Wish

Ignore the review by arielffs. I don't know what fragrance they are smelling, but it's definitely not Wish. I don't get much citrus at all - maybe a hint in the very opening, but it's not sour. The top notes are very short lived. This is an absolutely gorgeous beachy scent for summer. It's not beachy in a cheap sunscreen kind of way, it's more like a sea breeze mixed with sugar coated coconut macaroons. I am not at all a fan of coconut scents, but the coconut note here, which lasts throughout, is very light and airy. The two scents that could be cousins to this are Jennifer Aniston and Holidays by Mancera. Jennifer Aniston disappears after 30 minutes, while Holidays has a heavy tiare flower/coconut note that overwhelms for hours and hours. This beauty transports me to a cabana on a private tropical island with clear blue water. Somewhere only the very rich can afford to go. I bought the hand lotion at Anthropologie more than a decade ago and treated it like it was liquid gold, only using it on special occasions. I finally bought a full bottle of the perfume during the Black Friday sale at Amazon last year, and I can't wait to wear it this summer. Sometimes on a dreary winter day here in Ohio, I will spritz my wrist just to improve my mood. This has moderate projection for the first two hours and then a small scent bubble fading into a skin scent by hour four. It is very inoffensive. This is an absolute LOVE for me. I never want to be without it.

I discovered Lollia via a Margot Elena subscription box review. I signed up for the box and bought Wish and some other items at the same time. I’m a sucker for sweet scents, and age hasn’t mellowed that for me. The first spray is very sweet and fizzy (that may be my interpretation of pepper) and a bit citric. But not like a lemon-lime soda, just effervescent somewhat lemony sugar. It’s strong at first spray, but the sillage retracts immensely soon after. Then it settles into a lovely sweet scent with some unexpected depth. The citrus blooms, and a bit of cinnamon arrives. I get only a hint of floral, and a bit of powder. I also do not get any anise or licorice (thank goodness) but just a bit of almond perhaps? It’s quite lovely. I don’t consider this a teeny-bopper scent though a teen could definitely like it. It’s decidedly feminine and very sweet, but not in a Pink Sugar kind of way (I don’t find them similar at all). I have this in the perfume, body oil, body creme, and a lovely bath salt sachet that I keep in a drawer. Wish is nice for layering when I want to sweeten another scent. The sillage is very mild, the longevity good. The Lollia packaging is beautiful (everything available from Margot Elena is). Every item has been thoughtfully packaged and looks wonderful on the vanity or dresser. 11/10 packaging.

This was a blind buy for me. My first impression of this fragrance: yikes. At first spray, I got nothing astringent citrus and soapy white florals. Given a few minutes to develop, Wish is actually quite nice! The scent is reminiscent of the smell of a lemon square. I was surprised to see that most people rated this a spring scent, as I can't help but think of this as the colder side of Christmas in a bottle (snow and whipped cream rather than gingerbread and cider). Given the cinnamon and amber notes, I was expecting this to be quite a bit warmer than it is. In fact, this is not spicy whatsoever to my nose. I added Dolce and Gabbana Pour Femme to my collection last week, and I have to say these are much too similar for me to justify owning both. While they're more like sisters than twins, I really only have so much space for cold, citrusy gourmands on my little perfume shelf. I do think I like this one a wee bit better for its freshly-baked drydown over Pour Femme's floral edge than runs 'til the end.

The opening is a pleasant heady floral with a heavy dose of sugar, vanilla, and a hint of bergamot and cinnamon. The citrus seems to be more pronounced in colder weather. In the first hour or two the sugar gets pretty intense and the floral fades. There is an occasional "doll skin" scent that had me concerned this would be too sweet for me and I generally like sweet. There is also a hint of strawberry, like those strawberry shortcake ice cream bars. Its one of those notes that is occasionally standing out, but isn't dominate. Hours into my work shift I started getting a wiff of the most amazing honeyed vanilla with a bit of floral that smells occasionally like orange blossom and occasionally like almond. It is remarkably similar to the way Amouage Sunshine smells when you sniff the bottle. 13 hours later I'm still smelling it and it is awesome. It isn't what I am looking for for Summer or Fall . . . So I'm considering not sampling any winter scents and just wearing this all winter. It's that good.

