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

First off, I have to say that I have yet to meet anyone that doesn't like this perfume. I bought the EDT off ebay for dirt cheap. EDT Tahiti Island Dream stays on your clothes and your skin like a dream. My ex boyfriend described this as "a vacation in a bottle". It's tropical without being overwhelming. No smell of suntan lotion here. The coconut note is definitely pronounced but it's a creamy kind of coconut that blends beautifully with the other notes. The dry down is lovely. The amber meshes with the vanilla and musk in a way that is very pleasing. Sometimes amber can be a tad overwhelming but the way that this is blended makes it so that it this combination compliments each note evenly. I love to wear this one in the summer yet I spend all year yearning for it. Layering it with Pacifica Waikiki Pikake lotion is lovely. I find that the THD regular lotion has no staying power so I opt for it. Gorgeous. Will buy again and again.

Oh wow, this scent is addictive to me. This is a scent that causes me to constantly smell myself, sniff my wrist probably looking ocd to other people! Tahiti island dream is a perfect tropical blend of vanilla, coconut water, kiwi blossom, pear, plumaria abd sandlewood! I don't really smell jasmine but that's ok. My only complaint is that i wish it was sold in 3.4oz bottles because i go through it fast and for the price i was hoping for better sillage and longevity. Since becoming obsessed with this scent I've been on a hunt to find a perfume that smells similar to this but with greater sillage and longevity, if anyone knows of a perfume like that please let me know! !!

SuzyBee, Bronze Goddess is quite a bit different than this. Both are warm and summery, but Bronze Goddess is that iconic coconut and sand scent of summer. To me Tahitian Island Dream is very nice, but more similar to Viva La Juicy. The coconut while there, is not as prominent. Bronze Goddess is also very heavy on tiare, the glorious white floral note almost overpowers the coconut. Maybe you have smelled Bronze Goddess vs. TID, but if not, I just wanted to expand on the differences. Either one is lovely, just depends on what your ideal summer fragrance is!

This. This is one that I sprayed on my arm in passing, on a day when I had been testing many perfumes. I sprayed it on one of the last empty spots on my arm and didn't give it a second thought. Later, I was smelling this beautiful creamy scent and was sniffing my wrists and elbows trying to find out what it was, and I was very surprised when I found it was this! I went back a couple days later and purchased the perfume, mist, lotion and body scrub. I love this scent, it is very well done. I hope they bring it back for future summers.

Like so many others i get non stop compliments...men,women all ages,Ive got to say its my favorite summery coconut scent ever...even compared to the bigger perfumes,bigger names...this is the perfect coconut,its delicate,fresh,slightly sweet,airy,done& blended perfectly, best ever!!!!!! Even as much as i hate how bath& body works products have no staying power... in their body mist& perfume,has no staying power unless sprayed directly on clothing only& hair....i will forever love this one!!!! Its by far the best coconut◇

I got the body shower from this scent blind buy and oh my god It's so amazing 😍😍😍 It's definitely tropical and got me excited to buy the fine fragrance mist for the summer. I can understand now the reviews that said it's a little bit masculine, actually it got that note that reminds me of some of the men fragrances but not in an offensive way it still so beautiful and feminine. I'm so glad that I'll add it to my collection.

I think that this scent has all the elements of a beautiful summer day. It's warm without being cloying, it's sweet and relaxing. There is hardly any floral that comes through and it leaves plenty of room for warm coconut and creamy vanilla, like an ice cream cone. This is so lovely for a girly summer day, to be paired with sunnies and flip flops :^D

This is what I wanted from CK Eternity Now! It's a gentle white floral and coconut without being overly sweet or cloying. After about 10 minutes following the initial opening, the vanilla makes a debut! The ingredients come together so well without smelling cheap or alike to scented sunscreen lotion. It's a perfect blend for the summer!

I owned several bottles of the perfume&too many 🍾 bottles of the bodymist,I think in my opinion believe it or not the bodymist smelled way better&lasted longer♡one of my favorites Tahiti #1&Waikiki beach 🥥 coconut is 2nd,I really wish they would bring this one back tho!¡!

Excellent blend of orchid and vanilla, with coconut thrown in for a good measure. Sweet and piquant, one of the more noticeable fragrances from Bath & Body Works. I always got a lot of compliments when I wore it.

This is the kind of coconut scent that is tolerable and not offensive. It is light and sweet. How I wish I bought the big bottle instead of the cute one.

Coconut scent with notes of pear and tangerine, sandalwood scent appears after a few hours, I really like

This is one of the more unisex if not masculine Bath and Body Works releases for women. It still is feminine but it can smell masculine enough. I get a lot of coconut but it isn't overdone which is common with a coconut note. Vanilla is the second strongest note to my nose. Performance is alright but I think it is worth a lot due to being a discontinued scent. I like it and understand how it can be great but to me it isn't. Then again it could be due to an ex wearing it...

