How does Maison Asrar Soirée smell?
This is a sweet-led pyramid and the top is pure confectionery: praline (caramelised nuts), toffee and vanilla blossoms, with plum and apple adding ripe fruit. In the heart, white flowers and ylang-ylang bring a creamy, heady floral character, heliotrope is soft, powdery and sweet, and lavender blossoms add a clean, herbal touch that cuts through the sugar. The flowers give the sweetness some air, so it does not read as confectionery alone.
Down in the base, Vanilla wood suggests vanilla handled as a smooth, dry-sweet timber accord, and Ambergris scented points to an ambergris-style salty-warm skin note rather than the material itself. Caramel returns to the sweet theme. On paper this is a dense, creamy, powdery gourmand with a balsamic, resinous glow, and a vanilla-musk impression, the brand's third family label, is a fair guess for how it reads on skin.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Soirée
Maison Asrar's product page for Soirée gives its family as oriental, balsamic and vanilla musk.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: praline (sweet, warm, gourmand), toffee (sweet, warm, gourmand) and vanilla (sweet, warm, soft).
Who might like Maison Asrar Soirée?
For anyone with a sweet tooth: readers who like praline, toffee, caramel and vanilla, softened with powdery white flowers. If you want that profile, read the other gourmand and sweet pages in the range and note which ones add flowers, as this one does, and which stay purely sugary.
Soirée and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
Maison Asrar Hikaya overlaps in vanilla blossoms, praline, ambergris scented and caramel. Its own notes are bergamot, saffron, rose and cashmere wood, against plum, toffee, apple and ylang-ylang here.
Maison Asrar Milky Way and Soirée meet in vanilla blossoms, plum, ylang-ylang and caramel. After that the first lists sweet milk, jasmine, orris and cashmere, the second praline, toffee, apple and heliotrope blossoms.
What Soirée has in common with Maison Asrar DXB Jumeirah: vanilla blossoms, ambergris scented and caramel. What it keeps to itself: praline, plum, toffee and apple. On the other side stand passionfruit, orange, coconut and pineapple.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Soirée in Europe
Maison Asrar Soirée is not in the FragranceGems range at the moment; the shop's Maison Asrar page shows what is available. Among the scents the shop sells, Maison Asrar Hunter shares vanilla blossoms, lavender blossoms and caramel with it and Maison Asrar Vanilla Voyage shares vanilla blossoms and caramel with it.
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