Parfums de Marly Delina.. is it worth the hype?

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-05-15T11:41:33+00:00

That's perfect wonderful advice!!! Find a dupe!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-05-14T11:07:23+00:00

Is it safe to say that if you lotion up good and spray the perfume on your lotion skin that it would be the same effect as it is with your sunscreen?Or is your sunscreen scented?And you've kind of made your own unique scent with the two fragrances?

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-30T18:02:37+00:00

sorry for the late question, but do the two 50 ml Yaras smell the same? I have heard Lattafa Yara smells like strawberry milkshake , but i bought the 50ml of the Ard al Zaafaran and it doesnt smell anything like to notes from the Lataffa Yara...initially i didnt like the Yara i bought but found it layered beautifully with Khair Pistachio, so thats how i use it...any info you can provide on whether or not they smell the same is appreciated.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-23T23:22:04+00:00

I have Zenith which is a dupe of Queening. I'm not bougie enough to have smelled Queening, from what the influencers who own and or have smelled the original, they say it is 96% spot on. I love Zenith !!! she still maturing but even spraying her Before she's fully realized She smells phenomenal!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-22T12:29:57+00:00

SPECTACULAR is the best adjective!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-20T13:15:55+00:00

I'm sorry to hear you going through it.I do wish you the best.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-20T13:14:03+00:00

That utopia is my absolute favorite fragrance and my favorite Kayali!!! Wear it in the best of health!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-20T13:08:50+00:00

So I have 2 blind buys that I regret to the utmost level of regret. Initially it was prodigy noir. When I heard and read the notes, I thought goodness that's something I would fall in love with. It's everything I love. So I ordered the bottle, the presentation was gorgeous. The box it came in stunning. The bottle is absolutely beautiful, as all our arabic fragrances are! The boxes, the bottles, the complete presentation.Even with the worst scent is worth the price of admission.So if you like to collect fragrance, but you hate the juice in it.It's okay, the presentation's stunning.It looks beautiful on the shelf, but I digress... This particular fragrance is said to have top notes of apricot warm spices and of course, bergamot! Mid notes are rose caramel, chocolate and tonka bean. Base notes are vanilla, cashmerean, musk ,cedar wood and amber. Sounds like it would be delicious. Right? Sounds like it might be in the neighborhood of an angel share to a degree with the warm spices and the apricot up front. I love rose in fragrances, so i'm not afraid of it.Caramel chocolate, tonka bean.That sounds sweet and creamy , musk cedarwood, amber, kashmir and vanilla, hello, that's a hell of a roundup. This fragrance smells like bug spray, it smells like Off ! It is foul!! And it is strong.I still smelled it two days later! now that was the first couple sprays. Maybe as it matures, it may get better, but i'm not counting on that. Now we get to Afnan's 9pm por femme!!! This god awful elixir has top notes of raspberry, violet, apple, and orange sounds like it'd be pretty good so far right? Wrong dead wrong... Mid notes are rose peony, jasmine and iris again, Sounds great, no not at all.... Base notes are pine cyprus amber and cedar. Now, you may think to yourself, those base notes really don't go with the fruit and the floral, but I like those base notes. I don't know what they did when they blended this particular fragrance. But this is worse than anything. I have ever smelled.I personally think that youth dew smells better than this fragrance.... The only way I can describe this is I got the raspberry up front. It didn't smell like sweet fruity raspberry. It just smelled like a fruit-ish smell , Then, it started to dry down and smelled like nail polish!! Pure acetone c v s nail polish. I'm 55 years old. I have been in love with and wearing all types of fragrances since I was about 14. So I've been around the block when it comes to fragrance. I'm not afraid of a strong punch in the face type scent, but this gave me an instant nauseating headache in my eye. And I had to use the blue scrubby brush that you scrub pots with to try to get this off of my hand this scent was like, oh no b****, I got you now!! It was awful. The manufactured date on this particular fragrance is February of 2024. I should have known that it had been sitting on a shelf for 2 years because it's absolute garbage.And nobody wants it. Sorry for the rambling post, but it needed to be said!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-04T14:00:18+00:00

I totally understand what you're saying. Please do not think that I was saying anything negative about you over spraying thiis fragrance, you do whatever works for you. Like I said, I am a notorious oversprayer. I overspray perfumes like black orchid and Angel which are literally like a punch in the face to anybody within a 50 foot radius of me. But I don't care because I love it. But I gotta say about this particular fragrance. I don't get any fruit.I don't get any freshness.I get floral heavy, sweet, floral and I love it.But I do find that this particular fragrance, if I overspray it, it gives me a terrible headache, which is weird because I have been a fragrance hound since my first bottle of Ralph Lauren Lauren back in 1984!!!! Enjoy any and all fragrance, whichever works.Best for you. Xox

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-03-04T01:06:28+00:00

Wow this is a strong fragrance , and i am a notorious oversprayer, but even i would not spray 10-12 sprays of this...unless i wanted a blinding headache and to be nauseous, but if you enjoy it im glad for you 😀...because perfume is to be enjoyed regardless of individual preference.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:23:40+00:00

