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tna418intitytek – :
@Aeris
I have to debunk your theory that L was discontinued because of its similarity to Lira “due to legal reasons”…
L was released in 2006.
Lira by Xerjoff was released in 2011 – i.e. five years AFTER L de Lolita.
If wanting to go down the “deliberate clone” route, you’d have to approach it from the other direction!
evilxxx – :
I’ve got several bottles of this in the large size, to me they all smell great, some clearer, some darker, I haven’t smelt any that smell off. Maybe I’m lucky, I’m not sure, but don’t be shy to buy it if the juice is dark, I actually like the dark juice.
A+ ❤
indenceloadly – :
If anyone has a turned bottle they think smells tobacco-ish let me know. I will take them alllllllllll lol
vanma – :
Smells as if Shalimar had a holiday fling that she regretted with a baker after a few sex on the beach cocktails and cinnamon buns and a walk of shame afterwards. No cigarette this time, post-coital glow or haughty glamour, just a very awkward breakfast made out of orange-zested pancakes slushed with a very cheap sort of maple syrup.
And I think it smells great lol. It stinks of excess and shame in a decrepit, semi-deserted funfair you only go to if you’re up to no good in one of those bleak coastal towns Morrisey sings about on Everyday is Like Sunday.
a1975153 – :
Delicious and warm! So perfect for cooler weather! It’s just the right amount of sweet, not too much of anything! Always a compliment getter!
Tristrams – :
This is one of my all time favorites, it is too heavy to wear in the heat and humidity unfortunately though. So as soon as it starts to cool down I wear it and I get a ton of complements from men and women. You can really smell the orange cinnamon vanilla and musky notes in on me. It definitely is a draw you in scent. Its sweet but not too sweet, it’s playful but still seductive as well, it’s youthful but classy at the same time. I also have the sister scent Fleur de Corail which I love almost as much.
Unotteroods – :
@davisdm61
L is available from Fragrance X at the time of writing this edit (Monday 27 August 2018).
I own and love L – and also have two of the “similar” perfumes listed above (the Laurence Dumont Tendre Madeleine and Les Senteurs Gourmandes – which is the one I have – are the same perfume).
Try Meharees from L’Erbolario. It’s not discontinued and is available direct from them online; they also have a shop in Miami which sells online – it’s $44 from there and you wouldn’t have to worry about import taxes on entry to the US. L’Erbolario are an ethical company and don’t test on animals.
If money isn’t an issue, Xerjoff Lira is also a good substitute – I’ve tested it but don’t own a bottle, as I can’t justify the expense.
Hope this helps you (and any other US citizens in mourning for L).
B x
ETA: OK, so I’ve just sprayed Meharees on my inner left arm, LSGTM on the back of my right hand and L on my inner right arm. I only had a sample of Lira and have no idea where it is, so can’t compare it.
In my opinion, LSGTM is the most conventionally “feminine” and is the sweetest. Of the two, Meharees is closest to L, although it’s not quite as complex, rich or sweet and you have to give it a chance to dry down.
I honestly can’t remember whether Lira is closest to L, but I’d suggest Meharees is your best alternative, particularly when factoring price into the equation!
I personally see no similarities between L and Musc Ravageur – but I have a sample of pre-reformulated MR, which I think predates 2008; it may be that the later formulation is the one to which it’s being compared.
Oleg3355 – :
I love this perfume but it has become almost impossible to find a good bottle. Started wearing Tendre Madeleine by Laurence Dumont, an acceptable substitute but also difficult to obtain in the states recently. Where can I find the L Concentree pen that I read about below? Google search did not turn up anything useful. Thank you!
olena-boyko – :
I’d like to answer my own question and add to what the reviewer before me said about L Concentree.
I sought a bottle of L recently and wasn’t so happy with what I found online. I thought the concentree would be a good alternative for now. Happy to report I was right.
Concentree does look thick like maple syrup in the pen. It applies like glycerin. I was a little surprised by that because I was expecting liquid perfume before I saw it in person. But I’m very happy with this formula!
Perfume oils, solids, anything except a spray, are never my first choice, but with this, because of the means of application with a rollerball, it goes on in a thin layer and absorbs into the skin quickly and beautifully. No rubbing!
