Choux Choux

Liis Choux Choux is divine! I was so scared because I've been having bad luck with gourmands. This is one of the best citrus vanilla gourmands yet. Some people seem to be getting a sharp lemon cleaner vibe, but I don't. I did get that lemon cleaner sharpness in the opening of Akro Bake and D&G Devotion while others didn't, so it depends on the person I guess. This is fluffy vanilla from the very beginning. Like a cloud with lemon lightly zested on top. Lightly. The whipped cream most likely creates that sweet fluffy cloud texture I get, and it's not nauseating from being too lactonic. The slightest coconut vibe is in here too, in this blend. The caramel and vanilla balance the lactones and help maintain the sweetness, while the very light salt and mocha/cocoa balance the sweetness. Too much salt with sweetness and coffee/chocolate in general can also be bothersome, but here they're done in the perfect amount to allow this to be worn for most of the year, whether it's warm or cold. Finally a tame but refined creamy sandalwood creeps below the sweet fluffiness to blend everything. Longevity is 6-7ish hours on me. I agree with the below reviewer Earthymoon: 18Jan2025 "...This is if Afternoon Delight and Akro Bake were layered with slightly soapy sea air. It has great longevity on an airy profile." The perfect blend with each other fixing the other, so the lemon is smoothened and the milky cream is lifted.

A clean girl gourmand if I’ve ever smelled one. Opens with a maelstrom of powdered sugar, settles into an air-puffed meringue, and slowly drifts off as a cocoa butter. While I’m totally blind to the lemon and mocha, the salted caramel note is succulent. It has the same airy, translucent quality as most Liises, but totally unlike its siblings in its longevity. I got twelve hours out of three puffs to the collar. It’s a bit too precious for my style (my favourite hyper-femme scent still remains Regime des Fleur’s Glass Blooms) but it makes me want to buy a creampuff Selkie dress and daydream at a sunny bistro table. Mental Snapshot: Pastry school princess. She specializes in the little treats: the madeleines, the mille-feuille, the macarons, the macaroons. Breathy soprano, eyelet lace, French plait trimmed with a bow. If she were a dessert, it’d be a triple-tiered Saint Honoré, brushed with caramel. You’ve never heard her swear before, but she can really scream when she wants to. tl;dr: sugar baby 🍮🕊️ EDIT (6 months later): have found my revisiting this scent again and again. It scratches my brain in a way that no other dessert gourmand has. Revising my "like" to a "love." I don't find myself wanting to smell like a sugarpuff all too often, but when I do I want to smell like Choux Choux.

Best lemon vanilla scent I’ve ever smelled. The lemon is zesty and creamy in the beginning. The dry down is this wonderful airy and soft salted caramel with creamy vanilla plus a tiny bit of lemon. It really does smell like a pastry but not cloying at all. It’s super airy, soft, light and fluffy, I think this is might be suitable for summer even, although I’d mainly wear it for the fall, winter and spring months. This is one of the best soft and clean gourmands I’ve ever smelled. It doesn’t smell that amazing when you spray it on your hand but it smells absolutely divine when you put this on your neck area. I keep on getting whiffs of it throughout the day and it’s so lovely. Longevity is pretty good, lasted all day. I only used 2 sprays of the sample and my coworker said I smelled really good at the end of my work day!

Oh wow. Whoever said this is a clean girl gourmand was 100% right. I imagine this is what a cute bakery inside a luxury hotel would smell like. It smells like a salted lemon vanilla pastry in a really clean and sophisticated way. The lemon is the strongest note at first but then it dries down to a creamy, buttery scent. This is the classiest gourmand smell I've ever smelled. It's not overly sweet nor juvenile. There's also something nostalgic about it.. I agree with perfumelvr98, definitely a plastic doll head and cocoa butter smell which I think really brings all the notes together perfectly. This could be worn any season and any time of day. This is what I imagine a woman like Charlotte York would wear. Especially to some WASPy afternoon tea/brunch event lol.

This fragrance is so well blended, it’s a complete dream to wear! I don't pick up on anything synthetic, I’d categorize this fragrance as a gourmand for grownups. It wears so beautifully throughout the day, I get a good 6-8 hrs. It’s softly sweet, warm, alluring, ethereal. When I wear this I have to spray some on my inner wrists and I smother my nose into my arm periodically throughout the day (yes, like a weirdo) because I can’t get enough of it, it is that good. This is how I know when a fragrance is full bottle worthy. I also own Bo, both are beautifully executed and there is something almost grounding about both fragrances - they’re peaceful and cozy to wear. Choux Choux is a fuzzy sweet dream to wear and it’s an absolute LOVE for me.