Tahiti Island Dream smells really delicious. It smells like a creamy vanilla coconut. Very tropical island escape. I like how it has a scent of tropical florals and woody notes along side the main star: Creamy vanilla Coconut Milk!!!

It's a bummer that this one is discontinued. I picked mine up at an estate sale in its box, and no regrets. On me, it's an "office safe" summer/ tropical scent. It's floral and coconut and woody. Moderate projection.

One of B&BW's best summer fragrances in a while. Although the drydown is more or less a soft vanilla the beginning and middle accords are so nice and perfect for summer. A new fave.

I realize I might be utterly alone in this...but I absolutely cannot wear this fragrance. It smells like sour coconut milk on me. Something about the kiwi flower and coconut combination, along with the florals evolves into a nearly rotten/sweet clash of fruits on my skin, and completely fails. I tried this on two occasions, on clean skin, and was dismayed by how hostile it becomes on me 😂 It isn't bad in the air, and I gave it to my daughter. It's enjoyable when it's on her, but it does NOT agree with me. It's really not a bad fragrance (I'm not in love with it, but it's fresh, inoffensive and pleasant), but in the end, body chemistry had the veto. From a bystander perspective, I smell a distinct coconut water note (it's not creamy), with a soft vanilla and tangy florals. I think it's very likeable, objectively.

Same family as L.12.12 Pour Elle Magnetic by Lacoste imo. Starts off alittle green and coconuty, turns sweet milky and ambery. From start to finish this is beautiful. It ends up smelling different than the initial spray so it takes me on a trip everytime I spray it. Its sweet milky drydown reminds me of the Ariel green perfume (almond, tuberose), but this is softer and more refined, not heady or obnoxious. The body mist is so long lasting btw. Amazing and unique scent, very dimensional.. once again BBW proves you dont need to break the bank to smell sexy.

I had the body mist version of this, and I'm not sure how or why, but I just kept smelling plastic. Nobody else got that out of it, but I couldn't smell anything but plastic. When I first applied the body lotion, I got a whiff of licorice. I know. I tried to love this, because based on the notes and the rave reviews, it should have been a must-have for me, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Returned it for a refund :(

I bought the spray and body butter based on the incredibly positive reviews on Fragrantica, and... And I can smell no coconut here, whatsoever. It is true that the fragrance is tropical and summery, indeed, but on my skin it's more airy or watery summer, not the beach-holiday-coconut smell that I was hoping for. Moreover, the longevity is zero; the scent disappeared after an hour. Very disappointed.

refreshing fruity floral BUT ends up smelling like a candle or like Forever Red. The same issue with B&BW perfumes, they all smell like vanilla scented candles, not a perfume kind of scent but something Id spray my room, office or car(only sweet pea, beautiful day and mad about you smell truly unique to me and escape the typical sugary sweet B&BW base).

I have the Eau de Parfum and the matching Shea butter body cream. Tahiti Island Dream is a good choice for a Bath & Body Works personal perfume although there are better ones out there. Longevity and sillage could be better. I couldn't count the minutes it was on me but I had to reapply very often every hour. This is a light fragrance mist and not a full bodied eau de parfum. Such a shame because it smells really good. This is a very easy to wear sun tan lotion type of a scent. It smells exactly like a Trader Joe's Shea Coconut Body Butter I have! Now I can wear this with both the Bath & Body Works body cream and the Coconut Body Butter. I believe I'll end up smelling like someone poured coconut oil over my whole body. The coconut is pretty subtle. It's there alright but it's hidden under loads of vanilla cream. It's a sweet milky coconut and vanilla fragrance. In it's mix are white florals: gardenia in the form of Tahitian Plumeria or Frangipani which is a white gardenia flower with 5 star shaped petals. It's an island flower that grows abundantly in the Polynesian islands like Tahiti but also in Hawaii. If you like gardenia or plumeria/frangipani this contains a very sweet version of that flower. This is not very fruity although I can detect a touch of kiwi and pear. The whole thing is mainly coconut, frangipani and vanilla. It feels creamy, gourmand, and delicious. It advertises as a tropical paradise perfume but it was way too light and over to soon to be a real tropical fragrance. It's not even suitable for room spray or air freshner. This is pretty cheap but it smells really good while it lasts. Reapplying is not a problem. I really also like how the design of the bottle stands out. Walk into any Bath and Body Works and the other bottles look like body spray bottles in a rectangular shape, like hair spray bottles. This one with the glass topper that looks like a magic crystal ball in a fortune teller's shop stands out. It's very attractive. It has a piece of green cord tied around the stopper. The liquid is a sea water blue. It smells like the beach. It's a sun block sun tan lotion smell and something to wear on vacation in tropical destinations like the Caribbean islands, Hawaii or Tahiti. It's a summer time fragrance. It just screams: take me with you when you're out there on that warm sunny beach in Aruba. I wish this fragrance could last longer and feel more full bodied but it's fine as it is too. Lovely.

