WOW, I love this! I didn't at first, I've been smelling it for about a year now, and this winter I've finally fallen in love with it. There are many fragrances that I'm finding are too much for me when I inhale them up close within the first hour or so - but if I smell them from a distance, they are just divine. This one is awesome. It is so unique, so unexpected. It's a ton of patchouli, but there are other notes, too - I can smell jasmine, sandalwood, amber, bergamot - maybe the hint of something sour is the papyrus, I am not sure. I am in love with this scent! It's sweet and warm and comforting, so it has all the allure of a gourmand, but none of the dullness. The patchouli really takes it to another level of mysterious earthiness. A friend of mine said it reminded her of the smell of mint oil, which I could understand.

What impresses me the most about this fragrance is the presence it has. I am smelling it without putting my nose to my wrist about 9-10 hours after I applied it. That is insane!! And three people complimented me on this smell today - normally, people can't even smell me when I apply fragrance, even if I ask them. I really like this, I think the drydown of this one could definitely compete with more expensive amber/vanilla scents.

I think either Ilsa, or other ladies in that world, wore something like this.
It is just beautiful, and exotic.
The patchouli doesn't bother me in the least, but I've come across two people this week who were not fans.

I recently bought a 3.4 oz bottle with the lotion for $2.99 and that is the main reason I bought it. It was completely a blind buy - I've never looked into the scent, it's reviews, or the notes. When I first sprayed this it was like being attacked by this overpowering, knock you in the face type of scent (and I still feel that it opens verrry strong). However, after a couple of minutes it dies down into a nice scent. It is definitely not sweet, more like those shops that sell incense and you walk in and all the scents are mixed. I swear this is what my cousins room smelled like when he was a teenager and in a hippie phase with incense burning, tie dye clothes, and a beaded curtain in his doorway. Overall, I enjoy it and in the dry down I feel the vanilla really comes out to make a nice woody vanilla scent. I can picture this scent on a women in a boho dress, sitting by the camp fire on a summer night down by the river. It's also sort of what I imagine a studious Slytherin girl sitting in the Hogwarts library studying potions to smell like.

too much patchouli.

it is still a sweet scent but its also strong and musky. There seems to be an undertone of peppercorn. Not my scent

Only mildly sweet (from the [light] vanilla) and not fruity at all. Might actually be disappointing to teenage Jessica Simpson fans. Very grown-up, not at all cheap smelling, with an interesting smooth wood note, which I guess is the papyrus. Well worth trying. Better than average longevity.