Mauboussin à la Folie

oh WOOOW, now THIS is a fragrance that would drive any man absolutely WILD! I smell like a mouthwatering raspberry caramel cookie. Mauboussin à la Folie is seriously a 'love-at-first-sniff' perfume for me. And I usually need time and experimenting to love fragrances! The opening is just gorgeous: a sparkling prosecco followed closely by fresh raspberries. Nothing synthetic, sickly sweet or heavy alcohol about it! Just chilled delicious Italian white wine... The raspberry note is done so well, which I have to say is difficult to find in any brand since it can easily turn synthetic/juvenile on its own. The dry-down Uhghhhhhghghh the dry-down. The rose-petals are soft, complimentary and ever-so-slightly powdery...but the real star player is the caramel. It's blended so beautifully with the sparkling raspberry and soft petals without being cloying. Ultimately turning into a delectable cookie-dessert Performance is ordinary. When you spray the raspberry prosecco fills the whole room & becomes arms length as time goes on. I'm seriously impressed...thus this will be one of my signature scents. She's elegant, she's irresistible, she's poised. So perfect for cool summer nights, spring...all seasons actually! High quality perfume, deserving of all the rave. EDIT: Live Irrésistible Délicieuse Givenchy smells 85% similar to this! Except this one is more sparkling.

2010’s Trashy Mcbling party girl. One of the most obvious perfume choice, in my opinion, if you want to smell like house parties, neon green and hot pink, animal prints, and Juicy Couture bedazzled tracksuits. My mom used to wear it and it smelt good on her, but on me it gave me so many headaches, and I felt like the caramel was to synthetic and overbearing. But the scent changed, so did my mind and impressions for this perfume. It’s a really sweet and loud perfume, it is sparkling with this Champagne note that feels like you are having lots of fun during a party! Then there’s this THICK sweetness that truly is yummy, with that sticky Caramel, bright and fruity Raspberry. And the Rose note is trying its very best to create a fresh aspect to the fragrance. Overall, the sweet notes are smelling good but can be felt as cheap, too synthetic. And I get it, but for the price it’s logical. I feel like this is the kind of perfume that you can’t enjoy if you don’t like gourmand perfumes. It makes me feel like a star in the 2000’s, it truly matches the vibe of Kesha songs, for example : Tik Tok, We R who we R, Blah Blah Blah. This perfume smells like the color Hot Pink, and animal prints. It’s strong and has a nice sillage, perfect for day and night but MADE for the night ! 9/10, I absolutely love it !

This was a lovely surprise to test and could become another favorite for all-day/all-night wear. It really is like wearing the spirit of joy, or what I would deem a potion concocted with all the ingredients that make up joy: sweet fruit, warm caramel, a slight chocolate-y rose so rich and drenched in what sizzled in my nose like sparkling Italian grape soda. When I looked up the actual notes (before I review a perfume, I always try to guess what they are upon first sniff) and found that it was supposed to contain the bubbly effervescence of champagne (always the congratulatory toast of happiness and luck) it wasn't a surprise, yet to me it was a very dark grape bubbly -- perhaps because of the raspberry! I would recommend this for anyone young, and anyone who wants to feel young again. Aptly named, and great fun to wear. I have nothing negative to say about this. It transforms me into a giggling schoolgirl, or to my college days when going out to the bars after class to drink my favorite fruity cocktail was the s***!

Absolutely delightful and mischievous, A La Folie sparkles, flirts and giggles knowingly to an appreciative audience. This is bubbles and fun, a frivolous dessert of a fragrance, light and airy yet with a caramelly substance to it to help ground it before it jitters off again, escaping into a sun-dappled sky. Oh, so carefree and full of joie de vivre! Oh, such fun! Once again, the word delightful, because this is what it is - raspberries, champagne and caramel with whispers of a rose. A La Folie does, indeed, share a slight relationship with the beautiful and now sadly discontinued Parfait des Roses by Lancome - they are distant cousins, perhaps, both joyfully suppressing mirth at what they see as folly. Not the same at all, but with a similar idea. Both wonderful. Highly recommended.

This is such a cozy perfume! It only contains 4 notes, but is's definitely not linear and not boring! Opens with fizzy champagne & juicy, sweet, fresh raspberry. As it dries down the scent slowly starts to change... Champagne disappears as soon as the bubbles have died out and then makes way for rose to shine through. The rose here is very subtle and has a balmy feel to it, probably because the caramel is already working it's way to the surface. It takes some time, but eventually I was left with this very delicious gourmand trace of buttery caramel on my skin of which I kept getting whiffs throughout the day and well over 8 hours. Soft, but definitely there! This makes people want to come a little closer to you, to smell this deliciousness... An absolute love for me! ♥♥♥♥♥