Description
Ibiza – born British celebrity make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, who has her own brand of cosmetics, presents her first fragrance called Scent of a Dream, scheduled for August 2016. The perfume is derived from her own blend of scented oils from Ibiza’s hippie markets that she has been using for over 30 years. The perfumer Francois Robert helped her in making that scent piped in the chypre – floral composition.
The scent combines top notes of lemon, peach, mandarin, bergamot, saffron and black pepper with intoxicating floral heart of tuberose, violet, jasmine, patchouli and incense. The base wraps it up with ambroxan, hedione and ISO-E Super molecules, and note poinciana tree (Delonix regia) known as “fire tree”.
Kate Moss is photographed by Sølve Sundsbø in the print campaign, and shot by Baillie Walsh in the video commercial. The fragrance is available as a 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
ginger_gy – :
I can smell the patchouli so strong that i didn’t even pick up the other notes.. I am not saying it is bad but some ppl like it like that.. it is so similar to Danielle steel
angeladrucioc – :
I initially tried this fragrance when it first came out and did not appreciate it…it reminded me of a fragrance that I had purchased on the Neiman Marcus website but I cannot recall the name…but years later I decided to give this another go and I am so glad that I did….this is not the type of fragrance that you can just spritz on the back of your hand…because lets face it…the fragrance is a little heady….you really need to lightly spritz this all over your body to truly appreciate it…Just my opinion…concentrating this on just one area is going to be way too much for anybody….on me I do get a lot of the citrus notes…btw…I love…I know fragrance notes are different on everyone so you may not have the same scent experience as me but that’s okay…..I really enjoy this one years later
Ilnar8 – :
I’m in the not-loving it camp. It smells to me like a super old vintage scent. I thought it had gone off when I first sampled it. It’s a very plummy 1980s scent, fruity sweet, heavy. Not gonna be my thing
Vetal9009 – :
First up: I don’t actually hate this. It smells like something that someone more ‘vintage’ would love, though I doubt that most of Charlotte Tilbury’s customers are gonna be into vintage fragrances. It’s clean and kinda faux-powdery and the bottle is beautiful. It kinda stays like that the whole time, with a few not-very-noticeable shifts in notes. As someone who loves the way fragrances change in action, I found that kind of boring.
I love the marketing that’s going on for it. It seems like something she & her company are really excited about having released.
What I find interesting, though, is that the notes listed here are fairly conventional and inoffensive. You’d expect a nice, sweet smell but I guess the Iso E really takes over and turns it from something cute like Hugo Woman to something serious.
servak007 – :
So glad I’m not the only person who found this to be awful. It smells like an old fashioned cheap and nasty fragrance you would give to your worst enemy for secret Santa. Charlotte was so off the mark with this. Even more disappointed when ordering cosmetics from CT and you get a free sample of this each time you place an order – in the bin it goes. Dreadful.
mr.Dunk89 – :
Yuk, this is one of the few perfumes that I have ever washed off soon after application. Even after using soap and water AND Clinique Clarifying Lotin, I could still smell this awful scent.
I love Charlotte Tilbury cosmetics and expected this to be equally wonderful.
However to me it smells like cheap body spray from the 1970s. Ghastly stuff.
valera700 – :
Tuberose, Iso E, incense.
This is acrid and cloying on me, medicinal, soapy. I feel like there are a dozen more attractive white florals + incense perfumes from L’Artisan Perfumerie or other niche and mainstream houses. I think you could order a assorted white floral or tuberose sampler from Perfumed Court and you would like most of the selections they send you better than this.
Maybe it is just my body chemistry?
ant250778 – :
The patchouli is very prominent in this perfume. Its also quite long lasting, in fact, on me it lasted 4 to 5 hours on initial spray. What I love is the tuberose touch that adds character to this perfume. I received some compliments from wearing this. Not extraordinary but not too bad either.
