Smiley

This is the only fragrance I have ever actually hoarded. I don't mean I bought a couple of extra bottles. I mean I have a gigantic Rubbermaid container in the closet packed with Smiley. I am ashamed to even admit how much I spent buying every one on Ebay. Is the fragrance spectacular? While really nice, no not really spectacular. Then, what is my deal? Actually, I am not quite sure but I will try to explain. I will tell you what makes it extra special to me. I went to LA in October of 2008 with my lifelong best friend for her birthday. While I was there, I was determined to buy and smuggle a new fragrance home with me from Apothia at Fred Segal. I sniffed and sniffed and sprayed and sprayed while Angie patiently waited...and I had narrowed it down to 3. I asked Angie which one she liked the best, and knowing how particular and discerning she was about EVERYTHING, I decided her choice would be the keeper. She chose Smiley. We both doused ourselves in it during our entire trip. Neither one of us could get enough. It set the tone for our trip - SMILING, laughing, never wanting it to end...she said it was the best birthday she ever had. Angie died suddenly and unexpectedly only 2 months later. It was one of the hardest things I ever had to deal with. But the scent of Smiley always reminds me of her and our last trip together...and our last two months together because I always had it on during that period. She said that scent would always remind her of how much fun we had in LA. It will forever remind me of it as well. Is this what caused me to love it so much? I will never know. All I know is that this fragrance is just feels so personal to me. It has a part of Angie with it. Maybe that is why I feel so panic stricken at the thought of ever letting it go. But for me this is magic in a bottle. Magic with a silly name but a very personal meaning. I dread the day when I spray the last drop from my hoard. If I live long enough for that to ever happen. To be honest, I hope that my Smiley survives me so that I never have to face being without it.

O M G ! I'm so glad I could lay my hands on a discounted 30ml EDT of this weird beauty. I was tempted by this weird concept that it should make you happy. I have tried it several months ago on a paper strip, and when I was sniffing it in a store at first I expected it to smell more fresh and yellow but this was completely different, a bit weird and all that unexpected sweetnes and it did smell like medicine, but I wrote down on a paper strip what it was and took it home along with other strips of perfumes that I have tested that day. Then sitting in front of my pc with all those strips I was mostly drawn to this weird cough syrupy smell, I couldn't stop sniffing it. knowing it was discontinued and for being so unique I had to get a bottle, but when I came back to the shop several weeks later, it wasn't there anymore, and only recently I found a last bottle in another shop. What can I say? It sure is very sweet, but in an unexpected way, syrupy and kind a like a happy potion, I wasn't expecting it to make me feel happy, but I'm sure it has a calming soothing effect on me. The concept is complety awesome and I'm proud to have this baby in my collection. EDIT: I'm totally addicted :) and I could be a great diet perfume, this helps me also with food cravings. Totally a happy potion!

Woooowwwww another perfume I used to have, which I memory-holed entirely! Smiley is a memory that's been locked up since I went through my bottle quickly in 2006/7ish I think it was? Just wow. I bought it while on a trip in The Netherlands. I loved it so much. How could I have forgotten?! I didn't care enough about perfume yet at that time, I guess. Once I saw it here after so long, I could smell it from memory. Sweet, fuzzy lemon cacao... it did make me smile with its citrus-patchouli brightness and a subtle haze of myrrh underneath. It was as if you were to add cacao & patchouli to Shalimar EDT, believe it or not. I can see how the packaging is a turn off for some, but I thought its kitschy-ness was appealing and very fitting for the scent it held. Ahh, I will be "smiley" all day after remembering this lovely, forgotten unicorn fragrance.

SMILEY EDT: First the sensation of fresh orange-peels, bergamot-peels, & pink grapefruit-peels sliced of the fruit in thin, thin slices (like the way you do when you slice citrus-fruit for a cake, or decoration for it). It brightens up my mood totally. After 20min the freshness settles, & SMILEY among *with the sweetened citrusfruit-peels still there* turns into a Mitsouko edp-Gourmand without the moss and slight "harshness" Mitsouku has. Yes it's true !! Really amazing is what this is. After 30min you get a slight hint of freshly cut open cocoa fruit (like the fesh cocoa-note that Jo Malones "Blue Agava and Cacao" has.) In the end myrrh, musk and a woody patchouli comes into the picture (but not harsh overwhelming patchouli, just perfectly enough). I'm amazed! Ps to "Action": Yeah it IS amazing - you got to try it :D :D :D !!!

Honestly, many people criticise it’s bottle but just that got my eye to try it. And oh boy, it’s one of my all time favourite, it simply makes me happy! Weirdly, can’t allocate any note on it, for me it’s pure sunshine, which last for days. So if anyone have any bottle to sell, pls dm dm dm!!