Ahhhh Wish. The fragrance that started it all for me. I tested this in an Anthropologie a year ago and instantly fell in love. Wish starts out with a zing of a peppery bergamot, not spicy, and a bit sweet. I don't know if it's my imagination but the bergamot lends a light tea like addition. Not a bold Assam, but a delicate milky earl grey sort of addition that's hardly there but also there. It soon mellows out into a warmer, deeper sweetness, the pepper not completely disappearing but enveloped in a warm vanilla hug. The vanilla in this is not an aggressive cotton-candy sugar, but a sort of mellow warmth. I think of baked goods, but CUPCAKES is not the first thing to come screaming to my mind. The image this fragrance invokes is of a woman, wearing a simple and casual silk wrap dress, with a bit of careless bedhead hair, walking past a bakery where a tray of fresh macarons are being laid out. That's how this fragrance makes me feel.

I purchased this hand cream a year ago. It was very complimentary with fragrances such as AG’s Cloud and JPG’s La Belle. It also added a slight sweetness to my fresher-smelling musks. I eventually purchased the full-sized perfume at a local boutique. This scent smells like mochi. Maybe vanilla, lemon or matcha mochi. The rice flour, milk and (a big, fluffy, powdery) marshmallow are right up front on my skin. It’s mildly sweet but not “sugary,” really. There’s a hint of soft lemon and a whole lot of cream. It’s gorgeous on my skin from beginning to end but it makes me crave a taste of something sweet. So pretty on but not so sweet that it would satisfy my actual dessert craving. Suitable for day or night in any season or temperature. Perfect for a coffee date. This fragrance is soft but not weak.

This is a weird one at first. In the bottle and on the skin for about the first 40 minutes, it smells straight up like an orange peel. I’ve had multiple family members tell me I smelled like I was peeling an orange. Then I get the jasmine note and it becomes more floral, whilst all that is going on, if you sniff really hard and close to the skin there’s an underlying sweetness, but if you’re not looking for it you won’t notice it. Then about 2 hours later, it sweetened up. I don’t get any citrus, the jasmine was still there but it was more in the back, and now the marshmallow and rice flower came forward. It’s really pretty and light, and after 2ish hours it becomes a skin scent and you have a vague marshmallow rice, slightly nutty scent on the skin.

I loved the Tokyo Milk Dark perfumes by Margot Elena, so I broke down and bought the very pretty miniature bottles for some in the Lollia line. Wish is my favorite, a powdery adult gourmand with a tartness to balance out the sweetness of all the sugary ingredients. I also get a good bit of rice flower in this, which is an unusual ingredient for me. This is a beautiful, vanilla-based concoction that has average longevity and sillage. It doesn't smell like anything else I've ever come across, so it's very unique to me and I also think the full-size bottle is charming (as is the mini). I also use the hand cream, body butter, or shower gel to layer and make it last a little longer. What I've bought and used is decent quality for small-batch.

My first perfume! I sampled it at a store six years ago and instantly fell in love, so I had to get it. A month back, I was frustrated because I hadn't seen it since my freshman year of college (I'm a rising junior now), and I couldn't find it anywhere. However, a week or so later, in a search for something else, I opened up one of the boxes that I still hadn't unpacked since I moved out freshman year (ridiculous, I know) and I caught a familiar whiff of something that instantly brought a smile to my face— it was Wish! Honestly, I just love this fragrance; (though it could be because of its nostalgic effect) it's soothingly sweet, yet still unique and sophisticated.

