Serendipitous

Once upon a time (a few years ago) I wrote a glowing review for the reformulation of serendipity 3. After wearing it many times, I decided to re-review it because I felt like my review was overly positive. I still think the scent of serendipity 3 is gosh darn delicious. To me it smells like orange chocolate dipped marshmallows. You know those lovely marshmallows with a thin chocolate coating? Think of those with little pieces of orange peel in the coating and you've got the scent. However, on the other hand it's worth noting (on me at least) that the scent does not project or last a darn. I do have projection issues for whatever reason, I have cool skin that doesn't throw scent well. Although, today was a 90 degree day and I definetly wasn't feeling cool to the touch and still had the same problem! Compared to the many other scents I've tried this is definitely a weak one. I love the scent but run across the performance issue everytime I wear it. I spray generously 6-7 sprays (which is a TON compared to the typical 2 sprays I wear) and it wears like a body splash or light cologne. This smells terrific but I couldn't justify repurchasing this for fourty something dollars. Maybe if it was $15..

This is a wonderful comfort scent. When my father passed away recently, this is the scent I reached for over and over again during those first emotionally trying days. As to what it smells like, this seems to be ever-changing and enigmatic. Myself, usually I pick up the sweet orange and vanilla at first, and after a while it mellows to a white chocolate. But it is not overly gourmand on me, nor overly sweet or heavy. It is somehow refreshing and light, a bit warm, and very comforting. My husband thinks it smells sweet and floral. My mom's first words when she first smelled it on me was "You smell like roasted marshmallows!" This leads me to think it is similar to that Harry Potter love potion whose scent changes according to each person's preferences (since I love orange scents, my husband loves florals on me, and one of my mom's favorite treats is roasted marshmallows). I do find that I have to spray more than I usually would to get a satisfying level of scent. Longevity is okay, after a few hours it becomes more of a skin/snuggle scent. But the price is *very* reasonable, so I do not mind at all.

This is one of my favorite sweet scents. I didn't realize that it was chocolate, I only smelled a wonderful vanilla. That said, I'm not good at note detecting. Many slip right by me. I'll compare it to others that it has been compared to. Pink Sugar - no contest. PS is nice, but you really have to watch how much you put on or it will choke you. Who wants to die a slow agonizing death choking on browned cotton candy? Serendipitous is higher quality and doesn't smack you in the face with that carnival scent. It caresses you like cashmere. I find it easier to wear. Greedy Chocolate - no way. Greedy Chocolate is the dark, sinister, sticky, bound and gagged, chocolate playdoh cousin to Serendipitous. You know the one nobody wants to invite to thanksgiving dinner? It's so sticky that I'm waiting for the ants to come marching in. I just don't see any comparison at all. It's a mess and I am now stuck with 5 ml of it. [ha, my inadvertent dyslexic handling of the name suits it better]

This scent is AMAZING! It smells exactly like S'mores. Melty, ooey-gooey marshmallows dripping with molten chocolate and sprinkled with graham cracker dust. The initial orange notes also add a nice touch. This is definitely not an ordinary vanilla. In fact, I get more chocolate than vanilla. To me this scent is very sweet, yet not cloying, and very cozy and yummy. It reminds me of cudddling up in a fleece blanket in front of the campfire while licking marshmallow residue from the S'mores off my sticky fingers. I don't really get much, if any, coconut, and I don't feel this fragrance is too powdery, which is good since I'm not a huge powder fan. I am currently on a "diet", if you will (more like a lifestyle change... no refined sugar at all!), but this is a great substitute for dessert. If I can't eat dessert, at least I can smell like it! Sillage and longevity aren't bad either, and the price is fairly affordable. I say it's a MUST HAVE for gourmand lovers.

I am so sad to say that this has been reformulated! Serendipitous (in the original square bottle) used to be magical, constantly shifting from toasted marshmallow to chocolate to vanilla to orange to cookie dough and everything in between and more. It also had amazing lasting power, with one or two spritzes lasting all day with a lovely dry-down. It was a tremendous value for the price point, smelling and behaving like a much more expensive juice. The original bottle was also more aesthetically pleasing. Now, it is a very flat and boring cocoa powder. No personality, no depth. Also ridiculously weak. No sillage, no lasting power. The new cheap-looking and generic bottle accurately reflects the contents. This used to be my signature scent, so I am heart-broken. There was nothing like Serendipitous, it was cozy and comforting while at the same time being complex and sophisticated. I will be treasuring the last drops in my old bottle.

