I will never understand my love for this fragrance because I actually find it bizarre and I even, in an objective sense, understand why others would find it off putting. First of all, the bottle is simply gorgeous! I can't remember another one, that was this stunning from the last few years. Olympea Blossom has been inspired by a Greek Goddess in the heart of a heavenly garden. Beautiful, confident and liberating, the scent is for those who aren’t afraid to be free, sexy and sensual. This scent is getting harder and harder to find in US stores, which is kind of sad since it's one of the most unique vanilla scents on the market. I used up one of my 5 ml samples of Olympéa and I am halfway through my second one.

From my perspective, this smells like being on an ocean liner. A cruise ship at night, in the tropics. Salty sea air. It smells new, like a new cruise ship cabin, and tanning lotion. It smells like the excitement of an expensive vacation. Omg! This is so delicious. It’s such a unique gourmand. Nothing like I’ve smelt before. A very warm and inviting sexy perfume. The bottle is copper and the juice has the cognac colour , I wonder if it’s because of natural vanilla or not . The lid has a nice fake amber stone on top, that looks real .

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This fragrance is absolute beast mode on me. It projects well and lasts longer than your ex! I put it on at 10am and could still smell it at 3am when I went to bed and then when I woke up at 11am. No need to touch this perfume up throughout the day...unless you're planning on suffocating everyone around you. Here at Escentual, we believe perfume has no gender! Typically, fruits and floral notes are seen as more feminine scents, but if they are the fragrance families you’re obsessed with, then you’ll love this. It really has its complexity and you can only appreciate when it dries down and fusions with your skin. It's not a love at first sniff kind of scent because to me is TOTALLY different the opening vs the drydown... I can say with no doubt that this Intense version gets SO MUCH better with time. It got easier to bear as the day went on. I don't always get compliments at work, and I got several this day (4 or 5 compliments, from mostly women, one man). Ultimately this ends up smelling like having been out at the beach all day sometime in between the changing of seasons from summer to fall. You’ve come home and showered and dried off but the smell of salt still clings to you. You wear a soft, clean, cozy robe and you’re enjoying some sort of warm plum sangria as you watch the sunset. As a chill develops in the air, you remain feeling warm and at ease.

Having said that, I do not think that Legend is a bad perfume. It is wearable, sweet, gourmand. It is just... meh. Not deep, without any development, atleast on my skin. Most "common" one among Olympeas. This flanker doesn't have a lot in common with the rest of the Olympéa line. What it shares with the original is a salt note, but as it has much less vanilla and no beachy, solar accords, the overall feel is quite different. The longevity is amazing, the silage is strong first few hours then it’s moderate after 4 hours it turns into a strong skin scent I would say. In the opening, I perceive orange blossom, vanilla, lots of salt and amber, but in a VERY STRANGE WAY... it's not unpleasant but it's... Strange. I don't know how to explain it... It's like it's so salty but so sweet but has kind of an artificial sweet note (I suppose it's amber mixed with the other notes). At this moment I could say I don't like the fragrance that much, and can be overly sweet or overwhelming for many people. I don't get nauseous or any headache like some people say, but if you're sensitive to perfumes and certain type of smells, keep in mind that. I definitely get the menthol or camphor note some people are noting. It's almost like...off to the sides. It's very symmetrical somehow. It...burns a little? Like it wants to give me a headache, but I don't want to let it.

It's long lasting which in this case is NOT great. It's just over the top and too much. My partner felt the same way as me but my mum didn't seem to mind it TOO much which is crazy to me because I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would like this and if I walked past someone with this fragrance on I wouldn't be thinking 'I want that' and to be honest I probably wouldn't even register it as a perfume.

I also don't think it's the plumb by itself as other fragrances I have smelt with plumb don't smell like this. Maybe it's the mixture of plumb to musk but I am unsure..I will continue to edit this as I figure the damn thing out, lol. Such a shame, because the notes are intriguing. I've never seen a salty perfume that wasn't supposed to evoke the beach. i really wish this one worked for me! salty notes really intrigue me, and olympea is one that kept coming up over and over again when i was hunting down perfumes that utilize a salty smell (my first dive was with womanity, which i love, but this ain't about her), so when i finally tried it, i was met with disappointment :It's got a really weird oily/resinous note to my nose that I'm not seeing mentioned. If I could smell the note individually, it would probably make more sense but it had too much of a strange, "oily body" note to it. I feel a lot of Pepper that makes him burning and interesting, also sensual and voracious as each movement is performed. It smells slightly of dirt issues from the presence of Flor da Laranjeira, but it is so slight the feeling that there is no way to stop supporting and moving on, everything always, in it, very intense as it is described in the box and bottle. When it sets on the skin it's THE BEST SMELL EVER. It tones down and start smelling like sweet salty vanilla with amber and spices that gives it a VERY WARM FEELING. I don't know how to explain it (and it's the second time I say this), but it truly feels like your skin is warmer in the place you sprayed it, and also gives like a little subtle spicy feel in your nose that might be caused by the salt, BUT it's also mixed with a bit of sour-bitter grapefruit/orange. I know this smell!! as soon as i smelled it. possibly similarities to Tresor Love Midnight? Not the same smell but there was a note in there.. I prefer the Tresor. Compliments: First time I wore it (I was actually out of the store after buying this with this scent on me and sprayed a bit more) I got to meet my friends and got tones of compliments on my smell (from guys and girls, EVERYONE SMELLED THIS and a guy that doesn't usually give compliments asked me "YOU SMELL GOOD, WHAT ARE YOU WEARING??").

In my opinion, this continues the salty seaborn theme of the original, but is a warm weather scent (not sure if it's hot weather scent, but then again hot weather is so rare where live, I mostly get to experience it only when travelling...) Where cashmere wood gave the original a sense of smoothness and luxury in the drydown, the amber note has been placed to replicate that feeling, however it's failed to. What you will smell in the drydown is a smooth, citrus floral, buttery vanilla with a hint of salt. There is some ambergris, but it is more noticeable on paper than skin.

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I will say it smells SO MUCH different on my skin than it does out of the bottle or on paper. The development is key if you're willing to bear the top notes. Like I said, if I could differentiate the notes (my fault, not the Legend's), then I would probably better understand the composition.