Dancing by Jessica McClintock

I actually love this (after the top) in the WINTER! The middle brings an actual animalic vibe to the florals that I LOVE! I cannot WAIT to try it in warmer weather where it can grow even more!

I rarely hate fragrances. I hate this. It doesn't know what it wants to be -- fruity, floral, chypre. To me, it smells like you pureed celery in your blender, poured it on the carpet, let a cat pee on top of it then sprayed it all with green apple deodorizer to try to cover up the smell. The End. HATE.

I picked this up at TJ Maxx a year or so ago and has never worn it. "Why", u ask? lol. I never wore it because when I carried it home and sprayed it I was instantly pissed and annoyed that the perfume may have went bad because It sort of smelled that way to my nose. I even tried it every once in a while because I wanted to wear it because I adore the middle and base notes. Today I decided to give it another try and started to realize that I can smell the actual top notes which smelled like realistic, very realistic lemon slices and green apples. I came here to check the notes and realize that this is what I have been smelling. I am very relieved. So I have come to realize that this is just the actual smell of the top notes. I don't like it, but I will fight through it to get to get to the beautiful mid notes of what appears to be jasmine and gardenia. I really love this phase of the perfume. In the base I detect some mild fruity notes. Reminds me of honeysuckle. I get NO woods at all. All in all I like this. Not a love though.

This reminds me of "Poupee" by Rochas, but not quite as synthetic. That huge Gardenia blast. Unfortunately I didn't like Poupee (or Gardenia I now realize) and promptly gave it to my mom (mother gets all my dislikes - she has quite a collection just from that!) So based on the amount of Gardenia in this "Dancing" it's a dislike for me. I was hoping for the standard nice smell of all the other Jessica M's, with some lily blend. C'est triste....

I have modified my rating to a "like". Later, after my bath, I reapplied "Dancing" and found I could smell the green apple much better, giving it a fresh smell. This will never be my favorite perfume, but it did have a much nicer smell on clean skin. Also the price was very good on at FraganceX- less than 30.00 bucks for 100mls!