Love Generation Pin Up

At first, I was not impressed. Pleasant, sweet, but generic. Too safe. Nothing to write home about. Yet Pin Up grew on me. It is a very comforting, office-friendly scent for every day. Still, it has an understated “boudoir” vibe to it. “Pin Up” is a suitable name: it’s powdery, sweet, feminine, tender, and sexy in a very subtle, coy way. Edgy girl on a package doesn’t do it justice: it’s not provocative, just a little retro-style coquettish. Think rose silk dress and feather boa. I think white and pink suit this perfume well. It reminds me a bit of fuzzy pink flowers of a Persian silk tree – both how they smell and how they feel to the touch. It’s gentle, sweet, but not too sweet, with a bit of fruity-sour juiciness to it. Warm with just a touch of coolness – like a satin nightie on a body. I find myself trying to describe this scent in terms of a “soft classic” Kibbe body type verbiage. I think they are a match. No rough edges, no bold statements, just roundness, softness, sweetness, and balance – nothing sticks out, everything is smooth and composed. I don’t detect jasmine here, which is a welcome change, because all the other perfumes with this ingredient that I tried on lately feel like jasmine bombs – Burberry Her, Burberry London, even Dior Poison. I think my nose developed some sort of jasmine-selective sensitivity. Yet not in Pin Up. If anything sounds more prominent than other ingredients, it’s rose warmed and smoothed by musk. Pin Up sits close to skin, fittingly intimate, yet stays with you until the evening. I stop feeling it almost immediately after spraying it on, but get wafts of it as I move around.