A 4.2 out of a 5 for me on sillage & longevity. But a 2 for being pricey..
teri534 – :
I think I like this? With my skin chemistry it smells very earthy, and I can really smell the Patchouli. I have actually started mixing this with my “whisper” perfume oil from doterra. It creates this very grounded natural smell. I haven’t received any compliments on this yet. I am honestly not sure what to think. But i do enjoy smelling it on myself, so I suppose it’s a win in that way!
stabil – :
This is my favorite women’s scent I’ve ever smelled , I’m 26 m a customer came into my work she was a woman in guessing approx 45 and the dry down of this was radiating exactly how someone would want it to be not too heavy just perfect, when she was done and about to leave I had to ask her what it was because I could smell some sort of combination of synthetic ambergris / woody molecules (more than likely so called captives the chemical engineering companies create to keep original fashion /perfume businesses ahead of the copy cats) anyhow it is such a hypnotizing scent and the woman mentioned that she couldn’t smell it at all anymore she was pretty surprised I could smell it at all, and like I said it was radiating , I’d guess a bubble like 4-5 feet but not too thick of a cloud I’ll add. beautiful perfume
VDmaster – :
After years of trying to find my signature perfume and have tried many from the stated top perfumes I received a few samples of this perfume, the first time I sprayed it on I was not too sure, there was something distinctive about it, I did not spray again until this morning and I absolutely love it, I rushed down to the shopping centre where I purchased Scent of a dream, beautiful I love it! when I looked at the ingredients I say that patchouli was there which I love and mixed will all the other notes…….love love love………….
butKneeft – :
Update to review below:
I LOVE this fragrance!!!! Having now let it warm on my skin, and worn it for two days in a row; I adore it. My husband – who shares my love of fragrance, grabbed me, nuzzled into my neck and asked ‘ ‘what are you wearing? It’s something else!’ It really is sensuous and utterly addictive. So – I scrap my first line of my last review to ‘this fragrance IS special!’ New favourite!
Biket – :
This fragrance isn’t groundbreaking or overly exciting, but it IS fabulous. It reminds me of Paloma Picasso or some other late eighties big hitter. It’s grown up and easy to wear. It’s not like the deluge of fruity florals on the market at the moment. It’s a woman’s fragrance, and has great silage and longevity. Yes – I agree that the opening can be a bit harsh, but it warms to something sexy and sensuous. It’s a beautiful bottle and I love the Kate Moss connection. I think sometimes we can be very critical of mass marketed fragrances, but I still regard this as somewhat of a ‘high street niche’ – like an Hermes or a Narciso Rodriguez. Definitely worth owning once – if you collect fragrances, as I do. Xx
Y.U.rik – :
It is beautiful to me, try it. I find many perfumes that are loved by many, turned out to be a dislike for me. Perfumes are not subjective. Try and see if it something you like or dislike. Compositions differs from fragrance to fragrance.
l55r55d – :
If I’d looked at the notes before trying my sample I probably wouldn’t even have put it on; the Iso E Super would’ve had me very wary of a potential migraine. But, I sometimes spritz random samples without looking them up just to see what my personal impressions are.
If this is what a dream smells like then I’d rather be awake. It smells like that slightly stale dry towel that’s been folded in the closet for awhile. Suffocatingly dry, with a very fuzzy effect. There’s a decent floral mix underlying everything. Like if the towels were originally dried with really nice dryer sheets, but now it’s just stale.
On fabric, this actually lasts for-ev-er. It transferred from my arm to one of the throw pillows on my bed and if I lay my head on that one, I can still smell it; almost two weeks later.
Vottaided – :
I received a sample of Scent of a Dream with my last CT purchase. While it isn’t terrible, there is a slightly shrieking note that I can’t quite put my finger on. I believe the combination of the pepper and the incense are not harmonious with the floral notes, and it just doesn’t smell pleasant on me. I get a bit of a chemical nailpolish remover tinge, unfortunately. For me, this definitely would not be a fragrance I’d pick for seducing anyone!
конструктор – :
Very bitter pepper and incense ,the bottle does not represent how you would think this would smell ,I expected white floral and very light !very much the opposite as it has a smokeyness which helps this fragrance in lasting longer
Renegare – :
This is a Iso E Super & Ambroxan party. The opening might resemble the mixture of oils she’s collected on Ibiza but I doubt that the aforementioned combination is among them. I expected something different of her, to be honest. However, this is not bad at all if you enjoy this type of scent. If you do and don’t want to or can’t shell out the bucks for this, go for Toni. Almost same scent but way more wallet friendly 🙂
LebedevAI – :
I got a sample of this sent in the post before it’s release. Love at first smell.My partner bought me some for Christmas, it’s quite pricey so I save it for special occasions. To me this perfume is warm and woody. Hints of incence and jasmine. This perfume reminds me of my mum. Pretty sure she has had a similar smelling perfume in the past, although my mum said she hates this perfume. Odd. Nether the less, I love it.
