Tracy

I just bought this as a gift set, perfume, body lotion and shower gel, as a blindbuy for my birthday. I put it in the same category with Percieve Oasis from Avon (because of the peony, I just love peony) and maybe also with Chloe. I am already wearing this for two weeks now, but only in the sunny and warm days. My bottle doesn't look like the one pictured here, and as I read I think it might be a reformulation. But I absolutely like it , if it was a little more intense it would have been better! For me this is the smell of my childhood, subtle, powdery, acctually it has a body lotion vibe, I feel the wafts during the day and makes me so confortable! In fact my first sniff reminded me of a friend of my parents, who also was my french teacher, I really feel like this was her perfume and I think it suited her very well, as she was very thin and tall, with her curly long hair, a little too much make up...and all her wool sweaters and skirts, knitted by herself.... just lovely memories!

A luminous demure aura extreamly feminine scent nothing sharp harsh or edgy just a soft non obtrusive with a girlish innocence kind of a scent that is safe and ideal for young girls for their first perfume collection. It opens with a scent of sweet and airy peonies delicate sweetness of each pink petal dries fresh with a green note of cassia adds to the freshness then in a minute or so turns fruity with the succulent note of plum blossom and i also can detect juicy ripe peach mingling with the deeper and more juicer plum dries the top note. Rose opens the middle notes but it's faint and diluted then iris with it's powdery texture steeps slowly though the middle note then delicate note of purple violet finishes the middle note. The drydown opens with an milky accord that is a bit cloying to my senses amber with a warm coziness begins to makes it's presence then it finishes with dry sandalwood and vanilla to end this femininity.

Lovely, lovely, oh so lovely! I've had it on for six hours now and it's still going strong. At present all I can say is that I totally agree with Fancygirl who said it is decidedly reminiscent of Laura by Laura Biagiotti, which is hard to find where I live, except at astronomical prices. It is weaker than Laura, which is a good thing: it is like having a whisper of Laura hanging around my hair, glimpsed in the periphery of my vision. A dry-down sort of Laura, missing the fruity volume of the opening, which I disliked. Laura was my perfume in my 20s, and it is bundled with both happy and sad memories: to have Laura back, and in a more subdued floral form, is like starting over, and with only the best from that time. But “I’m not Laura, my name is Tracy!” to paraphrase a 70s country song. So I’ll be back with a proper review of sweet, pretty Tracy, a rain-washed spring garden of a perfume.

I fell in love with this creamy, sweet, almondy beauty by snagging a set of 4 Ellen Tracy roller balls from Burlington. I kept seeing other Ellen Tracy fragrances around discount stores and thought this would be a great way to try the others. I was pleasantly surprised- I actually loved all of them. But... The one that got most of my attention was Tracy. Nutty, creamy, soft flowers. Violets and roses ....something comforting and ladylike about this one. It also has a cooling effect that I think will be nice in warm weather. It's like wearing a luxurious lotion as a perfume. I kept getting sweet almond powder wafts- so calming and lovely! This is a scent I can wear to work without scent-bombing anyone out. I wore it to bed, and when I woke up it was still there- Plus for longetivity. I found a big bottle for $10 at Ross. I think it is unique and lovely.

I am having so much fun experimenting with my set of four Ellen Tracy minis. I sample one per day in order to give each one my proper and undivided attention. At this point I could not pick a favorite among Tracy, Ellen, ET, or Bronze. It's almost a seasonal thing...four scents, four seasons...could it be that easy? "Tracy" has springtime all over it. I had to do some free-association with this one. My first sniff, I thought - okay, you can do this, you can pick out the flower note in this, because I know it's something from my own garden...it's not rose...I'm thinking peony, which smells so gorgeous in early spring. When I rushed to this site to see if I was correct, there it was in the notes. I felt like I'd just passed an important perfume test. This scent calls for sipping chilled white wine on a nice spring evening. Love it.