This fragrance will always hold a special place in my heart. When it was difficult to find for a small while (seemed like forever though) my daughter found me a bottle. I still have that bottle and I am on the very last bits of it. Each time I spray it I get that powdered sugar vanilla cocoa cloud of loveliness. It's just like that...a cloud, perfectly blended together. This isn't a powdered sugar exactly - It is that powder that comes out of a bag of marshmallows as you open it. ahhhhhhhhhhhh LOVE it. I just ordered 2 new bottles. The site I visit/order Serendipitous from has a coupon code currently. yay! *also, I see one of the notes listed as coconut - I believe it is cocoa not coconut...it is designed for the Hot Chocolate offered at Serendipity 3 after all.

This is a wonderful gourmande perfume! I'm so glad I got a 5mL sample of it! On me, I don't smell any dominant chocolate- maybe just a hint of milk chocolate. On my skin, it's a lovely vanilla caramel cake- it smells absolutely delicious. Sillage is moderate and the perfume moderately long lasting and fairly linear (i.e. no distinct top, middle, and base notes). I think I might want a full bottle of this! It's a 'love'! Update: Drydown is like a softer version of Pink Sugar. I still love it, but wish it didn't smell this much like Pink Sugar!

I purchased this scent unsniffed wearing it for the 1st time today! The notes for this perfume is cocoa, tahitian vanilla and blood orange. It opens up with a burst of orange but last only a minute. I don't know if its the mixture of the orange with the cocoa but I smell a rich amber! The dry down is a perfect mixture of vanilla and cocoa with slight incense/woody/smokey smell. Kinda like drinking hot chocolate by a warm fire.. I love it! It stays close to the skin and the lasting power seems to be alright.

Yea...samples from LuckyScent arrived, including this one. It's a very hot CA summer and this is such a nice change from my typical fall spicy, cinnamons. It smells like a nice vanilla in the bottle, but opened up with a more musky cotton candy smell after about 15 min. Sweet, delectable - reminds me of Pink Sugar on my skin. I'm so tickled I stumbled across this scent on this site! At $40 on Lucky Scent, I'll be putting that on the wish list for the hubby!

The notes they have listed for these have me confused as I have never smelled any of these. It smells like vanilla, sugar and chocolate with maybe some caramel. When I wear this people think someone is baking cookies somewhere. Its the most amazing scent EVER. Amazon.com $36 free shipping, if its not there then they r out of stock and will be back on amazon once they have more.

Mmmmm...this is a yummy gourmand! I love it when vanilla comes out like this, it's soft but beautifully deep at the same time. Serendipitous has a chocolately vanilla wafer nature which reminds me of Montale chocolate Greedy and vanille Absolu. Great stuff lasts very well but I need to wear it again to test longevity and projection against vanille absolut, love this though.

One squirt and all I could smell was a soft vanilla, similar to the Body Shop Vanilla. Meh I thought to myself, what's all the fuss about?? Than...10 mins later I added 2 more squirts and oh my gosh... Heavenly buttery vanilla with a touch of cotton candy. Wow, it's very soft but dang it is delicious!!! Such an unique vanilla I am very glad I purchased this one!

The first thing I detect is the rum-vanilla. Then it dries down to smell exactly like Al-Rehab Choco Musk. In my opinion, it’s way overpriced for the 20 minutes that it lasts... save your cheddar and buy Choco Musk instead. Update: longevity still sucks, but I can’t get past this fragrance for the life of me. I keep reaching for it. It’s like a hot ex-boyfriend!

Tootsie roll, chocolate and orange- delicious! almost like you took a regular tootsie roll and an orange flavored one and ate them at the same time. My roommate freaked out he loves it so much. So reasonable too! I also bought the candle, it is not extremely fragrant, but subtle and very similar smelling to the spray.

So i put this on in the morning and totallly forget that i did. And all throughout the day i kept getting wiffs of something that smelled sooooo good and yummy and i could not figure out what it was UNTIL I REMEBERED! THIS FRAGRANCE!! It’s just so yummy and sweet but not overpowerinng.

I have a sample from LuckyScent. At first I didn't like it, but it quickly settled into an almost toasted-marshmallow accord. It is definitely a like-- not sure if full bottle worthy yet. Edit: Yes, I'm really into this. Not sure if full bottle is in the works though

this makes me crave chocolate bread pudding. i've a weakness for sweet scents and this one is a winner. sweet without punching you in the face with a sugar bomb - it has a softness to it that keeps it a little more grown-up. 4 hours later and it hasn't faded.

I really like this! A soft vanilla coco sent. It opens with citrus and quickly turns into a skin scent! Its mostly vanilla with a hint of chocolate, I quite like it! I think it will be perfect all year round. I do wish it was stronger

I don't know how those notes make me feel like I am wearing chocolate milk, but it does! I LOVE THIS!! And, I tested it last night before bed and when I awoke over 7 hours later...it was still a delicious skin scent! Yum, yum....

