Souvenir Floral Bouquet

I realize that my review will not get me a win in popularity contest and that's not my aim here. Driven by ample raving reviews praising this juice for its quality, sillage and longevity I decided to blind buy it. Sadly, it brought absolutely nothing into my olfactory world. I definitely purchased a genuine fragrance from an Afnan authorised distributor, and upon application I expected butterflies. All I got was a linear rose-musk combo that projected incredibly poorly and lasted a mere one hour. Complete and utter disappointment which sadly taught me that reviews and votes in sillage and longevity categories must never be relied upon, as my own experience is a contradiction of everything I've read here about Souvenir Floral Bouquet. It's the biggest let-down in my entire fragrance collection. To sum it up, overpriced, overhyped, underwhelming lacklustre juice. I own air fresheners that are far more exciting and last longer. Edit: I'm not sure if some magic happened but having left it on the bottom of my perfume wardrobe for about a year, I decided to give it another go. Oh my world. I sensed an utter bliss. It smells nothing like what I recall from a year ago. Projection and longevity improved immensely and instead of a linear rose, I can smell a dewy rose at dawn, romantic, in full bloom, seductive, feminine. What an incredible surprise. Either my nose has changed or the fragrance evolved. Either way, it's a love relationship from now on.

So I currently owned the original Delina as well as Souvenir Rose Bouquet. When I initially smelt Afnan's offering I did immediately say that it smelled just like Delina and was an exact dupe. However when I got it home and smelt them side-by-side I did see the differences so it's not 100% However for me I would say Delina is a beautiful power forward bridal scent light Airy but still projects! While Souvenir Rose Bouquet is the older business forward sister who has a clipboard and is making a list and checking the budget twice😉 Upon initial spray I pick up the peony the rhubarb and the sweet fruity litchi🥰 as it dries down I get more of the musk and the Amber and it's really not until hours 3 to 8 that I smell the rose and a bit of incense the rhubarb stays with me throughout 💗 I absolutely adore this fragrance it's definitely a boss chick ramped-up Delina..... On clothes I would absolutely say this is pretty Eternal especially if you're a heavy sprayer!! There was a jacket that I wore last week that I had sprayed it on and I picked it up to put in dry cleaning and I could still smell this ....it's a beast I love it as an all-day work fragrance a girls night out fragrance a powerful business meeting scent .....whereas I wear Delina when I want to smell feminine flirty yet "ok hubby I mean business" so a long-awaited date night 🤣

I love this SOOOO MUCH. I love it for the scent itself, I bought because everyone says it's a dupe for Delina, I do own Delina La Rosee but I don't own the OG. I actually never even sniffed it, and YES, I picked the Delina DNA in it. Delina La Rosee is a wonderful fragrance, it's not comparable to SB because it doesn't have that rhubarb note so it's lighter and fruitier, but due to my love of La Rosee I was very curious to know what the OG smells like - and I'll probably get the real deal eventually because I'm definitely a Delina girl. But let's get back to Souvenir Bouquet. I love when we fall in love with a fragrance despite being a dupe or not. And I do love this one. I have it for one month or so by now, and it probably has to macerate because it's not beast mode or long lasting on my skin. I actually get a bit anosmic, which is a shame. From the opening till now I did notice that this fragrance is more rounded and one of the sharp notes (probably rhubarb?) it's more mild and pleasant. I want to let it sit for a while but I just can't haha. I want to wear it everyday - is fresh, is signature, and it'll be probably not my only bottle of this one. I only hope it gets better performance and last longer, but I'm not a fortunate who has skin that every perfume delivers its best projection and longevity, tbh.

This had a really weird pungent and almost unpleasant smell in the background to my nose when I first bought it about a month ago. I put it up in the dark corner of my closet and hoped something would change. I loved everything about it but it had that one weird hint of something unpleasant. The bottle was also almost boiling hot when I received it in the mail (I live in Florida) so I wonder if that had something to do with it. Anyways, I tried it again today and was so happy that unpleasantness was gone! This is such a beautiful deep rose scent. I feel so grown and sexy when I wear it. Update: so I was feeling brave and wanted to try layering this fragrance and I’m kind of shocked at how well fcuk for her works with this. It smooths it out quite nicely! Update 2: I also made the bold decision to layer this with Parfum de Cerise (TF LS dupe) from Montagne. I don’t know what possessed me, but I have gotten DOZENS of compliments at the 2 stores I visited while wearing this concoction! Seriously, like 7 out of 10 people who walked by me or stood near me complimented my fragrance. I feel like a mad genius!

I love this perfume. It definitely reminds me of Delina. It is 95% Delina. I read a commenter who said this smells like Club de Nuit Imperial ... No ! They don’t smell the same. This is Delina while Club de Nuit Imperial is Delina Exclusif. Club de Nuit is so sweet while SB is tart and fresh. I can wear this on a hot day or in a warm country but with CDNI I cannot because it’s too sweet. I love the tartness in SB. I love tart scents and if you are in a hot country tart scents are good, sweet scents are impossible to wear. This perfume has a very good longevity, it last a lot plus the silage is strong. Everyone can smell me. I was surprised when my sister in law said it smells so divine when she was going down the stairs while I was on the ground floor. She smelt it from the first few stairs from the second floor.I already received so many compliments saying I smell so good. My Brother in law kept asking me to give him my bottle as he really liked the smell. This is one of my top perfumes.