Shooting Stars Collection: Lua Xerjoff for women

A sweet floral fragrance that shares the flaws of the weakest Xerjoffs: good materials, no particular identity to justify the purchase. Lua starts fresh, slightly fruity and with something very discreet minty, and then it moves to a floral gourmand area. It`s all about rose and vanilla after the first minutes, with a spicy sweet touch of pink pepper. Lua starts uninteresting and ends uninteresting. I thought it`d be a heavy fragrance, but it`s not, it`s lighter than i expected. Lua is for me, like Dhofar, a waist of quality over a faceless formula.

A super fruity rose with enough sweetness and vanilla to push it into gourmand territory. The other florals do not stand out individually to me. I enjoy the melon note, but the Amalfi lemon plus vanilla equation adds up to more sugar than I need. Like all the Xerjoff fragrances that I've sampled so far, it smells expensive, but does not say "buy me."

The aristocratic next-door neighbor to nouveau-riche Bond No. 9 Chinatown. Very nice if you like this sort of blend, but Amouage Lyric Woman still rules the kingdom.

At this point in my sampling, Lua stands out as the most wearable of the line for me. So far I appreciate the fragrances in the Xerjoff line more than I desire them, as susceptible as I am to good packing.