Miro
Miro
110 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Coconut and vanilla blossom emerge first, but they're immediately undercut by that peculiar melting plastic note—acrid, chemical, strangely pleasant. It's unsettling in the best way, establishing that this fragrance operates outside conventional comfort zones.
The plastic recedes as milk and tonka bean bloom into a creamy, almost gourmand sweetness. Bourbon vanilla deepens the composition, lending caramel-like warmth whilst maintaining that synthetic shimmer that prevents it from becoming saccharine or mundane.
What remains is predominantly bourbon vanilla and rock sugar—a gentle, skin-close sweetness that's largely sweet and synthetic rather than creamy, becoming almost imperceptible after several hours.
Miro Magic arrives with the particular strangeness of mid-nineties fragrance experimentation: a coconut-vanilla confection that wobbles between gourmand comfort and deliberate artificiality. That "melting plastic" top note isn't a flaw—it's the olfactory equivalent of the fragrance's DNA, a deliberate plasticky shimmer that prevents this from becoming merely another dessert scent. Instead, it reads almost sci-fi, as though someone deconstructed a vanilla cream dreamscape and reassembled it with synthetic materials visible in the seams.
The real character emerges in the heart's milk-tonka interplay: there's something genuinely creamy here, not just sweet. Tonka bean's inherent almond-like richness mingles with the lactonic smoothness of milk notes, creating a near-edible texture that feels almost tactile on the skin. This isn't a fragrance playing at sophistication; it's committed to its gourmand identity whilst maintaining enough synthetic sheen to feel contemporary rather than cosy.
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