Description
The house of Crabtree & Evelyn is launching the new fragrance Caribbean Island Wild Flowers along with accompanying Bath & Body Collection. The fragrance will be launched just before summer, to tingle your imagination with the scents of Caribbean islands, sea and sun.
The exotic fragrance opens with tropical citruses and sea aromas, providing relaxation and peacefulness. Central notes are built around beautiful spider lily along with night blooming jasmine and passionate and sweet flavors of wild flowers growing on the island.
The new fragrance Caribbean Island Wild Flowers will be available on the European market as Eau de Toilette from April 2014.
Skalibyr – :
You know that feeling when you’re sitting in the lobby of a beach resort. Where the salty scent of sea breeze mingle with the fresh flowers of the lobby centre piece? Yes this is what it smells like, very light and calming scent.
Longevity is poor, so not for everyday wear.
I bought a small bottle just to spritz for fun because it makes me happy, but that’s just me.
hnt430JeomiWogkig – :
Mon Dieu. I’ve never have a perfume working so well with my own scent. It smells very green on me, with a hint of tomato. Reminds me of my childhood opening canned tomatoes – tomatoes submerged in brine.
ykovalevskiy – :
Is anyone else getting chocolatey caramel notes???
svx985Diobtetty – :
Fresh, uplifting scent, with an aquatic zestiness flirting with tropical florals. To my nose, this is a dead ringer for Chanel Chance Eau Fraiche, at a fraction of the cost.
Jeff63 – :
Just smells good – not overly floral, fruity, or aquatic – it’s very well balanced. It smells like clean, uncomplicated freshness. It’s also very light – perfect choice for summer, or when you need a safe scent for work or a close quarter situation, or your nose just wants a quiet day. Longevity isn’t great, but it rarely is for these types of scents. While I like the concept, I’m not a huge fan of these types of “aquatic” fragrances because to me the “aquatic” notes tend to smell too synthetic and sharp, or they end up smelling like household products, air fresheners, or laundry detergent – too chemical smelling. If you like the idea of the Clean line but struggle to find one you really like, give this one a try. It’s similar to Clean Skin, which is the only one of the Clean line I’ve found that I like, but this one is a little more tropical and beachy smelling, thanks to the tropical flowers and “marine” accord, which is more salty and woody than an aquatic accord, if I’m understanding the difference between the two correctly.
muk55 – :
I was given a small bottle of it as a free gift when buying other C&E products and I expected a cloyingly sweet tropical floral.
It isn’t – it’s quite fresh (though I don’t get the citrus but greenish, herbal notes), light and pleasant.
No complexity and very little staying power, but pleasantly and surprisingly inoffensive if way too young for me. I could imagine using it if I ever took off 25 years in age, 40 pounds in weight and had time to spend walking along a beach in a breeze, wearing a flowery but tasteful sarong . As it is, I’ve passed it on to the 16yo who likes it on her sunnier days.
5/10 for me personally
MisterFire – :
I don’t get the association with other fragrances i.e. D&G Light Blue because I’ve never worn that frag so for me this is it’s own unique scent. I’m a perfume slut for white floral tropical flowers, exotic fragrances that smell like islands and beaches in the Caribbean or the Greek islands. This is a fresh aquatic floral scent to wear to the beach, on a cruise ship, on a yacht, and in the summer time it’s a breath of fresh cool air, a scented sea breeze. The opening is absolutely refreshing like scented water on your skin. It smells of citrus, a mélange of oranges, bergamot and lots of lemon. It’s definitely a skin freshner. It’s a citrusy-floral toilet water or eau de toilette that elevates your mood and makes you feel great, ready to take on your day. But it’s crying vacation and summer getaways. It’s also something to wear with a bikini and to a pool. The white florals include lilies and jasmine and nondescript white floral that might also involve white gardenia and tuberose, but it’s subdued and sweet, soft, not at all the main attraction like the citrus and aquatic notes. Yes it might be similar to so many aquatic fragrances i.e. D&G Light Blue and Davidoff Cool Water Acqua di Gioia etc, but it’s a pretty and well composed fresh fragrance. It doesn’t have as much lasting power as I would like but I always reapply. I’m bringing it with me the next time I set sail.
Contr – :
According to Crabtree and Evelyn this is India Hicks Island Living Spider Lily renamed. Not certain it is exactly the same, the top notes seem more citrusy and the dry down less complex.It is still a nice fragrance but not sure I will buy again, as after a very short while it turns into a paler shade of Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue.