Wanted Girl By Night

Wanted Girl by Night is a smash hit of a blind buy for me. I love sweet scents, and sometimes I just want a simple fruity vanilla-sweet fragrance with little to no "mature" base notes. My skin is slightly acidic in pH and amps up base notes, hence why I tend to reach for vanilla-based scents. It is incredible how there are no fruit notes listed here. If you want an idea, the closest real-life comparison is a grape Tootsie roll pop (depth of chocolate without chocolate) and a dollop of very sweet cream. Wanted Girl By Night has a deeply satisfying dark berry sans any bitey/sharp/bitter aftersmell. No sourness, just a fresh, sweet candy bliss. Think of the vibrant fruitiness in Ginevra White, without the powderiness. Or the gorgeous pure grape juice opening of My Way Floral. I just tried Wanted Girl by Night during the warm hours of the day today, and it was light enough to wear indoors (even before the A/C came on). I sprayed once on each arm, three on the midriff, and the scent was enough for me to notice without overwhelming. For those of you scared by the patchouli, don't be. At least consider this if you can tolerate a tiny bit of patchouli. It is very light-- just enough to make this fragrance more upscale than a body spray. It is never sweaty or dirty like a lot of people describe Angel EDP's patchouli. It doesn't even come close to the quite-strong earthiness of the Angel Muse line. I do not agree that Wanted Girl By Night is necessarily immature or unsophisticated, especially for people sensitive to woody scents like myself. It's not complex, challenging, or classically elegant like YSL Libre Le Parfum , JPG La Belle, nor a rich, spicy amber perfume. However, I do think the patchouli gives it the slightest earthy grounding and a touch of spice (maybe the rum does it too). Think of the slight earthiness in clean profiles like Versace Dylan Blue or YSL Black Opium Illicit Green. I'm looking forward to using this as an all-season fragrance when I have a sweet tooth.

Does macerating actually work? It smells so much better than it did in July. I've been wanting to give it another chance for a while now but seeing how a bad scent can easily ruin my mood for nearly the whole day I've been avoiding WGBN like plague since my first impression of it left a lot to be desired and I hate patchouli. It used to be very intense overpowering patchouli from start to finish. Now, it smells like grape juice in the opening, much more than before, and I also get stronger whipped cream scent and I dig it. When I inhale it deeply, there's such pleasant sweetness I really wish to ingrain upon my memory. I don't know how to explain it poetically but it truly feels like you take in the scent of whipped cream. Deliciously gourmand, that one. I don't like booze in any shape or form so it's still a miss for me; just like real booze - even the mere smell of it that is - it makes me feel weird. Props for making it authentic though. It smells exquisite actually, just not my cup of tea (wink wink) Overall it's whipped cream that turned it around to me, in some fragrances it smells cheap and annoying but here it is the opposite. Sadly top notes fade away rather quickly and it becomes more patchouli-forward which gets a no from me. I didn't want to go to bed with this scent still on my skin as it just made me fee uneasy so I washed it off which toned down the intensity but up close it started smelling of patchouli even more. Patchouli gives the fragrance some depth and mintiness but also an off-putting dirty undertone as is usually the case with that note. Why not just use tonka beans instead... Sigh. And I still feel like it's somewhat soapy, in the same way Crystal Noir is soapy perhaps? Luckily I only have 30ml and might actually finish it one day. It's certainly interesting and so close to being good.

Honestly, this might not be the most sophisticated perfume, but I have to admit I love it. It makes me think of nights out, but in a very innocent and fun way. Like putting on a cute dress, drinking a couple of cocktails with your girlfriends and dancing the night away with no creeps, snobs or other unpleasant people in sight and no headache on the next day. Like I imagined partying when I was a child, with all my knowledge coming from teen magazines and pop songs. It's a girly, fun, carefree fragrance with the slightest hint of mystery and mischief. Wanted Girl by Night has a fizzy, 'purple' scent of white florals that are remiscent of grape flavored candies or soda. The rum and patchouli add a boozy dark chocolate note, so the opening also reminds me of pralinés with a berry or grape filling. The cream note is rather subtle and only for texture. I wouldn't mind if it was a little stronger, but it's also fine the way it is. I understand why some users voted this as similar to L'Interdit, they're definitely in the same category of sweet white florals, but to me they're not the same at all. L'Interdit is very bright and high-pitched, Wanted Girl by Night is somewhat darker, warmer and more gourmand, which is much more to my taste. Generally there are a lot of designer fragrances that go into the same direction, but the rum adds a little extra allure to Wanted Girl by Night. I'm not sure if I need it in my collection, but I definitely wouldn't give it away if it suddenly appeared out of the blue.

I wore this for date night last night. My boyfriend really liked it and he complimented me in the car. We had dinner on the patio of a restaurant and then went to a bar that by the end of the night was packed like a club. This projected through the changes in scenes and even in the crowded bar. It was a Caribbean bar and one thing, we Caribbean people have a heavy hand with fragrances and this still stood out. In the dry down, the rum note is not as long-lasting as the whipped cream note. Drydown is a bit marshmallowy with a touch of jammy-ness and I like that. I’m an unapologetic oversprayer and I don’t see this becoming cloying because it’s so smooth. Then again I’m partial to lactonic and creamy—I find tuberose and bubble gum (often used in other purple scents) cloying and thankfully this is neither. Back to the date though—I wore a deep matte plum lip and the fragrance complimented my dark summer seductress vibe. Once home, I fell asleep before my bf could get back inside from letting the dog out 😂 but the next morning it was still on my clothes. It’s worth a back up bottle (or two) considering the price and easiness of wear for me.

I'm beyond glad I didn't end up getting rid of it like I had wanted because while experimenting with my least used perfumes I've discovered that spraying on a wrist and rubbing the wrists together almost always dilutes patchouli and any other harsh & unpleasant notes to an acceptable level. Wearing it like that I barely pick up any patchouli in this fragrance and the obvious booziness is also taken down a notch. From grape candy the scent transforms into naturalistic gourmand whipped cream sweeter than any vanilla, sugar or marshmallow note, deliciously saccharine and a bit buttery, with a faint albeit traceable undercurrent of dusty, prickly cereus that didn't come through at all when I tried wearing it normally and that gives the fragrance a bold and refreshing edge, grounds it a little. Deep, novel, intoxicating and sensual. Probably the sweetest perfume I own, surpassing even Pink Sugar & the Good Girl line. This is everything LVEB & the like could've been, miles ahead of it as is. The juice itself is dark purple so beware.