Yara

I can understand why some people don't like this fragrance. When I first got it, it was poorly blended, synthetic smelling, and didn't last longer than an hour, even on clothes. I didn't get the Strawberry Milkshake scent that other people were describing. Honestly, it just smelled cheap. I left it to sit on my shelf, checking back occasionally to see if it had gotten any better and then, boom, after over a year of sitting it finally smelled like something I could enjoy wearing. I still don't get the strawberry milkshake that people were talking about, but I do get a soft, sweet, lightly powdery bubblegum fragrance. The longevity has also improved substantially. I sprayed it on my sweatshirt last night before I went to bed then put the same sweatshirt back on this morning and I am still catching whiffs of it every time I turn. Even my husband commented on how good it smelled. He was shocked when I told him it was Yara Pink and that I had sprayed it last night. Now, admittedly, waiting over a year for a perfume to mature is not ideal, but if you're like me and you have a collection, I would just recommend leaving her alone for a while and checking back every now and again. Eventually, she will meld into something quite nice and wearable with a decent silage and longevity. If you're impatient and powdery, bubblegummy scents aren't for you, then I would just skip this one altogether. Overall, I think with time, this is a lovely daily wear perfume and is especially nice as a bedtime fragrance.

Perfume leaves such an impression on people, on the wearer's personality, I'm sure rather subconsciously for those who aren't as enthusiastically invested in perfumery. I like to use some of my scents to guide my encounters, besides matching my feeling of the day of course. I love Yara and wear it for every exam I take. My university exams are like a verbal interrogation, so I am face-to-face with my professors at close range. I genuinely believe it softens the other person's perception of me, like my professors go easier on me or something. It radiates beautifully, it surrounds me as my introduction and enwraps the other person in my comfort bubble. It's sweet and pink, so it leaves the impression of a sweet, feminine girl. It's calm and put together like an inherent, almost goody-two-shoes way. At the same time it's light enough to allow conversation, a smile, even some laughter. I like to literally "assert" my knowledge in a way that is easy to accept. I feel that if I were to wear a more assertively confident perfume I could have been trapped in some trick questions, you know, in a "since you know everything" sort of tone, instead with Yara it just follows to prove that I have studied. I just tried the dark pink Yara and I am sure I'll add it to my collection as well, I swear people's reactions to you change under the influence of some scents. I love the Yara line for that reason. They work on people!

Strawberry? Marshmallow? Milkshake? Where are you?! I bought into the hype after this kept coming up in my Facebook Fragrance group. I read all the reviews on here and got sucked in. Curiosity got my coins. Well let me tell you I don't detect anything gourmand in this fragrance. It smells like generic hand lotion. So if that's what people are calling "creamy" then there it is there. This isn't the kind of sweet, lactonic, "creamy" scent that people hype it up to be. I'm still waiting to find those gourmand accords and "delicious" vanilla.... Feel like I'm going to be waiting for a very long time. I think sometimes people see the color of a bottle or juice and make these assumptions that the fragrance smells like something it doesn't. Case in point this fragrance has a creamy pink container so people say it smells like a strawberry milkshake. Not. At. All. ***UPDATE: I let this sit for a few weeks and I can't believe it but it got so much better. Still don't get strawberries but it is creamy, tropical, and fluffy. I definitely am enjoying it as a bedtime scent. Glad to have it in my collection.

This perfume is beautifully constructed. I'm currently on my second bottle of it. It's very sweet with the gourmand notes and tropical fruits but you don't really smell any florals even though there's top nots of orchid and heliotrope. I would describe this scent as a sweet vanilla strawberry. The vanilla and the musk makes it smell very creamy even though there's no cream note and a bit powdery but not in an old lady way, in a very girly way and the sandalwood gives it a woody undertone that adds an additional layer to the fragrance. It smells like what you would imagine a sweet strawberry and vanilla yogurt. This could definitely be a signature scent for a girl in her teens or 20s who wants a perfume that smells very girly, but isn't immature smelling or generic smelling. I think this is an amazing perfume. You can't go wrong with this if you enjoy sweet, girly scents.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. For the price, around 29 euros, you really do not expect much. But this one completely exceeded my expectations for an affordable perfume. At first, I did notice a slightly synthetic edge, and the longevity was not impressive. However, I have come to realize that many Arab perfumes need time to mature. Once you let it age, it truly reaches its full potential. And honestly, it smells nothing like a 30-euro perfume. It is sweet, but also floral, gourmand, and powdery all at once. I love wearing it when I am in a romantic mood. If you can look past the bottle design, this is easily my second favorite perfume of all time. It combines everything I love in a scent. The longevity is also excellent after aging. Is there still a slight synthetic touch? Yes, but at this price point, it is hard to complain. And in any case, that synthetic note fades quite quickly.