Floral Marshmallow

I may get crucified for this one but...I like this better than Love Don’t be Shy. Hear me out, I originally fell head over heels for LDBS and it was the fragrance that originally got me obsessed with scents I considered it my signature nothing could dethrone the sugary sweetness that mixed with my chemistry so well. Until I ran out of it. It’s pricey for me, and I decided to give Floral Marshmallow a try. I was pleased at first but not in love, set it aside and got a travel size of LDBS at the time. It had been months when I came back to the dossier version and I haven’t put it down since, I’m on my third bottle. LDBS is definitely more powdery almost medicinally sweet and the dossier has a little bit more of the orange fruity side of LDBS that I have ended up preferring, its less musky and powdered. They are very similar but...as much as I want to come on here and say nothing is better than the OG, the dossier Floral Marshmallow has stolen my heart. I love a sweet citrus note. It lasts longer and projects better as well, I have never gotten compliments on the OG but so many on dossier. When I went to pick up my wedding dress a couple days ago I had sprayed it generously all over me and it was a couple hours later the lady at the desk immediately as soon as I walked up asked me what I was wearing and said it smelled so delicious and feminine it was distracting her. Do I think its a safe blind buy? Not really, you have to like cavity inducing sweet scents. Do I think its exactly the same as LDBS? No they are close enough to be redundant but not EXACT dupes to my nose. If you love the LDBS dna though give this a try, it does get sweeter as it sits though. You have to like sweet scents to like this is what I would caution, I mean powdery fruity candy sweet, conversation hearts sweet. Its got a touch of white florals that keeps it from becoming too overbearing though. Overall this is a 10/10 for me in my collection, I do wish it had a prettier bottle. Amazing price, very feminine, pretty, and very sweet without going into the body spray sweet category for me at least. I also wouldn’t say its a food scent either. I think most people would say this is a younger scent like 20s to 30s but I think anyone can wear whatever they please regardless of gender or age. As one reviewer said on here I’m a bit addicted!

Ever since I read that Givenchy Hot Couture has been reformulated: I've had to do some work finding a new baby. Poor me, I have to go play in perfume. Maybe I could stand to also find something irresistible, that was more economical than HC. Never had heard of Kilian or his LDBS before, but vanilla frag freaks like me seem to love the little man and his creations. Never have smelt LDBS, but I ordered Dossier's version labeled as "Floral Marshmallow" off of a whim and recommendation. Needless to say Dossier will now receive monthly child support checks from me for our new baby here. I have no earthly idea what LDBS smells like, and I never intend to give that man 300 dollars when I can smell like this for 40. If you love Dior Hypnotic Poison, Givenchy Hot Couture, Montale Chocolate Greedy, Tom Ford's Tabacco Vanille or Mugler's Angel.... any of those "sexy/raunchy/self-indulgent/bitchy" fragrances like those: BUY THIS. It smells like you are eating fruit loops out of a crystal bowl, in the private office of your lover the CEO. Naked. Wearing nothing but red bottom patent leather heels. On the top floor of the skyscraper company building, overlooking the kingdom, your bouquet of flowers are twice as big as the similar one he got for his wife. Now your slightly sweaty derriere is sticking to the exquisite leather of his desk chair. His Cuban vanilla cigar waifs through the open door to the balcony. You kiss the note pad on his desk to leave a reminder. This is not a perfume for a lady. This is for a woman. Now I know why its inspiration was called: Love, Don't Be Shy.

love don’t be shy smells like i need to sell everything else in my collection and floral marshmallow smells like i don’t have to. i get a little more florals in the opening vs. LDBS but once they dry down they’re almost identical. i’m walking around in the same soft caramel marshmallow cloud. i do think LDBS lasts a little bit longer but i mean...she better. edit: the above holds for skin but floral marshmallow is eternal on clothes, especially now the bottle has had a chance to sit for a while. two sprays in the hood of my winter jacket weeks ago has had me giddy every time i have to go out. i’d wear it literally every day except i don’t want to go noseblind, and it’s also proven a helpful barometer to measure other fragrances against. i haven’t even wanted to buy anything else in ages because nothing smells better to me. i’m capricious so i might change my mind but right now i understand where the single signature scent camp comes from. whatever it is that i love about LDBS is here in spades because when i throw a spritz of kilian in the midst i don’t really feel like i’ve been missing anything, and floral marshmallow is a good enough value i don’t have to ration it. (ironic, you don’t have to be shy with it.) bought backup bottles because i am powering through the first one. it’s on everything. the aforementioned jacket, my pillow, half the clothes in the laundry basket...that dry down is everything.

this is the perfume that got me into fragrance. before this, i had despised fragrance and completely shut it out of my life. i would constantly complain about perfumes and how everyone just had bad taste in scents (i have sensory issues). immediately after my first spray, i was shocked, hungry, for the smell of this perfume. it was a blind buy, i had no idea what LDBS was even, but it blew me away. my 50ml is almost completely gone now. people constantly compliment me when i wear this. now, it's similarity to LDBS; it is very similar. i almost completely disagreed the first 20 m after trying the real LDBS, but i realize that it's only the veeery top notes that are different. after the first 20 minutes, they are extremely similar, almost impossible to tell apart. i would say that dossier's impression has a much more artificial, strong opening, which, i am going to be honest, can be a bit suffocating. but, the dry down is gorgeous and sweet, and it lasts FOREVER on clothes, sometimes even after a wash (this is okay for me, but this may be a con for some). i would say the biggest difference on the dry down in comparison to LDBS is the 'thickness'. dossier is a much lighter sweetness, it feels shallow, not really in a negative sense, but just less syrupy and complex. LDBS smells more like something you could actually eat, something decadent, whereas floral marshmallow is light and snacky ...? i suppose ?

Oh, I love this! I’m getting crushed orange pez, or those Smartie lollipops! Definitely some zing. Some kind of powdery orange candy coated in malic acid. It’s sophisticated despite my description! I never even knew this could be a thing. It’s so tangy, sweet, and delicious. Blended VERY well. I usually hate white florals, but this changed my whole perspective. This is how all white florals should be! On my skin, I predominantly get the marshmallow, orange blossom, honeysuckle, and powdery orris. They blend so well, and make me smell so sweet without it leaning childish. I usually LOVE photo-realistic gourmands. (Ones that make me want to eat my arm.) Floral Marshmallow isn’t exactly an edible gourmand, but it’s definitely sweet. Akin to sticking my head in a gorgeous bouquet of candied flowers. We’ve all smelled flowers that make us wonder, “ Hmm. I wonder if this tastes as good as it smells.” That is this perfume. You know you can’t eat it, but dang it, you want to try! Holy moly. A very safe-blind buy if you like sweet perfumes, in my opinion. I would say this is the floral perfume for people who don’t like florals. This perfume bridges the gap between gourmand lovers and floral lovers. This doesn’t smell “mature.” I don’t agree with that sentiment. I wouldnt say it’s a young teen perfume either. I think this is 18+.