Charleston Girl

I'm honored to be the only reviewer of this beautiful perfume. Kelly Gaskins created this perfume back in 2012. We are both from Charleston South Carolina. I bought 4 bottles for myself. I love to wear this in the day time in the spring and summer. Opens up with a huge green apple. It's delicious and sweet, plus there's also a strong melon scent. Very fruity. Flowers are jasmine and orange blossom. Orange blossom is the strongest floral note here and works well wit the melon. This is a fruity floral that feels summery and does take me to Charleston every time where I do smell a lot of orange blossom. It also takes me to Myrtle Beach. A Southern fragrance that is more innocent, sweet and polite than a Bette Davis in Jezebel or Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind. This is not a Scarlett O'Hara perfume. This is more like a Dolly Parton perfume. She is sweet, feminine and no nonsense. It's simple, not very complex, just a pretty woman smelling of pretty flowers and smelling like she has all the time in the world to spend at the beach. I also love to wear this in Florida where I live now. Not every woman can pull this off. Some women are just not the fruity floral type. You can buy this perfume online from the website: charlestongirlperfume.com

Well I just recently had gone to Charleston and tried some of this little beauty in the city market and fell in love. It’s a very pretty, soft floral. I get the apple and pear, not so much the melon, lots of white florals, soft amber and musk in the dry down. Nice for the warm weather. Leaves a pretty feminine trail, very pleasant, decent longevity.

Quite classy and sweet, very mature, not in an elegant way but in a funloving, refreshing way. The bottle is super cute, too. I used to wear this all the time and it's very good for layering as well! A bit hard to get your hands on, but if you get the opportunity to get her, even if just a small sample, I highly recommend it!

I was vacationing around the south and caught sight of this in a gift shop at a garden in South Carolina. I test sprayed a bit on my wrists and went on exploring the goods being sold in the store till I realized the scent is quite nice and different (without being too ‘vavavoom’)and the sillage seemed to be pretty good, so I purchased it. It is not a warm weather scent to me, strangely. This just one more time proves how body chemistry is everything. I would not describe this as aquatic, ozonic or fresh in any way. I mean It is not cloying or saccharinely sweet that make it all bad for warm weather, but I personally would use something less cocooning and comforting when it is sunny and humid out, if that makes sense. It was dreary and rainy on the day I bought it and the slight warmth the scent carries wrapped around me so softly. I love it for wet days! The bottle I have is not blue as portrayed in the photo here, thou. It is transparent w red bow. The fragrance is not very well distributed, I have yet to see it anywhere else besides in that small gift shop and on the company’s website. All in all, feminine, gently sweet and at the same time sensuous, good staying and sillage power.

I like this quite a bit; it is light and sweet without being cloying. Unlike its promotional copy, which touts it as a “southern belle” perfume, Charleston Girl is actually a delicate, ladylike fragrance that reminds me of the gardens that abound in Charleston. It is very pleasant, though not especially compelling. Its packaging is inoffensive and functional but not memorable. All in all, a very nice souvenir to bring home from Charleston, one of my favorite cities, and you can buy it in local museum shops whose proceeds support historic preservation.