Pink Sugar

Sugary sweet, caramel, vanilla, fruity, soft spicy, powdery, decadent, delicious, radiant, luminous, feminine, flirty, playful, charming, whimsical, delightful, cheerful, uplifting, alluring, tempting, addictive, yummy, inviting, cozy, comforting In just a few words - Sugary sweet cotton candy! Pink cotton candy and waffle cones! On me this opens with sweet raspberry, citrusy orange, and a touch of bright bergamot. As it begins drying down the sugary sweet cotton candy, warm spicy licorice, and a touch of fruity strawberry intertwine with the fruity top notes. The dry down envelopes you in decadent caramel, powdery vanilla, vanillic tonka bean, and just a whisper of soft musk and creamy sandalwood. The notes that are the most prominent on me are the cotton candy, vanilla, caramel, raspberry, and orange. I’m actually a big fan of the Pink Sugar line, and also own Gold Sugar, Pink Sugar Sensual, Pink Sugar Berry Blast, and Pink Sugar Creamy Sunshine. Gold Sugar is my favorite along with Pink Sugar and then Berry Blast. My least favorite is Creamy Sunshine, which is like this beachy/coconut version. Berry Blast is actually extremely similar to the OG, except it’s slightly more fruity/berry, and lacks the licorice note, so it’s worth checking out if you dislike the licorice note here. Gold Sugar is actually surprisingly reminiscent of Phlur Heavy Cream, another love of mine. Pink Sugar Sensual reminds me a lot of Brittany Spears Fantasy These do have a youthful vibe to them, but I’m 38, and definitely still enjoy them. Pink Sugar has been a staple in my collection for 20 years, and I still really enjoy it! I’m sure it has been a big contributor towards the gourmand trends of today, but whenever it launched in 2004 it was something that was much more unique at the time. If you’re looking for something similar, but with more sophistication I definitely recommend PdM Oriana, Kilian LDBS, Princess, Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmallow, Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar, Skylar Boardwalk Delight, and JHAG Powder Love (like Pink Sugar for the clean girl aesthetic). I’m a huge gourmand fan, so for reference some of my other favorites include Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmallow, Vanilla 28, Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar, The Wedding Silk Santal, Yum Pistachio Gelato, GdT Celeste, Bianco Latte, Kilian LDBS, Princess, PdM Oriana, Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid, Burberry Goddess, The 7 Virtues Vanilla Woods, YSL Black Opium Le Parfum, D&G The One Desire, The Only One Intense, JPG Classique Pin Up, Guerlain Mon Guerlain, Ellis Brooklyn Marsmallows, Vanilla Salt, Queen’s Caramel, Phlur Heavy Cream, Vanilla Nectar, SDJ Summer è Amor, 62, 39, VS Vanilla Lace, Glitter Hustle, BBW Beach Nights, Boardwalk Marshmallow Clouds, Whipped Honey & Vanilla, Fireside Flurries

I'm sick of people saying sweet scents like this are trashy or juvenile.. Well, juvenile I can understand but come on now, deliciously sweet gourmands like Pink Sugar, Fantasy and Juicy Couture aren't skanky stripper scents 😭 I for one, have a soft spot for sweet and gourmand scents and so does my boyfriend. I primarily wear them for him but I also sometimes like to spritz my clothes with a bit of a sweet scent and then let it settle so that when I wear them they have that precious, intimate sweet sillage to them. That is exactly what I do with Pink Sugar. While I do enjoy Pink Sugar on my skin as well, I much prefer the cozy clothes application. This smells like cotton candy and licorice. I definitely also get the caramel and tonka bean/vanilla-y goodness as well. Basically, the fruity and fresh notes barely come through for me but that's OK. If I am wearing this perfume it is to smell like pure candy and it fulfills that job perfectly well. I will say... To me, the licorice note is not overpowering but if you despise licorice, maybe avoid it. I personally don't mind the smell of licorice, rather just the taste so in this perfume it doesn't bother me one bit, in fact I rather like the unique blend of cotton candy and licorice. It creates a truly unique profile. I do wish to try the rest of the Sugar line but for now I'm honestly perfectly content with Pink Sugar alone. I wear it when I am feeling cute and girly/wearing pink. It gets the job done lol

