Laila Geir Ness for women

this is one of my favorite perfumes. I first came across it in Epcot and fell it love. They had it in the Norway center and it was so beautiful i had to have it.

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Here is a scent that I like to wear when I want to feel girly and pretty. Very easy to wear. Quite linear. I really don't smell watermelon, try as I may, and that's a good thing in my book. This is the kind of scent that I was looking for when I was in high school, and could never find; fresh, floral and friendly. For that reason alone, and the fact that sometimes I just want to feel girly and pretty Laila fits the bill.

I was expecting something lighter and more original, something like fir forests, snow, and cold fishy fjords, which is how I imagine Norway. However, it smells like a very ordinary commercial fruity-floral with a bit of aquatic to go with the other generic notes. I guess the “essence of Norway” is not what you would smell by going cross-country skiing, but rather the fumes inside a Se--ora shop where customers have been spraying too many celebrity scents.

I don’t really smell watermelon, other than as a general aquatic note that could be almost anything, or maybe artificial watermelon flavored Jolly Rancher hard candies, which fall somewhere near the very bottom of my candy-preference list. Anyway, why should watermelon be typical of Norway? I really don’t get it.

The scent is almost completely linear, with big, big sillage, and lasts far longer that I want to smell it. Scrubbing does not remove it, so it’s still good for a 24-hour stay. As long as it doesn’t give me a headache, this sort of perfume is entertaining in a perverse way, because wearing it prompts me to fantasize that I’m the idealized "average, normal US woman", the sort who has a 9-to-5 job, goes to the shopping mall, watches TV, and washes and conditions her long, silky blonde hair every day with this product. For a generic fruity-floral, it’s one of the better ones, but it’s the antithesis of my own style.

This is very sharp on me and almost migraine-inducing. Bummer. Available for US interest

I do not smell watermelons at all! This is now my new favorite perfume, I bought a bottle from Nordstroms without ever having smelled it and it smelled like L'eau D'Issey to me except a little bit stronger and sweeter, but almost exactly like it, I would't really say it's sweet, just sweeter than Issey, an since L'eau D'Issey was my previous favorite I instantly fell in love. I also like Escape, but I do not think this smells anything like it at all. But it is beautiful and long lasting and I plan to purchase at least three more bottles.

I don't know where you all are getting watermelon; perhaps my nose is broken. I'm sitting here with my bottle and I am NOT getting melon. I did see above that there is the bottle in the pale blue box, the one I buy at Nordstrom (the only available retailer in the US last time I checked) and then I saw a pink tinted bottle and box. Is there more than one version? Perhaps this pink box version differs slightly? My only complaint has to do with the bottles - they have a serious evaporation problem even if they sit upright on a table. If you travel with it, plan to double or triple ziploc bag the bottle or even the most ardent fan will be overwhelmed by the amount of product that ends up on your clothes! I'd also like to see more availability of the shower gel (can NEVER get it at Nordstrom) and other things like Excess Baggage, an eye product I got in a holiday gift set I have never seen again. And it really worked well!

watermelon & water- thats what it smells like & its long lasting. Beware though, if you are with someone whos wearing it & your with them for 5 hours this scent can be fatiuging to others. Either the girl who wore it over sprayed or it was that long lasting it got annoying after 4 hrs & had to make a graceful get away by hour 5!

I love this fragrance! It is so delicate and beautiful. It makes me feel happy when I wear this bouquet of flowers in a bottle. It's like taking a stroll in a flower filled garden, on a sunny day. You begin to admire the way the rays of the sun gently carress every leaf, blade of grass and, flower petal.The gentle wind compelles you to inhale deeply and, while exhaling..... you are in awe of that one very special moment in life, in which you are living in. Even the birds sing a happier song.

We've been experiencing some fairly Norwegian weather this winter in Boston, so it seemed like a good time to try out Geir Ness LAILA, which claims to be "the essence of Norway".

Well, I'm afraid that I have some bad news for the people of Norway: LAILA smells just like Calvin Klein ESCAPE, an oceanic, melon-aquatic perfume produced in 1991, four years before LAILA. I do not believe that Geir Ness set out to copy ESCAPE, any more than I believe that L'EAU D'ISSEY is a "knock off" of the same, but sometimes cultural and market forces conspire to produce very similar perfumes, even in very different parts of the world by perfumers who probably do not know each other. ESCAPE got there first, so everyone else who creates this sort of iconic melon aquatic is going to be accused of plagiarism by less charitable souls than myself.

If you like ESCAPE, you'll like LAILA. If not, you won't. They both have excellent longevity and are strong, declarative compositions. But they both are melon aquatics, which is a genre that no longer really appeals to me.

I don't really care for this one. It smells exactly like watermelon soap, nothing else.

Floral, sweet and clean are the words that come to mind with this scent. Sadly, it doesn't go very well on me. But it's so beautiful that I got a bottle for my mom. It has not turned out to be one of her favorites either. However, I have to say that this fragrance evokes the feeling of pure love that its creator surely had in mind when naming it after his mother.

This smells like crisp, sweetwater. It starts with crystalline aquatic notes (ozone-like, not mossy) with a hint of melon, reminding me of melting snow; then warming into a slightly powdery, white floral with a hint of muguet and soft grasses, now reminding me of a hot body warming clean linen---that ripe sweetness.

"Laila" is lovely, very distinctive and gives the impression of freshness and "wholesomeness". It's very fresh, soft and will probably find many fans during gifting season.

One of my all time fragrances, it's very nice and airy, fresh a little fruity, but not over powering. Great for the summer.

Very light for a floral fruity, which I appreciate - there are just too many foody ones available. I get the watermelon, but it's not an overripe smell like f.f.'s often have. Goes on light and green, a gentle sweet, fresh melon. As the melon fades, you get very waxy white flowers, just a hint of sour and a light, powdery muskiness at the base. To me, it's more of a straight floral. I really like it, a beautiful perfume, fairly subtle and good for day.

A nice aquatic floral, with slightly cool edges, that make me think of Norway when I remember what the scent is. Otherwise, it's unremarkable and doesn't really stand out from other aquatic florals to me. It's very pretty for all that, and I think if I was of Norwegian stock I would wear this so I could tell people it was 'the spirit of Norway' when they asked what I was wearing. As it is, I won't bother with this one. Pretty but kind of same-y.

Love this perfume. I actually found my autopraphed bottle at an estate sale. I sampled it & bought it immediately and then went home to search the net for more info about this lovely scent. It is from Norway and developed by Geir Ness and named after his mother Laila. The scent of the essence of Norway - I found it to be a beautiful & lasting scent. I would wear it daily and recommend it to anyone.

Reminds me of L'Eau de Issey.

Not a fan! Although its very fresh the citrus, floral and the melon irritates my nose. Very sharp at first and the dry down reminds me of Loves, which is alot cheaper too.

This is a perfume from my country, Norway. I remember its release sometimes in the ninethies. I had it as my signature scent as a young teenager and it was very special to me then. It's hard to remember exactly how it was, since so many years had passed since I had it. But I remeber it as fresh and beatiful. My friends loved the smell on me.
But one thing is odd about it. It is supposed to be the essence of Norway...But we dont have watermelons here..