It doesn’t take much, so it will last a considerable length of time. It would make sense that this is indeed more concentrated and has higher % perfume oils than the edp. The orange top notes are more pronounced in the “oil” than edp, the vanilla/cinnamon combo is always there but it takes a little longer for the orange to fade which I like. Once it’s reached mid point, the vanilla/cinnamon carries it out until it has turned into a yummy, mostly baker’s vanilla scent after 5 hours or so. The immortelle flower was not my favorite part about the edp. It gave this delicious fragrance a dusky overtone that made it feel stale (atleast I always associated it with that, could have been the musk but I don’t really think so). With the concentree, i find that immortelle is toned town but still noticeable in the overall smell.
The concentree acts like a pure parfum in my opinion that projects more like an edp or edt. It is hard for me to guage distance because I don’t know where my scent bubble ends with any perfume I wear. But I sense it’s strength and get wafts of it regularly so it is not a skin scent! It’s about average in projection I’d say. Lasts 5 hours on my skin before fading to baker’s vanilla. I recall the edp being average as well in both projection and longevity.
L Concentree is exactly L De Lolita Lempicka edp with less duskiness. 100% satisfied with this alternative and I plan to buy more since most of the remaining bottles of the edp for sale are dark and scary looking. Mine smells fresh, hasn’t turned in the least bit. Lastly, I noticed for more intensity to wait for the first layer to absorb then apply a second or third. It’s like spraying two sprays instead of one when applying liquid perfume. Hope this helps someone!
blinding – :
I just got the 10mL concentrate, it is of thicker consistency, like maple syrup in the bottle. I can’t speak to its similarity to the EDP because I have never tried it before – I am new to this fragrance. But I absolutely love it! The notes are all there, as far as I can tell, and it is really beautiful. I haven’t yet fully formed my thoughts on it, right now I am just enjoying it.
Update: The bottle reminds me of buried treasure from a sunken ship. I love this delicious elixir. It pairs so well with other fragrances and I love applying it before going to bed. It has become my night-time fragrance.
Romainter – :
Has anyone tried the L concentree that comes in a 10 ml glass pen? I just ordered one and havn’t been able to find info anywhere online about it. Wondering if it is an actual concentrate, meaning like a pure Parfum of the original, an entirely different scent, or just the edp in a smaller (concentrated) bottle. Guess I’ll find out when it gets here but it’s had me confused since the first day I saw them online. I’m hoping it’s a more concentrated L. Hmm
bby09 – :
L de Lolita Lempicka has been one of my holy grail scents for such a long time now (I have a bit of an obsession for cinnamon, and cinnamon + vanilla + orange… just… WOW! Take my money, please!)
I’m scared to buy it online because of the scary brown juice ‘is it spoiled? is it still good?’ roulette, so I have to keep being patient and hope to run across it in estate sales, flea markets, or old perfume shops whenever i go perfume-hunting.
Well, today was the day a 2.7oz L and I finally crossed paths. The juice is slightly yellowed, but the bottle looks new, the net, charms, glass, everything looks like it was just taken out of the box. The guy selling it barely knew anything about it and was glad to get $15 for it.
From the moment I touched it, cgervaisx2’s review was fresh in my mind. I sniffed the nozzle, and phew! Stink! Like cloying tobacco. But I held the bottle away from myself and did another 3 sprays (while the owner said “hey… you can’t do that!” LOL) and then sprayed on my arm and… HEAVEN!
A puffy light cloud of semi-powdery cinnamon-vanilla whipped cream, the immortelle was just perfectly blended, I was in love! I had to do everything in my power to seem unimpressed and go “I’ll give you $10 for it,” LOL!!!
The batchcode is 0e074 (made in 2010) but it smells just like I remember it. The main problem is that (despite the bottle) this is a winter scent and it’s just too hot for it right now. It’s been 9 hours and I can still smell the sweet vanilla-cinnamon-immortelle cloud wafting from my arm (a total of two sprays in the same spot.) Maybe sitting for so long has made it stronger? Or is it just because it’s so hot today?
