Champa Red Flower Organic Perfume for women

Another earthy offering from Red Flower, CHAMPA rolls the essences of a number of dark and dangerous flowers into one dense little oil which not only looks but also smells pretty cloudy to me. I cannot really tease out the individual components of this composition--which is not necessarily always a bad thing, but in this case, I was somewhat looking forward to a declarative champaca note.

My definitive champaca-imprinting experience involved some deep magenta-colored soaps from Pier 1 Imports. They were so saturated with champaca essence that you could smell them from outside the closed drawers in which I placed them. Nice, but very, very potent. After that experience, the champa in CHAMPA seems quite tame. What I think that I am really smelling is a jumble of floral elements.

This composition, like AMBRETTE, smells like a mixture of organic essential oils, which makes a lot of sense, I guess, since that is apparently what it is!

1st trial:

The first sniff from the sample vial was watery weak. Then, on my skin, a quiet floral scent. Am I imagining incense because of the name association or am I recognizing the flower from Nag Champa incense? There is absolutely no smokiness so it could be either. Hours later the floral has developed the toothachy, sickly sweetness of Guerlain's Champs Elysees. Mimosa is listed for both and it dominates the heart of both for me. Uck.

Conclusion:

Sweet floral perfume with almost no sillage but moderate lasting power (about 7 hours on me).