Dweseswogek – :
Such a pretty bottle, but unfortunately this is straight up bitter hairspray to my nose. Elnett smells better!
Pasha_ – :
First time I’ve ever felt the need to leave a review. Received this as a sample with make up I bought, I can only agree with review of maria_elena, this is so awful, and I cannot get rid of the smell from my coat and sweater. To coin a phrase it really does linger like a bad smell.
BENDERBER – :
I was slow to catch on to this fragrance because within the first few seconds of spraying it, it smelled very chemical to me. However, after having it on my skin for an hour or so, it developed into a fragrance very floral and citrus that I absolutely love. Although it doesn’t smell similar, it reminds me a little of Saharienne by YSL in that it smells very different on me than on everyone else I know. My skin is somewhat acidic, and not every floral fragrance smells great on me. I’m a huge fan of Charlotte Tilsbury cosmetics, and although this perfume isn’t quite what I expected, I think it’s very sexy for special occasions.
pilyx21 – :
I’m reading all the reviews and the sample I have has the exact perfume name printed on it. All I’m getting is a gentle pot pourri scent. Its so adorable and pretty. I can’t smell patchouli or tuberose. Is this skin chemistry? As I got this scent on first spray.
Update: sprayed more and I get that patch note and something sour. This didn’t happen with a light spray. If the sour note was missing then this would be a wonderful.
123wert – :
I love what CT does in makeup, even have one of her lipstick (only one because of their price, would have more items otherwise) and it’s fabulous, nice formula, great colour, good staying power all in a luxe packaging. So I really wanted to like this perfume and was very interested on trying it, but a tiny voice inside my head kept popping up saying: “this might be a huge disappointment”, so I didn’t actively went looking for it. In the end I got the occasion when an eager salesgirl came up to me inside a House of Fraser last winter. Biggest mistake ever. I ended up with this thing on my wrist that assaulted my nose and not in a good way. It smelled cheap and conventional and took a lot of scrubbing to leave my skin. Not only that but the fragrance literally stuck to the woollen jumper and coat I was wearing for daaaaaaays so that I had to wash the jumper and air the coat to get rid of it. Not a fan. I even got a sample one day and spritzed it again to see if anything had changed, but I still dislike it. But of course it’s a very personal thing and I actually thought that I remember having smelled something similar on a lot of women in the past, so I’m sure there is a market for it.
ural1975 – :
I got given a few samples of this and tested it recently. This certainly is a strange one. First of all I dismissed it as just another ‘ blah’ perfume as the first blast smelt very synthetic and cheap.
I quickly forgot about it as it seemed to disappear but after an hour or so I kept getting quite strong occasional wafts of something rather interesting and very changeable. I have tested this several times now and it behaves differently ( or I perceive it differently) from day to day and even hour to hour- maybe this is the ISO E super at work?
I have grown to really like this now – on me it is a very distinctive fragrance that is sharp yet comforting. I really like its unpredictability and complexity. It is the most quixotic perfume I’ve encountered.
Interestingly my 12 year old son – totally unprompted, told me quite that something smelled really nice after I had liberally sprayed this? He has never ever commented on any of my many, many perfumes positively or negatively before or since.
I’ve have been very pleasantly surprised and impressed by this perfume after a pretty inauspicious start. I think it’ s changabilty suits my Gemini moon!
ipd302Unlogrere – :
Although I’ve never tried any of Tllbury’s makeup, I am aware of her, mostly for the incredible packaging she comes up with. From vintage photo compacts to highlighter shaped like bars of gold, it’s all gorgeous stuff. As is the pretty vintage-style bottle for her fragrance.
Fortunately, I was given spray samples of Scent of a Dream, which I am wearing today.
The big question with all of Charlotte Tillbury’s products–does it live up to the packaging?
