I Love New York for Her

To me, this is a very interesting, beautiful fragrance and unlike any other I've experienced. In New York, there's so much going on that, if you blink, you'll miss it. This perfume is the same way. The opening is delicious spiced fruits and candied flower petals. You're transported to a corner store in NYC on a summer morning... the aroma of warm, fresh-baked blueberry muffins and fruity pastries is wafting up from behind the counter but, as you walk outside onto the street, you smell the bouquets of flowers being sold at the store front, their fragrance enhanced by the balmy humidity. The spicy sweetness of blueberry, mandarin, nutmeg, and vanilla merge with the roses and peonies. Just as the flippant, flirty fruits and florals make you feel so light and airy you think you'll float away, the leather and sandalwood emerge and keep you grounded in the Concrete Jungle. The base notes give this pink perfume a distinctly "urban", badass edge- as unexpected and titillating as a woman whose black leather underwear is peeking out from underneath her cotton-candy pink dress and innocent facade. She catches you staring at her and gives you the finger, displaying a perfectly polished manicure. Finally, you're at the dry down and there's something almost metallic underneath everything going on in this fragrance... and you get a glimpse of the train rumbling under her feet, beneath the city... and then it's gone. The dry down is quiet, pretty, and sweet. I Love NY for Her is very unique and memorable to me- an interesting blend of all different kinds of notes, which perfectly represents a city where all different types of smells are simultaneously competing for your attention. This fragrance is as busy as the city is, warm one second and cool the next, as if you're walking on the sidewalk, moving between the sunlight and the shadows of the buildings. It's feminine but not demure- it's so powerful and full of life. I don't think this is an everyday fragrance but I like to wear it on special occasions, or when I just miss home, better known as "The Big Apple".

Oh sweet Jeezus!!! I just want to scream from the roof-- I love this!! I'm a 35 year old gourmand lover... the sweeter the better! I like them foody, I like the fruity, I like them spicy, I like them with vanilla... And this blind buy was a SCORE! I'm in love! I found a helluva deal on a new 3.4 tester with 2 samples (that way if I hated the samples, I could still sell off the unused tester) but damn-- this is delicious! IT IS blueberry muffins! But not in a 100% food way. There is the underlying patchouli and the florals, which can throw the scent off sometimes. The opening is HELLA CANDY blueberry/grape lollipops. With a funky floral bit, and some weird sharpness from the nutmeg? And then it calms down and stays with the blueberry sweet. Then some flowers come out, and it's beautiful. Like fresh baked blueberry crumble next to a vase of fresh flowers. On my skin, in about 4 hours, it went thru all 3 stages, and dried down to nothing but patchouli. I hate patchouli, but.... this was soft and worth it for the rest of the fragrance. On clothes, it mostly stays in the 1-2 stage range for many more hours. It's softly long lasting, but not a huge sillage bomb. I used quite a few sprays this morning (8 over the course of 2 hours) in hopes it lasts me all day. Right now I have a light hint on my wrists and my shirt doesn't smell like much, but I do get whiffs as I move around, or go outside (in the 50 degree Fall). This is my very first Bond (a blind buy too) so I can't comment on the quality of other Bonds. I did order NY For ALL because I'm obsessed with coffee gourmands like Pink Sugar Sparks and Black Opium. I can't wait!

This was a blind buy, a rather expensive one at that. As soon as I received it I was full of expectations, and I was not disappointed. I knew from first sniff this was going to be a favourite. Even then, I didn't know how much this would grow on me. The first thing you will notice is that this isn't polarising and strange like niche can be. It's familiar and reminiscent of several perfumes I've encountered in the mainstream range. It's impossible to pinpoint exactly what this reminds me of, even if I tried. It's a unique, addictive and special take on a theme done to death, namely the fruitchouli. It's very fruity, juicy and sweet but also with a great depth and a bit of soap in the same way a blueberry shampoo can smell sweet and good enough to eat. All in all, this is a FRUITY CHYPRE - there is no discernible vanilla or bakery scent to this at all, to my nose. I disagree with the placement in the oriental vanilla family. The patchouli is sweet and acts the same here as in for example Miss Dior Cherie, Flowerbomb, Jimmy Choo and Allure Sensuelle by Chanel. You get the drift. It's incredibly girly and fun, in the same berry vein as Midnight Fantasy, and has that extra something to make me aware of it every time I get whiffs of it from my clothes. It lasts and lasts, making itself known several days later. Gourmand? Edible? Yes, in the hard candy way, not the pastry way. Your dentist will hate you. Did I mention how much I love this scent?

I am beyond IN LOVE!!!! My only complaint is that you can definitely tell that the I Love NY line of Bond is their "economy" line. All their other higher end fragrances last 14+ hours on me, but this only last about 5-6 :( BOOOOOO and silage definitely leaves something to be desired! So I just walk around sniffing my hair and wrists because it stays very close to the skin after the first hour :(. I wish they would make a higher quality version of this fragrance that matches the "BOND" quality! I WOULD DEFINITELY buy it regardless the price tag! It definitely reminds me of walking by a NYC bakers in the spring and summertime. I am not typically a fan of patchouli but this scent has me IN LOVE! I see NO resemblance between this and Angel other than they both have patchouli in it, but Angel is overwhelming and Bond 9 is light, flirty, and sophisticated! Bond has hit the nail on the head with this gourmand done Right! It opens up with a fruity sweet blueberry burst, and warms with vanilla icing, peonies, musk, and a subtle kiss of patchouli. I honestly cannot say enough wonderful things about this beauty!!!! I literally just bought a bottle of the original Miss Dior Cherie (pre-2011 reformulation), and MDC could be I <3 NY's little sister!!!!!! I notice A LOT of similarities between the 2! Both are sweet and sophisticated patchouli gourmands done absolutely RIGHT!!!!! They definitely favor each other!!!!!!

Ah, shit. Shit, dubble shit. I hate when my stupid curiosity leads me to this cool, hard to get, fantastic perfumes that I under no circumstances can afford!! I really need this lovely sweet original perfume on my shelf. At first I thought it smelled exacly like one of the swedish classic ice creams for kids (a frozen ice popsicle with pear flavour) so my first impression was that New york for her was kind of childish and overly sweet (like a candy bag stufft with sour candy) so I spended my budget on a bottle of New york for all instead, thinking that that one was "so much more wearable", come again? well, yes, that was my thinking. Probably cause it was close to X-mas at the time. But ever since that I cant get New york for her out of my head! I don't remember the super sweet, strong opening anymore. I now recall this beautiful, sweet and slightly sour (?) extreamy creamy dry down that was a true delight to wear. Not very childish at all. A really unik gourmand perfume that's actually quite wearable after all ;) Recived a lot of compliments when I was wearing it at work, NO one refered to it as overly sweet or candyish. Like many Bonds the perfume has it's own life. It's one type of person in the morning (kind of aggressiv) and a compleatly different one in the evening!