Ooh La Rouge

I got this as a freebie; I probably never would have picked it out myself. By all means, this should be a fragrance I hate, but I actually really love it! What a nice surprise! Edit after taking some time to think: I say this with all this with love. This smells like a cheap perfume trying to be an expensive perfume, but not really in a bad way. It smells like going to the mall at 16. You're trying on clothes you can't afford with your friends and daring each other to go into Spencer's. When you're done, you both get a smoothie at the foodcourt and laugh together. This smell is light, feminine, and not taking itself too seriously. It has an initial sharp alcohol smell and a cloying sweetness that I personally associate with cheaper perfumes...That note that makes people go "wow, it smells like perfume in here." After a few minutes, it dries down into a subtler floral sweetness. The amber is heavy, the musk is light, fluffy, and white. This is an easy grab when going to run errands, and I think this would fit a woman of any age. That being said, I think this smells too much "like perfume" to be worn in an office setting without getting complaints from coworkers, even though this is not a challenging fragrance.

This is the greatest perfume I have ever smelled and threw everything I thought I knew about scents right in the trash. A little background, I absolutely HATE musk in perfumes. It's the only thing I can smell and to me it always smells like B.O so I tend to avoid perfumes that have them. I tried this while I was out shopping because I thought the bottle was really pretty so hadn't looked up anything about it, so I was surprised that I loved a perfume with musk in it as much as I do. I can't tell it's there, or it's just so subtle and isn't so overpowering like with other scents. When I first sprayed it, there was a very light sweet smell. After a couple of hours of wear, it became this fruity floral with a warmness to it. To me and on my skin, it was kind of like a baked berry pie (maybe cherry?), brown sugar, and some flowers thrown in for fun. The best way I can think to describe it is a warm floral. I do wish it had greater sillage so I didn't have to lift my wrist to my nose to breath it all in. The wear length is good. For me it lasted about 7 hours. This is the one that's going to be my signature scent and I dont' care if others hate it because I'm so in love with this perfume.

This is a beautiful scent, it is definitely similar to BR 540, and a more affordable dupe, I tested both together and was hard pressed to tell the difference, this one is slightly heavier in its overall scent, it is very sweet with a dark amber undertone so It can definitely be unisex. Compared to cloud by Ariana, I would say this a more mature version, less the coconut scent, but this one is still very sweet with its praline note. Also the bottle is beautiful, I could not bring myself to display the cloud bottle as it’s so childish but this one is gorgeous! I get the praline and saffron right away and the amber is present throughout. The florals are well mixed so they don’t fully stand out on their own. A delicious burnt sugar fragrance! It lasts a good 5 hours on my skin and moderately projects, it is not loud but subtle sillage is present throughout. Happy to have this one in my collection!

I definitely get the praline. Its a lovely sweet, creamy candy fragrance. I'd put it in the same family as Philosophy Falling In Love, which I also love. I really, really like this for spending a quiet evening with my fiancé. He tends to like sweet fragrances on me, and this one was a winner. I find it to be a much more pleasant answer to Burberry Her Elixir that a lot of people love and I personally find to be far too sweet, and almost like being punched in the face by deflated cotton-candy. All this being said, my ever present disclaimer: fragrances react differently on everyone depending on their personal, skin chemistry. Personally, I like this one a lot.

I love this fragrance. I know people lump it in with 540 dupes but personally I don't like BR540 on me, so that's not what Ooh La Rouge is for me. I love this scent, it's soft, sweet, but still elegant. The sweetness is soft but the lasting power is not. I spray this before I go to bed and still smell it in the morning as a skin scent. I mostly get the praline and amber wood notes with a very light white floral. Since it's not terribly overpowering I find it to be very versatile, signature scent worthy. I'll wear this on a nice date night or to work or really anywhere.