Sundazed

I’m on here because I’m desperate to assuage my perfume buying addiction. I actually had reason prevail and have a large sample of Sundazed. I really love it, but am trying to discipline myself to the early days when I carefully sampled and compared and looked for perfumes to ‘fill the category’ of whatever notes made a frag. At one time for instance in the far mists of time I only had one tuberose perfume. 😄. Lol. Anyway. I’m looking at the votes thinking, nah, Sundazed can’t smell like Oyedo, surely? I love Oyedo and have the old square bottle from years ago. Well the heavy chemical neroli opening is incredibly similar and even the rather strange caramel note behind it is in both of them for a while. Sundazed is sweeter and more sugary in the progression however, while Oyedo has a slight hint of Iris and even oak moss. I guess Sundazed is catering for current gourmand tastes. It also has a really teasingly beautiful and persistent sillage. I’m thinking that I should just enjoy my now absolutely beloved masterpiece Love Don’t Be Shy, but to me it is totally different to Sundazed. Sundazed is like you spilled your fake over sweetened sticky orange fizzy drink in the bottom of your plastic lined beach bag with fruit lollies and leaking pink zinc sun cream. It’s all stuck to your towel and the hat you should put back on before you get melanoma. Plus sand. You have to hose it all out on the back lawn under the hot summer sun. And peg it to a line on the Hills hoist.

I didn't know perfumes could make me feel emotions I've never experienced before until I tried Sundazed. WOW. This might be my favorite Byredo frag of all time honestly. This is SUCH a roller coaster. Upon first spray, I literally smell heat waves in the desert. The perfume is radiating heat. I feel like I'm in an 80's cartoon version of the desert and the sun is setting behind an incredible purple sunset, while I examine miles of thick heat waves. I'm PARCHED, and then, like an angel sent from God, I am greeted with a burst of the JUCIEST mandarin orange I've ever smelt in my life. God, I wanna EAT IT, it's so juicy. Finally, of all the smells in the world... I am bestowed with a fluffy piece of cotton candy to end the experience. The neroli is beautifully done and is carried throughout the entire fragrance giving it some structure. There is definitely a powdery undertone throughout, as well. Somehow, someway... this just WORKS. The whole composition. Yes, it's mildly bizarre, but it tells a story I've never read before. And THAT is what I love about perfume. Rating: 10/10 EDIT: Supposedly, Sundazed is supposed to mimic the feeling of summer after a long Norwegian winter. I'm in Minnesota and we experience a similar mania when the sun finally comes out after months of depressing bitter cold temps. It's no wonder this frag speaks to me so much aw

I wrote a negative review... and then I deleted it. I completely understand the dislike for this because I was one of you for the first 30 minutes I tried it on my skin. I Immediately thought toilet cleaner. Then it developed... and sat for a while... and dried... and faded away... and I found myself not being able to stop thinking about it. This is so. Interesting. This is the only fragrance I've been able to pick out each individual note in. The citrus in the beginning, enveloped slightly by the neroli, then fading into cotton candy-like musk. Throughout the wear time, it's always got that sweetness floating around in a cloud about your general person, so someone who is smelling you from a distance might get that first. When I put my nose up close to it, I get the citrus and neroli again. Back up, and it's back to the cotton candy. It's so layered and dynamic. It's like sunshine in a bottle. The carefree nature of summer... sipping a lemonade on the boardwalk with a big fluffy cotton candy in your other hand, walking toward the beach at sunset. Nectar of the gods. This is next in line to buy on my wishlist. Once that paycheck hits, I'm ordering the FB and not looking back. 11/10

BAM!! 💥 White floral. Period. 😊 It's clean, citrusy, slightly sweet & verrrry neroli-jasmine focused. Just squeaky clean, plasticky, shiny white flowers with sharp citrus and a hint of candy. The candy note here has more presence than the finery one; but ultimately they smell so similar that hardly anyone would know the difference. Oriana comparisons I'm going to have to disagree with. One key similarity, which I believe draws this comparison, is that each fragrance shares a similar-type smelling neroli/orange blossom note; but other than that they're completely different genres. While Oriana is a much softer, orange-vanilla marshmallow and fuzzy musk-ambrette oriented gourmand fra; Sundazed is a gleaming, razor sharp, crispy-clean white floral freshie. Sundazed is interesting in its sterile plasticity, although I do find I prefer the woodsy, darker fragrances × Byredo. That said, it is my hot summer days Byredo pick. Layers beautifully with Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 40 body care products.

The notes on this one made me run out to smell it at my local Neiman Marcus. As others have stated this doesn't have a cotton candy note -- the official site reads this line "Like cotton candy, a cascade of white musk injects this citrus scent with the endorphin rush of sugar on skin. Nostalgia and escapism entwine to channel the warmth of an endless summer" which might be why there's a note listed as cotton candy. Anywho, this smells great -- you get a burst of citrus and something is sweet in this and it really does come off as cotton candy. But once this settles down it almost smells like the best dryer sheet you could own and I'm not mad at that. I will love spraying this for the summer and spring as it's a nice sweet citrusy scent that turns into a clean laundry Esq scent. I would say this isn't blind buy worthy due to the way it transforms -- but this is easy to locate and sniff.