I Want Choo Forever

I'm wearing this right now! I tried both this and the original "I Want Choo" in a store today, and this one worked much better with my skin chemistry. I don't have any other cherry or almond fragrances, so it's very unique in my collection. I can see why others say it's a rather synthetic cherry. It seems that way at first, especially if you smell it on a test strip. However, it dries down on the skin nicely and smells great from a distance! The opening is cherry-heavy with a bit of spice (maybe the pink peppercorn?? something almost marine-like?), softened by a bit of rose. I can also smell a bit of almond. I don't detect vanilla at first. The silage is highest during the first few minutes as it dries. After it has dried down for a while, it's a light, powdery, almond-vanilla scent with a bit of cherry juice. It's feminine and pretty and almost creamy on my skin! I really love how it smells at this stage. It's so comforting, like a big, soft, warm sweater your friend let you borrow on a cold day. It's like an airy vanilla cake with whipped cream, cherry sauce, and thinly sliced almonds. I know some people think it's generic or mass-appealing, but it's really unique to my collection, and it's so pretty and comforting!! I love it. Edit: I know lots of people like the bottle, but the more I see it and use it, the more I don't like it. It isn't my style, doesn't look good with my other fragrances, and it's hard to spray because of how you have to hold it and how big the sprayer is (it's huuuge). That's my only complaint!

This is my second fragrance from the I Want Choo collection (I have the gold Le Parfum, one of my all-time favorites). I Want Choo Forever smells just as great, but it’s not as fruity as I expected from the cherry note. I get a lot of bitter almond and jasmine—it’s not too sweet. The cherry blends seamlessly with the almond, almost like maraschino cherries (which are dyed red and packed in syrup flavored with bitter almond oil). It’s like the liquid from a jar of maraschino cherries, but reduced. The vetiver and almond give it a nutty woodiness, which I love. In the dry down, I get a lot of tonka and amber, adding warmth without being overly sweet. Overall, it’s like maraschino cherry syrup deepened by florals (jasmine/rose) and warm base notes. Some say it’s a night perfume for colder weather, and I can see that, but to me, it’s a perfect sunset scent—like eating a sundae with a cherry on top, surrounded by blooming flowers as the air cools. But it’s not *that* deep or syrupy, so it works for daytime too. The sillage is decent—noticeable from an arm’s length but not overpowering. It lasts about 5–6 hours on me, with the sillage fading over time, though the tonka-amber scent still lingers up close. While Le Parfum is still my favorite from the I Want Choo collection, Forever is different in its own pleasant way.

I'm glad I asked for 60ml of I Want Choo Forever for Christmas, because it's my favorite of the I Want Choo fragrances followed by the gold bottle. It was a blind wish, because I loved the fragrance on a classmate I hate, lol! It's a soft, rounded fragrance that is both fresh and sweet. IWCF was stronger, heavier and sweeter on her than it is on me. The base and the vetiver is everything I love in a fragrance, and I'm surprised the cherry is develops on my skin, because I couldn't smell that note on my classmate. I've been wanting a fragrance with a cherry note in it for a while, but without a terribly synthetic cherry. This cherry smells like the quality cherry sauce we Danes pour over our risalamande for dessert, Christmas Eve. I'm sorry the cherry comes out very synthetic on others. I love IWCF on me, but I wouldn't consider it a safe blind buy for a present. This is going to be an occasion fragrance for me, so my bottle will probably last quite a while, but I also see this as a repurchase as long as it's in production. My classmate wore it every day while we were at the same trade school. For graduation sure, but not 5 days a week, right from the morning.

Have you ever been seduced by a perfume? I have and it was the first time that I ever smelled this fragrance. I work in a retail setting and there is a small collection of fragrances at the store that I work at. One day, a customer had come in and had wanted to smell some of the perfumes. My friend/coworker had applied a bunch of the perfumes on to the perfume test strips we had. The customer left and the test strips were just left around the registar area. I smelled a bunch of the strips but there was one in particular that I could not stop thinking about. I showed it another one of my coworkers and she felt the same. There was something about this particular fragrance. The other fragrances were unimpressive but this was luring us in. I eventually asked my friend which fragrance was on the test strip and she pointed out that it was this one. Since then, I have not been able to shut up about this fragrance. I am so happy that my sister is buying me this fragrance for my birthday. This is pure temptation in a perfume bottle.

When I first sprayed this randomly in the air I didn't capture anything immediately enticing...until I gave the perfume 100% of my undivided attention. And that's exactly what you need to give this fine, mysterious perfume... time... sprayed on my skin, nothing happened... until 45 minutes later... I couldn't keep my nose away, it's alluring and intoxicating but in a subtle way, that's why it's intriguing...! Once an hour has passed you'll get the rose peeking through... it's the total opposite of what you think is going to unfold. It's a great perfume to sit with on your own and really get into its identity. On a wool jumper it will sit there for days, in a way you want it to... on your skin, it lasts at least 12 hours or until you wash, it's like perfumes used to be before they were reformulated. Did you want to love Givenchy L'Interdit Intense but don't quite "get it"? I think I Want Choo Forever will be up your street - it's very pretty darkness in a bottle...that literally does live up to its "forever".... 😘