Rain Demeter Fragrance for women and men

Smells just like the moment before the rain in the Maldives :)

Clean, crisp and pure.
"Rain" really smells like rain to me, and it's a complex, innocent, yet attractive scent at the same time. One of my favourites!

An interpretation of the rain that you can easily find in one of those scratch and sniff books for 3-4 years old children. Puerile.

Rating: 3/10

Rain is quite a perfume somewhat captured one type of the nice feeling rain, in a tropical place full of green, lush vegetations, might smell like. It starts off quite sweet, as in a zest citrusy sweet smell without too much of the typical citrusy-ness. Somehow I think I can smell a little bit fir, and sometimes a tiny hint of pepper which brings out the coolness of the perfume.

As the perfume develops, it gets a little bit stale, like a water-downed version of the above, and totally minus the fir-like cooling and open-space/forest smell.

Nice perfume, interesting to try on. I actually find it works nicely as a traditional cologne with a modern leafy sweet twist.

Okay, this really does not smell like rain to me.

For most of my life I lived in the country, so I know the scent of rain on either green or dry grass, gravel and forests. I also know what the scent of rain on pavements and roadsides smell like. While I don't mind the scent of rain, it's not a favourite.

Rain by Demeter strikes me as being too citrusy and watery. Natural rain has more of a musty smell. This trickery of a scent has a clean laundry kind of smell to it as well.

I'm somewhat disappointed seeming that I was only having a conversation with a friend the other day about bottling the scent of rain, and became rather excited about testing this. I can't get past the citrus layers.

Surprisingly Rain lasts a relatively long time, especially on the skin, which is rare for a Demeter scent. It's a pity that the lasting Demeter couldn't be a fragrance I liked.

Imagine the hottest day in summer of your childhood, sweating while doing just nothing, earth and plants screeming for water and then there comes the rain. It's cool refreshing rain drops on the hot streets, to me. Nothing else, maybe a hint of wet pure soil, but most of it, it's the still sunwarm street mingling with the pure scent of rain drops, very likable.

I love Rain - especially on a hot humid summer day! Unlike Thunderstorm, which has a moldy wet-dirt and ozone overtone, THIS down-pour is fresh and clean.

Makes me feel like I'm sitting in tall grasses by a mountain lake with cool raindrops falling on my skin in the middle of a summer shower.

Lasting power is about the same as other Demeter frags I've tried...two to three hours for me. But hey, it cools me down! :)