I got nothing but compliments .. today ! Wow! LOVE this fragrance ..!!!! I smell of ..."Cake and all things Yummy" that's what I was told today. there is a Rich Chocolate hiding there somewhere... YUM! YUM !YUM!

Orange? Where?!:) This is a perfect sweet, vanilian scent! The best! I love! A tökéletes vattacukor illat, édes, selymes, és szupertartós!:)

The longevity is not there but this smells like terry's chocolate oranges which I LOVEEEE! This smells so delicious.

You can get this at sugardaisy.com. I think it's $35 for a bottle there...

I have an odd relationship with this fragrance - I like it, but it leaves me perpetually unsatisfied. I worry that I might actually be anosmic to it, since I can smell almost nothing when I put it on (and I mean NOTHING). If I put my nose veeeery close to the bottle, I can smell a very pretty sweet cocoa, but don't like to wear this by itself because to my nose, it's basically like spraying myself with water. That being said, it has the ability to tone down sharper fragrances, and I find that it deepens a lot of the crisp florals that I like to wear in warmer weather, making them more appropriate for seasonal transition times. My favorite combo is with Delina - it softens the tart rhubarb and sweetens it enough for me to be comfortable wearing it in cooler weather.

AAHH this is wonderful! Marshmallow hot cocoa chocolate chip cookie goodness! And so warm and toasty! It has a savory, carmelized-sugar quality of yummy things baking, I completely agree with the person who said it smells like toasted marshmallows. It's actually almost a hint of incense or burning candle, in a very pleasant way. There might be a bit of creamy almond hiding in there as well. It doesn't quite smell like oranges and chocolate to me, it definitely smells like chocolate-laced goodies baking in the oven, but the orange is probably what's keeping it from getting too heavy and sweet, instead it just seems warm and fluffy and chocolate. I found it on ebay, best blind buy EVER.

Really yummy but soooo faint and fades super quickly. Kind of just smells like a more faint version of Choco Musk, though it does have more distinct cacao where Choco Musk is mainly vanilla. I don’t really get any orange. While it is nice, Chaco Musk has better performance and is way cheaper. In terms of perfumes listed as similar— ✔️ Comptoir Sud Pacifique Amour de Cacao: very similar in scent and performance ❌ GDT Bianco Latte: a deep vanilla and coumarin fragrance ❌ Montale Chocolate Greedy: a much deeper chocolate scent ❌ Outremer Vanille: much sweeter, smells like a cotton candy vanilla ❌ Xerjoff Lira: a citrusy cookie scent

Serendipitous and I have such wonderful relationship. We get on really well. In fact, I can’t stop telling everyone how much in love we are. When we’re together, I sigh with blissful release. I am comforted, yet exultant to be in the presence of such a beautiful smelling thing! It’s soft, absolutely delicious chocolate touched with blood orange to my nose. Not dark chocolate, not chocolate syrup, just gorgeously soft cocoa. I layer MOR Marshmallow body butter with it too and it goes with it just marvelously. I only wish when Serendipitous came to visit, that it would stay longer.

Like others here, first thing i detect is a cacao-vanilla, almost marshmallowy scent with maybe a faint trace of rum in the background. Drydown really brings out the marshmallowy vanilla above all and doesn't get too powdery smelling. Staying power and sillage seem underwhelming, which is a shame because i find the smell quite pleasant. For me that is a dealbreaker. Even if a fragrance knocks my socks off, if it has bad performance or bad longevity it goes in my B-list automatically. If you want a more intimate gourmand skin scent, you can't go wrong here.

I think this fragrance has two sides. First comes the cheap sugary orange liquor flavored praline with an almost sour and earthy tone (maybe the coconut?). Not very pleasant at all. But the other side, the dry down... oh my! Milk chocolate in it's best form. Surprisingly non artificial as well. So comforting and nice. I actually find it very long lasting. It's quite linear once it gets to the chocolate but I can easily sniff it on my skin after 8-10 hours. A lovely and unusual scent in my collection.

Interesting that the notes seem to follow a different progression on my skin than on other reviewers' - the opening is a soft, fluffy chocolate marshmallow. Very delicate, not too sweet, good enough to make your mouth water. But the longer I wear it, the more I get a boozy note that turns the whole composition a little...sharp? I get less than 2 hours of wear time total before it disappears completely. Wish that opening stuck around longer, but alas. Just not the gourmand for me.

I don't get a whole lot of chocolate or orange at all, I mostly get a sticky sweet vanilla with hints of that caramel note. In the opening I could get a light whiff of citrus, but it was fleeting. A delicious vanilla gourmand. In the dry down I get a light dusting of cocoa powder, but it's mostly a sweet baking vanilla scent the entire way through. Not very long lasting though, and weak sillage.

