Sparkling Sugar

When I first tried Sparkling Sugar all I could think of was Clean Reserve's Radiant Nectar. It felt so close in memory that I could have sworn they were nearly identical. As the day wore on it started to feel less and less like Radiant Nectar and like a sweet Dylan Purple. Eventually the sweetness dies down and I swear it smells nearly identical to Dylan Purple. I tested out spraying the 3 and I have to say Sparkling Sugar and Radiant Nectar feel like similar DNA - though Sparkling more like a berry peach white sugar, and Nectar more like a pear brown sugar. Nectar keeps the sweet brown sugarness on the die-down for me, while Sparkling Sugar is more of a fruity musk that almost entirely matches Dylan Purple. I think my biggest frustration with all 3 is that they're so short lasting. Sparkling Sugar seems like the best preforming for me, but even then I'm getting 3-4 hours if I do some heavy-handed spraying. Radiant Nectar seems to last 2-3 hours, and Dylan Purple lasts a hilarious 30minutes to an hour max. I have fairly oily skin which holds perfume pretty well so I was pretty surprised at the poor performance of all 3. The sillage is pretty close to the skin and intimate, which I don't mind, but could see it being frustrating combined with the poor longevity. Overall I'm happy and am keeping the bottle, and would highly recommend to anyone who loves Dylan Purple but is frustrated they can't even get an hour out of it.

I feel like whether or not you like this one is going to be heavily dependent on how the musk in this reacts to your skin. For me this is a wonderful fruity musk that doesn’t smell overly synthetic or shampoo like, and I get wafts of it still an insanely long time after I apply it (I’m talking I put it on before bed yesterday at 11p and I got wafts of this over my sotd at around 7p today once I started moving around and my body heated up a bit) but I just KNOW that it will smell synthetic on some people and it probably won’t perform well on a lot of people either. Basically this isn’t one you should try to blind buy, get a sample or a decant/travel spray and actually wear it for a day or two before you decide. I would advise that for every fragrance but ESPECIALLY anything from this brand. This also layers amazingly over top of so many fragrances, I’ve layered this with gentle fluidity gold, La belle, vanilla 28, CR Skin, br540 (regular and extrait) and a few other random vanillas I have samples of and it’s smelled great EVERY TIME. I think this may very well turn into my signature scent

So glad to have gotten this as a free sample; this is a sugary candy smell done just right for my tastes! It's fresh and bright, not at all heavy. I almost get hints of citrus? Probably a little sour note from the peach if I had to guess. It's a fun, happy-go-lucky kind of scent, then turns into a gorgeous, sweet powdery skin scent after ~5 hours. Personally I think it'd be great in cold or warm weather. I have a lot of trouble with sweet, candy-like scents, but this one doesn't read medicinal or juvenile at all to me, both of which tend to happen. I initially thought this wasn't a scent I'd pay full price for, but... I absolutely cannot stop wearing it. If I couldn't find a deal, I would absolutely pay the price, even if I'd hate myself for it lol. It's just that pretty! (edit: take Glossier You, replace the pink pepper with peach, and that's Sparkling Sugar! I'm very surprised I don't see the comparison more often because they remind me of each other so much.)

This is literally the ideal clean girl fragrance in my opinion! It may be simple, but I think the mixture of notes makes it more complex and expensive smelling than something you can find at a cheaper price point. I have both Radiant Nectar and GIAW and I don't see the resemblance. I think this is different enough to stand on its own. I have been looking for a clean gourmand for so long, and this finally made my dreams come true. On my skin, I feel like gourmands go "dirty" in the dry down, especially when I get sweaty. Sparkling Sugar does not have the same effect, and instead makes me feel even cleaner after wear. It also has this comforting and soft effect that calms me. I'm a medical student and I find that this is one of the only fragrances that I can wear to clinic or in the hospital setting without being offensive. I absolutely love this!

I reviewed this not long ago, but I have to come back again to say that this is so good that it's ruining other perfumes for me. 9 times out of 10 lately when I wear something else, I think to myself that I wish I was wearing THIS perfume instead. The sparkly opening is already bright and beautiful, a nice balance of sweet and sour fruitiness... but that clean, powdery-sweet, musky dry down is positively ADDICTING. That's what makes this really shine to me. It's so hard for me to find sweet/fruity scents that don't come off as juvenile (or generic, though I don't mind that as much) but this one doesn't at all. It's just... perfect. I wish the silage was better (especially for the price), but other than that I can't think of a single complaint or anything I would change. I could see this becoming my signature scent for sure.