Geisha Nobara-Cha Aroma M for women

Plasticy Green, Almost like Chocolate Rose. A Very juicy White flower, like Gardenia. This is extremely Feminine and delicate. But not all that sweet. it's like a freshly picked Gardenia flower, and you sniff the leaves.

When I first opened up the sample vial of this perfume oil, I was struck by the same “new shower curtain” note that I had smelled in Geisha Blanche. Fortunately it only lasts a minute or so in Nobara-Cha, because it’s quickly overpowered by the rose. The strong new vinyl smell must be some characteristic of the oil used in these perfumes. At first the scent is mostly an oily rose, or rose plus new shower curtain, but gradually it changes to sandalwood. The sandalwood took me by surprise because I kept smelling it in a series of flash-forwards, but thought it was coming from somewhere else since it didn’t seem to belong with the rose. Finally I realized it was the sillage from my wrist.

This Geisha is a little too floral for me initially, and a little too much like a vinyl rose rather than a fresh and dewy one. It is a relief to get to the sandalwood drydown after the initial stages, but it’s a rough oily sandalwood rather than the suave and polished ones that are in so many of my favorite perfumes. I think oil based perfumes in general are rougher than alcohol-based ones, and it’s hard to keep the oil from being one of the notes. It would be interesting to smell the Geisha series in the EdP versions, which I suspect would be a lot different. This is a distinctly two-step perfume, with a middle stage in which the two players alternate rather than blending. The sillage is considerable, and the scent is long lasting, but not really my style.

Smells like an old lady's rose scented pot pourri, musty and totally boring and i would never wear this.