Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Pour Elle Sparkling

This was unexpectedly lovely. I blind bought this for the notes but wasn't too sure about it as I was afraid it might be too cloying and sticky with the macaron and cotton candy notes but it's quite soft and the base notes balance out the sweet quite well. I can definitely detect the cashmere and patchouli with the cotton candy, macaron, and apple notes. I don't get much lily-in-the-valley but the other fruits are noticeable with the spices and it really makes this quite a unique gourmand scent to me, I don't own anything else like it and I have a lot of sweet fruity floral and gourmand perfumes. This is kind of an earthy sweet perfume with a touch of spice and I find it's a great fall scent thanks in part to those spices and the apple note, but could also certainly be worn in the spring and summer. I noticed the sillage was much better when I was inside with the heater on (as expected) but it was still quite noticeable even outside in the cold, and the cold seemed to bring out more of the sweet notes as I sprayed it first while I was outside and really didn't detect the other more earthy notes until I was inside, which may have been just due to the dry down of course but when I went outside again I picked up more of the sweet notes so I don't think it was coincidence. Really an unexpected beauty, I'll be wearing this one quite often I think.

I initially received a sample of this fragrance and liked it well enough to buy a big bottle. My only wish is that it came as a perfume instead of Eau De Toilette. I think it would be stronger longer. Not that I am complaining. I see a lot of people say it does not last long, but that has not been my experience. It seems to hang around close to the skin all night long and still be lingering in the morning if I spray it in the afternoon. As for the scent itself, it is very sweet, but not cloyingly so. I do not get a lot of the fruit, so that must dry down immediately before I smell myself. I also get almost no floral out of it. It is very sugary, but not in a bad way, it has sugar candy quality to it. That never really goes away, but kind of settles down to that sort of indefinable soft scent that usually is amber. The musk does not come through at all, which is quite unusual for me, but a little gift, since I am not a fan. I was surprised a scent like this smelled so good during the winter, I look forward to trying it in the spring and summer as well. As a side note, my teenage daughter tried it, too, and it smelled very powdery on her. She liked it, but had it smelled like that on me, I would never have purchased the big bottle.

I suck at describing notes in a beauty shop so I have been trying to find my signature scent for ages without finding one. I bumped into an old friend yesterday and she smelled absolutely gorgeous. I had to ask what perfume is that. She said she didn ́t remember the name but promised to send me a picture later. And the picture was this bottle. I went to a beauty shop and bought it right away. This perfume is exactly what I have been trying to describe for years! Beauticians have given me very good choises though. Last one was Narciso rodriguez: narciso poudree. I bought it and used it for a while until I started to feel it being too intense for my taste and smelling too much like flowers. I sold it to a friend. But THIS! Oh, I love this. It has just perfect amount of sweetness, softness, freshness and the love of my life: cashmere. The sillage is just perfect on me. I am sooo excited I finally found a scent like this.

I received this fragrance as a gift for Christmas in 2018 and I really adore the smell of it (I also got the roll on). Unfortunately the longevity is close to zero. I wish the smell was stronger because I love these sweet/gourmand notes, it’s very girly, fresh, it’s like the perfect fragrance for a teenage girl, even for preteens in my opinion. I’m 33 but I could really see myself wearing this perfume at 12 years old. But I’m still very sad about the longevity. Well, it’s an eau de toilette so it’s not supposed to be high on longevity, and also the fact that it’s called « eau de Lacoste » makes me think of some kind of mist.

As far as cotton candy (ethyl maltol) -focused perfumes go, this is definitely one of the highest quality ones I’ve tried. There’s no burning plastic, ugly musk, or weird sunblock notes to interfere with the sheer fluffy candy. The apples come in second strongest with a light dusting of cinnamon sugar and that’s about all there is to this. If you’re on a cotton candy quest, do yourself a favor and check this one out. I could see it working all year round to provide a nice sugar fix, and it delivers exactly what you expect. (Nothing more), nothing less.