floral notes listed, I also smell a floral accord, but it might just be added sweetness from the praline.

If you're looking for something for a fraction of the price, then this is the one for you. The only downside is that the lasting power is weaker, but can we normalize spraying multiple times per day?? 😤

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Lovefool by The Cardigans

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Kasbah by 19-69

What I love about 19-69 is that they capture different countercultural eras as fragrances, with a sort of uniqueness and edginess to each one.

Launched in 2017, Kasbah is a dark, woody, and spicy fragrance. To me, its notes of white honey, lime, patchouli, and guaiac wood are the most prominent. I love wearing this on its own, as a honey enjoyer, but I also would recommend layering this with Hypnotic Poison for a more feminine feel. With Hypnotic Poison, I find that the vanillic accord in Kasbah is brought out with some added sweetness from HP. For a more masculine combo, I might suggest layering it with Jazz Club by Replica, which brings out the more boozy, amber, and aromatic accords.

Sadly, 19-69 is no longer sold in stores where I live, but in the future, I would love to try Villa Nellcôte, Chinese Tobacco, La Habana, L'air Barbès, and Miami Blue.

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Rock El Casbah by Rachid Tana

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Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Intense is another one of my favourites for the summer. When I smell this, I imagine being in a boat on the French Riviera, wearing white linens, with a cool breeze caught in the sails.

Launched in 2017, the nose behind this scent is Olivier Cresp.

This fragrance has an added depth compared to the original Light Blue, released in 2001. It is longer lasting, and the granny apple top note helps give this classic scent a refreshing new feel.

The middle and base notes of jasmine, marigold, musk, and amber help transform this bright citrus into a more muted, floral, clean scent that blends effortlessly with your skin over time.

And we already know how I feel about frosted glass bottles.

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La madrague by Brigitte Bardot

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Hello! Welcome to the brand new Hesperides fragrance blog. Here I will be reviewing some fragrances and samples I own.

For the first fragrance review, I have My Way Floral by Giorgio Armani. It was launched in 2022, and the noses behind it are Carlos Benaim and Pascal Gaurin.

My Way Floral is a fruity, citrus scent with notes of green mandarin, orange blossom, tuberose, neroli, and musk. Upon spraying it you get a blast of juicy, sweet orange, with a hint of bubblegum from the tuberose. Overall, it reminds me of a fruit bubble tea in the summer.

This is my current favourite spring scent, as it's great for the warmer months. It's not a complex or confusing scent, nor does it feel simple or generic. The citrus from the neroli gives freshness and youth to the original My Way DNA without hiding the tuberose or smelling like cleaning products. However, the tuberose is much more prominent in the original My Way. As someone who is hit-and-miss with tuberose, I gravitate more toward My Way Floral, so this may be something of interest to those like me.

Moving on to the bottle design, I always love frosted glass as it reminds me of cool summer drinks. All the My Way flankers have similar bottles, but I think the frosted glass matches the freshness of the scent really nicely.

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Something that I'd like to try with this blog is to give a song with each fragrance.

The song for this scent is SunKissing by Hailee Steinfeld.

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If you are looking for a new scent this summer, I hope this helped! Watch out for more to come, as I'll try to post 3 times a week. In the meantime, let me know if there are any scents you would like me to try! Based on where I live, it's a little difficult to get access to niche or indie scents, but I will try my best.

Until next time! x