Strawberry Shortcake

The year is 1984. It's Christmas morning. You are sitting on your living room floor wearing your flannel gown with your little sister as you look at a pile of presents with your name neatly written on the tag. You tear into a small box and it's a Strawberry Shortcake doll. You open the box. The strong scent of strawberries and marshmallow waft out of the box as you bring her red hair up to your nose. You inhale her deeply. There's a hint of vanilla as well...almost like a bowl of freshly whipped cream. Yes. That's this scent. Nostalgia captured perfectly in a bottle. It's not something I particularly care to wear, but I keep in my collection.

I love this perfume. I've been on the hunt for a that Strawberry childhood smell and I've tried them all, big dollars and little dollars and this one comes the closest. It's jammy berry with a bit of vanilla cake. It's not complicated or complex, which is exactly why I love it. Admittedly, I don't wear this alone. I layer depending on my mood, sometimes with Billie 1 or Delina or YBM, this works with all of them beautifully. If you're looking for the plastic doll note add, try Sorce IDAFT strawberry. The IDAFT blueberry smells EXACTLY like the villian lady doll from strawberry shortcake I had as a small child.

This is the strawberry scent of my dreams. I heard that this smells like Strawberry Pound Cake from B&BW and it definitely does, but even better - mixed with Cream Savers A thing about some gourmand perfumes is they'll smell like the food plus other notes, to make it more "perfume" like, but this is straight up, edible I didn't buy it looking for it to smell like the dolls and I can't remember them enough to say how close they are, but I know this is everything I've ever wanted in a strawberry perfume Edit: the drydown does have a plasticy doll touch

very straightforward but surprisingly it works for me - red, glazed strawberry on a big pile of vanilla whipped cream. the vanilla that it leaves with the drydown suits my taste.

This is EXACTLY what it promises to be. If the notes sound good to you, then you will love it. No gimmicks, just pure Strawberry Shortcake wonderfulness.