{"id":12830,"date":"2013-07-27T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2013-07-26T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:58:23","slug":"jo-malone-peony-blush-suede-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2013\/07\/jo-malone-peony-blush-suede-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming in September: Jo Malone Peony & Blush Suede Cologne – A pretty feminine scent"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’d been having \u00a0lots of fun playing with my Jo Malone sampler set<\/a>\u00a0when I learned not too long ago that in September, there will be a new fragrance launched – Peony & Blush Suede<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Fascinating. Does suede have a smell other than it just being leather? I was quite intrigued by it and took a healthy sniff of it at the preview launch a little while ago. Not available yet folks! Look for it in stores in September.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thing that hit me was how floral it was.<\/p>\n I don’t know what peonies smell like and I won’t pretend to. I don’t know what suede smells like either because the last suede item I own has fallen apart. Suede doesn’t hold up as well as regular treated leather, for me. But to me, suede will smell of leather. So the idea here is for the scent to open up with a sweet floral and dry down to that of a musky leather.<\/p>\n Sadly, it didn’t smell like that on me when I spritz it on my skin. That’s the thing about fragrances you know. The description can sell it to you, but then you spritz it on your skin and you go “Whaa…??? What was THAT?!”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the product launch, I tested the scent on my skin and I will say that I don’t smell any leather at all, not even after it has had the opportunity to dry down on my skin hours later. The overwhelming scent I received was flowers. Lots and lots of flowers. On my other wrist, I sprayed my favourite Pomegranate Noir. That one left me feeling all warm and cozy and in the words of a friend who was there – sexy and mysterious.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peony & Blush Suede left me feeling…. normal. It basically evoked no feelings in me save that it smelled nice, if it wasn’t on me.<\/p>\n The description tells you to expect a burst of red apples at the top followed by roses and peonies and then drying down to warm leather.<\/p>\n I get a sweet fruity opening and a floral note but that’s where it stops for me. I don’t get the warm feeling I associate with leather. I see myself in a flower garden surrounded by flowers and my car smelled of flowers as I drove but the dry down was almost boring on me. My personality is such that I don’t pay well with strong, sweet, floral, feminine scents and it is for this reason that I knew that the Jo Malone Peony & Blush Suede fragrance will not be one for me.<\/p>\n Now, we know that Jo Malone scents are made so you can layer them, and suggested pairings are English Pear & Freesia and Orange Blossom. I can’t test them seeing as I don’t have a sample of the Peony & Blush Suede on hand, but you can always go to the boutique in September and get a whiff of it and see if it’s you.<\/p>\n What I did like however, was the scent itself in the air and for that, I may consider investing in one of the candles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n