Anyway, if you’re a fan of cinnamon-y fragrances like LouLou, the original Omnia, Organza, Jungle Elephant & Tigre, Lira, Dolce Vita, etc this is a lighter powdery whipped-cream vanilla semi-gourmand take on cinnamon that you will probably love. Just be super-careful who you buy it from. Demand recent photos and a picture of the batch-code. What I smelled on first sniff, the juice that had been trapped in the nozzle for 8 years, was sooo nasty, just like how cgervaisx2 described.
The only thing I regret now is that I said “I wish I had L” when I first made a comment a few weeks back. if only I’d know my wish would come true, I would have wished for all the perfumes in the world! Uh… I mean world peace and health and happiness for all.
igorslyvchuk – :
Cgervaisx2- if it’s foul I’ll gladly take it off your hands lol I collect these <3
DeniSSSR – :
A LL that isn’t anise laden. The opening is an overly sweet orange citrus that isn’t sour or like cleaning products. It isn’t masculine, but a dusty powdery amber that reminds me of Bvlgari Indian Garnet.
yurikst – :
Yes, definitely a turned bottle, this perfume was discontinued in 2008/2009, so the bottle is old and must have been stored improperly. This perfume has nothing beachy or ocean-y in it, it is a gourmand caramel/cinnamon/orange melange that is delicious. In Brazil we have a dupe of L called Funny Cupcake Caramel that resembles L very much although with a much smaller longevity (4/5 hours) and moderate to soft sillage. People still mourns L’s passing.
Prostoman – :
@cgervaisx2 that bottle you are smelling has most likely gone bad. It should be smelling like a wonderful cinnamon pie, not a tobacco nightmare. I had a similar experience with a bottle of Miss Dior Cherie L’Eau recently (down to the cloying burned tobacco smell) and it’s so sad to smell such a beautiful perfume turn horrible beyond repair :C
Igor97 – :
This perfume smells like cheap perfume in with a base of old cigar smoke. Its strong and acrid. I can even smell it coming from the bottle at times. I tried it 3 times and cannot stand it. God forbid I would ever sit next to someone wearing it. It gives me indigestion and a headache. The only thing I can say is that I love the bottle. My son hates the smell equally and several people I have exposed it to also hate it. It reminds me of a disheveled old woman with sloppily applied gaudy make up and black dyed hair with the white roots showing, wearing lots of cheap rings. I live a few miles from the beach and it smells nothing like this perfume.
ohimatomuf – :
An orange Dreamsicle and beachcombing date on Fire Island.
A drag queen in a glittering sherbet gown gets her train caught on a boardwalk nail, spilling sequins and she chooses to laugh, because it’s too nice an evening for swearing, isn’t it, darling?
Much later, sweet spicy comforting chocolate and cinnamon and flirty caramel musk, reggae night at the Latin bear club across from the Sandcastle–all the fabulous mustaches–and someone brought a marshmallow gun.
Miles of silage.
We’re talking on the other end of the ferry on the way to the Pines. Against the headwind. They can smell clementines and vanilla before the boat has left Bayshore.
This stuff gets under the skin, deep into the hypodermis layer, untouched by ocean, shower or chlorinated hot tub–lingering tangerine peel and nutmeg and cream soda dum-dum pops–for days.
You find a glittering spangle in the sand when you come back next weekend, and it still smells like Myrrh Maid’s citrus spice smirk. She’s got a regular show in Cherry Grove serving sea-witch realness. Come see me, darling.
Матрёна 2 – :
I sampled this today.
Definitely purchasing it. It smells warm, it’s inviting you to embrace it..
I love how sweet, creamy, and beautiful this smells. It’s definitely a “me” perfume.. Sweet scents are my thing❤️
Very rich, very musky. The vanilla is yummy!
It’s an all around perfect combination. And I’ll have it in my wardrobe in less than a week!!
vovik336 – :
Just like with the Fleur the Corail version of this I never quite understood why they marketed this as a youthful ocean/summer kind of scent.
It’s one of the most cozy scents I ever owned. The vanilla is clearly dominant, but there is some soft spicy depth and tender sweetness to it. It’s so cozy but never boring.
I loved this back in the days as a winter scent. Even sitting down in a subway train with my thick woolen coat I’d still time and again get a whiff of that soft cookie like vanilla.
