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The perfume market has been flooded with so many “niche” and “independent” lines over the past five years that I sometimes like to look back at my collection and remember the fragrance houses that really helped me to develop my taste for\u00a0non-mainstream scents in the first place. Some of them, like Diptyque<\/a>, L’Artisan Parfumeur<\/a> and Annick Goutal<\/a>, were already well-established and (relatively) widely available, while others, like Lorenzo Villoresi<\/a>, Demeter<\/a>\u00a0(back in the 90s!) and Aroma M<\/a> were smaller and more specialized.<\/p>\n My favorite fragrance from Aroma M, ever since I first learned about the line in 2006, is the quirky-sweet Geisha Violet. I’m also fond of Amber Rouge<\/a>, but I hadn’t tried any others in a while, so I recently ordered some samples (while purchasing a bottle of Camellia Face Oil<\/a>!) and revisited some of the other Geisha “colors.” Blue and Blanche, in particular, seem well-suited for summer wear, and I’ve been trying them this week.<\/p>\n Aroma M takes much of its inspiration from Japanese culture, and the description for Geisha Blanche<\/span> notes that “the color white symbolizes cool elegance in any culture. In Japan a geisha’s white collar carefully reveals the most sensual party of the body: the neck. White is also the color associated with her face powder and the color chosen for the spring Wedding Kimono.” Blanche is a blend of white flowers and fruit, with notes of lychee, jasmine, hyacinth and ylang ylang.<\/p>\n Blanche does feel cool and soft and feminine. It has more fruit than I expected: the lychee note reminds me a bit of blood orange, and it lasts through most of the fragrance’s development. The white floral notes are smoothly interlaced and difficult to identify as specific flowers: the blend feels silky and just a touch soapy-clean, and there’s something powdery in there that reminds me of lilies, but otherwise it’s difficult to pick apart. I think of Blanche as a soft-focus fragrance, sort of gauzy and back-lit. It’s simpler than some of the other Geishas, but it’s very pretty.<\/p>\n Geisha Blue<\/span> is another cool-feeling fragrance that promises “calm quietude” and “tranquility.” It has notes of\u00a0blue chamomile, green tea, leafy greens, jasmine and honey; it’s a harmonious and quietly surprising arrangement. I don’t usually warm to green tea fragrances, but this one as enough herbal, floral and sweet notes to keep me interested. And, once again, the fragrance’s elements are very closely combined: Blue is hard to categorize. It feels somewhat fresh (due to the brisk green leaf and tea notes), somewhat sensual (thanks to the jasmine), and a touch sweet (from the honey), and these facets all overlap and shift as the fragrance develops. One day I caught more green tea; another time, I noticed the fruity-balsamic chamomile heart of the composition; on a third try, it felt briefly like an ambery floral.<\/p>\n After several wearings, Blue is turning out to be one of my favorite Geisha scents from Aroma M. It’s unusual, but\u00a0in a reserved way, and it’s quite versatile: I’ve worn it to the office, to the movies, and on a trip to the farmers market. It’s light enough for a hot summer day, but since it has something garden-like about it, \u00a0I can also imagine enjoying it as an “escapist” fragrance in the winter.<\/p>\n All the Geisha perfumes are packaged in roll-on dispensers (Aroma M was well ahead of that trend!), and their oil-based formulation means that that they stay close to the skin, linger there, and release their scent at unexpected moments when the skin warms up.\u00a0<\/p>\n Aroma M Geisha Blanche and Blue are available as .25 oz. ($55) perfume oils. For purchasing information, see the listing for Aroma M under Perfume Houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The perfume market has been flooded with so many “niche” and “independent” lines over the past five years that I sometimes like to look back at my collection and remember the fragrance houses that really helped me to develop my taste for non-mainstream scents in the first place. Some of them, like Diptyque<\/a>, L’Artisan Parfumeur<\/a> and Annick Goutal<\/a>, were already well-established and (relatively) widely available, while others, like Lorenzo Villoresi<\/a>, Demeter<\/a> (back in the 90s!) and Aroma M<\/a> were smaller and more specialized.<\/p>\n My favorite fragrance from Aroma M, ever since I first learned about the line in 2006, is the quirky-sweet Geisha Violet. I’m also fond of Amber Rouge<\/a>, but I hadn’t tried any others in a while, so I recently ordered some samples (while purchasing a bottle of Camellia Face Oil<\/a>!) and revisited some of the other Geisha “colors.” Blue and Blanche, in particular, seem well-suited for summer wear, and I’ve been trying them this week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75],"class_list":{"0":"post-89123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-aroma-m","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Aroma](\"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/geisha_blue_thmb.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nPossibly of interest<\/h2>\n
American Perfumer Colorado & Desert Flower ~ fragrance reviews<\/a><\/div>American Perfumer Desert Flower ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div>Aroma M Geisha Botan ~ fragrance review<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n