Central Park South

Central Park South is the ONLY perfume I have that got me a compliment on the 10th hour of the dry down. I work for FedEx Express and I was delivering a package to the receptionist at her desk. She gasped when I told her I sprayed CPS on my skin 10 hours ago. This is a true longevity and projection beast that just keeps on giving. This just speaks volumes in the quality that they put in their perfumes. Reading the notes before actually buying it I feared the worst. CPS might just end up smelling like every designer perfume out there that has grapefruit and blackcurrant notes. But upon first spray....CPS hits you with one of the loudest and most colorful grapefruit top notes ive ever smelled. It QUICKLY separates itself from any other perfume with similiar notes. The jasmine mingling with the obvious grapefruit and blackcurrant notes just makes CPS dance on my skin. This is truly a refreshing high class spring scent. CPS dries down into a very masculine musky and woody base in its final glorious hours....in which I still managed to get noticed and get complimented on. This is another colorful and vibrant winner from the house of Bond. A MUST for spring!!!!

11/25/19 - There are so many reviewers who can dissect certain notes. The best I can do is share what I’m experiencing as a whole. This scent is beautiful! It’s so feminine. The bottle is such a good visualization to what I’m thinking of and feeling wearing this. It’s for women who love pinks and light purples, bows and frills, dresses and heels. I used “women” because I personally think it’s got a note that brings it up a notch from being a safe girl’s perfume. Maybe it’s the base woody notes? IMHO it’s just a tad too mature for, say, a girl’s first perfume. This isn’t a beachy, ocean-breeze type of a perfume. This would definitely be perfect for a wedding frag - it’s sophisticated and “upper-crust”, for lack of a better description. I’m being brought back to a Ralph Lauren perfume - maybe Safari? Or Lauren... but not exactly - just a fleeting wisp of a connection to them. I love this. How perfect it would be to find a body lotion and shower gel to layer it all 💕 Top notes: grapefruit blossom, black currant buds Mid: blooming jasmine and lily of the valley base: woody notes

No fruit in this for me just straight up thick white floral, the jasmine smells more like tuberose to me, it’s almost as though the top notes are missing completely and it goes straight onto the middle notes, I’m not sensing much wood on the dry down either, the best I can say about this one is the bottles nice. Sadly it’s a no from me. EDIT.. just tried this again 3 days later and wow it’s like a different perfume, I’m getting the lovely sweet notes and a sparkling jasmine, this has gone to a straight up love 💓 someone once told me that when you buy a perfume online and it’s gone through the delivery process always give it time to settle before using, well I’m beginning to think there just might be something in that. The grapefruit blossom and the blackberry really lifts this perfume into something bright and sparking.

This perfume is a joy, freshness and spring in a bottle! Really love it. I first fell in love with it from a sample and then had to buy a full bottle. It's not a ground breaking scent in the meaning of some new notes. But it's pretty addictive especially for the warm spring days when people start sweating and need this extra elegant freshness in the air that compliments the blooming nature. A pretty prominent note to my nose here is a delicate tuber rose which I guess is actually the jasmine and the Lilly of the valley combination. There is a beautiful green sweet opening coming from the black currant blossom which also brings a very fresh out of the shower character working together with the grapefruit blossom. The woodsy notes are very quiet undetectable to my nose.

Woah! I wasnt expecting a banana skin smell on the opening. It's that curious woody smell. Unmistakable. I would never have guessed blackcurrant and grapefruit blossom were present. I would have guessed ylang was present but it isn't! It also makes me think of the tropical shrub Michelia. I've smelt in bloom in one of the greenhouses in Saville Gardens UK. I can detect a bit of jasmine. I totally get why some smell tuberose but it's also very bananary (have I created a new word?!) It's definitely a scent of the hot and steamy tropics. It takes me back to hacking through jungle in Malaya. A night wear number only as pretty potent. It hangs around for hours even in these warm temps. Reasonable sillage as well.