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Floraiku- Sand and Skin

Floraiku- Sand and Skin

Regular price $26.00 USD
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Floraïku — Sand and Skin

Vibe: Creamy • warm • solar • vanilla • woody • sensual
This is a warm-skin-at-the-beach fragrance rather than an aquatic beach scent. Creamy Madagascar vanilla, benzoin and ylang-ylang sit over sandalwood and other woods. Think sun-warmed skin, vanilla and warm sand, not coconut suntan lotion. Floraïku itself describes it as a “sunny island dream.” 

Gender: Unisex. The ylang-ylang gives it a floral softness, but the sandalwood, cedar, amyris, patchouli and resins give it enough woody depth to work very comfortably masculine.

Longevity: 7–9 hours is a fair expectation, although skin reports vary. Parfumo currently rates it 7.8/10 for longevity and 7.0/10 for sillage. 

Notes:
Top: Lysylang, Mahonial
Heart: Ylang-ylang, Australian sandalwood, cedarwood, Dominican amyris, patchouli
Base: Madagascar vanilla CO₂ absolute, benzoin, labdanum 

What does it smell like?
The vanilla here isn’t cupcake-sweet. It’s creamy, slightly powdery and resinous, mixed with sandalwood and benzoin. Ylang-ylang adds a tropical floral quality while the woods keep everything smooth and warm. Some wearers perceive an incense-like quality from the resins and woods. 

Similar to: I wouldn’t call it a direct dupe of anything. It’s in that luxurious solar vanilla / woody skin-scent territory, but without relying on the usual coconut-and-sunscreen beach formula.

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