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angelikaame – :
Not a dupe for Soleil Blanc to me but very close the Bronze Goddess Skinscent eau Fraiche. I bought a full bottle on eBay for $15 and may pass it on to a colleague who lives the Bronze Goddess. Good smell but not working for me now in the cooler weather. SUch a pretty bottle and packaging though. I never go into Victoria Secret but guess I may have to. I am curious about the Beach version of this.
sandoval – :
ah this is the typical beachy smell that is everywhere nowadays. its a great dupe for TF’s Soleil Blanc, btw! i tried that one out because the bottle is amazing, but I wasn’t about to drop $100 on a totally dupable scent.
It’s very clean, crisp linen – reminiscent of Jennifer Aniston’s fragrances.
vvt385JeomiWogkig – :
Mwalton & CherriedEmpress, I think you’re on to something!
I was pretty surprised when I smelled the 2 Very Sexy Nows and got a much stronger coconut from the green bottle. I’m wondering if they ran the wrong notes with the wrong bottles in marketing? Or maybe just mixed up coconut and monoi… someone who reviewed the orange bottle said it smells like monoi oil hahaha
tem4ik93 – :
Mono oil. Oh, yum! I must try this one.
Dijis – :
The green bottle is the heavy coconut, and the red bottle is more floral. The notes do look like they’re opposites, though. Good point for anyone who wants to refer to the notes.
jh – :
I dont know if the notes are wrong or if VS swapped the juice in my bottles? My green bottle smells just like Jennifer Anistons Near Dusk, All sand and coconut. My Red bottle smells like the floral. Which looks like the opposite of what is listed? So im a little confused.
It smells nice but I already own Near Dusk & im sticking with that.
fighter2010 – :
I like this one! I am one to enjoy challenging fragrances though! To me this is Estee Lauder’s Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche meets a very robust green note, almost a green fig. It is big, it is cloying and as I said it is challenging! Definitely not going to be a winner for everyone, but it is for me!!!
cant – :
I agree with Jadelynn. Wild Palm is not a scent that should be on humans. I immediately regretted spraying it. I’m not sure it if smells like expired coconut oil, but it’s a very sickening smell. It is strong, too.
It smells nothing like Very Sexy Now 2016. That’s actually a very pretty, good quality fragrance. There’s nothing about VSN 2016 that smells expired. VSN 2016 has a buttery quality they call a sand accord; it’s actually a very lovely accord that stands out, but is warm and alluring. VSN 2016 would be like high-end suntan lotion, and Wild Palm would be old dollar-store suntan lotion.
Wild Palm is like the evil twin of Very Sexy Now Beauty of Brazil from 2009. VS was going for the same vibe, but… yeah.
Wild Palm is so strong. It just wouldn’t go away. One spray on my coat was too much. I could not IMAGINE how fast people would run if they smelled about 5 or 6 sprays on someone in the summer heat. That’s enough to make the strongest stomachs turn. I feel sorry for them already. Yes, Wild Palm is that bad. It’s “cheap car air-freshener” bad — an extra-obnoxious one.
(Beach isn’t great either. They share the same generic dollar-store sun-product vibe, but I could barely smell it. It smelled like floral water. Any trace of Beach, after an hour, was gone.)
VS has been on a bad run lately with fragrances. It’s a microcosm of the downhill trend of their fragrances. A winner will appear soon, hopefully.
It’s a shame because the bottle is to die for. Very beautiful.
alena_mts – :
I couldn’t resist buying the mini bottle set of Very Sexy Now Beach and Wild Palm for $15 at VS.
Wild Palm is the stronger of the two fragrances. It starts off with a fruity note which must be the star fruit. I don’t think I’ve ever smelled star fruit before. This note fades pretty fast and then it’s white flowers dipped in monoi oil. This has kind of a suntan lotion vibe to it which is not what I expected, but I like it.
This will be a fun scent to wear this summer on the weekends and while on vacation.
fuel8880 – :
Almost bought this online without smelling first since VS has a really great bundle deal going on now and the bottle is just gorgeous! Really glad I waited to smell it in store first. Based on the description, I thought I’d like this one better than the “Beach” version, since I don’t like anything with coconut in it as it reminds me of sunscreen.
It turns out Wild Palm actually has a more generic “tropica/beach” scent than the Beach version, probably because of the “expired” coconut-oil-like smell the first poster mentioned. I assume it’s the monoi oil. Both versions smell cheap, heavy, and generic to me, but this one in particular. As someone who lives in the tropics, these sorts of summer fragrances always just smell like cheap tourist shops filled with overpriced items made in China. Absolutely the sort of scent you wouldn’t want to have on you anywhere as hot, sticky, and humid as any place in the tropics.
urazvsergejj – :
Just bought a rollerball for $10 promotional sale from VS store as one of their sales not long ago, to introduce their new launched products. It actually contains this one and the Very Sexy Now Beach as a duo rollerball. Beware when you buy those rollerballs as they don’t seem to roll quite well. The VS sale rep had to open at least 3 of them in order to get one for me that actually worked with some juice coming out.
This one kinda reminded me of Very Sexy Now 2016 that I have avoided at all cost 🙂 All I could smell here (from my rollerball) was just some weak woodsy scents (more like very light incense than just wood) and then a strong, very strange, not the yummy kind of “nut” smell on my skin, must be the monoi oil (the scent is very similar and almost exactly like how I smelled it from Very Sexy Now 2016). I could not smell any star fruit at all and it was such a bummer as I really love star fruit in one of the VS Bombshells. This one smells just simply weird and I’m gonna HAVE TO retest it from an actual big size tester bottle from the store, before 100% committing to it. Too bad for the fragrance since its bottle is quite eye catching and pretty though.
I prefer the Very Sexy Now Beach much better as it does not have that strange smell at all whatsoever and tends to be more “floral” to my nose. But again, there is nothing that stands out from Very Sexy Now Beach either that I haven’t smelled before.
I’m not quite impressed with these two new ones from the VS Very Sexy Now line this time.
Latest update: still a big NO from me after I retested it from a big tester bottle in the store. It smells exactly like Very Sexy Now 2016 which has been the worst Very Sexy Now on my skin.