This is a very nice scent, but painfully weak in it's sillage and longevity. I doused myself in this perfume and it was like I hadn't put on any perfume. I know that my skin chemistry usually responds very well to tropical perfumes with coconut, white flowers of gardenia, tiare, frangipani and jasmine, and vanilla but this was a bit of a disappointment. The only scent I could detect was a kiwi-vanilla. It smelled like fruit cake, like a kiwi based fruit cake with vanilla. I would agree that it has a sun tan lotion effect but nowhere near as amazing as Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess. This is not tropical enough for me but admittedly it is sweet. If you like vanilla based perfumes, this is really delicious vanilla. I also do like the frangipani. The bottle is lovely and this comes in a small size I think it's no bigger than 1 or 2 ounces so it's easy to carry around with you when you travel and fits in your handbag. This smells great when mixed with the body lotion, shower gel, and shea cream, so whoever made this perfume clearly wanted you to wear it as an after shower scent and to wear it when layered with the other skin care products. It's not my favorite from Bath & Body Works but it's nice for the summer. My absolute favorite tropical scent from B&B Works is Oahu Coconut Sunset which kicks this little perfume's butt.

I did not originally like this fragrance, as it seemed just like a common summer fragrance that did not last. At second trial, I decided I liked it enough to buy the creams. It is a nice enough fragrance. However it does not last long. The one thing I find unusual about it is it smelled like something I could not put my finger on that was not pleasant. I finally figured it out. It smells a whole lot like new PLAYDOUGH. I will still use it though. But I can't understand why Bath and Body would want to make it one of their expensive fragrances, and not make all those new Hawaiian fragrances into bigger bottles that would extend past the summer season, as I love all of them way better. When my creams are empty of Tahitian, I will not repurchase.

just bought the lotion love the light blue sea colour it is like an island dream its yummy ,,, BBW have the best moisturizing lotions ever .......I think they have an award for using the best shea butter quality in their ingredients anyways back to the fragrance It's a coconut fruit cake sent & sometimes I sense a hint of mango as well although its not listed in the notes I'm pretty sure its gonna be even more yummier in a cookie scent once the weather starts to be cold ps I am in Australia so the seasons are vise versa to the rest of the world :)

This coconut vanilla,kiwi,dream,so nice tropical,I love this, one of the best coconut scents I have smelled,I don't mind if it's from bath and bodyworks,or Saks 5th,sephora,it's just the perfect summer perfume,I love this&forever red,are my favorite of their perfumes at b&bw's,I layer it with the matching body mist&lotion first so it lasts longer,on a good day 4hrs,only down side,I love so much that doesn't bother me.It doesn't smell like suntan lotion&that's why I love it,It's real coconut fresh air,with airy vanilla&slight kiwi,great,love it!

This parfum I buy at the mall Bath And Body Works is so pretty. Soft, clean, fruity. Smell of kiwi fruit coconut and vanilla. Not so much coconut but I smell delicious vanilla. Is powdery when dry with some musk amber and sandalwood. Easy to wear. Smell like good sun tan lotion on my skin. I have the parfum and body lotion which you can buy together in the Bath And Body Works store. Good for spring and summer especially in summer when is hot. A sweet and delicious parfum.

This is beautiful! I don’t understand why it’s discontinued (well the body mist and body lotion are still available but the EDP is not?). Every single time I wear this I get compliments. It’s creamy, fruity, tropical. So well blended. The staying power is not the best (it is BBW afterall!) but I love the smell so much I don’t mind reapplying. This is the perfect summer fragrance. I hope I will always be able to find a back up bottle online.

I love this Tahiti Island Dream on shower gel version. When it comes to perfume and body mist, it's too floral for me. And I didn't find any coconut fragrance in it. I prefer Coconut Lime Breeze.Well, I didn't say this one is not good. I love the smell, but just when it comes in the shower. The body mist is perfect for sunny day on the beach tho. It's really represent island smell.

I have the cream and lotion. It smells nice in the bottle, mostly floral. The problem is when I put it on my skin,it has a strange play doh after smell and makes me feel nauseous. Perhaps it's just my skin. I think sadly, I may have to give it away.

When I sprayed this on a card, the drydown was amazing, a creamy coconut scent with hints of musk and gardenia. Unfortunately, on skin, it smells too much like fruitcake from the oven. I'm regretting my choice to buy this over A Thousand Wishes.

This is really sweet,pleasant and reminds me of some type of perfume, could be a juicy couture as well.

I thought I smelled something berryish but it isn’t shown in the notes here.