I’m not certain that with her fragrance it does. I have two ml bottles as samples, so I did not hold back. Perhaps I should have. I was instantly overtaken with a very sweet, heady scent. I smelled the flowers mostly, the tuberose, violet, and jasmine. Mixed in were sparkling fruits, orange, pear, mandarins. It was a bit too much sweetness. In about ten minutes, the top had burned off, and I was starting to get patchouli and incense. It’s interesting-I can smell it around me; just the sweet flowers. But all I can get when I sniff my wrist is incense.
After several hours of wear now, I still leave a trail, and I’m sure anybody stuck in an elevator would smell my perfume. But would they like it?
I tend to think there would be no excitement, no “what are you wearing.” The sweetness overbears-always a chance with tuberose and jasmine. The woodsy elements meant to deepen it don’t, they seem to stand on their own.
It’s vey feminine. It is pretty. I can see why many do like it. It’d be nice for a summer evening. I like florals and it seems hard for me to truly dislike any perfume with floral notes. But for me, it isn’t bringing me anything evocative. I have many pretty, generic, sweet perfumes and I’d just add this to the list. I’d be ok with it as a gift but would not buy it for myself. The packaging is prettier than the product in this case.
Xeroxyxmdm – :
Eugh. I’ve got a horrible taste in my mouth from this (no I didn’t drink it or spray it into my face). I was so attracted to this because of the name and white theme in the advertising. I love fragrance with a kind of floaty nature. Luckily it’s only a sample that I bought. To me it’s just a smack in the face by a really over bearing bouquet of flowers covered in hairspray. It has put me off food also. Not everyone is like me though, my senses tend to overlap a little.
taniyshuk – :
The bottle looked gorgeous, so I went a head and brought it without even smelling it! Im a charlotte tilbury makeup fan, and I never expected anything bad from her as all her products are amazing! The first time i’ve tried this perfume I was very disappointed and hated it, so i started using it on my bed sheets to be done with it! AND WOW! after smelling it continuously for a while, it has become one of my favorite scent of all time? super gorgeous! I got 5 compliments on that week! And they didnt stop! its so feminine and sweet! Love it!
evennarog – :
My bf loved this on me….I HATED it! So stuffy. Heady, heady, heady patchouli and powder and orange and chemicals and just whaaaaaat is going on in there???
It’s like someone tried to remake Narciso Rodriguez for Her but made it dusty. I really don’t like this at all. I would really have to give it a few more tries for a fair chance, but my nose is pretty loyal to me, so I am not convinced I’d change my mind.
g_waleri – :
First of all let me say I am stuck in a rut with my perfume choices.
I love:
Chanel No 5 – mainly vintage all concentrations
Chanel No 19 – only vintage
Shalimar – mainly vintage
Volutes – both EDP and EDT in case I have missed something!
and a few others that I never get round to wearing because I am so wedded to the above!
I have many samples of Scent of a Dream and in truth I couldn’t even be bothered to see what it was like and gave it to my young daughter for her dressing up box. I find the strap line “…enhances your powers of attraction.” hilarious! There is something so deliciously naff about it.
However, the other day, said daughter was wafting something gorgeous and when she told me it was her Kate Moss perfume I couldn’t believe it!! This smells SO different to every other modern perfume. Every time I lift the foil peel-backs in magazines I get nothing but something which is a bit like canteloupe melon with sickly confectionery.
This is essentially musky with lots of other things going on and honestly: I love it!
par68 – :
I do not understand why this perfume has received so much criticism! I think it is beautiful. This is a bit of a shocker upon first spray and I will admit that I was initially turned off by this fragrance as it is quite harsh and synthetic with a cheap lavender-ish aromatherapy type smell upon first sniff. However 10 mins on my skin and it developed beautifully. I can not stop sniffing my wrists, I love it! It is not groundbreaking in any way and it definitely is not unique as it reminds me of three fragrances I already have in my collection but it is still a very nice fragrance.
Once this has dried down on my skin it shares similarities with Agent Provocateur, Lady Vengeance and after one or two hours on my skin It smells vaguely similar to my much loved Frederic Malle POAL!
Overall I really enjoy this fragrance and will be purchasing a full bottle soon.
