You Rêve

The best thing I’ve ever done is going into the Glossier flankers blind. As a disclaimer, I don’t really consider myself an enjoyer of gourmands, and Doux seemed more in line with my taste on paper. In fact, the mere mention of a lactonic note almost completely turned me away, as they almost always turn sour with my body chemistry. But once I actually tested them both on skin, I found my nose glued to my wrist until I showered that night. Reve is literally addicting to me. I couldn’t stop talking about it until I finally saved up for a bottle of my own. I would leave the house feeling that my outfit is devastatingly incomplete without a cloud of buttery smooth plum and ambroxan trailing me. I would have never picked this out as a signature scent for me until I spent a day with it. It was to my complete disappointment to find that this is a pretty polarizing scent. I’ll admit that I’ve sought out a tiktok or youtube video or two about influencer’s “most complimented fragrances” or “scents pretty girls wear”. I like when people notice that I smell good. It took some effort for me to push slightly against the popular opinion and go all in on this perfume, but that’s how strongly I feel about it. I see the reviews calling it plasticky or possessing an unnamable childlike quality, or comparing it to crayons and lipstick and play doh, and I raise you this: don’t you find yourself guiltily taking in a deep breath when you open a well-loved box of crayons or turning your head when you sense the distinct powderiness of a woman’s lipstick? This sensation married with the perfected Glossier DNA of iris and ambroxan is intoxicating. Maybe I need to smell it on someone else’s skin to understand the disdain for Reve, but for me, this is signature scent worthy. Just try it for yourself.

I received this as a gift and I really love how it smells, I enjoy the medicinal and plastic notes. If an office friendly hello kitty body spray is your thing, you'll like it. It's the overtly capitalist concept of it I find jarring. It's contradictory. Weird but corporate. Captivating and boring. The weird-slightly-freaky-girl version the clean-girl You series, but overly cautious and self conscious. It's wholesome, controlled, unpretentious, refined and squeaky clean yet crude, dark, melancholy and nauseating. Overall there is something truly sad about it. For me Glossier's capitalism chic and corporate friendly scent profile is uninspired and depressing, you can't not envision an entire marketing team conjuring up each note to be as marketable as possible. For this I would not have purchased it myself. The scent is freshly cleaned linen, sugared plum, peppery musk, cough syrup, sandalwood, lip balm, scented pens, nostalgic body spray, lactonic gourmand to tie it all together, and *of course* Glossier's iris trademark. I love the plum, plastic, syrup and cheap elements that cut through the cleaner more refined notes. I find it weird and sickening without actually being weird or sickening.

Like many other reviews have stated, I too was surprised to see that this is a polarizing fragrance. I got a sample kit from Sephora and glossier you reve was one of those samples. Out of all of the fragrances me AND my family adored this one the most. I’m generally a musky/unisex fragrance girl. I love father figure, not a perfume, dedcool milk, and things of that nature, so it was shocking to me that I loved something with so many gourmond notes. And I do absolutely LOVE this. To my nose this has that musky Ambroxin undercurrent with something fun, sweet, and girly on top. My husband even called this one super sexy and date worthy. I reach for this one often and have 20ish full bottles of designer and niche fragrances. It really lasts on my skin and the scent trail it leaves is absolutely heavenly. I wore it to an outdoor event and was asked multiple times what fragrance I was wearing. It is absolutely compliment worthy and over all a lovely fragrance in my opinion. Don’t shy away bc of the negative review before you give it a try for yourself!

I’ve never been massively into skin scents but I did buy You when it was first released, gave it a sniff and that was it, wasn’t impressed at all, now it sits gathering dust in my collection. I then bought Doux when that (and this) was released, again, out of the two, I thought Doux would be more me. Had the same underwhelming reaction I had from the OG. You Fleur got released and - because I don’t ever learn my lesson - I made another blind buy purchase but threw this into my order too. This is the one I would have thought would be least me yet this is the one I LOVE. I don’t get much sweetness from this and absolutely no gourmand at all, but I ADORE it. On me, this means quite androgynous, which I love, there’s an edge to it. It’s the fragrance I love to spray after the shower and can smell it on my PJs the next evening. I love wearing it during the day and for a skin scent, it’s got decent longevity and silage and I get a lot of compliments wearing this. Definitely give it a try and don’t let all the hate reviews put you off.

The haters will say this smells like playdoh. And yes, that may be true, but it is the most delicious playdoh I've ever smelled. Of all the perfumes I've tried, I always return to this one. She's my very favourite. Reve is sweet, a bit powdery, gourmand, and so intimate. When I wear Reve, I feel like the scent is coming from my own skin. Its so warm and it makes me feel beautiful and yummy like a dessert. The downside is that it is fairly weak. It dries down to a very light, almost imperceptible plum vanilla scent. This is a perfume that requires re-application if you intend to be able to smell it for more than 6 hours. Also, if you're a fan of sillage, turn back now - you will not find what you're looking for here. I truly truly truly love this perfume more than I can articulate. I find it intoxicating and delicious. In my heart, this perfume is perfect. I feel like myself when I wear it.