Live in Love

This is one of the prettiest floral perfumes in my collection. It is so perfectly blended, and is just a real gem. It is hard for me to identify the notes separately, but on my skin it is a beautiful floral - very floral. Upon the first spritz hitting my skin, I get an obvious lily of the valley and then the hyacinth. Those two are a couple of my favorite notes and in my experience, this is the fragrance that I can actually pick them out and fully enjoy them. I wish this lasted a bit longer on my skin. I have very dry skin, so my skin just eats perfumes so fast. Good thing I'm not too shy about pulling out a bottle from my purse and respraying as required. The sillage is soft on me as well. This beautiful scent is also tied to some specific memories, and the majority of the time when I wear this I cry, at least a little. My Mom passed in December 2017. She had been ill and needing care 24/7 for a number of years. I remember blind-buying this gem and wearing it when I went to visit Mom in one of her many, many hospital stays. When I entered her room, she immediately commented on how wonderful I smelled. I had intended to get her a bottle of her own, but it never worked out. So wearing this gorgeous fragrance evokes pain, but at the same time it makes me smile because I remember and cherish that visit that we had. My Mom was the best person I have ever known, and as I continue to grieve, I try to take solace from that special visit with the person I love most in the world. My intention is to never let this one out of my collection.

I like some florals, and usually they are lily and hyacinth florals, very spring-y, very "clean". This started out for me with the fizzy lemon-lime that other reviewers described. It DOES smell like 7-Up when you first spray it. But it's nice, not drippy, syrupy sweet at all. About 15 minutes in I start smelling my mother, meaning I smell "Beautiful" by Estee Lauder. It was the EXACT smell of her, and I love the way my mother smells. She has been wearing Beautiful since 1988, and it's the ONLY thing she wears. So, I'm thinking, "Man, I really don't want to smell like my mom. This is nice, maybe I'll give it to her." But then, while I'm cooking dinner, about an hour in I get this delightfully warm woody, musk, cedar-ish smell, and it's got this luscious aroma that I'm certain I already own, so I go to my frag safe (yes, I have a frag safe...I have a 17 year old niece...she has sticky fingers...hahahah) and I start pulling stuff out and BAM! It smells EXACTLY like the drydown of Ted Lapidus, Silk Way which happens to be one of my all time favorite frags EVER! It's the musk, cedar and amber notes these 2 frags share, and they've all settled on my skin in this amazing scent that I want to wear everywhere! It's such a gentle, lovely, slightly sensual scent to wear-the essence of femininity. I love this and am so glad I found the purse spray set (4mlx3 vials and an atomizer) at TJ Maxx for *gasp, $12*. I will ration it, I swear it! Great frag!

First of all: I am beyond saddened about the passing of this gentleman and genius. I always and will continue to admire his designs, work, personality and style. I was thrilled when he and the brand took more control of their fragrances again. To date I have (I think) 4 ODLR scents in my collection and am planning to add the original Oscar next. But that's another story and review :) Live in Love - how fitting the name is and what a nice meassage. My mother gifted this scent to me right before going on vacation to Portugal. Mom knows best, right? I am almost certain that we all know the feeling of falling in love. The excitement that comes with it and the feeling that everything is so easy and possible! The scent perfectly captures and transports all of this - at least in my opinion. It's flowery and fresh, uplifting and cheerful and - of course, it's ODLR ladies - classy. LOTV is very prominent - which is perfect because I love the smell of it. Longevity and sillage are amazing and better than expected, actually. It lasts forever on clothes and my colleague always wonders who or what smells so good. And the bottle is beautiful as well :) Love! PS: I need to get my hands on the body powder puff.

I reviewed this before but have to add the following praise: I'm currently in the midst of downsizing my collection which means picking a bottle and using it daily. Which is why my signature changes every couple weeks/months - depending on the bottle size. My mom gifted me live in love a few years ago when it came out. It was one of the last perfumes Oscar de la Renta himself worked on (I believe the house of Oscar de la Renta had previously acquired their license back. Esprit d'Oscar also came out around that time, the collection essentials and a bit later Something Blue (I believe)) and it's SO lovely. Bright, crisp like freshly washed white linen drying in the sun. The bottle and products of the line are equally beautiful and I enjoyed wearing it every day. It's uplifting, feminine, sexy (for those who do not think of sweet bombs as sexy) and memorable while at the same time never too much. For me it manages to balance the line between "modern" fresh floral and "classic" floral, if you know what I mean. And the name - I mean. I will def try to repurchase and keep my empty bottle on display. Houbigant, you're up next! :)

A blast of galbanum, hyacinth, and bergamot in the opening followed by tender white florals. In the mid, the galbanum and hyacinth retain their strength, faintly reminding me of Patou's Vacances, faintly, just. Eventually the woody notes seep in and sums up an elegant, light, green floral that is probably only suitable for spring and summer days. It is lovely, oh so very lovely. It projects well within the first hour and settles to be a skin scent after the 2nd. It cleaved to my skin for 2-3 hours and 4-5 on my clothing (from 3 sprays). How perfect this would be if only it had an oakmoss note in the dry down, but still the bergamot in the opening and galbanum in the heart give it a chypre-like DNA that I find endearing. This is not a fragrance that overwhelms or announces. It is for the enjoyment of your fine-tuned nose. Update: I bought two back-up bottles as it needs frequent reapplication.