This was love at first sniff for me!!! It smelled so familiar yet so unique at the same time. After wearing it for awhile I realized that this seemed so familiar because of the rice and the cinnamon which are main ingredients of Horchata which is a Mexican drink. It doesn’t smell exactly like it but it definitely has similarities. This is obviously more complex. Overall, it still is a very unique scent. It’s very sweet and spicy! This would be perfect for a chilly fall day. I can see myself dosing my scarf with this and getting whiffs throughout the day. This definitely has an autumn day vibe.

I shouldn’t love this- it is super sweet, fairy candy dust. But something about this is really unique, effervescent, and something I want to keep smelling. This may work the best in the handcreme, but I also enjoy this as a fragrance. This would make an excellent gift for a young teen- as even though it’s sweet it doesn’t feel cloying, cheap sexy Barbie kitten sweetness that is often marketed to that age group. Or if you are an adult longing for something comforting, sweet and delicious, this is totally appropriate too.

This was my signature scent for years! My first fragrance obsession. Very warm, sweet, with a powdery candy/marshmallow and suntan lotion scent. I never got citrus notes on my skin. This perfume smells very nostalgic to me, perhaps it’s the sugared pastille scent. After it ages a few years it seems so smell warmer vanilla with more spice notes. If you love this scent, you’ll like Bronze Goddess by Esteé Lauder. I can’t believe how similar they are! I don’t know if I’d be able to tell them apart.

I really need to buy another bottle of Wish. This is one of my longstanding all-time favorites that I started wearing in high school. It's so feminine and yummy! The notes are elegantly sweet. Somehow, this fragrance is both fluffy and fresh, like a wrapping yourself in a cloud of floral-accented vanilla sugar. I am lost for words at how else to describe this, other than it's just simply amazing. Ignore the cinnamon and pepper notes listed on here. Those are not even remotely accurate.

Wonderful! I seriously enjoyed this fragrance (which I was attracted to just by the lovely bottle). The opening has a strong coconut note (though it's not supposed to?) that I like, but it's short lived. It dries down quickly, and what are meant to be the top notes suddenly appear as the heart notes. The pepper, bergamot, and amber are warm and unique, while the fragrance as a whole remains just sweet enough. Feminine and rich without being offensive.

This is so beautiful & gentle. I'm addicted. It smells like a warm hug from someone you love. It smells kind of like rice pudding. It also smells like the best-smelling sunscreen ever. Very unique. I have a large collection of perfume, and I don't have anything like this in my collection. It's unique in the sense that TokyoMilk Kabuki is unique. 10/10.

This is a very sweet scent, but one that still has an air of sophistication about it. There is a lot of vanilla and citrus with a light amount of cinnamon when first sprayed, then it dries down to a warm but not overpowering marshmallow and amber on me. People are always commenting on the heavenly scent whenever I wear this fragrance.

This is Christmas on an island, an exotic island. I have never smelled anything like this and I absolutely love it! I have searched long and hard for the scent that I want to grow old with and this is it! It's beachy and floral enough to wear in the summer, but warm and spicy enough to wear in the winter. I never have to take it off.

When I first spray it...I get a whiff of rice milk and lemon. Then after that, it settles down to a vanilla milk type scent. Like what melted ice cream smells like. Its a very nice scent as well. The packaging for it is simply divine. It comes in a nice little canvas/burlap type bag and the bottle itself is beautiful.

This is very beautiful on the dry down, it’s very citrus heavy in the beginning to where i just want to wash it off bc it smelled like cleaning products. But once the drydown hits, it is this light sugary vanilla with some fruit. It almost has this gum scent in the background but like marshmallow gum lol.

Luscious mixture of bergamot and vanilla with just a hint of cinnamon. I haven't got much to say about this scent, except that it's absolutely divine! One of my new favs! Sillage and longevity are outstanding! ♥♥♥♥♥ Edit: In the far dry down the scent becomes warmer with much more cinnamon. Really good!!!