This might sound weird but as an added personal bonus this really really reminded me a lot of my late aunt Mary. She must have been using a very similar scent as perfume or body lotion, because the very first time I applied it I instantly thought of the scent that enveloped me when getting a hug from her as a child.
Nevertheless I find this scent equally suitable for all ages. Some notes are just quite timeless.
If you love vanilla and you can still get a hold of it somewhere grab yourself a bottle.
I’m not sure what’s going on with Lolita Lempicka these days but they are drastically discontinuing loads of their old classics and as far as I can tell at least in Germany are currently only on the market with three scents (Sweet, So sweet, Le Premier Parfum, that only occasionally).
On their social media they are advertising some new fragrance now but as far as I can tell even french people have a hard time finding them in stores.
Hope they recover from whatever is going on right now and really hope they’ll revive this one some day.
malard – :
Ohhhh nooooo. This is my one true love fragrance and since it’s discontinued I’ve been hoarding my last half bottle. But this week I pulled it out to wear for a special occasion. The juice is brown but worse the scent has completely disappeared!!!
romanik76 – :
The notes in this + the bottle just don’t match in my head. I would’ve imagine something in warm colors, not a mermaidy one.
Nmskollv – :
This perfume confuses me. A warm, sweet, cinnamon scent in a mermaid bottle? Huh?? I like the fragrance, but it needs a different bottle!
zorja67 – :
This is definitely one of my top 5. I love gourmands & this smells like baked goods! yum! First initial spray is a little strong & alcohol but it dries down to a warm sweet yummy dream. Like a nice swim in a hot caramel milk tea latte with floating marshmallows bubbles & coconut clouds. 😉
PAITMESEERABE – :
Someone described this as graham crackers and thats very accurate! To me it smells a lot like Golden Grahams cereal with milk. Its very yummy but not overwhelming. Ive been wearing this and Oriental Dream in the winter. Its a gourmand but not gooey, too cloying or very strong. Its a lovely wafting type of scent
licS – :
I had a little sample of this that I dabbed on my hand and I was unsure about it. I prefer sprayers over dabs. Anyway, I had an opportunity to swap for a bottle of this and jumped at the chance. I am SO GLAD that I did. L de Lolita is beautiful! Cinnamon and vanilla are very dominant. It is THE winter scent for those cold snowy days. The longevity and sillage are awesome. I was at the pharmacy yesterday and I kept putting my nose in my coat so I could keep sniffing L de Lolita. I am sure I looked crazy, but I didn’t care. Smelling it was a necessity! It kind of reminds me of a gingerbread cookie but it is much better than any cookie. This is unique and just gorgeous. This is another that I would classify as a mature scent. (if you haven’t seen my previous reviews,I do not classify scents into age brackets. When I say mature, I mean not your tween average scent.)
maximus-deinjer – :
You look down at your lap and remember that you are holding a cup. You bring it to your lips to taste the warm and spicy, creamy liquid. (You always did love a lot of cream in your tea.) You gaze around the room, as if for the first time, and notice the richly colored silks draped over the heavy furniture, and velvet pillows strewn about. Small tables are sprinkled throughout the room and are covered with trays of candy oranges and salted caramel. You take out some incense and hold a flame to the stick of resin. As it begins smoking, you place it in the corner. After returning to the center of the room, you inhale deeply. The fragrances begin to dance and swirl around you until they merge together into the most richly, divine scent. You know you have to have it.
LiliMinerva – :
I so love this fragrance. To me it is perfection. Such sweet deep layers. A beautiful gourmand. I love all of LL for the licorice note they blend so beautifully with the floral scent. An amazing Oriental Vanilla. I would have to say this is probably my Fall signature scent. Ahhh such true love. I love it and it loves my skin and chemistry back.
HEL9000 – :
I love love love this! It’s one of my top five in the autumn and winter and especially around christmas. It’s soft spicy with sweet orange and vanilla. And a light touch of cinnamon, but not too much to make it real spicy. I get no lime at all. And the immortelle, tonka and musk are all too well blended for me to be able to pin them down separately. This is christmas in a bottle but it still manages to be wearable the entire winter.I also find it very similar to Xerjoff Lira.
vovchik_volk – :
Beachy gourmand. I’ve been looking forward to trying this for a while and it doesn’t disappoint. Has a very retro vibe – take out the flowers from old school classics and you end up with L. This is a lovely vanilla-rich gourmand. The powder from what I believe is the immortelle keeps it from being too food-y though. Warm and sensual without being in your face.
