Dear Polly Eau de Parfum By Vilhelm Parfumerie

My smell-sound sense keeps throwing The Beatles' Abbey Road at me while I'm wearing this. Well... Can't be explained. Perfect scent for early summer mornings, to me it's joyous, carefree yet tender, grounding, thoughtful... It's the feeling that you get after visiting your childhood home where you still know every flower in the garden and every cloud in the sky, but... you also know you are an adult now. And you are completely at peace with that - life's been tricky yet beautiful. Absolutely love it.

Lovely tea fragrance. I smell bergamot, tea (thank goodness it's not that fake synthetic green tea mess!), green notes and sweet notes. Great one for summer. I basically love Dear Polly and Basilico & Fellini. -

I was introduced to the brand by a friend.
Loved the design of their website and the packaging at first site, however, since I do not live anywhere that sells the brand, I had a friend buy blindly for me.

Choosing Dear Polly based on the brand's official website proved that I bought the right scent, it's amazing!! The story behind the fragrance is also as romantic as the scent. (Please read on their website and other reports!)

The scent is extremely warm, which is always what I'm looking for in my perfume (note l'ombre dans l'eau or Le Labo scents...etc) Black tea is very prominent, and with body temperature, it smells like a warm, big hug. I love it. My friends and family all adore this scent, been asked a few times on which fragrance I'm using.

Cons: Price tag is ridiculously high and the bottle design proved the be beautiful but very unrealistic. The shape is difficult to get a grip on, so I often fear that the bottle will slip and break.

Anyway, it's a beautiful fragrance, and for people who love black tea should definitely try. I hope one day they'll create travel size tubes.

Dear Polly is an incredible smoldering tea scent. I've been on the hunt for a good Earl Grey scent for a long time, or at least one with a strong black tea note with nuances of bergamot.

This is steamy and beautiful. Smoky black tea singed with a bit of honey, brightened a little with citrus airness. The apple in this fragrance is subtle and like dried apple -- fleshy with a hint of dark green, not thin and aquatic.

There's a prominent wood note that meets my nose as something between guaiac and oak -- really dry and smoky, very well balanced with dark amber in this composition -- never setting aflame into campfire territory, just gently smoldering. Along with musk which is also dark, this reads almost like a smoky pipe tobacco note, especially with the moist dark fruit infusion. The hint of oakmoss gives the base a really good texture that weaves in and out. Sometimes smooth, sometimes airy, sometimes mossy with an occasional woody prickle.

Dear Polly is a cerebral scent letter inspired by the founder Jan Ahlgren's wife. I love the clean depth, warmth and woodiness of this fragrance, the complexity that culminates into a simple, soothing and natural scent. Longevity is great on me lasting for a good 12 hours.

I do not agree with the review below me at all. BR540 is very different. This fragrance really smells like green apple bergamonte. They both have a crispness to them, but in very different ways.

MFK said he wanted BR540 to smell like what he envisioned crushed crystal to smell like, and I feel like he accomplished that.

Dear Polly is nothing like that.

This is pure green fruit. Crisp green apple and green leaf tea. Hint of green citrus. All balanced with wood notes like oakmoss and vetiver. It's very elegant and approachable.

I'd 100% have both in my collection.