kiki eau de parfum Vero Profumo for women

I bought this scent mainly lead by an idea than it's actual notes - I found smelling like lavender romantic.

However, this is sweet, cloying lavender - the caramel makes it dirty. I'm actually considering giving it away.

The good:
Longevity - applied some 9 hours ago, it still lasts on my skin
Sillage - enough with one spritz,apply scarcely
Quality - it's obviously made with high quality ingredients and much thought

The bad:
Overwhelmingly sweet. Lavender is challenging as it is - it's difficult to come up with a good scent that doesn't smell like laundry

Gourmand lavender is just wrong.

The moment I smelled KIKI I thought *lavender*! This is the first fragrance I tried that is primarily focused on this beautiful herbal note. As a lavender lover, I liked this interpretation of the lavender with some tropical notes of passion fruit and slight aroma of caramel. The composition strikes me as very French, sophisticated and reminds me of a Provence country side with endless fields of lavender under the blue sky.

The composition opens very aromatic with strong almost menthol accent, bergamot and lavender. It is not citrus fresh but more like lavender/bergamot fragrant bath oils. The passionfruit note becomes noticeable after a few minutes and it is sweet and tropical. I have to admit that I like this note layered on the strong aromatic notes. I also can smell a bit of patchouli. It is barely detectable at this point but it adds a nice nuance to the composition. The heart notes are lavender, lavender and more lavender on me. I do not detect the geranium at all but the caramel accent is quite lovely. The dry down is light musk, lavender and a bit of caramel. The dry down is too light, too close to the skin, and too short-lived for my taste.

If you love lavender you have to try this one. It is quite interesting and unusual interpretation of this note. I wish the dry down was more interesting and longer lived. I will have to try the pure parfum extract to see if it has better longevity. (Overall score – 8/10)

Ooops. My skin picks up fruit notes of this composition, and I get super sweet combination of citron and something sweet and tropical. I guess this might be passion fruit from the list of notes. One would think that top notes won't last for more than 15 minutes or so, but here am I, stuck like a fly in a super sweet fruity concoction. Some fruity fragrances do that to me, and I suspect that the end result will be the same: after the top notes disappear from my skin which they occupied for too long, the fragrance will be gone entirely. No lavender, no geranium, musk or even caramel. I had a similar experience with Tauer's Un Rose Vermeille: giant raspberry and then gone. No go for me.

I also, found kiki EDP to be, by far, my least favorite of the trio. I find the initial scent is very unpleasant, the musk and patchouli, and maybe the geranium, smell like benzoin to me and I simply can not abide that particular smell. It remains like this for about an hour, and then the more pleasant scent of citron makes its scent known. Then I smell just a bit of the sweetness of caramel, which lingers for a few more hours. Some might really enjoy this scent, so the best thing to do is sample it yourself.

I received this as part of my Lucky Scent Fall sampler pack; along with the other three new EDPs. This one was the least appeling to me, as this is not my genre.

I approach Caramel and Lavender the same way I approach liver and onions. Blech. That said, the opening was surprisingly tolerable, and I appreciated the faint citrus notes that carried through to the middle section. This phase was enjoyable even, and I began to think that Kiki might not be all bad.

But at the 1 hour mark the sweet, cloying caramel kicked in, and this is when i reached for a new shirt. This is just not a note I can wear. I mainly got the sample pack for Onda and Rubj, which are more my style.