Lovely Betty

I got a bag of Oriflame sample sizes from Ebay and slowly working my way through-its not a designer I'm familiar with although they seem to work in the same way as Avon do, selling through reps. Anyway, I put this on without looking up the notes beforehand, and had no idea this was a sweet/gourmand floral which I generally don't like as they are usually far too sickly sweet for me. My immediate impression was a burst of bright white floral-I didn't get any citrus in the first 30 minutes. Within a couple of minutes the floral dries down into caramel-this is sweet, chewy toffee caramel, exactly like Thorntons special toffee. Its lovely and homely and not over sweet, but reminded me of baking with my grandma when I was little. After about 30 minutes, the caramel dissolves and it becomes a sort of generic non-specific young sweetish floral-pleasant, not overpowering, non-offensive and probably perfectly acceptable in offices. It's a friendly sort of fragrance, young, happy, cheerful, probably summer or Fall daytime wear to me. Its not seductive, slinky or sexy-I feel like I should be cuddling up to my teddy bear wearing this. I liked it-not sure I'd wear it again, but it was cute.

Honestly I don't get too much sweetness from this, all clean powder like laundry detergent which is not cold at all very simple and wearable

This is a lovely sweet neroli fragrance. Not sickly sweet. Well balanced. Slightly powdery. Smells like summer to me.