Maybe I'm just desensitized to overly sugary scents because of how much candy I eat, but to me this doesn't feel overly sweet at all. From the initial spray, I get a lot of licorice, caramel, and cotton candy- I can't explain it, but it feels soft and sharp at the same time. It's like spiky licorice and citrus notes peeking out of a fluffy cotton candy vanilla background. I feel tacky for saying I like this, but I do! It's amazing! I blind bought this because I saw a bunch of fragrance youtubers loving it, and I kind of expected a flatter, more traditionally sweet scent. However, this scent is surprisingly complex (for what it is.) I actually hate the taste of licorice, but for some reason the smell of it is great. Also, I think I had a family friend who used to wear this (or something similar) when I was a kid, so it just brings back a lot of memories! To describe the scent as a whole, I'd probably say it smells like a rootbeer float with a side of sugar cookies. Yummy but not for everyone- if you're a clean girl or someone who likes mature scents you'll probably despise this. update: I let my brother try some of this on, and now his room, my room, and everywhere he's walked in the house smells like this. I'm not mad though, it's a great smell! Just wasn't expecting such insane super mega verrückt projection from an EDT! DEFINITELY not for the faint of heart.

You are immediately greeted with a wave of raspberry, strawberry & cotton candy, with a undertone of liquorice. This blend will last throughout the weartime of Pink Sugar, so if you don't like any of these scent notes, then this fragrance isn't for you. The vanilla-wrapped lily is the clearest floral note for me and it comes across fresh & dewy, which combines nicely with the green & sharp bite of the bergamot and the fig. Caramel and sandalwood form a sweet and creamy base for the florals, with lingering traces of fig weaving though everything. The longevity and projection are both great for a sugary-lead fragrance on me at around 6 to7 hours, with a softer side of moderate projection - Covid side‐effects & my body chemistry have teamed up to ruin my enjoyment of many of my past-favourite gourmand fragrances, but Pink Sugar is holding up really well for an affordable edt. Pink Sugar is a splash of feel-good nostalgia for me, which never fails to put a smile on my face. I will always come back to it, and wear it happily all year around, both alone and layered with other fragrances. I don't really feel comfortable giving suggested age ranges for wearing certain fragrances, but yeah, Pink Sugar is very youthful - I mainly wear it on casual days out and when lounging around my house. I usually wear it layered with something else in more conservative environments.

I love this perfume!! I do not smell burnt sugar or licorice at all. I can imagine why people could smell that, but I personally don't. I am a sucker for all things sweet, but there is a certain limit. And this perfume is perfection. I personally couldn't handle gourmands like Yognog from Lush or Sol de Janero 71, which are considered to be really sweet... they are. Pink Sugar has this fruitiness in the opening and beautiful vanilla in the drydown, which makes it very wearable. It is slightly spicy, but not in a bad way. It's sweet, gourmand but fruity, fresh and powdery. It's giving powder sugar with fruits and a bit of spiciness. Longevity is amazing, price is even better. Also, my man loves this fragrance. It is not as juvenile as it may seem. I am in my early 20s, and I am gonna repurchase this. Some perfumes give me a headache, but this one doesn't even in hot weather. It is a gourmand scent, but it's not as harsh as others. The opening is quite loud tho. But later on, it's amazing. The Pink Sugar body mist: It is pretty much the same with a tiny difference. The mist is less spicy, more citrusy and creamy. I smell whipped cream with a lot of powder sugar and strawberry with a touch of bergamot- but not granny like powder don't be scared!

