Glicine by Acca Kappa

rithacha

Thank you pa.princess for generously passing along your sample for me to sniff! You are too sweet :)

I haven't sniffed many fragrances with the wisteria note, and in many that I have tried, delicate wisteria is buried under an avalanche of more assertive notes. Not so in Glicine. If you pay close attention during the first few minutes of the opening, you catch a whiff of airy wisteria. I grow wisteria at my home, and it's always a surprise when they bloom after a long winter - their loveliness and unearthly fragrance seems to come out of nowhere. Glicine's opening is much the same way.

BUT it all falls apart within minutes. The vanilla comes out and immediately smothers the wisteria. Then the grapefruit comes out and curdles the vanilla. Those two notes duke it out over my wrist, and eventually the vanilla wins. Throughout, however, Glicine smells like the small soaps provided by hotels. As a plus, I suppose, the lasting power is good on my skin.

Just because the combination went bad on me doesn't mean I wouldn't recommend this to somebody else; there's definite potential in the vanilla-floral combination, as pa.princess notes below. Anyway, Glicine reminds me that I'm on the look for a wisteria solifore . . .

Pa.princess

Just got a sample of this. I know this says it is floral.I DO NOT like florals, but this is just lovely!! The vanilla and wisteria combination is wonderful.