Balmy Days & Sundays (for women)

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If Ineke's 'Evening Edged in Gold' deserves a night out, 'Balmy Days & Sundays' would serve perfectly for the morning after (e.g.bagels and coffee in bed, read the paper lying in the grass at the park). I like the name a lot -- so much so that I couldn't wait until Sunday to try it. 'BDAS' is a subdued, fresh floral with lots and lots of grassiness. This isn't a sharp grassiness, but almost spearminty without an overload of camphorousness that you can sometimes get with mints. Is there lily-of-the valley here? Smells like it! 'BDAS' is labeled here as a 'chypre floral' but truly, it doesn't come off as a chypre so all you chyprephobics -fear not! This is a tiny well-tended garden in a huge field of grass; the flowers always playing second fiddle to the grass. Clean and warm and comforting. I don't like it *quite* as much, nor does it last as long on the skin as 'EEIG', but still think it's worthy of a full bottle -- should my ship finally come in.