I have wanted this for so long, and honestly, I was really disappointed at first, but I ended up loving it. I bought it without smelling it first, expecting it to be fun and girly. I heard lots of bad reviews about the licorice note, but I’ve never smelt licorice, so I was hoping I’d like it. When I first sprayed it on my skin, it smelt like hairspray, and the licorice note was so strong that I instantly knew what it was despite never smelling it before. Within 5 minutes I started getting hints of the cotton candy smell but the licorice was still strong. After 10 minutes it turned into a lovely cotton candy, strawberry milkshake, marshmallow, and girly smell to me. The longevity and projection is actually really good for the price! It lasts for a whole day and it’s pretty strong. I would definitely recommend smelling it before buying if you can. I can see why a lot of people don’t like this perfume, even people who like sweet scents. But I’d say I really like this perfume. The bottle design and overall vibe is super cute and girly. I also got the body lotion and I’d just like to point out that it smells the exact same. For reference I love Sweet Tooth and Sweet Like Candy!

I'm a big fan of this and I'll start by saying: I rated it as moderate sillage and lasting 9ish hours, but if you let it macerate for a couple of years it gets progressively better, projects loads and lasts eternally. I now have a stock of them macerating just as preparation 😂 I love this perfume and everyone else loves it on me. It's the definition of a sweet perfume, basically edible but still sexy. The red velvet edition is more of a straight up "cookie smell" without the sex appeal this one has. Big cotton candy, raspberry, lightweight, musky upon drydown and still sugary sweet. Amazing scent profile. When I wear my macerated one I get chased down the street by people asking me about my perfume. I got cashiers at the grocery store asking me to write down the name of this for them. It can also be used as a base layer to almost any sweet fragrance and can, in my view, be worn year-round. Everyone classifies this as being super young and childlike, yet I get fully grown men from ages 20 to 60 obsessing over it. If you like the sweet, compliment getting fragrances, get a bottle of this. It's not even expensive.

It's crazy because I thought I hated this fragrance when I tried it a few years ago. I put the bottle away and dismissed it. I added it to my Hate shelf like a jerk. Today I set it aside to declutter, but decided to give her another sniff. I actually really liked it this time?! I'm shocked! It's warm and sweet, pleasant! Maybe because I sprayed lightly, only a couple sprays? After reading other reviews I think it's because my bottle has aged. I quickly moved it off my Hate shelf, up past Dislike and OK to land on my Like shelf! A few hours later and now Pink Sugar sits on my Love shelf! I wonder if I was being affected by Covid then? It makes me question everything I tried in the early 2020s. I feel like deleting everything from my Dislike and Hate shelves just in case... A very nice surprise. I'm definitely keeping this! 🩷 P.S. The performance beats many of the perfumes I've tried or had that I paid between $100 - $200 for so no need for snobbery! If you are a fan of sweet scents why not try or try this one again? Especially those older bottles that have been put away for a while! Wow, a world of difference!

Very pretty classic fragrance. I avoided trying it for years because I typically dislike gourmands that are TOO too sweet. Pink Sugar is undeniably very sweet. However, it lacks the thick, syrupy, sickly quality that bothers me in those overly sweet scents. I find that Pink Sugar is light, whimsical, and sparkling, the way that cotton candy is sugary sweet but dissolves on the tongue ephemerally. It took me a little while to figure out why this fragrance felt nostalgic to me. Despite being close to the target age at the height of its popularity, I managed not to know anyone who wore it. I figured out the memories it unlocked: Some type of strawberry cookie mix that I had for my childhood Easy Bake Oven, and the sweet vapor of hookah smoke (specifically the Sex on the Beach flavored tobacco that my friends and I used to use.) Overall I find this fragrance simple, fun, delicious, and youthful. I will happily continue to use my sample, and will likely buy a full size bottle for when I want to feel a little extra joyous and feminine.