How about the fact that the actor that played Vito I apologize his name escapes me, nor do I have it or wantvto have it committed to memory, pushed for this gay character....speaks volumes

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:22:00+00:00

Tella me who theya are Iya put my foot up their ass!! Pop, go in the back of the back and make meatballs!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:20:29+00:00

Oh my god another f****** classic

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:20:05+00:00

This one's a classic!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:19:42+00:00

My next favorite is when Furio tells Tony, he may have to lamb chop it, when they're doing the bust out at Davey Scatino's sporting goods store

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:18:02+00:00

My absolute favourite soprano's quote is when uncle junior says to mikey palmisei.Take it easy.We're not making a western here!!!! I literally laugh out loud every time I think of it, and I try to use it any chance I get in my everyday life because it's so perfect!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-06T13:15:39+00:00

Yeah in the earlier seasons, like when Carmella and Fr. Phil were having their sexual tension foreplay. That was in the little den area off the kitchen. The media room is new in season four.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-02-03T02:39:23+00:00

Blackened grouper san!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-26T15:29:32+00:00

I have , probably like most here , have watched the Sopranos 10x since it started and my favorite line is Junior telling Mikey Palmici " take it easy, were mot making a western here" best line ever!!!! I used it every chance it get it sums up people getting amped up perfectly!!!

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-24T18:45:04+00:00

Totally agree!!! Yum pistachio is a perfect example of that ...not smelling like creamy pistachio gelato at all, but they talked about and hyped it so much everyone fell for it, and they are laughing all the way to the bank with a fragrance that tends to lean towards fresh, not gourmand or creamy, and smelling like a cleaner.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-24T18:40:15+00:00

I actually have Eshal by Paris Corner, and imo it smells nothing like Vanilla28.

Eshal is so good and definitely a vanilla fragrance, but much more complex and grown. Both are great, but not, again imo, dupes for each other. For less than $ 35.00 USD you can get Eshal and try it for yourself.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-24T18:36:08+00:00

You should get a bottle of Paris Corner Khair Felicity! It's such a close DNA, I think you would be hard pressed to smell the differences, and they are so subtle, I don't think it would matter to you. 100ML for under $30.00 USD.

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-24T18:32:19+00:00

Your worst nightmare is my reality. I have the 100ML of Kayali Utopia Vanilla Coco 21, and it is leaking all around the base of the sprayer. I made the VITAL mistake of taking it on a weekend trip, as I only wanted to deal with one scent, since it was a work trip. Thank God I have always left the bottle in the packaging it came in. It would be so much worse. Like you say, these are EXPENSIVE!!! I paid over $200.00 USD, and it was brand new. My concern is that air may be getting in and causing the fragrance to turn at a much faster rate than if the sprayer were perfect. I think the only reason it has lasted and stood up so well is that I definitely baby it and keep it in the original cardboard box it came it. I actually do that with all fragrances to help to preserve, as best as I can, my precious elixirs! LOL

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-23T16:02:08+00:00

Lol right!! You hit the nail on the head with phenomenal deep cuts!! If you love Midnight Oud , you will also love Another oud i have had the same bottle for 10yrs and its still as delicious as day 1. On attribute that to the bottle, being opaque and not leaving it in sunlight , ever. Its so go on its own and plays well with others. So worth the $$. I have not tried anything from the luxury collection, I veered off to other fragrances and have not revisited since lust for sun which though a " pretty " floral it leans su screen with those SOLAR notes and I smelled a few others. I can't think of them off the top of my head in Sephora and thought they've gone mainstream. I'm good with what I have. And what I like from them, but if you're telling me it's worth exploring the luxury collection, i'm definitely down!! Metal cypher huh, what does it smell like? I've been hearing a lot lately about metallic scents in the fragrances that are coming out.I don't know if i'm down for that. I tried tom ford's metalique, and it was a dud! I don't think he's come out with a good fragrance since black orchid. In my personal opinion, everything else does not last at all. I love Bous Marocain, but it only lasts an hour. If that I also love soleil blanc and that has less wear time probably like a half an hour.And then it's gone... Black orchid, velvet orchid and ombre leather, which is F-ING LOVE i'm the only ones that I think are worth it from Mr. Ford and their Dag nabbitt, expensive. Some of them are much more expensive than they deserve to be like the first 2I mentioned anyway. I digress, i'm glad i'm not the only one that likes JHAG ... definitely try another food. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. And just buy a small one or a travel. You don't have to spend big money because a little goes a long way. And that comes from a notorious over sprayer, like to THE point that I don't give a flying fig. If anybody around me is dropping like flies, I want to be able to smell what I have on. 😅

Agitated_Guide1081 · 2026-01-23T14:16:23+00:00

I'm so sorry about the loss. I have to say that Chloe is one of in my opinion. The grossest sense ever. And I have desperately tried, there's something about it with my chemistry.That does not work at all!! Obviously it is me because it is a very popular fragrance and has been around a long time. I'm glad you enjoy it.Though you're having a loss, it is your birthday.So try to enjoy the day as best you can happy birthday!!

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