Les Monstres de Nina Ricci Nina

I agree that this scent is underrated. Perhaps people couldn't get past the bottles if they didn't like them - I personally love what they did with them; I think they're quirky and cute and I want to get the Luna one too! This is a cotton-candy forward scent but it gets a lot of freshness from the green apple and lemon, which are strong in the opening but not sharp or screechy. The praline is in the base but this isn't a heavy scent; it remains very light and luminous throughout. I think this scent is a perfect "fun fair" kind of scent--a boardwalk vibe, super sweet and playful for the summer but can be worn all year.

Zero "monstre" here, the fragrance is nice but weak.

Angry Bird Nina has an okay sillage and a total lasting power of seven hours. It's a sweet sugared orange-pear butter cookie. Vanillin and candy cane. An ethylmaltol galore. A ride to the funfair and a stroll to buy all the tasty calorific sweets. The after-drydown, if I'm allowed to name it that way, is a soft warm ambery scent without the calories. It's that simplistic. You know this scent, you've smelled it in a lot of gourmand perfumes. It's no different here. Monster Nina is sweeter than Monster Luna, childlike sweet. Yes, Monster Nina is the innocent pre-teen girl at the funfair interested only in cottoncandy, while Monster Luna, her sister, one year older maybe, but still teen, also addicted to candy, is behaving "naughty", and fails. I just don't understand why mama Ricci puts up with such daughters...

First of all, I don't like the bottle and the idea of these perfumes. These bottles are just so silly and childish, but probably don't have a suitable price for teenagers. Maybe it has more reasonable price if you order online. The opening was not nice, there was an extremely synthetic pear note. Drydown is quite bearable, I sense candy sweet and some fruity notes. Seems ordinary when I smell it now, but the top notes and the bottle aren't the nicest.

Delicious! Of course as a flanker it's supposed to be in the same vein as original Nina, but somehow it manages to smell EXTREMELY similar even though it doesn't have apple. Initial spray: NINA without apple. I guess with pear but if you weren't familiar you'd think apple. Middle: Getting sweeter. You can smell the cotton candy and the praline. It starts to smell like grape candy to me. Drydown: sweet praline. It has a medium sillage, and is very long lasting (noticeable at the end of an 8 hour day; can still detect it on clothes if you smell the fabric a day or two later) even though the notes themselves are smooth and soothing instead of being very loud. For example something with patchouli or white florals might have the same sillage but be more noticeable. I adore this perfume. It's enough like Nina that I don't have to buy a new bottle, yet different enough that I'm loving the grape candy touch!

Underrated as a cotton candy, or just general candy scent, in my opinion. I tried a lot of scents with a cotton candy note and this is actually one of my favorites. Collecting candy scents is a guilty pleasure. I used to wear this to work when I worked mostly alone on night shift in a place that didn't smell so good. It was so pleasant and uplifting when I could smell this instead of my work environment. It would last my whole shift. It cheers me up in general. Not a fragrance to be taken seriously, and it certainly doesn't smell expensive, but it has its time and place and performs well. Recently I bought Candy Love by Escada and it reminded me of this somewhat. But, when compared side to side, Candy Love is even more simplistic and more crisp- apple centered, light and more shampoo-ish than candyish to me.

Pretty sure I'm developing a serious addiction to ethyl malitol and this scratches that itch! Sure its fun fair, sweet, juvenile, some may say gouche.. but idc in the slightest. It's uplifting and sweet and thats what I crave in perfumery.