I’ve been wearing Pink Sugar since it first launched in the early 2000s, and my love for it began during a trip to Italy when I caught one whiff of it in my cousin’s bedroom and was immediately hooked. It has been my signature scent ever since the one fragrance that consistently earns me compliments without fail. My husband loves it so much that he recognizes it instinctively, often telling me it’s a “Pink Sugar day” the moment I put it on. This perfume is exactly why I don't follow the hype of expensive labels; it’s proof that a higher price tag doesn’t always mean a better scent. While I have other favourites, this is the fragrance people truly know me by, and I truly believe you shouldn't let getting older deter you from wearing it, after all, you’re only as young as you feel! It’s a playful, vibrant scent that I’ll always associate with spring and summer, but it’s so good that I find myself reaching for it all year round.

On me I get the cotton candy note, bur not a whole lot, I get more of the sweet creamy caramel and vanilla which is absolutely delicious! I almost feel like some of the review are a little dramatic, it is sweet, but I don't find it sickening so. I think if you can handle Fantasy by Britney Spears then you can handle Pink Sugar. It is sweet and fun and can be perfect for an everyday scent, on someone that doesn't have a stick in the mud. I'm actually quite appalled by the reviewer that says a woman should smell "upper class." Chanel 5 does not fit my personality at all and quite honestly I don't quite like it to begin with. Pink sugar fits me. It smells good to me. And I'm going to rock it whenever I please because I understand it and it understands me. Ladies, dont listen to those that put themselves on a high horse and try to judge you. If you like something then rock it like no one else in the world can!

I love Pink Sugar! It was a blind buy based on the notes and the reviews and it did not disappoint. I haven`t smelled anything like it before. The most edible, gourmand experience ever. Sticky sweet raspberry opening, followed by the lovely combination of cotton candy - burnt sugar - caramel. It is simple and delicious, a must try for all gourmand lovers out there! Excellent longevity for an EDT , it gives many EDPs a run for their money in fact! Sillage is good. PS. : Please don` t be nasty when reviewing this fragrance - it is different, yes. Sticky sweet, yes. Fun, girly, simple and a lot of us like it. As an enthusiastic fan of Pink Sugar I am pretty offended by some of the reviews saying "why would someone want to smell like sugar" or "it is for 5 year olds". Fragrance is about different tastes, individualism and having fun, not about age. Pink Sugar is hugely popular for a reason, get over it ! :)

i actually genuinely love this perfume. i think this is the ultimate gourmand for a lot of gourmand haters not because of the notes themselves or anything but just because it's so nostalgic for so many of us. i remember being obsessed with my best friend's pink sugar body powder when i was a kid, all the way down to the fine glitter it left behind. every winter i come back to it and it layers really well with some of those celeb fragrances that just don't have great performance like AG sweet like candy, sabrina carpenter's sweet tooth. it's just fun. i think it's equally great for y2k hotties and girls who are just beautiful and having fun on a fair date. newer bottles HAVE to macerate. mine took a year before the vanilla developed enough and i could actually wear it without it being a licorice bomb. i don't mind considering i got it for 20 bucks, but definitely something to consider.

Aquolina Pink Sugar bursts open with a candy explosion of bergamot, orange, raspberry, and fig leaf, evoking cotton candy spun with tart red berries like sugary fairground treats dusted in fresh citrus sparkle. It sweetens into a playful heart of lily-of-the-valley, licorice, and strawberry, where the cotton candy core shines through with whimsical, gourmand charm that's youthful yet balanced by subtle floral innocence. The drydown settles into cozy indulgence: vanilla, caramel, tonka bean, sandalwood, and musk create a warm, powdery haze — reminiscent of burnt sugar cookies or marshmallow fluff, addictive without full cloying overload on most skins. Polarizing cult classic since 2003, it layers beautifully for extra depth. Lasts 6-10 hours with bold sillage — perfect for cooler weather, casual fun, or anyone craving compliments on unapologetic sweetness.