Great job Charlotte!
sden – :
Smells like a powdery soap along the lines of Oscar De La Renta and L’Air Du Temps. It’s nice, but it’s been done about 60 years ago.
sfp986Diobtetty – :
This is a case of the emperor’s new clothes. Charlotte Tilbury might be a cosmetic genius, but she knows very little about perfume and clearly has no one around her to tell her she had made a colossal mistake. Marketing will only get this crude sledgehammer of a perfume so far. AVOID.
Сергей2011 – :
I love it too!! I think it’s wonderfully complex, not very sweet, wonderful flowers, powdery and delicate, yet deep and sensual, wonderful citrus and fruit and gorgeous patchouli, woods and amber. Exciting I think. I love it how it changes all the time – never a dull moment! Terrific perfume. Really interesting, very intoxicating and glorious. Spicy, warm, cool, bitey, soft and creamy, cool and breezy, deep, unique. Such contrasts. I love it. I love the patchouli, it goes very well, well-blended with everything. Perfect. Not boring. Such lovely white flowers. Everything is really crazy. I love it. And I have been told so often that I smell wonderful, that I guess it must be true! Happy happy me!
And by the way……I think the name Scent of a Dream is perfect!
Roxy1991 – :
Well I love it. There’s a retro vibe going on. At first whiff it reminded me of the discontinued Avon fragrance called Sonnet I wore back in the 70’s, then it reminded me of Estée Lauder Azuree. I love chypre, I love patchouli, and I love complicated florals. I’m sick to death of sweet and fruity. This smells like a sophisticated grown up former hippy – so basically me.
olega_78 – :
I think this is The Emperor’s New Clothes!
A lot of fanfare and there’s nothing there!
QQQQQQ – :
Does anyone else u or have this issue , with the regular sized big,bottle ., I bought it aftr,rgetting a. Free,sample from them in the mail and for it for a Christmas gift to myself, and it didn’t last that long .and there has still been some left more then the usual “ending , in bottom of the bottle ” ammoj,t.. It has been quite a bit to. But cause of the bottle shape etc it wpnt come out like usyal /correctly ,, wont spray correct or almost anymore at all now even tho there is some left but only has been if I had the bottle perfectly flat and then it would come out but now there is less and it’s almsot like the straw is just to short of not this short and bottle shape it qouks, come out normal still ., like they pourpaly made the short straw and bottle shape .. Oh they will have to but another bottle once they get to 87th e last but and can’t get it to spray normally or at all 38th a short straw and bottle shape.,, even when it’s on a flat surface
belebez – :
I can’t keep up with this perfume!!
It changes every 30 seconds!
From flower stem to green scent to Powdery peach then sweet warm scent to fresh soap to white flowers …
It’s all over the place. If your looking for an crazy perfume this is the one!
roomantic – :
There’s no nice way to say this: I find this perfume ugly. It jars. There’s just waaaaay too much going on.
Heavy, druggy patchouli slugs it out with the citrus opening. As things start to settle down, a harsh, chemical base comes through, competing with the supersweet florals. Like the stoned guest who isn’t together enough to leave, the patchouli never gives up, lingering until the welcome end. In fact, a bad party is pretty good metaphor for this scent: too crowded, too noisy, supposed to be life-enhancing, leaves you with a bad headache.
Pity, because I love Charlotte T’s make-up range.
НиКиШоК – :
On my skin this is a musky, soapy floral along the lines of Guerlain Idylle, SJP Lovely and Modern Muse which normally I can’t tolerate and find headache inducing. This one is a bit softer and I get pleasant, pretty wafts every now and again so I’m tempted to add this to my wardrobe for a light, feminine, everyday fragrance.
Tugsillub – :
Dear God this is bad. Did Dr Bunsen Honeydew of the Muppet Show make this? Scent of a Dream is a cheap, synthetic mess, culminating in the type of smell you’d associate with discounted perfumes sold in baskets next to the toilet paper in supermarkets. Testing this made a Beaker out of me…meep!
pirat1990 – :
If you dream of the oppressive smell of artificial grape sweets with a heavy patchouli base, I guess this is the scent of your dream.
Bella – :
I love the way the scent opens, and the top notes. But sadly it disappears into nothing. Very disappointing middle and base notes. Surprisingly under powered.
