Vanilla Strawberry

Perlier Iles Vanilla with Strawberry smells sweet, but not overly. Very fresh, even sexy! Just give it a chance to dry for a moment. The original Iles Vanilla version is pure vanilla, but with the strawberry mix becomes more like very fresh strawberry candy, or cotton candy. The closest thing out there is Pink Sugar which I also wear, but still prefer my original favorite.

I remember this frag from my youth. Of course every teenage girl had to have at least one fragrance that smelled of a dessert...or her lip gloss...or dolls heads. Now my tastes are all over the map from sweet gourmands to white flower florals to orientals...to animalastic scents. I have been on a mission to find and add every perfume from my past, my mother's past, my friend's past whether I liked tthem, loved them or loathed them. I have found that yesterday's loathe can be today's love-it-can't-live-without-it!!!! But the same is true in reverse. And sadly, Perlier's Vanilla Strawberry, that made me feel so good, cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in my Datsun 240Z and sporting Farrah Fawcett hair, now makes me feel like I've had to use the strawberry-scented-urinal-cake-reaking-men's-room cuz the line's too long for the ladie's room vibe. It has such an artificial strawberry about it, not even Perlier's vanilla can save this one. Sad, because seller's on eBay are making a small fortune on this discontinued scent off of people like me, on the hunt for a gem of their past.

I blind-bought this off of ebay and have tried to wear a few times. The problem is not that it's a bad scent, I actually really love it. The problem is that the juice smells a little moldy. Gross. I'm not sure if there's a remedy for this. The only thing I can think to do is send a sample to The Fragrance Shop and see if they can replicate it for me in the form of an oil. I'm so disappointed, but at least I have a shot at getting it right. EDITED: Today I randomly decided to wear some oils that I got from The Fragrance Shop. I mixed Cherry Vanilla with Vanilla Cream and realized that this combo smells exactly like this perfume (minus the mold!). Yes, even though I used cherry instead of strawberry. These oils are very skin-like, so they don't last forever, but I don't mind that. Good to know that I have an option if I want to wear this scent!

Doesn't last too long...But it smells so good,like strawberry cotton candy.