TOlgaVL – :
There’s nothing like this perfume. It is the perfect blend of cinnamon, spices and vanilla, a balanced rich perfume that is not causing nausea to you wearing it or to those in your presence. It is guaranteed to make people ask you: what are you wearing, it smells fantastic. Once the dhl guy delivering something to my office casually said: “oh, miss, one more thing: please never let go of the perfume you’re wearing, it is wonderful” That never happened to me before. It was like the most sincere compliment.
A bit similar to Tom Ford Noir, but Noir has the anise vibe that ruins a bit the warm, delicious feeling.
Perrrrfect cold weather scent.
10/10 for perfection of the formula
8/10 for sillage
9/10 for longevity
Viktors25 – :
This perfumes is like it’s straight from my dreams! Graham cracker, butter cookies, and a hint of incense flys into my nostrils as I put this on my skin. Overtime, the incense character intensifies, and the sweetness turns into a chewy caramel kind of smell. Love it! Sillage is moderate to heavy.
Толмач – :
I received this perfume as a gift back in 2010 and it was the “wrong perfume”, the scent was very strong and not at all what I was looking for-so I put it under my bathroom sink and forgot about it for awhile. When I found it again, the liquid was brown and I almost threw it away except that my curiosity got the best of me and I sprayed it. OMG. I’m so glad that I did! This is a beautiful chocolate covered caramel sundae topped with vanilla sprinkles and just the slightest hint of cinnamon. I love this perfume and hoard it when I can.
I can’t believe something so wonderful is discontinued-I keep trying to find something to replace it with when I (sadly) one day won’t be able to buy another bottle. So far, nothing compares.
Beautiful fragrance.
velial.mii – :
Another beauty from Lolita Lempicka. A nice composition around the immortelle flower done by a great perfumer Maurice Raucel. As usual the Lempicka’s perfume bottles are ”féériques”. L is a pleasure for the nose and the eyes.
Viridis – :
I bought a sealed bottle of this on eBay.
The juice is brownish, but the scent doesn’t seem to be effected.
On first sniff, it reminds me of a kinder, more modern cousin of Shalimar. It’s a mature fragrance, but not one without a sense of play.
On my skin, I get a short citrus/cinnamon opening, and within a few minutes, a heady sweet musk washes in. The dry down is a very warm, delicious vanilla, and on me, it lasts almost 12 hours.
This is the type of scent that I have been searching for for years. It would just figure that the perfume that works perfectly with my chemistry, AND lasts forever would be a discontinued one.
Stalnhelm – :
A few questions for someone who may know:
1. Almost all of the bottles on eBay have brown juice instead of aqua/clear. Does that mean it has turned? Is the brown stuff weaker? Or, is it from the vanilla aging? Lots of perfumes with strong vanilla turn a brownish color but it often it doesn’t affect performance.
2. Do they make fakes of this? Anybody ever encountered or suspected a fake?
3. Is there a new formulation? I read that is has been re-formulated but I’m not 100% sure. Does it smell much different than the original L?
Thanks so much for anyone who can answer any of these!
alexsandrrr5 – :
My worst blind buy. Had such high expectations for it and when it finally arrived… The first sniff just knocked me down and not in a good way. I looove spices, i love this amazingly designed bottle, it sounded just right so how can it smell so wrong? Still a mystery to me. Gave it a few tries and then gave up and sold it.
zrp040speagoessenda – :
Being a Lolita fan, the bottle amused me, and I ended up buying the bottle. Did not like the smell at all.