ZeltCoile – :
I am a HUGE perfume person and I usually read other reviews and make my own informed decision. From reading the notes, especially the top notes (which by the way are my favorites)I thought that I was going to love it. So after going to my local Nordstrom store and purchasing this perfume I really don’t know what to think about it. It falls flat. Like another reviewer had mentioned (not sure if this was this site or another) it does not have a middle…it goes straight from the top to the bottom where it just sits with this woody smell. I don’t think the notes all go together….I don’t know about this one…I had higher hopes and will be returning soon…back to Nordstrom it goes….sorry…it’s just a disappointment.
icysky – :
I was so disappointed by this. I got a free sample direct from Charlotte Tilbury and expected great things. On my skin, it’s nothing more than that bitter, chemical cloud you get when undiluted laundry detergent accidentally spills on your skin. Nasty, artificial stuff. Weirdly, it’s both feint and potent at once: it won’t scrub off, it’s very strong and yet it isn’t powerful. It’s only an off-putting type of strength. It’s haunting my skin in a bad way.
unstable11 – :
What a disappointment. This scent is very cheap smelling, worse than the worst celebrity fragrance. It is totally flat, smells like something you get at the flea market or like something an eighty year old church lady has been hoarding for forty years and went bad long before her eight grandchild was born. Let me put it this way, it smells like the cheap incense the potheads use to fool their parents with.
Nixato – :
Like Katemax has said, it´s hard to get past the initial patchouli. After you do, you see it´s as if missing middle notes. Patch and musk, and somehow hollow in the middle. Headache stuff. I do love everything makeup that CT releases, but not this.
balts89 – :
Based on the (rather silly) marketing, I expected a super luxe boho chic fragrance, spicy and rich, meant to make a stranger at least give a second look.
What I experienced when I tried this fragrance was an uplifting, fresh citrus blast, followed by a wave of indistinct floral chypre notes and a sort of salt/wood base.
I think that the idea was that person wearing this would have an aura of freshness and light (the citrus) while beckoning sensuality and sexual interest (the florals and woody/salt base of ISO-E).
Persistent on skin- it last for about 5 hours on.
Thing is, this scent did not make me feel sexy, or adventurous, or any of that. There were no swooning men following me as I tried the scent. To be honest it’s not very sexy nor compelling at all, and the bottle, a replica of a vintage type perfume bottle, is plastic- a deadly misstep for a perfume that costs $100/ 50 mL bottle.
It’s not a bad scent at all- but it does not match the marketing hype at all.
npapok – :
I don’t understand all these nasty comments on this amazing fragrance. This is a work of art by a genuinely fine perfumer! Iso E Super is a popular synthetic ingredients of woody notes which are used in many other perfumes, but what makes this fragrance very special is the way it is composed not to be recognized as ‘something’. This is a new and unique accord. Not old fashioned. Now a days everything sweet and sticky, and peoples noses are spoiled by them,and so I hope within a few months-few years time this accord will be understood ,accepted and loved by more ladies. I admire this.
Vip163 – :
I expected more from Tilbury. I expected luxe hippie, given this is supposed to be based on her own essential oil blend. I thought this would be a lot more natural smelling as well. I’m not keen on chypres at the best of times but I’m afraid I think this is awful. It’s sharp, old-fashioned, cheap and synthetic. The bottle is faux vintage crystal and I don’t like it either. It smells like a work in progress, like they tipped too much of something into the mix (the iso I guess) and this batch has gone a bit wrong but might be redeemed somehow..
I suggest not buying this and buying your own essential oils to mix instead because this is the scent of nightmares, jarring, twangy and glaring, a sinister grin, flowers that don’t like you..
fliemiUlcella – :
Tilbury’s ridiculous marketing claims aside, this scent is trying to be a sexy chypre but it’s a disappointment. Starts off like slightly lemony hairspray then goes woody floral with some powdery amber and surprisingly restrained patchouli… and as I type that, it sounds ok but in reality doesn’t work. Plentiful ISO e super confuses you into thinking it’s a nice composition for a few seconds but then it’s like makeup melting on a hot day – worse than if you’d gone bare faced. The idea of using ISO e super to fuzz up a cheap chypre and make it seem richer is actually pretty smart. But in this particular execution, a miss.
