Ser Al Khulood

this is going to look strange but to me, it reminds me of when i worked in this hôtel boutique in a very expensive nice hôtel in Bora Bora. one who's bungalows are above the water with a glass bottom floor to see the fishes and a sun deck to deep directly in the lagoon. nothing beachy or summery tropical in this perfume, but smells exactly like my little boutique that sells monoi, surrender by local wood cabinets and counter inside and tropical flowers and plants outside the shop. i knew this scent, and then it hits me, it came back to me. this small boutique with a monoi-woody-flowery scent. i know it's far away from strawberry, this sugary monoiyee-shampooyee feel, and it is what I get, and I looove her 😍

This one surprised me. It started out with a very synthetic and sweet BLAST of strawberry, sugar and musk. As if the doll Strawberry Shortcake just came to life and decided to slam dance in your nostrils. Fortunately that beating only lasts for a half an hour or so, since the amber and white florals finally arrive and pull that crazy fruity bitch off of you. Once they give Strawberry Shortcake a football size Xanax to mellow her out, they all begin to play nice together and create a warm, sweet and fruit filled party for your skin! It starts off a very young smelling concoction, but once the mid and dry down hits it ages and becomes a fun perfume to perk up blue moods.

I promised myself I wouldn't get spare bottles, but with this one I couldn't help myself, this is just so...fantastic! I would describe this mostly as a strawberry milkshake for a grown woman. The scent is toffee sugar strawberry with slightly sour, milky tuberose and nice touch of musk. It doesn't have a huge sillage, but is so intense and milky, that I could imagine some people could find it even a little disgusting, I think. But not childish, candy way. I think this is one of those fragrances where skin chemistry plays a big role. I have Lattafas Musk Salama, it layers beautifully with this. with some woody scent, this could work great on a man too, I think.

This one grows on you. The strawberry lipstick-y smell is strong in the opening, which may turn off some people, or let them label this scent as too feminine, which in fairness, it might be. But the dry down is so gorgeous. So edible, and much more unisex than the opening. So it starts with lipstick strawberry and ends with irresistible chocolate that will make you keep sniffing yourself. This scent is so cheap, and its presentation is so horrendous, for it to end up being this good.

If you take this and layer it with Issey Miyake Bleue, you get right in the neighborhood of Cape Heartache by Imaginary Authors.