Fresh Rose + Peach

I bought Love2Love "Fresh Rose + Peach" today and its beautiful. It is a fresh fruity-floral, rose, peach, orris root, currant buds, musk and I daresay I was going to add vanilla but checked the notes and realized it has none. I really love this fragrance which was made to represent enduring love and happiness, thank you Calice Becker of Giavaudan, you did make this perfume with joy and love in mind! It exceeds my expectations for an edt and at $29TT for $100mL in that lovely bottle with the rose petal cover, its really special. The scents starts right off and its not drowned in alcohol like other edts and edp fragrances. I get most of the nuances - the fresh tropical litchi and peach, the rose, green currant buds and clean powdery orris root and musk at the dry down. A gem, really - a literal gift!

Like SophiaJ, I tried this out in Walmart and really liked it. I kept sniffing my hand, where I had sprayed a bit, to see if it was going to develop that unknown scent that gives me a sick headache, and it never did. (I think the guilty party is white florals, but I don't know for sure.) It smells sweet but not cloying, and there's a complexity somewhere that keeps it from smelling like a little girl's perfume to me. But I don't get any particular rose or musk scent, and Heaven knows what lychee smells like because I sure don't. This is just a delicious, light scent that compels me to keep drinking it in, deeply, savoring it, never getting tired of it or overpowered by it. I'm going to wear it as a summertime alternative to Emeraude, my signature scent.

I really am enjoying this scent. I discovered it at Walgreen's last summer and was surprised how good it smelled and how inexpensive it was. To me, it is sunny and fresh. I'm just loving the lychee/rose/peach combination. This fragrance doesn't change much after application, but that's a plus. I spotted gift sets of this on clearance at Walgreen's after the holidays and stocked up, thinking I could sell some of them on Ebay if I got bored with this scent but I don't believe I ever will. The body spray and lotion are equally fabulous. I have tried all of the other combinations in this series and this is one of my favorites.

I will say right off the bat, it's a pretty sweet perfume. On me, I smell lychee immediately and after a while it fades to mix of lychee and peachs. The rose is a little harder to smell but it's there, more of a background scent. I think this perfume lasted at least 5 to 6 hours on me, and is sweet but inoffensive. Really just a nice, sweet and mildly girly scent. I think it's perfect for spring and summer. I must also note that this is also my most complimented perfume, several guy friends said it smelled "damn good" while another friend told me to step closer so she could keep smelling it.

This took some time to settle after it arrived in the mail, 11ml for 55 pence. It smells exactly like the peach rose I have growing in the garden, an English rose called Rachel. It truly is exactly as the name suggests, a fresh, sun warmed peach-coloured rose. I adore it. Now where are all the 100ml bottles I used to see everywhere?!