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.

Just picked this up yesterday at shoppers. I really don't understand these notes at all because all I get is some sort of red fruit/raspberry (yet none is listed) I get the cream and not much patchouli, if at all. It lasts an ok amount of time on me (about 4 hours then skin scent) it could be better for the price point. It's not as sweet as one would think with the notes... It's not LVEB sweet... Not flowerbomb or MJ Daisy love type of sugarbomb. This reminds me of a more smoky, sexier version of Cacharel's Yes I Am but it's not so dark and loud that I would only wear it at night or "out" or something. I would feel comfortable wearing this anywhere. Bottom line: I really like this and don't mind paying the full price for it as a special treat to myself (I rarely pay full price but couldn't find this on any discount sites because it's really new) if you enjoy fruity sweet scents (again, not sickening sweet) then it's a good choice.

This wasn't even on my radar until my favourite fragrance friend raved to me about it, so when I saw it in Shoppers today, I made a beeline to it. And......she was 100% right!! This is amazing!!! 🤩 I must admit that I have no idea what Cereus smells like (night blooming or otherwise), and I don't pick up any rum. I get a creamy cassis scent that, to my nose, is nearly identical to "Flowerbomb Nectar", but without the strong 'gunpowder' note to it! (I personally also find it more similar to "Yes I Am" than to "L'Interdit".) This is quite a sweet scent, so if you don't enjoy sugary/syrupy scents you will probably want to avoid this! I am loving this, and will definitely be looking for a discounted bottle (or gift set) of this, to use once my current bottle of "Flowerbomb Nectar" is finished!

Sweet and syrupy US grape fragrance, with a slight undertone of some rich spirit, but ultimately a fruity, artificial purple smelling syrup that is flirty and fun. As someone who doesn't love sweet fragrances, I think this is addictively delicious. This lasts all day on me and is a total wow when I smell it. It just makes me smile and feel happy. I have over 100 fragrances and this is truly one of my favourites, and yeah, I'm as shocked as you... I'm in the UK and it's impossible to find here, I don't understand Azzaro's distribution focus on male marketed fragrances in the UK, nor its US focus overall, surely this brand is L'Oreal just like Valentino, Prada, Mugler, Lancôme and several other brands, so why are female marketed Azzaro fragrances so hard to find in the UK?

On first smell, I found this to be a super generic grape-y sort of scent, but then I decided to give it a real test and wear it and I fell a little bit in love. The dry down, for me, is sweet and creamy with a little bit of warmth that I think comes from that rum note - not boozy at all, just a sweet warmth that you might associate with a creamy cocktail of some sort - and the fruit shifts into something darker like plum rather than grape. On me it does become more of a skin scent after a couple of hours, but it does definitely stick around on my skin all day. I would say don't blind buy this one - get a sample and give it a wear test to see if it works for you, because it seems like this one is super polarize and probably pretty subjective.

This perfume opens up with a sweet almost grape/dark berries candy scent. The creaminess from the whipped cream is lovely in the dry down. I recommend this perfume to people who enjoy sweet gourmand perfumes. It’s a nice scent for fall/winter evenings out. It’s similar to Flowerbomb Nectar, but without the metallic gunpowder scent. Wanted Girl by Night smells more fruity and creamier, and not as many layers as FB Nectar. The atomizer could be better...I find it sprays in a very concentrated circle(a tad bigger than a quarter) instead of a mist with a bigger radius. The projection and longevity of this perfume is really good! A little goes a long way and the scent will last in your clothing for days. It’s definitely a compliment getter.

So I have the original. Then I bought tonic and fell madly in love, and I had a mini tiny bit left so today I went in and bought the tonic but then two seconds later exchanged it for this lol. This is BEAUTIFUL! It has this intoxicating smell to it that you just can’t help but constantly smell it on your skin or clothes etc. I had sprayed one spray on my wrist then after I bought tonic, even with my mask on, all I could smell was this. I HAD to exchange it! The stated notes confuse me so I can say what I smell exactly but it seems like there is some kind of deep berry note with a beautiful creamy note (whipped cream I assume) it is absolutely stunning! Do NOT miss out on this! Seriously!!!

I love it so much! It was a blind buy but so worth it,idk if i was lucky but i found 30ml for 23 euros which its pretty cheap. It smells exactly like grape fanta but after a while it changes into slight rum smell but not too strong and even though i barely sweat ,the longevity is around 2 hours at best ,unless u bathe yourself in this perfume in which,i fear, you wouldn't do it since its discontinued. It is pretty sweet so if u don't like gourmand perfumes u might think the smell is artificial and too strong.

