Sake Fresh for women

I tried Sake on a whim, and it has quickly become my most reached for scent. Sake is a gorgeous mix of citrus, ginger, peach, osmanthus, and lychee, with a heavy dose of white rice underneath it. I'm surprised rice isn't listed in the notes or in the reviews below, because the rice stands out so strongly on my skin! The rice and ginger (and sandalwood, I suppose) keep this perfume from being a simple fruity floral fragrance, and lend the scent a lot of comfort and warmth. To me, white rice is really nostalgic, and this scent feels downright cozy on my skin. It almost reminds me of a mango sticky rice type dessert. Sake is the most grown up of the Fresh perfumes, and with its excellent sillage and staying power I have become a devoted fan.

Is this called "SAKE" or "SA-KÉ"? I thought this was SA-KÉ like a Japanese rice liqueur, but I didn't get that at all. I wasn't even sure what I was smelling. Something fermented? Floral citrus? I had no idea, but It was interesting however. There is nothing else like it. It smells nice for whatever it is.

I'm another fan of how Sake opens; it's like a breath of fresh spring morning air. Citrus, when not hindered, always makes for a pure, enlivening welcome.

So I happily went about my morning, making a cup of tea and eating lasts night's unfinished slice of banana cream cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, when I detected something more indulgent than my choice for breakfast.

Something has gone awry with the base notes. I know what sandalwood, vanilla and musk smell like when done with love. Here they are done with chemicals, and I think that's whats making my nose curl. The result is something discordant and harsh, not at all what I want to experience on my still, Sunday morning.

But at least the cheesecake was good...

Fresh SAKE offers another bright and shiny, uplifting opening from this house. I've never smelled anything quite like this before. I would not call this composition a fruity floral so much as an aromatic chypre of sorts. It's definitely far less sweet than STRAWBERRY FLOWERS and more complex and unisex and less floral than PINK JASMINE.

The assertive citrus opening subsides within a couple of minutes, giving way to what another reviewer identified as a fruity chypre similar to DECI DELA, and I definitely see her point. The texture here, more than the specific notes, strikes me as that of a chypre. It must be the ginger which makes this creation seem more unisex than feminine to me. The lotus, too, may contribute to the cologne-y feeling in the opening, though the overall longevity is that of an eau de parfum, with the chypre aspect lasting far longer than the aromatic opening.

Anyway, I like it, though it's weird in that it doesn't really fit in any of the standard categories. SAKE is fresh and natural smelling, as I've come to expect from this house, and worth a sniff by anyone, since it really is something out of the ordinary. Those who mourned the discontinuation of DECI DELA will surely welcome the drydown of SAKE!

Sake' indeed! one spray of this perfume and I smelled as if I'd been drinking all night, fell asleep in the same clothes, sweated a ton, and then rolled out of bed to drink some tea. Ugh, not appealing (for me) at all.

My nose doesn't interpret this as a citrus, or a floral, or a fruity. The drydown of this is pretty vanilla-oriental-gourmand. It is LOVELY, and one of the few light vanilla fragrances that isn't too sweet. There is DEFINITELY a rice note somewhere in this fragrance that's not listed here. It's extremely obvious in the drydown and smells like an aromatic Thai rice pudding or something like that.

I used to wear it non-stop for about four or five months when I got it, but it is definitely more of a summer fragrance.

Not too citrusy, not too sharp, not too sweet - a perfect balance of flower and fruit notes with a woody drydown.
It becomes a bit "flat" after a while, not really changing or developping, but still very enjoyable.

I find this fragrance to be quite serious, none of the loud candy-fruity fun you get in pink bottles nowadays.
If it were a colour, it would be white!

It is quiet, and feminine. It does smell of rice water a bit. You will enjoy it if you like moderately tame scents.

A bright and uplifting fragrance that slowly morphed (on me) into a fruity/floral-chypre akin to Gucci "Rush" (original) and/or NRicci "Deci Dela" (pink bottle).

I don't remember the scent, just that it was too pricy for how I felt about it. It not feel special.

Fresh light citrus, but perhaps too light for me.