Peony Couture Eau de Parfum By Vilhelm Parfumerie

My favourite perfume. It somehow manages to smell like real peonies and roses and also to smell unlike any fragrance I’ve tried before. At the end of a day of wearing this I feel like I’ve been wrapped in a cloud of pink flowers and candy floss.

This is a blind buy for me, based on the rose note. However, the rose is a tad shy, and is hiding behind the peony, but the incense and anise are front and centre on my skin. This has a very similar opening to Lolita Lempicka Lolita except for the bashful rose, which is creeping forwards as time goes on. A very beautiful and feminine fragrance, can't comment as yet on longevity as it's only been on a couple of hours. I don't see her in couture, I see her in a beautifully thin and floaty summer dress. EDIT An hour later and the rose HAS ARRIVED! It didn't announce it's arrival either, one minute it was in the cloakroom and the next it's dancing like no one is watching, surrounded by the other notes all clapping it on! Phew, this was unexpected! The peony may make it's name, but the rose is what became. Just what I was looking for!

I LOVE black pepper and I LOVE incense so obviously I love this perfume. Very approachable, lasts forever, and people will recognize it as "your" perfume. I almost cried when my 10ml fell out of my bag onto concrete but the glass is a) incredibly beautiful and b) very thick, so it survived.

In love with this one, so pretty, very similar to Delina and Blouse it’s like in between of those too, has pretty rose and little softened from peony and I can totally smell pepper and something a little sour. It’s gorgeous, very crowed pleasing. Performance is amazing. I have a travel spray but it’s on my want list now for full bottle. May be after I ran out of Delina. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.

somehow i get a very spa-like impression from the first whiffs, like a mix of expensive lotion and relaxing incense. the projection of this scent is interesting; at an arm's length it's a juicy, translucent-pink floral, but up close to the skin it's already expressing the soft, warm, woody base notes.

from a slight distance i can see the similarities between this and pdm's delina. while the peony here dominates over the rose, they share the same clean, fresh and preppy vibe. very femme, i enjoy it. i don't know why this isn't more popular compared to some of vilhelm parfumerie's other trendy releases, you'd think the it-girlies in their sleek baby pink athleisure would be all over this. it's not very long-lived though, so be sure to reapply after pilates class.