Apollonia Tester

Wow, okay, I haven’t gotten far down reading the reviews, but I honestly agree that it smells like the moon. I don’t know how I or we arrived at that; maybe the bottle has something to do with it, but it just makes sense. I do smell an overwhelming clean scent to the point that it’s sterile. It reminds me of SJP’s Lovely, which I no longer can stand, but it also has a cozy element to it, which makes it a love for me. It’s a cold yet warm fragrance at the same time. It gives me the feeling that I’ve just taken a hot bath, then moisturized myself with a vanilla-based lotion, lightly dusted myself with some baby powder, slipped into a fleece robe and swum in a luxurious bed. If you like Noa Cacharel and the smell of Nivea, this might be right up your alley, but this has a richer, smoother and sweeter (not cloying) ending. I feel like I’m swirling in latte while being enveloped by fluffy clouds, and inhaling mountain air. It reminds me of a more comforting Soleil Neige.

It's true, it's an ethereal, angelic, sophisticated, unique, slightly sweet stardusty musk. The name and bottle design really do accurately portray the fragrance. In my opinion the ideal fragrance wardrobe needs a "calming" scent category and this fits perfectly. It's got decent longevity/projection but it's not a huge commitment, which I really appreciate. I've walked by people I know well and they've said something "Smells like the water". Coming from them, this can be interpreted to mean it reminds them of something natural, spiritual, something that invokes reverence and admiration.

Okay so I bought a sample of this and promptly gave it to my grandma, because I initially thought it had that old world powder quality and I was not in that particular headspace in the summer. But I smelled it again a week ago and had second thoughts. It’s more mature, true, but it’s a comforting, airy, creamy but cold metallic powdery scent. The sillage is definitely there, not overpowering, longevity is also quite good. Ahhh I don’t really want to deprive my grandma of a niche fragrance experience, but I might need the sample back 😂

Austere yet elegant. Stoic yet graceful. This fragrance feels like that one classmate in your higher-level college course. The one who's too hot and the smartest in the room, silently keeping to themselves. You definitely have a crush on them, and every attempt to get to know them is like watching a flower bloom in slow motion 🌸 Hypnotic. You start to realize there's so much more beneath the surface.

For me this is a perfect clean “nothing” smell. It smells cold, metallic, eternal, airy, clean(but not “detergent-clean”). It also reminds me of rain or snow. Love it:)