LYS 41

2/15/15

There is a scene in 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral where Scarlett, watching the bride float down the aisle, says to Fiona, “Isn’t she beautiful?” to which Fiona wittily retorts, “Scarlett, you’re blind.  She looks like a big meringue.”

Lys 41 is the perfume equivalent of the big meringue.  It carries huge silage in the form of its 100ft wedding veil, careening down the scented aisle at the wedding with no budget cap.  It is an extremely potent white floral scent.  It seems to be that there must be a couple of fields’ worth of lilies in there, a shocking amount of tuberose, and these flowers,  like the dress, open up to a giant, undulating mass that stretches as far as the eye can see.  Lys 41 is not a scent for the meek.  I believe on the right person it could work very well.  It is a diva of a scent, but one that is deserving of a big, exuberant personality to showcase it.  It takes no prisoners in its arrival.   For the woman looking for a statement scent that is going to bear hug everyone in the room, then I think this could be the ticket, but I personally felt like I was smothered in a zorbing ball of scent, and someone just shoved me off the top of a very steep hill.

Rating: 2 Bridezillas in furious slapping match.