Kiss Me Tender Parfums de Nicolaï for women

It's very fruity! I get like a plum jam, lemon biscuit and vanilla almond in there too. Very summer spring scent. It's a daytime scent for sure as there is a "sunny" vibe to this blend. It's a gourmand, but a lighter style than what I'm used too. I will give this another o in spring/summer!

Parfums de Nicolai KISS ME TENDER opens very sweetly but then settles down into a quite pleasant quasi-loukhoum scent, minus about half the sugar. This seems like the perfect solution for diabetics who appreciate loukhoum perfumes in theory but are overwhelmed by the sugar level.

The dominant notes to my nose in KISS ME TENDER are definitely almond, vanilla, and heliotrope. But whatever gives loukhoum that alkaloid edge is present in small amounts here too. Could be the musk. I recommend this perfume for all loukhoum lovers, as it offers a pleasing variation on that theme.

Just tried this one today while at LuckyScent. It's lovely and smells a bit like a marzipan pastry. Despite the food-description and sweetness , it doesn't read like any other gourmand fragrances I can think of. Something balances out the food element. I can't put my finger on it yet, but it really is haunting. I suppose that the heliotropin is similar enough to almond that it rings some bells, but different enough that it doesn’t actually read as a confection. Even though as it dries down, the sweetness gets heavier, if you smelled this in a crowd, you'd definitely want to trace it to its source.

a little too sweet for me too, however I get a lot of mixed fruits with a hell lot of vanilla, but I guess that was the objective... also a bit too violety for me, which is not even mentioned among the notes.

Kiss Me Tender is one of those perfumes which has a huge opening that is so good it draws you in to know more. I am fan of good cherry scent, the start is real sweet juicy cherry. Then it turns a bit tart with really nice lemon biscuit smell. Somehow it’s really similar to the moist sweet lemon biscuit smell in Black Orchid I kept on getting, plus a bit banana chip smell. At this stage I’m not entirely sure how long will my initial crush stay here.

Later on, it is really similar to Black Orchid, the intense sweetness in an old moist sweet lemon-biscuit watery way; it’s not my cup of tea, just like I’ve never been crazy about Black Orchid.

The final dry down is quite close to the skin with a little bit baked vanilla cupcake hint, nice! However the wait is too long, and the quasi-Black Orchid middle stage is a turn off to me. Well, I’ve tried.

If you love Black Orchid, try this!

I really wanted to love this, and the notes made it sound possibly HG status for me, I just love hay, vanilla, anise etc. However this was disappointing. I was expecting something special and it is not. I could barely smell any hay at all, and the most prominent note on me was the anise, which was extremely sweet and bordering on cloying. It isn't exactly a heavy perfume as such, quite insipid in my opinion, but this sweetness made it feel heavy/cloying and I just can't wear this. It's like it wasn't blended properly or something. Good staying power though.

Almost pure vanilla on me - great if you are a vanilla lover, which I am not. I would have liked to get the other notes.

This one had captured my imagination with the combo of flowers/vanilla/wood/cinnamon and hay so I eagerly awaited my sample. Sadly, this is quite unbalanced on me. Too sweet, with the potential to be cloying, and not enough oomph from the base. Although pleasant and very wearable, I'm struggling to think of a time when I would reach for this one. It's too sweet for the humid summer, and not robust enough for winter....spring perhaps?
Shame. I wanted to love this!

I have just emptied the sample container gradually topping up over the last few hours as the scent seems to disappear rather quickly from my skin (and although I find Parfums de Nicolaï fragrances often fascinating - at least at some stages of their life -, they sadly seem to be very short lived on me). Now from the empty container I am getting lovable and interesting whiffs of the hay, woodsy notes, bitter sharp anise and cinnamon and flowers and it is truly engaging and charismatic. On my skin, however, it very quickly becomes quite generic, slightly sweet, flowery scent that is still pleasant, but not spectacular. Shame. I had hight hopes for this one.

I also don't know why it's called "Kiss Me Tender", no clue... anyway, I get the hay. Sweet hay and I get the vanilla. It's a little too sweet for me, but it's nice. Still, I was looking forward to the hay and wood notes and smell little of both. Like I said, it's on the sweet side.

I'm at a loss why this was called 'kiss me tender', it should be called 'pass me seconds'. This is so foody I'm not even sure it was meant to be a perfume but a room fragrance.

Kiss me Tender is not a bad scent, it is an odd scent. Hay wrapped almonds served up on a platter with just a shake of spices.

I don't dislike this, I just think it's different. Very reminiscent of 1800's American prairie, with the cozy cabin, pie crust baking on the wood fired stove and green hay swaying everywhere.

I think you have to be a gourmand lover to really appreciate this. I"m not, but I am a green lover, which is why I can't criticize it too much. I'm also a heliotrope lover, which is why I keep lifting my wrist to my nose to try and figure out what this scent is all about.

i may have to come back for a seconds on this one.