J’s image of Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle

Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle is the third collaboration with Nokta Cosmetics, it joins Wild Tuberose and is perfumer Ioanna Tanionou’s second composition in this series joining Imperial Malt. This trio of perfumes with their beautiful emerald green labels baring the Istanbul location are only available from Nokta Cosmetics stores and are online exclusives direct from Manos Gerakinis’ website.

J’s image of the last flowers of honeysuckle Dublin.

Honeysuckle is amongst my most favourite flowers, I adore seeing it bloom in my parents’ garden. It grows along the back of a fence, climbing through bushes to allow its blossoms to reach the sun’s highest points. To me, honeysuckle signifies summer, as I watch its wild tendrils and petals flow and curve in beautiful patterns like a strange bird in flight. I first smelled Pure Honeysuckle on a rather sad day when my cat passed. I reached for the sample wanting to smell something familiar and good, what I wasn’t expecting was the burst of summer nostalgia weaved through heady memories of honeysuckle and white florals. It was a beautiful escape that felt full of optimism yet tinged with nostalgia. Perfumer Ioanna Tanionou has captured some magic in her composition in Pure Honeysuckle, one that smells of the past yet feels optimistic like more amazing summers are yet to come.

Perfumer Ioanna Tanionou and Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle courtesy of the brand.

Manos Gerakinis Parfums’ Wild Tuberose feels even more like sweet innocence summer love when compared to its new counterpart Pure Honeysuckle’s purr. As it unfurls on your skin a sweet and intoxicating haze of summer lust envelops you in its airy aura. It captures that heady aroma of the honeysuckle flower in both an artistic and abstract manner weaving in the scent of summer and seduction as it dries down. It’s much more than a soliflore.

Pure Honeysuckle opens with a complex bouquet of white florals, with subtle fruity facets that sketch a wild greenery with creamy tropical facets making it feel like the scent of summer has just dawned on your skin. Perfumer Ioanna Tanionou cleverly weaves in fruity facets of blackcurrant and coconut conjuring creeping weaving vines of the honeysuckle as it climbs through this summery floral haze reaching for the light. Blackcurrants sharp greens are hidden in the mix, those stems from which the magical flower blooms while the coconut brings out more summery milky facets giving Pure Honeysuckle a rich seductive feel. Gradually a floral honeyed aroma emerges, it’s not your obvious honey but reminds me of ivy honey, a more sharper greener variety produced by bees that have collated pollen primarily from ivy plants. Its use here is rather clever again contributing to the vine like greenery while giving the flowers a subtle animalic allure.

Manos Gerakinis courtesy of the brand.

 

Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle is brimming with white florals, they flow and weave through each other, creating a softly alluring haze as if the sun is setting slowly and their intoxicating aromas emerge. I love how the florals are combined to conjure the magic of honeysuckle, its gives you a rich artistic interpretation of the flower blooming in the heat.Pure Honeysuckle feels like a beautiful memory of summer love, the kind that makes you bite your lip and your heart flutter as you look back on it through rose, more aptly, white floral tinted sunglasses.

Jasmine sings the high notes, its soft abstract narcotic haze forms a veil for the tuberose and gardenia that are giving a beauty body to Pure Honeysuckle. It’s light and airy letting the tuberose form a smooth fleshiness giving things a subtle seductive edge, but for me it’s the gardenia that truly stands out. Gardenia enhances the fleshiness of the tuberose giving it an earthy mushroomy softly indolic wildness with a sleek waxy sheen. Feeling heady in an elegant way, yet playful with fruity undertones that pick up on the tropical coconut summer notes from the opening. It’s gives Pure Honeysuckle a rather nostalgic feel, almost vintage leaned, yet the clever use of coconut and a very contemporary jasmine keep it feeling very of now. It’s honey animalic purr too with modern musks and cashmeran also keep it contemporary with a lovely nod to the past. In the air it has a kind of saint on the streets feel, but the more intimate you get the more sinner in the sheets facets are revealed.

J’s image of Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle

 

You can sense the sophisticated honeysuckle flower creep and climb through the dense musks and sharp greens looking for that soft hazy sunlight of summer as things dry down. Soft creamy woods linger at the base of Pure Honeysuckle, they add weight leaning more into a soft smoke musks trapped in fine linen, its light and soft adding subtle darker tones to the rich floral musks. Combined with the heady florals it creates a soft furry sensation, neither entirely animalic nor purely floral narcotics, a stunning merging of both. Something between angora and cashmere, a soft and sensual structure that tries to tame the magic honeysuckle accord as more silvery honey tones add a subtle honeyed sheen to the mix.

Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle unlocks many feelings within me, it’s undeniably sensual yet playful and airy. It’s well dressed with a flirty wink from across the room making you remember a summer love full of lust, one whose mark is left on you in an unforgettable way. It feels joyous with its upbeat summery creamy florals almost as if past summer lusts have been bottles like a beautiful memory you relive with each wear.

Notes: Honeysuckle, Blackcurrant, Coconut, Gardenia, Jasmine, Tuberose, Vetiver, Honey, Amber, Musk and Cashmere Wood.

 

Disclosure: Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle was kindly offered by the brand; thoughts and nose J’s own.

J Wearescentient, Senior Editor, artist & olfactive writer.

Manos Gerakinis Pure Honeysuckle Travel Size courtesy of the brand.

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