Initio Parfums Lift Me Up Extrait

Description

Lift Me Up is Initio's sunlight fragrance, a creamy magnolia-and-vanilla glow that reads like warm skin after a day outdoors. Released in 2025 as part of the house's extrait-strength line, it opens bright with magnolia and bergamot, then softens almost immediately into tonka, ylang-ylang, vanilla and musk. Where most of the Initio catalogue trades in dark, animalic intensity, this one is deliberately gentle. Reviewers describe it as a vacation in a bottle, and it has won over a number of self-described sweet-averse wearers precisely because the sweetness is creamy rather than sugary. Initio does not disclose the perfumer for this release.

Scent Character

• Sweet: 42%
• Floral: 34%
• Fresh: 16%
• Woody: 8%

Translation: a sweet-floral at heart, creamy vanilla and tonka carrying magnolia and ylang, with just enough citrus lift at the opening to keep it from turning dessert-like.

Fragrance Pyramid

Top: Magnolia, Bergamot

Heart: Tonka, Ylang-Ylang

Base: Vanilla, Musk

Performance

• Longevity: roughly 6–10 hours on most skin. Reader reports split unusually hard on this one: some describe it lasting all day, others find it fades to a whisper within a few hours. Extrait concentration does not guarantee the former.
• Sillage: moderate. It blooms for the first hour, then settles into a close, skin-warm aura rather than a room-filling trail.
• Projection: around one to two feet early on, arm's-length thereafter.

Note: this is a soft, intimate fragrance by design. If you want something that announces you from across a room, this is not it.

Best Occasions & Season

• Season: Spring and summer, carrying comfortably into early fall.
• Occasions: Everyday wear, office, errands, daytime social.
• Gender: Unisex.
• Skip for: formal evening events where you want presence, and deep winter, where its brightness gets lost.

Concentration & Provenance

Concentration: Extrait de Parfum
House: Initio Parfums Privés (France)
Perfumer: Not disclosed by the house
Released: 2025
Reformulation: None, a current-generation release with a single formula to date.

Try Before You Commit

The 90 ml bottle is a serious commitment at $245.99, and Lift Me Up is exactly the kind of soft, skin-close scent that behaves differently on different people. Sample it first: 1 mL for $6.99, 5 mL for $26.99, or 10 mL for $48.49. Enough to wear it through a full day before deciding.

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FAQ

Is Lift Me Up for men or women? Unisex. The creamy vanilla-magnolia core sits comfortably on anyone; it skews slightly feminine in feel but is worn widely by men.

How long does it actually last? Most wearers get 6–10 hours. Reports vary more than usual for an extrait. Some get all day, some get a few hours. Sampling first is genuinely worth it here.

Is it too sweet? It is sweet, but creamy-sweet rather than sugary, vanilla and tonka rather than candy. Several reviewers who normally avoid sweet fragrances have made an exception for this one.

How does it compare to the rest of the Initio line? It is the gentlest thing the house makes. If you know Initio through Oud for Greatness or Side Effect, expect the opposite: bright, soft and comforting instead of dark and animalic.