On A Cloud

It’s Christmas morning. The snow is falling slowly and the flakes are big and fluffy. There’s a plate of half eaten cookies next to an empty glass of milk; Santa has been here. It’s chilly outside but your hands are warmed by a hot cup of peppermint white hot chocolate with a generous topping of whipped cream. Today, for one day a year, you feel the joys of being a child again. Everything is sweet and full of wonder. This is a simple yet extremely effective perfume. To my nose, it smells of peppermint, vanilla and sugar. The peppermint is sparkly at the top - bright and fresh. Then it dries down to a beautiful sweet vanilla lactonic scent that sits close to the skin. This is a personal fragrance that doesn’t scream, it whispers. It’s the upgraded and adult version of Bath and Body Works Twisted Peppermint. If you are as nostalgic as I am and love to create a scent space that reminds you of Christmas, this is the perfect scent. I would love to purchase this as a December perfume staple.

Just picked a bottle of this and yuzu up, and man. I will be keeping this stuff on the low, never smelt something quite like it. On first glance, lactonic and mint? Seems quite strange... I thought the same. Until I tried it. Oh. My. Goodness. J-scent, just have full access to my bank account already. This stuff is PHENOMENAL, and that is an understatement. It is light, airy, minty, slightly laconic, really refreshing, and has this “cooling” sensation to it. Please, if you have the opportunity to try this, do so. J-scent is one of the best houses in my opinion, their price to value is amazing, really high quality scents, and have a cool story to them unlike designers. Projects quietly, but in small close areas, others will be able to pick the scent up. Lasts around 4-6 hours. 9.4/10 (p.s. if you are in japan, check out tsutaya bookstores as they carry the whole line at all stores. Converts to around $32 USD.)

I have been on the hunt for a perfume that smells like my favorite candy, those mint pastel nonpareils. This is IT. Smooth, melty, sweet-but-not-too-sweet peppermint creams. This was an immediate blind buy for me and it paid off. It's incredibly wearable imo. I don't like scents that are too fresh or bracing but the sweetness and creaminess of this tames the mint, which is strongest at the initial spray and mellows out within 30 seconds. It's not too strong, which I prefer, and while it's a simple fragrance I think it's different enough from typical gourmands. You don't see mint in a gourmand every day (I also like Snowshoe Pass by Solstice scents but the mint is much farther in the background). It dries down to a slightly sweetened steamed milk vibe. So lovely & exactly what I was looking for.

I actually bought this last October and wasn’t overly impressed. It has now sat for 4 months in a dark wardrobe and the scent is everything I wanted. This is a delicious, uplifting, creamy peppermint scent. I love the smell. It’s cooling on the skin and would be really refreshing in the heat of summer. It layers beautifully with tea scents and citruses. It would also work really well with chocolate fragrance for winter. It is also just as nice on its own. I bought this deliberately for layering. It’s just such a shame it performs like a skin scent. The opening of this perfume is absolutely divine. It would be so amazing if it stayed that strong all the way through. I do still enjoy it though, and would probably repurchase it.

i love this perfume! a problem with a lot of perfumes that contain milk notes is that they start to smell a little sour, or even synthetic - but on a cloud is not that perfume. it smells like the kind of creamy peppermint candy that melts in your mouth or a mint tic tac. my two gripes with this perfume is that the mint from the beginning does not last as long as i'd like. when it's fully dried down, the mint is very faint and the perfume becomes more sweet vanilla. my second gripe is that the longevity of on a cloud is not that great in general. the projection is also very intimate, but that is just what j-scent fragrances are like. 9.5/10.