Moonlight Path

Whoa I realized I can actually smell the mandarin in this! It's more of just the sweetness or the essence, obviously without the sour aspect, it just blends in so well with the lavender/floral/powder/musk aspects that it's not obvious at all. This is by far my favourite scent from BBW, and possibly out of all scents. I wear the mist constantly. While it does get "boring" after awhile, as all scents do if you wear them often, it never gets gross or too strong imo. I never feel grossed out by it which is rare for a perfume (the enjoyment of most depend on my mood, how I'm feeling physically, the weather etc.) but this one I can wear practically any time! And it's always beautiful with so much depth. And it's so close to the skin. The thing I hate about fruity-florals is that they just project themselves and it's obvious you're wearing something. This is much more natural and isn't yelling for attention. I even use this as a room spray as well, such a nice scent to have floating around. I also own the lotion, shower gel and bubble bath but unfortunately the smell of those seem much weaker and diluted to me compared to the mist, with only the lavender and powdery notes coming out, and the shower gel and bath are almost imperceptible. The mist has so much more depth. I haven't tried the eau de toilette. Overall I think this suits any age and time of year. IT's not one you'll grow out of as you age but it also isn't too mature for a young teen. It's very soft and dreamy with a touch of sweetness.

I have a shameless infatuation with this dang fragrance. I wish I didn't, because many people hate it. I don't get many compliments (I don't get compliments in general), but I have had a noteworthy emphatic one while wearing this from a guy friend. He mistook it for his girlfriend's perfume in the air and said he thought she smelled sexy!! 😂...awkward. I've had criticism while admitting that I love this, it gets me teased, oh well...I'm into the sexy "grandma " (as if there's anything wrong with mature women, seems prejudiced when people say that) things , they make life more interesting. This is one that really takes a certain person to pull of, it really does...and I'm finding that I can do powdery/vintage-y fragrances extraordinarily well. It's beautiful, slightly melancholic violet with iris and jasmine (maybe it has other things, I hardly trust BBW's note listings anymore). The lavender in the top notes is gorgeous. The musky sandalwood base is a lovely ending. It's incredibly soft, and cooling, I find it very soothing. A romantic walk at night? YES. I don't actually think the title is BS. This seems to do better in spring though, as the white florals are a little too chilly to add into the already cold winter air, so I disagree with many of the votes here. It's the kind of fragrance that draws one in, but I can see how it has largely failed with millennials and even younger audiences. This plush, powdery and none-too-sweet scene is out of vogue.

When I first saw the name and the packaging of this scent (the fragrance mist), I was intrigued by its name and ever since, I've wanted to smell it but never had a chance because we don't have BBW stores here in my country. When I visited my friend's house, I saw she had it and I asked her if I could try it myself. I immediately fell in love with this scent when I smelt it (she had the old packaging of MP, btw). So I've decided to buy a full size of this because I'm also looking for a bedtime scent and I think this is what I want. When I received it, I was a bit disappointed (I received the 2022 new packaging). I'm a bit disappointed because the smell is a bit different from the old one. Maybe they reformulated it? I'm not sure, but I prefer the old one. I don't know what year it was, but my friend had the blue bottle with the purple flowers and blue-to purple-ish juice. I have the one that has like a rainbow hologram thing when hit by a light (sorry don't know what it's called) and blue flowers and it's like a painting or something. The juice is blue. I still like it. It smells powdery and a bit fresh. It's very strong on floral notes, so if you don't like florals, I think you won't like it. I still prefer the old mist because I find it more relaxing and more powdery than the new one. I'm not sure if it's only me who notices the difference.

While I recalled never having purchased this back in my late teen/ early adult years, I tried it last year when it made a reappearance in stores. After the top notes settled down, the scent kept bringing me back to that same time period in my life and I could recall seeing this fragrance in B&BW's stores then, but never really gravitating to it. Yet the scent memory played on over & over again as I've worn it repeatedly. Then as I was perusing Ebay looking at discontinued fragrances about a month ago, I realized where the scent memory was originating from. This is a sister scent to VS's Tender Embrace which was nearly a signature scent of mine for a a good while. Boyfriend in those days wore Jovan Musk and this gem was a perfect more feminine companion to it. Love it before bed when hubs is out of town as he finds it too "woody", which cracks me up as I don't find it that in the least.... floral/herbal lavender/musky..yeah. Now I wish I could find VS's Tender Embrace scent profile as I know the opening is different and there's something missing in the dry down of Moonlight Path that was just chef's kiss on me in TE. I can see the polarizing nature of this scent...but it's a love for me. I think TE would have a been a little less polarizing, more of a crowd pleaser in comparison. God please never let me lose my sense of smell!

The old Moonlight Path will never NOT be at the absolute top of my list. I have two bottles of the body mists in the older non-cylindrical packaging and a bottle of the perfume from that era of production. There's a quality to it that I have been chasing forever but cannot seem to find anywhere else. Do you know how many scents smell "warm", whether it's a oven-baked-goods warm or an "I can smell the sunshine" warm? Moonlight Path smells "cold", and not in a menthol sort of way. Call me crazy, but I can literally smell the coolness of night air in this one. It smells like standing in a garden full of clustered blossoms on a cool moonlit night. I can't get over it. I spray it on my sheets and/or clothes as, regrettably, the florals evaporate very quickly if sprayed directly on my skin (turns entirely to that white or baby powder smell people tend to mention). Unless I manage to find another vanilla/gourmand-note-free (the listing says this has vanilla but I do NOT smell it in the slightest, which I personally appreciate) perfume that manages to capture that elusive rural coolness of night, I'll be that One Person paying stupid amounts of money on eBay to get my hands on every drop I can.