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Nest Fragrances - Wisteria Blue Launched this year (2018), Wisteria Blue (“Wisteria”) is a new offering from Nest Fragrances.   The fragrance is a floral aquatic and was inspired by the Founder and CEO’s (Laura Slatkin) appreciation for the wisteria trees she saw growing up in the south and was recently reminded up during a historic homes tour in Charleston, SC.   On me, this fragrance is all about the lightness and beauty of wisteria.   It is not a fragrance that has much development on wear, although at times a note does come forward for a bit and then recede.   Instead, it is more like an experience of being the delicate, draping wisteria blooms. There is a gentle light airiness to this fragrance.   The wisteria comes across as being very real.   The jasmine and rose float along with the wisteria creating a sense of Southern comfort.   The aquatic notes add a fluidity to the fragrance and, in that place and time, seem to add a lazy dra...

Hermes - Le Jardin de Monsieur Li With all the talk today of ponds (with birds) and moments in the rain, I felt it was the perfect prelude to trying out this citrus aromatic. I was lucky enough to get a sample of this with one of my Sephora orders (yes another one - don't judge me!) It is a gorgeous aquatic scent that transports you to a quiet place full of fragrant jasmine blossoms, sweet citrus fruit, lush green grass and clear, sparkling water. It is a gentle, contemplative fragrance that bids the wearer to stop a while and just breathe. " Le Jardin de Monsieur Li describes a Chinese garden somewhere between reality and imagination, a place for meditation where strolling is allied to thought and every step sets the imagination free." “I remembered the smell of ponds, the smell of jasmine, the smell of wet stones, of plum trees, kumquats, and giant bamboos. It was all there, and in the ponds there were even carp steadily working towards their hundredth birt...