Fraise Fouettée

THIS PERFUME SMELLS LIKE A PURE STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKE AND I AM COMPLETELY OBSESSED!! 🍓💖🍼 This was my first impression trying a fragrance from Le Monde Gourmand and honestly I’m blown away by how delicious this scent is. It’s exactly what I wished Burberry Her Elixir would smell like when people described it as a strawberry milkshake (which, to me, it unfortunately doesn’t) 🥲💖 Fraise Fouettée is the ultimate gourmand strawberry fragrance! Imagine a McDonald’s strawberry milkshake transformed into a perfume, it’s intensely sweet, sugary, and drenched in this bright strawberry syrup accord that feels thick, creamy, and completely mouth watering. It’s such a playful, indulgent scent and might honestly be my new favourite strawberry fragrance out of my huge strawberry perfume collection!! 🥰 The milky pink liquid is also absolutely gorgeous. I’ve always loved milky-looking fragrances and this one is just so fun and eye catching on a perfume shelf it’s such a pretty addition to any collection!! Performance wise, the sillage is fairly moderate. It won’t leave a huge scent trail behind you, but it definitely creates a soft cloud where people close to you will pick up that sweet, creamy milkshake goodness. On my skin it lasts around 4 hours,which for the price point I’m honestly very happy with!! 💖 I also want to mention something since I’ve seen the comparison a lot: as someone who owns the Crybaby perfume, this does not smell like it at all. The only real similarity is the milky aesthetic of the liquid. Crybaby is much less strawberry forward and has a softer, more mature profile, whereas Fraise Fouettée is unapologetically sweet, syrupy, and very strawberry centric!! (I also have a full Crybaby review on my profile if you want to see my thoughts on it!) 🍼💖 Overall I absolutely adore this fragrance SOOO MUCH!! If you love smelling as sweet and edible as possible like I do, this is pure heaven! That being said, I do feel like you need to be a serious gourmand lover for this to be a safe blind buy because it is very overly sweet, very dessert like, and fully leans into that sugary strawberry milkshake vibe 🍓 For me though, it’s perfection!! and I can already tell it’s going to be one of the most used fragrances in my collection!! 🍓💕

yea when i first smelled this in the 3 story playplace that is the herald square urban outfitters, i was so smitten i had to borrow it then and there. (after pacing around for 30 minutes examining the risk reward balance) ((they have a fking poke bowl bar in there dude, everything was fab and meaningless, who cares?)). for most of my life til this past year id never really wear or care about perfume-it was genuinely like nothing ive ever smelled before. its a pow of fruits mag plaster fantasy world. it smelt like a little girl toy!! (recall: mylittleponys being coconut scented) it made me feel like i was a little girl toy!!! id wear it when id wear yellow polka dot dresses to fashion school skipping onto campus with an icecream bar and a dog collar around my neck. it even accompanied me to screamo shows which were highly judgemental fear response spaces where i felt like i had to be what they wanted, to be wanted. it had its fun little run with me thru out my spring semester, but alas, it sits on my shelf 1/3 full and largely untouched 1.5 years later. its more of a novelty scent to me, easily losing my loyalty given i can recall its sucrose by simple thought. grateful it exists during my blip of a diva lifetime. One thing though, it does not last like my other le monde perfume. i remember once very fruitily asking my friends back then, dont i smell like strawberry milk right now yall? not even a couple hours after spritzing and they replied no. you smell like cigarette smoke

when i tested this at the store ive had been looking for a good strawberry perfume that ACTUALLY smelled like strawberry and let me tell you i bought it INMEDIATLY after the first sniff. to me it smells IDENTICAL to the Too Faced’s lip plump lip gloss, its just like putting that one on. definetly strawberry and i’m absolutely getting banana too, although i dont think its lactonic or milky like i’ve seen people say... its more like those sugary strawberry gummies, ones we call “besitos” here in spain. i understand why some people think its synthetic, artificial kind of medicinal, it IS sickly sweet, as i said its like candy for me. i personally think it smells delicious but it gets very sickly and strong soon so i wear it only at certain times. when ive had it on, ive been told i smell like pure strawberry so its absolutely the strongest note. ive also noticed its a very feminine and, really, childish scent. perfect if you love strong sweet scents or if youre looking for a pure strawberry perfume like me, but clearly not for everyone/everyday

when i first smelled it in store i hated it, but for some reason it drew me back in. i couldn’t stop thinking about it. i went back and bought it on the spot. i am OBSESSED with this perfume. it’s such an innocent sweet strawberry milkshake scent. on spray there is a sickeningly sweet cough syrup adjacent strawberry smell, which is objectively bad BUT it goes away immediately once on the skin. the application is also a bit sticky, but give it about 3 seconds and it’s fine. on the skin it’s a gorgeous strawberry milkshake scent, heavier on the strawberry than the cream. after an hour or so it fades to a mostly laconic ice creamy with a hint of berry leftover. my only qualm is i feel like it doesn't last very long, but i also tend to spray pretty minimally.

if you took the movie 'i believe in unicorns' and bottled it into a fragrance... swooning feverish memories of girlhood, the clutching of strawberry shortcake dolls... expired banana lip gloss and shitty claire's makeup, all smothered n sticky across your lips and eyelids... but despite those fuzzy feelings, theres this barely-there backdrop of bitterness, akin to chewing orange peels out of curiosity, forced gulping of medicine down your throat, or the naive pluck-and-whiff of flowers during recess you just now realize all these years later were poisonous uncomfortable festering weeds, but its okay because they were Oh So Lovely,.... a thin veil of bittersweet maturity slipping through the liminal cracks of a tainted, sweet sweet innocence