JOKER – :
Strong, sythetic, old-fashioned. Do not like this one at all. The motto does not fit at all ‘The key to attraction. Make your dream a reality.’ I do not think that you would attract anyone with this. I really do hope it only smells like it does on a bit of testing paper, because for now, I really dislike this fragrance. Seems something that a grandma would wear…
Merviholes – :
I was looking forward to smelling it at Nordstroms. So I eagerly picked up a bottle to take a sniff because there was no cards I could spray it on around and ….OMG NO!
I know I must have scrunched my nose in disgust because that’s how I felt. I really thought that based on the notes, I would like it. My first thought was-this is chypre scent and I usually don’t like chypre. Second-it smelled STALE. By “stale” I don’t mean it smells like bottle has gone bad, it just smelled like something stale. Citrus I get, then florals which were far too cloying for my taste. Tuberose in this one just about made me keel over. And I like tuberose as its one of my favorite flower.
Others said it smelled “vintage”-well, I would say it smelled “old fashioned”, I guess which to me is NOT a good thing.
I would never want to wear this. Even if someone gave it to me for free.
This is one scent I CAN NOT tolerate
Lyasarosaasa – :
If this is supposed to remind people of sex it must be first base.
I really don’t care for this perfume, and I hope it doesn’t become popular. It’s a very cloying and simple floral, but there is something suffocating about it. It’s boring and not at all what I expected.
rou075Bessinepome – :
I really enjoy the chic-cheap vibe of this one. This fragrance is not for the faint of heart! It’s busy, can be cloying…must be worn to get its full effect. I get a flashy plastic scent with a floral hint. A great “out all night dancing” fragrance.
Agrishgaizess – :
It’s true, it’s VERY ISO-E super. Very-very-very much this.
I don’t know about all this citrus stuff it’s supposed to have – I smell none of this. Just something floral + ISO-E super.
I quite liked this perfume, but that’s because I quite like the ISO-E super, so this scent actually reminded me to buy a bottle of Molecule 01.
Conclusion: it’s a little bit secondary. Not bad, just not original. But I don’t think anyone actually expected a wow perfume from a makeup lady (who is however pretty good at making makeup).
anuff – :
A bit white floral,touch of green crispness and some shampoo going on. Dried down nicely. A vintage feel to it in the same vein as some of the Chloes. I’d be pleased to be given this as a gift or receive a free sample. If anyone – some fragranticans in the UK may – purchased the perfume clothing brand Jigsaw brought out a few years ago in the pale green box that is now discontinued it reminded me alot of that one. Unfortunately, a bit too safe for me to buy but I like my howler fumes. And I still love her lipsticks!
UPDATE – I have now acquired a bottle as I thought it might be a nice safe floral/patch every day scent. As soon as I walked in the office one of my colleagues said ‘ooh you smell gorgeous what IS that?’ But 10 minutes later another colleague arrived and went into a volley of sneezing announcing that ‘someone is wearing a big strong perfume’ (I ‘fessed up and went and scrubbed it off my neck). In the course of the day I have been asked by two total strangers what I am wearing. But I can barely smell anything at all on myself and have to put my wrist right up to my nostril to get anything at all. On balance I like this. Maybe I was just thankful I didn’t get another poor relation to LVEB sugar dose which is what most new releases seem to smell like to me.
Grieveriz – :
Charlotte is so good at what she does…and that is telling really good
tall tales about how this perfume is going to change your life somehow
for the better. If you have read any or seen her marketing for this one it
Is off the charts…and of course I know it’s not true but even I love a good
story and fell for this one hook..line and sinker!…
But back to the fragrance…If this is what Charlotte smells like with her
hand blended Ibitza found oils…it’s kinda just safe. Not bad just safe..meaning
It’s for the masses and will not offend anyone. I like it for what it is and it will have its place
but it doesn’t thrill or take me on any journey but that’s okay…I will just have to
think of her story as I’m wearing it and hopefully that will crank it up a bit!
A safe for the masses generic floral ensemble….
sandinj22 – :
This perfume distinctly reminds me of laundry dryer sheets. I’m kind of surprised looking at the ingredients. Chatted with the boyfriend about it. He brought up the point of maybe too m