ToresEkl – :
If you like sweet and cloying perfumes, then you will love this. This perfume is beautifully blended. To me, this perfume feels like syrup on my skin, and I am surly not a fan. However, I would way this about any sweet perfume. This is not a cheap smelling perfume, and it definitely has a high end smell about it. However, it is SWEET.
alexpotapof – :
I love it. It’s a magical one, I remember I bought it for the first time around 2007, and it was a blast everywhere I went. Because it was so different, it smells kinda salty, but at the same time very sweet- its vanilla is unique! When I wear it in the morning, I smell hints of vanilla through the day, but not the overpowering kind. I haven’t found a perfume, so far, that has the sweetness of this one. I smell a little bit of chocolate, too. I wouldn’t say it wears out: I still can smell the vanilla after I shower. As for the orange, I can smell it in the beginning, but it disappears very fast. No citrusy notes noticeable for me, at least. Some say it is a ‘mermaid’s perfume’…not just because the bottle has all these sea themed details, but the scent somehow reminds of it, it’s a magical perfume, I say. I have a couple of bottles stocked, because unfortunately it was discontinued, and I wear it with caution LOL… The silage is heavy, and it lasts for more than 12h on my skin. You don’t have to put too much to be noticed, and it kinda becomes a signature scent… To the fans of gourmand fragrances, it’s a must have.
revan395 – :
Beautiful perfume. Very sweet with a good dose of vanilla. Very lolly smelling or candy for the Americans. It makes your mouth water almost. A true gourmand that I get a hint of caramel from on my skin. Smells good enough to eat.
Mekdk217Unlogrere – :
Beautiful oriental gourmand! Nice twist with the citruses I love warm spicies with a refreshing note! Something about the contrast is so emotive.
brambifebrise – :
Definitely I have to try this one. This one showed almost every time in “people who like this also like”, no matter which perfume I am cheking 🙂 But I can not find it in my country. Is it discontinued?
iluxa80 – :
This is my review for the bottle that contains the brown juice.
Sweet, spicy with a hint of citrus, and long lasting….I like it! But has anyone else smelled Red Velvet Cheer from Bath and Body Works and find that the two fragrances have striking similarities?
Dyversant – :
This was my first perfume purchase- I was high school senior-from a family who never wears a perfume. I absolutely loved it!
IllintyHoli – :
Nothing to do with Poison Girl, but everything to do with Casamorati Lira.
radionprox – :
This perfume smelled exactly like a mix of vanilla/orange. I didn’t get any cinnamon notes or any green notes, of course my nose isn’t as sensitive as others, so maybe they are smelling something that I can’t. I liked it, and it’s a nice spring scent, but I don’t love it. The bottle is GORGEOUS. I did notice, as others have, that the perfume goes off color quickly and turns amber, however it doesn’t appear to affect the scent. I haven’t repurchased, and I probably won’t, but I don’t regret buying it.
AlexRaven – :
Warm spicy indeed! Some days I feel the faint citrus background, but this is mostly spice and vanilla, in that order. Think one of the Nicolaï vanillas, but creamier.
NOTE: I have a very old bottle (more than 8 years old), but I always keep my fragrances in the closet so they have almost no exposure to light, so it has not turned brown.
Steabeboonacy1991 – :
@riverheightsnancy
I think your bottle has turned. What you describe is NOTHING like the correct smell, even allowing for differences in perception. L has been out of production for years and even sealed boxes may have been poorly stored.
I bought a partially used bottle from a private seller on eBay UK just before Xmas, because the contents of my original bottle are getting dangerously low. Luckily, the one I received still smells as good as my original; the contents are not brown, though.
psaserg – :
“INSATIABLE’S MY NAME WHEN IT COMES TO YOU”.~PRINCE!
I can’t even began to put into words How Stunningly Gorgeous this Cinnamon-Sexy-Sweet-Delectable fragrance is! In my humble opinion, this is an Insatiable Masterpiece kind of scent! Very warm, ravishing, irresistible, and cozy!…One of my ALL time favorites, & I simply can’t get enough!
sergikani – :
I loved the first, original LL and got it from Nordstrom’s when it first became available and adored it. I am a huge fan of L’Occitane’s Honey & Lemon which is discontinued and very hard to find and expensive (got some for Christmas and it cost over $190). So, I have been looking for a replacement perfume that is not so expensive and maybe easier to find. Based on the reviews here, many people said that L was similar to L’Occitane’s Honey & Lemon, or at the least was in a similar vein, of that Honey/lemon/vanilla/caramel that I so adore.
