Review of Aventus for Her by aad de gids

this morning I smelled my wrist and it was then, that I smelled a soft, ambery scent.... from distant meadows. but otherwise I have to finetune my first review. it appears the revieweuses before me were right. there gradually builds a wall of indistinct sharp fruItiness. a hesperidic hell. yet it is an enigma, this perfume. it keeps up appearances. if you make the misstake to keep smelling closeby you get the astringent, acidic, acridic monolithic wall of the apple and citruses. I am waiting for FLOWERS. rarely intermittedly some hushes of flowers appear: roses, a violet, and yet further away the ylang and lilac. these aren't demure flowers to begin with. but here they are totally subordinated to the harsh, 'blending', of the fruits and patchouli. but even the patchouli isn't discernable. and then it dawned upon me. Miss Aventus stands in the shadow of President Aventus. if you google 'Creed' you have to work through a junglist density of Aventus ads, images, reviews, contests etc. THEY HAVE TRIED, perhaps unwittingly, TO MASCULINIZE MISS AVENTUS or better: AVENTUS FOR HER. and perhaps then refeminize it again. now I am a homosexual man who never wears gents scents (samples of which I give to my heterosexual twinbrother). I am used to ULTRASTRONG PERFUMES, for instance Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle, Dominique Ropions 'al Waad', 'Promise'. they call it the rose from hell. cypriol keeps forcing itself forward for 8 hours, yet roses peer easily through cypriol, through oud, with a little help from civet or beaverisms. what it is here that is building such masculin wall, perhaps the combination of the green apple-black currant-patchouli. Creed is perfectly capable to make heavenly feminine perfumes. I bought Windflowers, very very sophisticated and flowery. the former Fleur de Bulgarie, Irisia, Tubereuse Indiana, Vanisia, Jasmin Impératrice Eugénie, all legendary feminine scents. yet I am stubborn and I smell in Aventus for her what Creed takes as a fresh, English, Ultracologne, feminine perfume. and I WILL WORK THIS. (earlier) the unbelievable force of the zesty opening makes me think about two unlikely "similar powerful' perfumes: the Giorgio Beverly Hills, and Versace's Eros pour Femme. there it is lemonblossom which, ininterruptedly, sings her sour and flowery song, a kind of neroli to the tenth might; Giorgio is even more powerful but has a sweetness, powderiness right from the start to the finish. here we find a mighty fruity trinity: apple, bergamot and lemon. I almost have the feeling they used the patchouli and pink pepper to TONE DOWN this hesperidic start. while I am no fan of too fruity, I like it here. the perfume has a strong and sophisticated signature from the first sniff. I am a flowerman, have to search for the rose, violet, ylang and lilac. sandelwood, styrax, peach and amber must function to amber down that unbelievable nostrilclearing ouverture. now I am used to much of the rose-oud Montales. and I love perfumes with a strong identity. the perfume lends the austerity from Knowing, Eau du Soir, Soir de Lune and Chanel No.19 and Cristalle. I love the perfume, it is a little out of my comfort zone (am used to STILL heavier perfumes). but with Windflowers Aventus for Her is a great perfume for superposh ladies.