LOVE! This is beautiful and a super sexy scent. This smells like grape juice at first spray but really settles and softens into the whipped cream rum phase quickly. God, I this is great for a designer scent! This is the fragrance you wear on a date. I don’t get too much patch thou, only a little in the background. During the spring and summer this is best for evening. This is a non hyped gem get it before it gets discontinued. Highly recommended 10/10 longevity is excellent and so is sillage.

One of my favourite fragrances- I first smelt it on my sister and was obsessed. It smells like a party girl who’s prowling around in the shadows, going bar hopping before stopping by the graveyard for some shenanigans with her friends. Opens like a boozy, sweet well balanced grape soda. This reminds me of Kesha every time i wear it for some reason- i think it’s because it’s boozy, wild and sweet. My boyfriend likes this one a lot on me and i get lots of compliments when i wear it.

Y'ALL HEAR ME OUT, this is the MOST BEAUTIFUL perfume I've ever tried... It embodies mystery & a sublime scent I just love so, so much! This right here is my favorite perfume now. It has to be the Night Blooming Cereus, I guess... I believe Flowerbomb Midnight by V&R has got Night Blooming Jasmine instead, which I didn't find as amazing as this night time blooming fella. ETERNAL LONGEVITY & SCARY HUGE SILLAGE, IT'S GORGEOUS...

got a sample of it and oh. my. God. I have to say I'm new to the fragrance game, but this little baby is just so delicious! the sillage and longevity r both kinda crazy.. I sprayed it on my hair at the beginning of the day, came back from work, took a shower & washed my hair and could STILL smell it.. highly recommend it if you like grape-ey (?) fragrances. extremely sad u can't really get it in eastern europe apparently 🫠

This is the most delicious smelling boozy gourmand, I adore it. I understand the other reviews saying that this smells like grape candy, but I get something more than that; like a plum mixed with whipped cream mixed with rum. You could wear it to a romantic date, a gala event, and at home cozied up with blankets. A favorite of mine, but I wouldn't recommend it as a blind buy, especially if you aren't a fan of sweet scents

This is so nice. I’ve gotten to smell it and spray it on me about half dozen times now from the testers at SDM and I love it. I will say that I have the original and tonic and tonic is actually one of my favourites out there for a girly perfume. This one is much deeper and reminds me of like a JPG Scandal type or CH- Good Girl type fragrance. I love it it’s so beautiful!!!

Love this perfume! It's so warm but fruity and sweet all at the same time. I have been obsessed with it lately and wear it all the time. It has such an adorable bottle and is great for the price which is usually around $95 cad for 50ml which lasts quite a long time. You don't have to use a full spray on yourself for this perfume, it's very concentrated and long lasting!

This is so delicious. My new favourite gourmand. I never would’ve tried this, but the sales associate at Shoppers sprayed it on a card and passed it to me. Wow! I fell head over heels for it. It is very, very sweet. But a grown up, womanly sweet. It is boozy and creamy. Absolutely seductive. The bottle is stunning too. What’s not to love about this gorgeous perfume?

Juicy, caramelized plum and grapes, with a boozy touch and a hint of cream: this is gourmand heaven. 2 spritzes got me sniffing the air around me for more than six hours. It stays and stays and projects like crazy. No comparison whatsoever to the OG, this is 10.000 times better. Another blind buy win, thank you Fragrantica for your notes, articles and reviews!

Love this one when I crave a very sweet, fruity and deep scent. No fruit listed but I sense a blackberry/red grape sirup, the whipped cream is also there. The perfume is strong, longlasting and it was cheap, such a great deal! Similar character to La Belle Le Parfum but don't get me wrong, they are different, just the scent profile is quite alike.

Its sweet, smoot and sexy, a little bit dark but light at the same time. It can be worn everytime of the year. Imagine grapes's juice with rhum in it and wipped cream on top. I think its a safe blind buy and no one can hate it. I receive a LOT of compliments. Its playfull and fun not sophisticated, simple but I really enjoy it

Smells like fizzy grape candy in the best way, as it dries down I find it more creamy and the rum comes out a bit more. The longevity on it is great, I'll go to bed still smelling it on me and the projection is decent also. If you're looking for a sweet scent that isn't generic I would totally recommend it.

This is amazing! Love at first smell. I don't know how to describe this but something about this perfume seems very nostalgic. It's very sweet but surprisingly the floral scent overpowers any whipped cream. It is a bit boozy. Perfect for a night out with your lover or just getting drinks with your friends.

the sweetest juiciest most addicting, intoxicating, love-drunk perfume on the market absolute head turner, attention grabber, who is she? i need to find her vibe. grape syrup, sweet, sweet, sweet, on a cloud of vanila and pina colada rum yet mature and mysterious?

