
by jhunie
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This fragrance adds to the many wonderful things I received for the holidays. Noa by Cacharel is my first and more in-depth introduction to the fragrance house. Actually, I’ve smelt a couple of their testers and I get the notion that they’re generally commercial fragrances. I wonder if this particular bottle is the exact version of the prototype I’ve first been acquainted to many years ago. My first sniff of Noa failed to provoke my “scent sense” – it was too bland and smelt much like white musk or the retained scent of an empty perfume bottle. Now, the fragrance smells fuller, yet still, uninspiring.
Sometimes, I think the simplicity of this perfume is just ill-romantic. It has light floral tones, a bite of fresh fruitiness and a woody base. It’s a wearable floral fragrance. It smells like rosy soaps to me or fragrant lotions. I’m not very good at describing
floral notes here, because I’m not fond of flowery scents. But this smells a lot like weddings – the fresh luminous scent of flowers – maybe stephanotis, or something on that scale. It probably would make a good linen fragrance as well. If I spray a significant amount, the floral notes impart a bit of ylang-ylang similar to Elizabeth arden’s breezy perfumes.
I was waiting to arrive at the base notes of the perfume until the soft sandalwood notes kept me from losing my usually oblivious attention to minimalistic fragrances. I noted something earthy hiding in there, which made me rethink whether it was all purely woody notes. Well it turned out to be coffee. Maybe, part of what makes this scent linear and uncomplicated is the coffee, which to me, is a good neutralizer. The perfume loses its breezy floral notes after a while and sets on a dry base. So ...