Description
Marc Jacobs will bring back four editions of the Splash Collection in spring, 2016. Some of the most popular fragrances of the collection, Rain and Cotton from 2006, Cucumber from 2007 and Pear from 2008, are redesigned and presented as the new limited editions.
“Inspired by the original Marc Jacobs’ Splash Collection, the four favorites recapture the essence of summer. Crisp to the senses, yet mellow in color, each Splash indulges in the simple pleasures of the easy-going, light hearted spirit of Marc Jacobs. ”
Marc Jacobs Rain Splash, the smell of fresh summer rain, grass and flowers after it, is created by Laurent Le Guernec.Top notes: wet cut grass, wild strawberry, clementine, cypress
Heart: tropical rain, passion flower, sunflower, white orchid
Base: amber, moss, teak, musk
Available as a 100 ml Eau de Toilette each.
InaffossyLina – :
Fresh (LOTS of “tropical” rain), aquatic and florally sweet. Surprisingly, it DOES last well on top of my palm (the strong scents from the beginning slowly died down and stayed “lingered” for long time, more than other regular splashes would). It can be overwhelming if I spray more than 2 sprays.
Can’t wait to try the Pear also. I heard that that one smells similar to Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia Cologne (which I really like).
Latest update: I still like this Rain but when I wore it today the way I usually wear my perfume (not testing on my wrist or palm), it actually gave me a little light headache during the dry down (the opening and the end were fine and pleasant, just the middle part that I had issue with). I did not like it the way I liked it on my wrist though. Don’t know why. Maybe I’m just gonna spray it on my wrist from now on 🙂
The Marc Jacobs Pear, however, smells DIVINE on me, and it just reminded me a little bit of the Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia Cologne, but not by much. To me, it smells actually very close to the Victoria’s Secret Bombshell Diamonds 2013 (due to the pear note in both of them).
danteinferno – :
Forgot to mention my timeline _relationship with this frag:
0-30min : oooh this is perfect! It feels like I’m in a garden with fountains
1_3 hours: I hate this! It’s too ozonic for me
Drydown: this is perfection!!!
HARDwareZator – :
Omg !!!!!I fell in love with this scent.Its like a morning breeze !like a garden near the sea! Light and subtle…so close to the skin.Nothing soapy,too flowery or powdery. Just comfortable and perfect.i doesn’t smell like rain or rainforest but it depicts water in a different way
retyforrety – :
Looking and the notes, votes and description I expected so much. Lightly sweet freshness, the scent of a field after the rain, warm, playful, bubbly.
Ahh… All I get is annoying air freshener scent…
rotor_35rus – :
I tried this in Ulta and wanted to impulse buy it SO BAD because I LONG FOR, I CRAVE, and I PINE for the original Gap Heaven. The original Gap scents are like watching 90s Nickeoldeon for me, the nostalgia just gets me every damn time and I don’t care if it’s corny as hell. Anyway, I sprayed it on myself and then walked around the store for a bit before deciding that NOPE, this is just another one of Marc Jacob’s cheap, gimmicky scents with zero staying power, zero complexity and a disgusting dry down. What starts off like a Gap Heaven dupe quickly turns into a sad, aldehydic Axe Body Spray fail. For Gap nostalgics, Philosophy’s Pure Grace is closer and cheaper match.
Haci Aga – :
Gorgeous,fresh, aquatic. Smells heavenly for all of about 30 minutes then disappears. I used up a bottle in no time. I wouldn’t purchase it again for that reason.
Andrei 28 – :
It’s aquatic, little bit sweetness, fresh….Just like when you came out from shower room…. Remind me one rainy summer day with flower bouquet. For me, it last quite long time and sillage was not that bad. I sprayed it on my hair and when the wind blows my hair, people asked me what kind of perfume I use. But maybe that’s because I use green scented shampoo.
sot-86 – :
Agree with reviewer who said this resembles Gap Heaven. But in my opinion it doesn’t smell as cheap.I think it’s a little less sweet but strong sunflower. Happy to have this in my fresh summer collection.
kolergod – :
When I saw the rating and after that I tried it, was quite surprised that I really like it.It is simply clean and divine and IMO it does not smell cheap at all. Not available in my country, so have to look elsewhere, I want it.