This to me smells like sexy berries. Deffinately a date night fragrance, the dry down I found exactly the same as Decadence or Aura, or a mixture of the two (no idea why, looking at the notes of all three).

Grape bubble gum or grape candy yummmy! It’s so sweet and sexy and addictive. I have been a niche snob lately but this one made me fall in love with designer perfumes all over again😍😍😍 amazing!!🍇🍬

I got this from my Fragencenet subscription. I am a male and was searching for a grape scented fragrance and this is it! 👍🏿 This smells like a grape soda. I love it.

THIS is so freaking good!!! to my nose, it smells like a warm plum, sweet, dark liquor drink with a dollop of whip cream on top. So very happy with this blind buy<3

This is elegant, dark and sweet. I crave it. The plum is perfection, no sharp edges, creamy and still it is not just for teenagers. Anyone can wear this.

WOW so yummy!! 😍 Sweet, creamy and a little boozy! If you love gourmand I think it's a safe blind buy.

Syrupy sweet sexy goodness. I am addicted to this scent, I need to buy a backup bottle stat.

I have the OG and both flankers, and to me I don't recognize the DNA between this and Tonic, nor do either remind me of the OG. Girl Wanted by Night is sweet, juicy berry fragrance. To my delight the whipped cream is quite photorealistic and discernible in the background. Unfortunately I don't get much rum from this. To me, this is the less cloying and screechy version of L'Interdit Rouge with the same syrupy grape note. Rouge would be this on steroids; and I did wind up having to scrub off Rouge after a while because it was just so so sweet I wound up developing a headache. I'm still on the fence. It's pretty and nice but just SO sweet compared to what I usually prefer; although both my teens did compliment me on it. Despite it being quite cool right now, I did test it out predominantly indoors, and I think this would do much better in the actual outdoors. I'm in my late 40's so I don't equate super sweet perfumes = sexy, but you do you. I guess I wouldn't be a successful cougar if this is what the young men like haha.

If you've read the other reviews, consider yourself warned (but in a good way): this smells a lot like grape juice and it sounds a little absurd that anyone would want to smell like that but it is surprisingly good! My nose is dumb, I pick up on no rum-boozy smell, or the whipped cream note, just sweet berryish grapes that persists on me through the end with a little floral thrown in. Excellent longevity- could still smell it on me over 12 hours later, though obviously not strong at that point. Sillage and projection very good as well, not 12 hours good but at least 6. I'll also add that if this is supposed to be a flanker to Wanted Girl, the only thing they seem to have in common is they are both sweet- but Wanted Girl is more gourmand (and sweeter to me). From the man's perspective: Hubs thought it was sexy, and good enough to wear two days in a row which I don't normally do.

I think it's unfair to call this a flanker of the original Wanted Girl. It has it's own thing going on and very well deserved! It had a grape-like opening, but once you start analyzing the smell, you get a sexy, boozy merengue. There's not much of a floral or green scent noticeable for me, while the original has that green-bitter accord that makes it amazing to wear, not overly sweet. Could be a nice clubbing scent, not something that I'd wear to work. Lovely performance, 8+ hours on skin, going for a day on clothes. Sillage is decent, not overpowering. Not that complicated, not bad, slightly boring to niche-seekers, but a yummy gourmand nonetheless.

The grape fanta opening was highly unexpected BUT I like it. That smell goes away (on me) in like 5-10 minutes and turns into a warm syrupy sensual scent it kind of reminds me of hypnotic poison in that way. Overall this wasn’t what I was expecting but I’m not mad at it. I don’t think I would wear this in warm weather but to each their own. This would be nice for a night out, I don’t think I’d wear this to work. This was a blind buy for me and I’m happy.

Azzaro Wanted Girl by Night and Armaf Italiano Donna are almost identical twins, the only slight difference I feel is that Italiano Donna has a slight hint of leather, but just a teensy weensy, and Wanted Girl by Night does not have it at all. They are both creamy, decadent, deep grapey fragrances (both have the same color of red grapes, hmmm, makes you think, right?). By the way, I feel no rum at all in Wanted Girl By Night and I'm ok with that :)

While I definitely smell grape juice when I smell it, it's much richer than simply reducing it to that one smell - there's a powdery, elegant, feminine finish - I love it, I want it, I missed buying it on sale...and it doesn't strike me as a gourmand note like the ones I usually purchase, however, on the next sale...I'm in. PS I do smell a very slight rum scent, and it's probably the whipping cream smell that makes the finish smell rich.

Smells like grape hi-chew at first but then evolves into a more basic sweet scent. Not bad, safe for people who like gourmands I feel like. The bottle looks great but literally disintegrates while spraying, so that's not the best. You gotta learn the way to spray it for it to not do that.

