Tag: perfume

Chocolate Greedy by Montale

On me instead of anything resembling lush, rich chocolate, I get the cloying sweetness and artificial pseudo-chocolate of cocoa pebbles.

Literally, it smells JUST LIKE cocoa pebbles, which incidentally I feed to puppy play subs as fake dog food and they buy that it’s real dog food, so… uh, yeah, no, this is not chocolate. I’ll stick to Chocomusk by Al-Rehab thank you very much.

Miss Habanita by Molinard

Very grape and vanilla which is a charming unexpected combination. It has the heady heavy resin qualities of vanilla, a very sweet french vanilla icecream vanilla with the crisp freshness of grape. There’s something candied in the scent, a little bit grape soda, but not cheap soda, like an artisanal grape-vanilla soda in a glass bottle with fancy graphic design. It makes me think of a very worldly teenage girl, perhaps a teenaged Eloise (of the Plaza hotel) sophisticated, aware of quality but still young and playful.

Betsey Johnson by Betsey Johnson

Citrus and sweets, very girly and pretty, sugary but also fresh with moderate sillage.  A very wearable likable fragrance in a charming bottle for a great price.  The right sort of perfume for a gal in her 20s, not a teenager anymore but still young.

It’s a fragrance almost anyone should be able to get along with, there’s just something friendly about it.  It says “Glad to see ya” it says “nice to meetcha” it says “happy to be here” it says “here, little old lady, take my seat on the subway.” it says “I talk to strangers and say only nice things” it says “sweet as pie.”

All in all a cheerful boho Pollyana of a fragrance.

Red Door by Elizabeth Arden

Sweet honey and flowers, syrupy and yet fresh. I don’t understand how this gets so much hate. It’s just gorgeous and springy, I mean sure it’s BIG and you can smell it for a mile around bu it smells gorgeous so I have no idea what all the fuss is about.

It’s sweet and flowery and just, well, nice. It has a lot of the sweet fresh rose scent I’ve been looking for forever.

Also, despite what some people may tell you, it smells nothing like Red Moscow (which is a gorgeous fragrance, and my signature, but Red Door has none of Red Moscow’s spiciness and is much more sweet and fresh)