I absolutely love discovering new fragrances, particularly from brands I have never comes across before. The latest addition to my collection comes from Viali with the Royal Elixir EDP.
Viali describe themselves as being like East meets West, the finest French fragrances that meet in a graceful dance with rich Arabian scents, making magic in the moonlight. Viali mesmerises as it allures you into this love story, crossing cultures and surpassing all the rules. A sensual fusion, Viali perfumes blend magic and mystery, keeping you waiting in suspense. Now this is quite the vivid introduction to a brand and when you look at the bottles and read the fragrance descriptions, they very much encompass all of this.
Royal Elixir is presented in a stunning purple coloured box, quite in-fitting with the name of the fragrance, as the colour purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition.
The bottle, which is made of quite a weighty glass with a big gold lid, really gives the impression of something very luxurious.
Royal Elixir is a delight for the senses and a journey to the exotic. It is a warm and joyous fusion of Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian citrus and sweet fruits that blooms on a base of amber. Feather-light tones of musk lead into delicious Madagascan vanilla. A lingering velvety fragrance with a soft but enduring luminosity.
The fragrance description as you can see takes you on quite the journey. With the top notes of Orange, Lemon, Bergamot, it opens up with an incredibly fresh yet zesty scent which I find really uplifting and it definitely grabs your attention as it begins to dry down and the middle notes, which are described as fruits come into their own. For me, these middle notes are quite sweet, which when contracted with the top notes compliment one another before the base notes of Amber, Vanilla, White Musk come in and alongside the warmness their is a slight sweetness of the vanilla which is just about detectable.
With a fragrance such as this, you would be expecting a decent longevity and you do get a good 5-6 hours before I would personally re-apply, but impressively on a friend of mine she got over 7 hours of wear.
Priced at £75, Royal Elixir by Viali is on sale at BeautyBase and it is worth every penny, a delightful scent that would anyone.