To Be Born To Shine Woman

Sugar-Crystal-Textured COFFEE-JASMINE Scent with Apple-Blossom & Cinnamon... Inspired by Black Opium Yves Saint Laurent, this isn't meant to be a clone but more of an approximation with a twist and excellent performance. Opens with a sweet citrus-floral burst with cinnamon adding some warm-spicy tones, that deepens into the coffee heart with jasmine & plum bringing some clean white-floral, soft-purple & fruity tones while rose brings a velvety, powdery quality. This all rests on a predominantly vanilla base with patchouli, sandalwood & cashmere wood. This has the fuzzy sugar-crystal texture of Black Opium. Overall I get a sticky sweet coffee scent with jasmine like Black Opium, but this doesn't have the pear-almond present in Black Opium, although there is still a faint impression on marzipan from the combination of apple-blossom & cinnamon with jasmine. I don't get the woody-almond notes in Born to Shine that I get in the drydown of Black Opium. Born to Shine has a more vanillic rather than woody-almond drydown. Like Black Opium, this is so close to a gourmand, that most will consider it one, however the prominent jasmine makes it lean more to Amber-Vanilla. The performance is excellent for year-round wear, but I would be more likely to wear this on fall & winter nights. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

The images dont do justice on how beautiful and pearlescent this bottle is! To Be Born To Shine opens sweet spicy and dries down warm and smooth. It's blended very well and smells like comforting autumn indoors (though i love it enough to make it work in any season). I'd say what I get mostly is cinnamon, vanilla, coffee, sandalwood, but I also detect the plum and rose. This isn't very in-your-face, so this could be someone's answer if they find Black Opium too strong but still love the spiced coffee and vanilla sweetness. I like layering this with Over Red to make my perfect version of Black Opium! It's a good layering fragrances in general- or it may be that I mostly have sweet vanillas so a lot of my collection works with it.

OMG this is just heavenly! Its like toffee heaven with a bit of coffee. I know there is no real toffee in the scent, not listed but i can feel definitely. My friends told me that i smell like a huge walking Kinder egg that has been filled with toffifee :D and someone sad that i smell like tiramisu cake. So yeah this is a 100% gourmand scent with very strong toffee/cake vibe. On clothes its just beast mode, you can smell days after, on skin its a bit weaker but still long lasting. I think maybe 4-5 hours on skin, on clothes forever *.....* its a fall and winter scent, at spring or summer it can suffocating bc its sweet.

This is a wonderful and beautiful scent. The coffee notes shows up only in the dry down, last. The apple blossom gives this scent the magical touch. A fruity floral which is projecting good because of the light patchouli. I always imagine italian young people going out and hawing a god time in some Italian city when i smell Police perfumes. This is a high quality, enjoyable and fun scent. Police never disappoints. This one great for summer even if the notes are autumn like. It has a coconuty vibe. I will layer this with coconut lotions from bath and body works and pink coco body mist, yummi! Perfect summer combo ,!

Such cheapie smelling so good!?!? What! It is actually pretty similar to Black Opium but better, it's like "hmm, I know this scent from somewhere, smells really good but I can't put my finger on it..". Reeeeaaaally good, I actually like the bottle, I like the "cap" - like a granade :D The only downside is it doesn't last that long :( Sometimes it goes away in 30 mins, sometimes after 1,5h, but it won't stay with you the whole day, that's for sure. Later it becomes a close skin scent, unfortunately. If Police made them Beast Mode, then they would be a really big player in the perfume scene.