I have to say that on first whiff of “L”, it was an utter disappointment. Now, I will preface this to say that I got an unopened, in-the-box bottle, still in the cellophane wrapping. The perfume had turned that brown amber color as others have noted, but based on the many comments here, that does not seem to effect the scent (maybe it has, but I have nothing to compare it to). I don’t smell the honey or vanilla notes at all. And I also adore cinammon and I get none of that either. All I can smell is the annoying smell of celery, or something green, yet the note escapes me. It also has a very strong burnt, rubber/alcohol note that goes away on the dry-down. Once it is dry, there is no sillage and the scent is gone within 30 minutes. I tried really hard to like this. I wanted to like it, but I think that I will be reselling on Ebay so someone else so they can enjoy it, because it just doesn’t work for me.
zakotenko – :
Well this is a Christmas/holiday cookies and sweets in a bottle. Not overly sweet, though. A soft sweetness, a ‘come closer, I smell delicious’ sweetness. Not the young girl/girly-girl cloying sweetness, but a light, soft sweetness. For me, I definitely pick up the vanilla in this, and it is the real McCoy vanilla scent, not a synthetic nor artificial nor cloying vanilla, but literally smells like the good, pure vanilla. Citrus is way in the background, I can’t detect it on first sniff, but I can tell citrus is happily mingling with the other notes, as is the cinnamon, I do not smell this and think ‘cinnamon!!!!!!’–but I can tell cinnamon is also subtly mingling in there in the background. Sandalwood comes out for me on the dry down, but is subtle, as well.
Basically for me this smells like a really good bottle of pure vanilla with the other notes very subtly and shyly playing in the background. I will say I do not seem to detect the musk. I sort of wish the musk was more prominent/detectable in this for me, but I can’t pick up any musk with this.
All in all it is a lovely soft sweet scent, not headache-inducing sweet, just very soft and yummy with a touch of warmth (hence, the oh-so-very-subtle-cinnamon). I sorta feel like a cupcake from a very fancy upscale bakery when I wear this, and usually I do not like fragrances that make me smell like a cupcake, but this is so soft and yummy and comforting and light, it is just deliciousness in a bottle. No cap, which is a little complaint for me, but, it is a very pretty bottle. Pretty sure there are similar fragrances out there (if synthetic and cloying compared to this), but the beautiful bottle makes me want to savor using this as long as possible, even minus the cap. Shame that this was discontinued, I think it is a treasure!
mathhs271 – :
This seems to be discontinued and I had a hell of a time finding it, so I’m not sure if the bottle I finally got is so old its basically stale. I couldn’t find a manufacture date or anything like that. It smells very faint and nothing like I waa hoping for. I expected something along the lines of Un Jour de Luz by Parfums et Senteurs du Pays Basque, and all I got from this was….I guess old, dusty immortelle, with some dry, old cinnamon. It sounds like a holiday-esque scent, but its just bland and ick on me and on paper. It barely smells at all….perhaps my bottle is 10 years old, who knows. But Coral Flower has been discontinued for years, its one of my favorites, getting harder and harder to find but STILL smells wonderful, so I’m a bit inclined to say this scent is a bit of a dud.
Just scrolled down a bit through the reviews – my juice is on the brown side and aged as I expected, so I don’t think I’m the only one with this problem. Wish I could have smelled one that was fresh.
lonshakov3 – :
H&m online are selling a limited edition body spray called “the sweetest thing” which is dirt cheap and smells like this… It also lasts ages
hjvfirf111 – :
H&m online are selling a limited edition body spray called “the sweetest thing” which is dirt cheap and smells like this… It also lasts ages
Oleg111 – :
This is the perfect scent for Christmas, holidays or when you want to relax at home. Cuddly, sweet,spicy,warm and cozy at the same time. Ideal everyday fall and winter scent. At first spray I smell zest orange and citruses. When it calms down I smell vanilla and aa bit of cinnamon. I can also detect the imortelle which gives a herbal vibe to the scent. The scent reminds me of christmas holidays, relaxing moments at home with friends and family in front of the fireplace and delicious christmas sweets. It has the perfect balance between sweetness and spicyness. It’s not cloying sweet or heady. A great scent for lovers of gourmand and spicy warm scents. It would be also the perfect scent to spray before you