Hesperides Grapefruit

Finally! A citrus scent done right! I received mine as a gift from a very kind member here - thank-you! Over the last month, I've tried two other citrus based scents and they could never hope to hold a candle to this one. Those other two garnered negative reviews from me but this one is going to be positive. Have you ever had one of those days where you just don't know which fragrance in your wardrobe to grab for? On those days, this is the one I reach for. It's so perfectly blended. The notes harmonize with one another to create something so clean, clear, sparkling and fresh. I love the touch of sourness and tartness this has. Really beautiful! The grapefruit really is the star here and I couldn't be any happier with it. Puts me in mind of hot summer days. Sitting at a picnic table with a gingham table cloth draped over it. In front of you; a big, clear, glass pitcher of ruby red grapefruit cocktail juice filled to the brim with ice and slices of yellow and pink grapefruit! You reach for it because you know it's what you need. The perfume is no different.

Hesperides is a dose of juicy fresh bright ripe grapefruit and all that is delightful. I have worn this off and on for years (since it was in the tall skinny bottle)...yet STILL every time I put it on I want to say "mmmm" out loud. It is a simple fragrance, yet very well done. There is nothing to really decipher or figure out....it is just to be enjoyed. It doesn't cause you to see Cleopatra and her cat or give you any sort of hallucinatory benefits (as I see happening in reviews for other more "complex" fragrances. Are some of them laced with LSD or something?). But Hesperides sure smells awfully good. If you like grapefruit, citrus or anything remotely of the sort...buy the biggest bottle of this that you can find, you won't be disappointed. I will put it this way...whenever I am disappointed in a fragrance that I just blindly purchased (even the $200+ kind)....I wash it off, neutralize, rinse, repeat. Then spray myself down with Hesperides and all is right with the world again.

This is actually called HESPERIDES GRAPEFRUIT and was renamed this many years ago. It's a wonderfully JUICY, ZESTY grapefruit-leading citrus fragrance. Sooo refreshing, makes you feel like you just got out of the shower! I adore citrus fragrances and used to own this. Here's the kicker though...this did not last more than 20 minutes on my skin. And I mean it completely vanished after 20 mins. And I used to spray on a TON of it. It was so frustrating! But boy were those 20 minutes wonderful. Sometime around 2010, I had a perfume by Fresh called BERGAMOT CITRUS and it was DIVINE!!! It was a peppery lemon scent, I was so in love with it. Much better longevity than Hesperides. They discontinued it and I was crushed. FRESH, PLEASE BRING BACK BERGAMOT CITRUS!

I don't know what it is about my body chemistry, but perfumes last a long time on me. If I put something on in the morning and don't shower at night, I will probably still smell it the next day, albeit very weakly. Every single perfume. Except for this one. Which is a tragedy, because this is citrus PERFECTION. If you are drawn to citrusy fresh perfumes, this is absolute heaven. It's not spicy and only a little bit sweet. Fresh without being too tart or too feminine. But it's fleeting; less than an hour and it's gone. I never detected any of the base notes described here, probably because I was reapplying so much, but I also don't have the most sophisticated nose. If this lasts on you, consider yourself lucky.

I purchased this fragrance years ago, before I got into fragrances. I fell in love with it at a Sephora in Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. It always reminds me of wandering around shopping in Vegas. I think this is the ultimate office scent. It is beautiful, but also very mild and inoffensive. It dissipates quickly, which could be seen as a negative, but I just look at it as an opportunity to spray a bit more and enjoy that lovely opening over and over again. Years later I still love it and wear it when I'm not sure if the people I will be around will be the type who get angry at perfumes. I've never met anyone who found this perfume offensive. Everyone I have shared it with, through multiple gifts, loves it.