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Messy Sexy Just Rolled out of Bed

4.2/5 · 922 votes Feminine 2016
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Character

Longevity3.3/5
Sillage2.9/5
Day100
Night51
Fall95
Winter85
Spring77
Summer44
Our take

Messy Sexy Just Rolled out of Bed opens with a brief, fizzy wink of bergamot and peach blossom, but that freshness is just a decoy. Within minutes, the heart’s powdery heliotrope and a shy Turkish rose get smothered by the base’s avalanche of toffee, vanilla, tonka, and cashmere wood. The result is a sweet, almond-kissed gourmand that wears like the warm, slightly stale air of a bedroom after a lazy morning – intimate, drowsy, and deliberately undone. Dominique Ropion built this as an Oriental floral, but the florals are ghosts; the real stars are the balsamic, musky, caramelized notes that blur into a single cozy haze.

Its rating of 4.17 out of 5 suggests a crowd pleaser, but don’t expect a sillage bomb or an eight-hour marathon. With a longevity barely above 3 and sillage under 3, this is a skin scent, pure and simple. You’ll keep catching soft whiffs on your own collar, but the person next to you might ask for a hug to get close enough. Is that really a flaw when the whole point is to smell like you just rolled out of someone else’s sheets?

This is for anyone who loves sweet, powdery, vanillic comfort and who enjoys wearing fragrance as a personal, secret pleasure rather than a broadcast. Skip it if you want the rose to roar or if you prefer fresh, crisp, or sharply woody scents. Wear it on a cool spring morning or a chilly fall afternoon, ideally on a day when you have no plans to be anywhere important – just you, a cashmere sweater, and the quiet, delicious mess of being deliciously lazy.

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