Adora Kat Von D for women

all i smell is a little patchouli or really to me it smells like cedar, and a faint hint of something else, it just smells like something musty left over from the 70's. Pretty nasty.

Adora is definitely not for the reserved girl. Starts out strong and almost masculine before settling into a warm feminine delight. Upon initial spray I get the blackberry, incense and something earthy (patchouli). On me, it lingers there a long time before the subtle sweet smell of flowers starts to come through. On dry down, it still have all the top notes, some indistinguishable flowers and the smell of woods. Unique and unlike anything I'm used to but I quite like Adora. Reminds of Victoria's Secret Very Sexy but Adora is much deeper and more complex. I don't recommend this unless you like deep, earthy, masculinish scents.

Kat Von D ADORA opens with an immediately detectable incense note to my nose. What ensues is very strange. I am nearly certain that I smell cypress. This is apparently my interpretation of the water hyacinth and cassis leaf. In any case, there is a very strong forest green aspect to this perfume, making it seem almost a fougère and far more masculine than feminine. The fruits are really shrouded by all of the shrubbery in this composition. In fact, the last category I'd choose to describe this sui generis creation is fruity floral!

I'm pretty sure that the oddness of this fragrance caught lots of people off-guard, accustomed as anyone who bothered to test this composition probably was to the pretty standard feminine fare of SAINT and SINNER. ADORA is just eccentric enough to be likeable to me, though I would have to be in a certain sort of mood to wear it. I probably will use the rest of my roller ball but probably will not buy a bottle.

I was a bit afraid of Adora after reading reviews, it looked a complicated and unusual scent.

I got a bottle of this and well, the opening is slightly leafy but without being grassy (if it makes sense) and there are detectable woody notes including pachouli; very unusual beggining for a floral fruity fragrance. So, when you first apply it, you may find Adora a strange perfume.

But actually this perfume is quite safe in the drydown. For me, it's not artificial or medicial as many said here and the mango note is very, very subtle. I can say that because I myself dislike herbal/medicinal perfumes. Adora has flowers and fruits in an equal amount, and none of the notes seems to be screaming. It's almost clean and shampoo-like, it's girly and pretty, and kind of reminds me of Gucci EDP II, but slightly more sweet. So, it IS a safe floral fruity, but I just think that it's a kind of floral fruity for people who usually don't like this category, maybe?

I love the bottle - a black, almost gothic bottle for a floral fruity, how cool is that?

This is the second Kat Von D perfume I got and the longevity and sillage disappoints me again! It stays for one hour on my skin even if I spray several times, and it does leave a nice trail but just for 30 minutes. Sad!! I wish her new perfumes will stay longer on my skin!

I love the opening...black pepper jumps out of the bottle immediately but all too quickly leaves me and the berries and lychee become the star of the show. The opening then fades into rain-kissed jasmine, sensual musk, and fresh mango! Light -- not too sweet or cloying -- but also very different from my usual tastes.I get a soft, warm amber in the dry down.

I got the package that came with the fake tattoos and the atomizer. It's beautiful and very tasteful. The perfume is a very strong floral and I write it in the most positive way. I wear it when I want to draw attention.

First things first, what a great looking bottle!

So, does it match up with the frag? Yes, and no.
Right out of the bottle promises are made. Real possibilities here. And I like the out of the ordinary top notes; lychee, blackberry, incense and cassis.

But...(isn't there usually a but coming!) it broke the promise it made! The first sniff is the kindest and then it kinda does a disappearing act. And...on top of that, what's left is not what it sold you on.

The bottle alone is almost (but not quite) worth the price of admission but at the list price I'd suggest grabbing a tester. Anyone want to gift an empty bottle?

I searched this one out for the litchi, mango, and blackberry notes listed here. I'm craving fruit. But, all Adora will give to me is "de-gassing plastics". It puts a bad taste in my mouth.

Imagine those japanese plastic erasers and their funny scent. It doesn't really smell like fruit, but because it's shaped and colored like fruit, you'll register it as smelling fruity. Such is how I feel about the "fruit" notes in Adora. Doesn't really smell like any kind of fruit, but seeing the fruits notes listed, you'll figure out the chemical interpretation as fruit.

The dry-down doesn't smell any more "BPA-free" than the beginning. Use a lighter to melt the side of your keyboard right now. Try to cover the toxic fumes with a shot of Original scent Lysol and some cough medicine. You've got Adora!

Too bad. I do think her other two scents are worth a sniff. I do like the bottles too.

Miss Kat Von D decided to take me to her magical world.

I like this one. The opening is sweet and "leafy"...

sorta like being in this magical GREEN forest and a burst of berries are everywhere... a place were anything is possible... kinda like HARRY POTTER! :)

We leave this enchanted forest and are shown a shower of "watery" mangos.

This part reminds me alot of Hilary Duff's "Wrapped with Love"

The patchouli seems to run at you from out of now where... with a dagger, an amber incrusted wooden dagger. Chasing you everywhere you go. Scary isn't it?

Spray with caution, because once you enter this realm, you may never leave.

I loved the opening of Adora! The fruity litchi and blackberry notes are darkened slightly by woody nuances and a little bit of patchouli. But after awhile, the scent turned into something plastic-y on my skin. And then it was just plastic and mango...? Not a good transition. This one did not work nearly as well for me as Saint did.