Ismayil53 – :
I was searching for something light, clean & watery, (without loads of citrus) for summer. I don’t own many aquatics, & I think this fills that space in my wardrobe nicely. I don’t understand the reviews that say it smells cheap & synthetic – it is after all an aquatic. By it’s very nature (& name), it’s not going to be something sophisticated or complex which contains a lots of elaborate “natural” smelling nuances/notes.
The fruitiness is not at all dominant (imo) – & it’s certainly not the synthetic syrupy “strawberry/fruit flavour” that I was worried about. I’ve tried a lot of aquatic/marine/fresh type perfumes lately, & they all seemed to contain either a hefty dose of dominant citrus &/or IsoESuper – this one definitely doesn’t so it was the clear winner for what I was looking for.
At the moment I’m doing a side by side comparison with Jo Malone Wild Bluebell, & they really are quite similar to my nose. I really do prefer Rain Splash tbh. I paid £38 for 100ml bottle, so I think it’s good value, especially in comparison to the Jo Malone.
With a name like Rain Splash it’s not pretending to be anything other than what it is – & (imho) it smells like what it says on the label. I like this a lot, even though the longevity is quite poor. I got what I expected & wanted, & !’ll enjoy my bottle 🙂
tov186InsuffBooni – :
Oh, didn’t like this one at all. On my skin it smelled like a cheap dupe of Cool Water + air freshener + something sour. Most likely it’s the grass and strawberry notes combined. Shame, because I really like cotton and pear from the Splash collection…
yulchonok13 – :
I absolutely love this. I love the clean, simple bottle, and that the liquid is blue, and the smell really does remind me of rain. I don’t get strawberry at all (thank goodness). I just get this fresh, sweet, clean, mossy, natural scent that smells like a spring garden in the rain. I’m going to save this for drizzly, rainy, and stormy days as a pick me up while I’m reading on the couch. It’s adorable and unique.
1114 – :
I like the scent but it is just too expensive for what it is. It is fresh, aquatic, clean and summery. Not that much different to other scents of similar kind, such as VS Aqua Kiss.
Does not smell like rain at all, as it is a very synthetic aquatic scent. It does not smell like a quality fragrance.
vfif-66 – :
I find this one as not as nice as 2012 version, however very similar, though. The strawberry note is quite dominating in the 2016 year one.
sgl889speagoessenda – :
I hoped this would be something aquatic and woodsy that smells like actual rain or at least the outdoors during/after a rainfall. Unfortunately it mostly smells like one of those mountain springs types of laundry detergent or one of the Clean perfumes. Very generic and duplicate for many cheap body sprays you can find for a couple dollars in any discount retailer. In fact the first comment I got when wearing it was asking why I was wearing such a cheap smelling perfume!
nur796Bessinepome – :
Tries hard to be a close relative of Jo Malone Rain and Angelica but the end result is more like a Glade rainforest air freshener.
Cheap though if this is your thing.
absosileaks – :
Rain was and will always be the absolute ultimate perfume for me, theres no other like it and i have quite a collection and quite a nose…
I do not fall for smells that big brands produce for eventually most of them a. all smell the same (heavy!) and b. are easily “smellable” on people on the street. i can always tell who used what and its annoying. Individuality kinda dies when it comes to perfumes these days.
There hasn’t been even once that I wasn’t asked about this perfume and / or complemented about it.
Its absolutely fabulous on my skin. It’s fresh, it’s like no other, it’s special, it’s really the smell of a summer rain in a forest, its how the wild strawberry smells like after the rain. Its amazing!
Needless to mention how hard it was to find every last drop of it online during the period it was out of all the shelves here in Europe.
Its finally back, my one and only.
chiba5 – :
I tried this out today. First spray smells EXACTLY like Gap Heaven. Then, about 30 minutes later it smells like Gap Heaven with a touch of Gap Grass. It also smells like Method sweet rain hand soap that I sometimes buy at Target. Nice, generic, clean and synthetic.
I do like it. I am just disappointed in the lack of creativity here 🙁