This 67 year old young woman wears this often ever since it was released. People around you will always notice and comment on it and everyone gets something different. I've been many places where people around me will say to someone else something like "do you smell cookies.... or caramel, or cake, or cotton candy" and also "someone smells really good in this room". I have been tempted to raise my hand and say, "it's me, everyone!" I also found a fragrance oil dupe for making candles, and when I sold them it was the number one fragrance request, hands down. I've really gotten into niche perfumes recently, and generally prefer them over designer or cheaper fragrances (I guess you could say I'm becoming a perfume snob), but I'm not ashamed of my love for Pink Sugar.

i blind bought this because so many people say it’s amazing, and i think its really, really true. its certainly very 2000s, or early 2010s, it reminds me of sprays or makeup that i had as a kid. its very soft and sweet, i can definitely smell the cotton candy but i think i pick up even more of the vanilla and strawberry with it. so its not a strong, artificial cotton candy but a very soft sugary cotton candy scent. soft is the just best way i can describe it. in the beginning you can smell the raspberry and orange too, at first spritz. so far, its much stronger than my other perfumes and sprays which im happy about. you can definitely smell it on yourself without trying to, so im looking forward to wearing this when going out! it may become my new favorite.

Acqualina! My pink love 💖 I honestly can’t say enough how much I adore it. It smells like a pink cloud of cotton candy, licorice, and strawberries. For me, it will always be a signature scent. The gourmand perfume revolution started with Pink Sugar. It’s very complex and mature — not just a simple sweet perfume. Everything about it is balanced, and its sweetness never feels overwhelming. It’s a scent unlike anything else out there. اکوالینا! عشق صورتی من واقعا نمیتونم بگم چقدر عاشقشم. مثل ابر صورتی از پشمک و لیکوریش و توت فرنگی میمونه . برای من همیشه یه بوی امضا میمونه. انقلاب عطرای گورمند از پینگ شوگر شروع شد. خیلی بوی پیچیده و بالغی داره و اصلا یه عطر شیرین سادههه نیست همه چیزش بالانسه و شیرینیش اصلا دلو نمیزنه. یه بوییه ک نظیر نداره هیچ جا

On me it's licorice BOMB - which I freakin love because licorice is one of my most favourite notes on the planet. Bitter, herbal and burnt sweetness. I absolutely adore this. In the category of cheapies Pink Sugar is undoubtedly number one. And to the people who complain about Pink Sugar not being sophisticated - seriously? Just take a look at the bottle and the notes and tell me this looks anything close to sophistication. Like girl, no. It's not supposed to be sophisticated. And there's NOTHING wrong about that. Wanna something difficult, classy or anything like that? Grab No. 5, Shalimar, Youth Dew or sth like this. Imagine going to the techno club and complain about not hearing Mozart there. Hmmm 🤔

I am addicted to this perfume! I've worn it since it was first released. The longer it's on your skin, clothes, or in your hair the better it gets. I've had people catch a whiff in a store parking lot & yell "is that you that smells so good?". My response "maybe"...knowing YES, IT'S ME! Lol. Everyone seems to love it on me when I wear it. Many compliments...it's a crowd pleaser for sure. Fantastic in any weather too. I never want to be without her & I can't tell you how many bottles I've gone through. A forever love! Thank you Shyamala Maisondieu with Givaudan! 🩷 p.s. I have 3 others in the collection...Berry Blast, Gold Sugar, & Pink Sugar Sparks but none even come close to my fav PINK SUGAR!

Sweet and delicious from first spray to dry down. Right away you get the caramel, berries, and orange. Then it turns to a vanilla licorice cotton candy scented funnel cake kind of scent. Sounds weird, but it’s intoxicating and comforting. It’s not overpowering, and the musk stays way in the background on me. there isn’t one thing offensive about this perfume so It’s very safe for the office. It does seem like a more youth oriented perfume, but I don’t even care. I’ve had strangers, male and female, compliment this one. One of the sweetest gourmand scents I own, but it’s not cloying or sickening. Totally safe blind buy, IMHO.