Pleasures Bloom

Beautiful! Pleasures certainly do Bloom! It's a gorgeous, delicate, sweet floral with delicious fruity notes - fresh and enticing. Very strong, but light, and fresh. An absolute pleasure, truly. A lovely soft delightful bouquet of the most perfect gentle flowers, mixed with the sweet and tangy fruit, and smoothed and creamed by the patchouli, musk and vanilla. The base is so gently supportive - not heavy at all, and hardly noticeable really - the focus is always on the flowers and fruit. The whole experience is one of pleasure, from beginning to end; and that's a lovely long time on me, 13 hours and more, and the fragrance maintains the strength it begins with, virtually to the very end, only softening for a further couple of hours, which is very amazing for such a (deceptively) light scent. There's nothing harsh or soapy about it, just a delicate powdery/creaminess in the dry down, which I love completely. Very smooth. It's such a heavenly feminine perfume. I adore Pleasures too. Both of them are of my all time favourites, and I couldn't possibly live without them. They both make me feel very happy and content.

To me opening is bit harsh, berries are so dominantly noticable along with litchi. What it develops into is, on the other hand, amazing to me. My mother’s most favourite perfume is Pleasures so i am very familiar with original scent and i like it but not a huge fan of it. This one is familiar yet more modern and lovable for me. I really like how it turns into a subtle, peony-based perfume. I am a big fan of peony and this one is a really good peony perfume. Mostly it is a nice,creamy scent balanced with peony and rose to me. By time it turns into a floral vanilla, with a hint of musk. I smell slightly pepper somewhere in it even if it s not listed in notes but it gives me this vibe. It is more like skin-scent , would be suitable for indoors, offices etc. Longevity is not impressive; but it was good enough for me; around 6th-7th hour i can still notice it when i smell my wrist. Anyway it is not a sillage and longevity monster.

My male best friend bought this for me last summer and I have been in love with it ever since. It is youthful but not in a teenaged sense. It's a light. fresh, sweet almost jubilantly carefree blast of fun in a bottle. It isn't subtle in the least, it is a scent that projects and gets noticed. Granted that it does smell like a lot of other stuff out there but at the same time there is just something different about it to me and very distinct, for those of us who own it we can tell what it is when someone else is wearing it almost instantly, at least I and two of my other female friends who got bottles for themselves can. I think that it is sexy but not in a femme fatale kind of way but rather in a more fun flirtatious batting of the eyelashes kind of way. Great for everyday use and wonderful in warmer weather. Every time I wear it I get asked what I am wearing or i receive compliments on the scent from both men and women.

I was given a bottle of this today :) The first two words that came to mind were "pink" and "adorable"! Pleasures Bloom is incredibly fresh, and what I consider to be a perfect fragrance for Spring and the start of Summer. On me, it opened up with juicy, pink grapefruit (rather than yellow grapefruit). After the initial blast of that, I started to smell big, plump, fresh Lychees and strawberries followed by pink roses, blooming jasmine and violets! Every note I've listed seems to mesh together beautifully during the drydown and makes for an incredibly feminine, fun, fresh, "I'M HERE" type of fragrance. So to me, this will now be known as my 'Pink Adorable' scent which I look forward to wearing a lot, especially when the weather warms up here in Australia. I'm not normally a fan of Estee Lauder perfumes, and I really don't care for the original Pleasures at all...but this is just gorgeous.

I bought this, knowing that Estee Lauder's fragrances are long-lasting and of high quality. I wanted something similar to Lancome's Miracle, but longer lasting. And this smelled very similar to that with the opening of litchi in it. I, however, do like my perfumes a bit spicier than this composition. The grapefruit note lasts like 20 minutes and then it morphs into violets with peony and raspberry. Don't get me wrong, it's nice, but the violets darken up the scent too much. I would rather there be more citrus to this one. This dries down a florally vanilla on me.