Tahiti Island Dream

Fragrance Review For Tahiti Island Dream By Bath & Body Works Top Notes Coconut Kiwi Pear Mandarin Orange Middle Notes Frangipani Water Lily Jasmine Base Notes Musk Sandalwood Amber Vanilla Bali Hai whispers on the wind of the sea Here I am Your Own Special Island Come to Me Come To Me - Bali Hai from South Pacific This is such a beautiful little fragrance. It's like Jungle Gardenia for 2016, without a strong projection and without the mature connotation. It's all about the white island flowers, like little gardenia and jasmine petals scattered onto a lake in Tahiti. It smells exactly like a beach in Tahiti, and evocative of a beach landscape painting by Gauguin. The bottle is attractive with it's aqua blue colored liquid and the crystal stopper. The scent itself is not thrilling but it's not meant to be. It's like a little whiff of an island that does not exist (hence Tahiti Island Dream). The vanilla is the dominant note and there's lots of vanilla. Bath & Body Works has played around with vanilla in other formulas for their frags like Warm Vanilla Sugar but this, this is such a gorgeous vanilla. It's rich, creamy, and like they are literally putting vanilla cream on your body as a sun tan lotion. I must say that I wanted to get coconut out of this but it's such a small dose of coconut. If you put your nose into the scent long enough you will get a milky sweet coconut but it's not the key player. The white flowers and vanilla pairing take over the entire scent. A frangipani tropical plumeria gardenia white flower is here, not extravagant nor as heavy as a white floral tuberose or plain gardenia, but more like a baby plumeria, beginning to blossom, and detectable through the vanilla butter. It smells like the skin on a Tahitian island girl. She smells of all the scents of the islands: the coconut water, the plumeria, the vanilla. There's very little jasmine but it's silky and smooth and I can certainly smell it amongst the gardenias. In addition to the flowers, there's a sweet fruit scent, a mixture of very faint mandarin orange, and delicious kiwi, like they poured some kiwi juice into the perfume and it only provided it with such delectable richness when it met with the coconut. It smells like catching whiffs of coconut trees and whiffs of shrubs that grow with plumeria. There is also a strong image that comes to mind every time I smell this and wear this: sand. White sands. Lots of white sandy beaches and shores. It's like a long walk on white sands in Tahiti. The scent is perfumed white sand on your skin. Absolutely beautiful. For those of you who call this tropical, it is tropical but it's more a beach perfume for the summer and you don't have to be in Tahiti to wear it. If you wear the matching shower gel even in the shower you can smell like you're in Tahiti, and then add the shea body cream, or a matching coconut scented body lotion, and it's Heaven. The fragrance is lightly textured and delicate and it need a push for projection. This is a great scent to layer it with other tropical perfumes. If you like frangipani, vanilla and coconut, this is going to delight you in so many ways. At the very end I also could sense a very smooth clean amber. Gorgeous. It's fun to think of places to wear this. I don't really care for the beach but in the summer I escape to Long Island or other islands around the world, usually around my birthday, in order to relax and get some sun. It's a perfume to put on while basking in the sun at the beach. It smells of the summer time and the endless stretches of shore with hot white sands.