This was given to me as a gift some months ago. It's not bad but I'm not really crazy about the grape opening or the dry-down. Yesterday I had the idea to layer it with Montale Chocolate Greedy. It was DIVINE. I want to layer it with more outright sweet gourmand scents. It gives a lot.

+ This opens smelling like grape juice. I know that sounds kind of gross, but it smells fantastic and the grape juice eventually transforms into a sexy woody vanilla. Someone I know wears this and it smells fantastic on her.

smells like super sweet grape candy, or even like children’s grape advil. definitely not for everyone, and definitely not for every occasion, but i quite like the smell! sits rather close to my skin, though.

I feel that I have to overspray this to be able to feel confident that I am wearing a perfume detectable for others too. So I overspray, and get compliments. It is sexy.

I should have listened to those kind reviews here who warned that this is not the grape scent I had in mind. Looking for that perfect grapetube's! To whet my nostalgia of grape soda but this has put me off all grape scents for awhile. I blind bought this for my birthday and was excitedly awaiting it from ebay. It finally came and I excitedly opened and sprayed to be greeted with the heaviest most cloying and nausea inducing smell I've encountered from any perfume since the 80s. And that is saying a lot considering I do love very sweet scents that others dislike such as BBW Strawberry poundcake. There is something akin to pipe smoke tobacco in the initial spray that turned my stomach. This Is a beast mode fragrance and just one spray was going on all day. Even though it was nauseating I kept it on all day to experience its full cycle out of fragrance curiosity. It did get a bit better and turned into a more tolerable grape over the arc of the day. But I have to say by then I was so put off by the initial hours of it that I couldn't even look at the dark juice in the bottle and put it back in the box away from sight to give away. I'm sad because this was a $95 blind buy down the tubes! Update 8/27 My review above was hasty and too quick on the first day of wearing this. Partly due to how much I spent on this I kept it around, occasionally sniffing and testing it out of curiosity. I have to say I can understand now why it is loved by many. It will never be among my favorites but I will keep it for now, I no longer mind as much the boozy almost tobacco-y heft. To me it is a perfume to wear in fall or winter and at outdoor events in the cold, this scent is beast mode! I actually got a compliment on this from my 10 year old son who never compliments my perfume (because I smelled like candy lol). And this was late in the day after I had forgotten I even had it on. This is a great Halloween scent! I can imagine wearing it during trick or treating due to its strong grape candy heart. I can also imagine wearing this to Christmas outings in the cold. I believe this is a strong no for any indoor activities when people will be near.

Sweet, creamy and feminine but just not for me. This reminds me a lot of Signorina Misteriosa. Both are very fluffy, heavy whipped cream, light floral scents. I prefer SM though, as it's fruitier and more vanilla based. This one leans a little strong on me with the rum note. Very boozy. Something irritates me in this though, I think it must be the whipped cream. It became cloying which is something I don't tend to worry about usually. No one complimented me in the three days I wore this. My friend took the bottle from my hands, sniffed it and recoiled. She said it smelled "vintage." Sillage is pretty good though, I could smell this on me as I moved and throughout the morning. The bottle and packaging are beautiful if you like that sort of thing. I really wish I loved this as everyone else did. I'm selling my bottle on, as I just don't really want to wear her.

Im sorry... but where is the rum in this ? Why is rum even mentioned!? This is very berry-ish, the whipped cream in this perfume smoothes the berry scents and makes them more pleasant and sweet. To me, personally, it is more of a blackberry+grape, in the beginning. Once it top notes fade, you are left with sweet grape. It is pleasant, but I didn't like it, simply because I was looking forward to rum :(. Give it a try if you like sweet, grapey scents. Also, it is VERY long lasting! Even after shower you can still smell it.

This smells like straight up grape candy to me. Its very sweet with a subtle hint of vanilla. The cream and rum really take a stand yet I dont find the rum adds maturity to the scent, it stay svery candylike. I get very little white floral but I guess its there. I like this scent but dont love it, wish it was less sticky sweet to make it more wearable during the day. Not necessarily a head turner as it just smells like you dumped a bag of grape candy on yourself.

It's similar to Noir Toscane (meaning it smells like sweet grapes) but darker, and you can smell the cereus, rum and patchouli in this one, so it's not just fruity as Noir Toscane. This does not smell like Flowerbomb Nectar, but it is a similar kind of perfume - sweet but with something edgy. Wanted Girl By Night doesn't smell metallic, like Nectar does, but the patchouli and rum make this one strong.

You must love that *very* cheap artificial grape soda flavor to enjoy the start of this perfume. Once it dries down, it is a lot more tolerable for me, but it takes a lil while to get to that stage. I do find that this one layers well with some other perfumes to make a new decent scent, so I will at least get some use out of this.