Tahiti Island Dream is my favorite of all the Bath & Body Works fragrances. The bottle design is brilliant. So pretty. The scent even prettier. Starts of fresh, fruity, juicy. It's a mix of pear, coconut and kiwi. My nose doesn't pick up on a citrus scent, typical of most fragrances. It's clearly a kind of delicious smoothie drink made of pear, kiwi and coconut. The coconut is not very lactonic. It's coconut milk or water but it's not too creamy or milky. The sweet fruits are big players in this scent. The florals in the mid section or heart are hazy and soft florals. Clearly white floral notes of jasmine and frangipani. Frangipani is another word for plumeria which is the official flower of Hawaii. It's an island flower that is similar to jasmine so this is really all about the jasmine accords. This is what I really love! Just the white jasmine notes. They are in the background and not very strong as when we think of a strong jasmine perfume. The dry down is a warm and 'sand' like accord but clearly with vanilla and creamier, richer in the vanilla scent. There is also musk but it's a soft white musk. The dry part of the scent feels like a body lotion, like a creamy and warm sun tan lotion on your skin. It's definitely for white floral and vanilla lovers as those accords are the strongest. But it's also coming off as fruity with the kiwi and coconut. It may work on some body chemistries but only if they favor the fruits and white florals plus vanilla and musk. For me it's perfect. It's very simple. It's unisex. There is a soapy and lotion vibe I like about it. This is for casual clothes and every day use or just to hang out with friends. As so many have observed, the real problem is the weak sillage and poor lasting power. This is terrific as you wear her after your shower and great to wear to the beach on a summer day or great for spring, but it's over in no more than 2 hours sometimes less. So it's concentration is more like a body mist. But the body lotion that goes with it helps a bit and is great for enjoying the scent even more as you wear both the perfume and the lotion at the same time. I highly recommend this as a gift set of the fragrance and the lotion.

This scent smells so good...it's one of those ones where you cannot IMAGINE someone disliking it lol. Smells very similar to Waikiki Beach Coconut by the same company...this one just has the slightest bit of difference in the warmth that the vanilla brings to the table. But gorgeous and the Waikiki beach coconut only comes in the 1 ounce bottle whereas this has the 1.7 ounce bottle. I use up 1 ounce so quickly so that frustrates me with that one. Anyway, gorgeous juicy, coconut fragrance that really is summer and happiness in a bottle. And speaking of that, the bottle itself is very easy on the eyes. Color theme is perfect at representing the scent itself also. Smells exactly how I imagined that it would. Snatch this one up before Bath & Body Works discontinues it like they do with all their fragrances, (no matter how good they are.) :( Scent Itself - 10/10 <--Rarely do I say that. Longevity - 5-6 hours depending on quantity of sprays. Projection - Very good as with most coconut based scents. About 4 feet projection. Overall Rating - 9.5/10 Most deff worth the small price tag for the 1.7 ounce perfume. Gorgeous gorgeous scent! Signature scent worthy in the warm months! No doubt about it.

Tahiti island dream is a dream come true! It's not just a sweet or fruity type like any of B&BWS other scents,I hate perfume that has poor longevity or silage but with this perfume maybe 4 hours max on my skin&I still love it,when I first smelled this scent it was in the bodymist which ummm was okay, but when I first smelled this in the store oh my coconuts&vanila!!! This ;-)is a dream come true it smells real&perfect with its coconut &vanilla orchid, kiwi&other notes dancing so beautifully,it stopped me in my tracks,it's the first time I smelled a cperfume with coconut that smells like real coconuts&I have a friend who is very picky&she is the type unless it smells real she will not like it,I suprise d her with a bottle on her birthday &she loved this&honestly I got a a lot of compliments while wearing this! Even if I didn't it smells like creamy crushed coconuts&vanilla with a very faint hint of a floral,just a tahiti island dream come true&I'm probally going to purchase a bottle in the winter that's how good this perfume is,like flying in the dream clouds,lol,can't get enough, thank you bath&bodyworks! This&forever red beautiful :-)

Tahiti Island Dream I have sampled 17 scents from BBW. I found a local online store here in my place that sells carefully decanted authentic mists and perfumes and this is the first time I've tried the brand. Out of all the vanilla and coconut scents I could detect from the fragrance mists of BBW, this one is a favorite! With just the right amount of coconut mixed with the perfect sweetness of tropical fruits and flowers, this is the one! Actually, it's more on the fruity side but it's different! It smells amazing! The is a surprise to me because I'm not a fruity kind of girl. At first I thought the mist was more likely suitable for men but then I just couldn't resist how it smelled on my skin. This is perfect for summer and I could definitely see myself using this all year round because of its light and refreshing scent. But as expected with fragrance mists, sillage and longevity are average/below. Scent: 9.5/10 Longevity: 5/10 Sillage: 4/10