Serendipitous is very soft and warm, a very light vanilla scent with an orange facet that slowly blends together on skin until it turns into something like chocolate. It drapes on you like a blanket, reassuring and close. A very comfortable and sweet scent with decent lasting power. Highly recommended for people who like sweetness and chocolate, as long as they don't mind the sillage.

Terry's chocolate orange morphing to Swiss Miss Instant Hot Chocolate (Marshmallow Flavor) once the orange note burns off 5 minutes in. I've owned my bottle for almost 10 years, and it's been the same performance for all 10. I'm surprised the citrus notes have managed to hang on. Might be worth finding a vintage bottle if you find milk chocolate scents appealing.

I definitely get chocolate/vanilla with a light touch of orange from this. Sort one like one of those orange-flavored chocolates (Terry's I think?) you can get at the grocery store (like the ones that you break into chocolate "slices" by knocking it on the counter) but milkier, more vanilla, instead of bitter or dark chocolate.

I adore this fragrance for a cold winter day. Chocolate covered oranges. Not overly sweet. I have a pre-reformulation bottle. I find the longevity to be around 5-6 hours and a sillage of around arms length. Lovely scent and based on the reviews about the reformulated version, when my bottle is gone, I will not be repurchasing.

This is a very simple scent, but I think it is done quite well - very cozy and sweet. I get a cotton candy vibe and light citrus from it, but it is much sweeter than I normally like. It works well in cooler weather, and I prefer to layer this with other fragrances because it adds a fluffy sweetness to anything you add it to.

The fragrance features tahitian vanilla, bitter orange and cacao. Average chocolate fragrance. There are better chocolate scents out there. If you like this, you should try: ~CSP Amour Cacao~ ~Montale Chocolate Greedy~

This is a lovely fragrance for the price. On first application it's very boozy, like a sherry wine, but that fades to a sweet orange-vanilla a bit of chocolate in the background, and decent staying power.

This scent is so yummy! I have the original rectangular bottle and it’s a pretty linear chocolate-vanilla. I get zero citrus, maybe that’s more in the newer version?

Really pretty, simple, comforting warm. Fantastic vanilla note that like the review says below almost has a marshmellowy scent. Perfectly minimalistic. 6.5/10

I love how sweet and warm this is-very nice fall and winter scent. When I want to deepen it a bit I mix it with Sage Machado's Amber=awesome!

A faint chocolate orange scent, with a slight boozy note in the background in the opening. Pleasant, but there's not a lot of "there" there.

A weak tootsie roll scent. No sillage and longevity is minimal.

Smells great but no projection or lasting power. I used almost a whole sample in two uses because I couldn't smell it and had to keep applying. The overall price of the fragrance is good but even at a low price I can't justify it since it doesn't last more than a few minutes. It is only a skin scent. It does smell good, light and sweet, but doesn't perform as a product.

Very light, almost to the point that you can barely make out the notes. I smell a bit of chocolate and oranges for about 3 minutes and that was it.

Light pleasant vanilla choco scent. Silage is intimate, not fbw for me due to performance.

I dropped by Serendipity 3 tonight to spray this on myself. I see others mentioning chocolate notes in their reviews, but I don't smell any chocolate here, neither did the person I was with. I expected something warm, deep and inviting, but on my skin, this smells like a light cream soda and orange. There isn't much depth here and the fragrance settles down to a faint vanilla within the hour and then I have to touch my nose to my skin to detect it. This doesn't make me hungry and for the staying power and unremarkable fragrance, I wouldn't pay the asking price for it. In my opinion, this is a scent created by a famous restaurant that has done well because of what it stands for. I find it odd that Serendipity would make a perfume that isn't chocolatey since their Frrrozen Hot Chocolate is what they're known for! I don't smell the coconut mentioned in the notes at the top.

This is for the new-ish rounded bottle, some have called it a re-formulation. When I get close to the nozzle it's giving fresh chocolate, even before you spray. Immediately atomized, the juice smells the chocolate orange is in some stage of fermentation. The dry down leaves a trail of sweet vanilla/ chocolate orange with a hint of some spice that leans very faint clove in the background, it's barely peeking out. This scent test experience reminds me of an orange pomander with one clove still in it, then got covered in chocolate. Edited to say the Dry Down is wonderful! Almost worth suffering through the spray of fermentation. The clove scent made its exit, as well. So now I understand why ya'll said reminds of Amour de Cacao & Chocolate Greedy. Still miles away from Outreamer & Choco Musk.

ATTENTION: THERE IS NO COCONUT IN THE LISTED NOTES, NONE! THE ACTUAL NOTE IS COCOA. It seems like a mistake has been made at Fragrantica, if you search online, all the other sites, including Luckyscent, which sells it, has the notes listed as: Cocoa, Tahitian Vanilla, Blood Orange. Personally, I smell no blood orange (or anything remotely citrus) and I DO think a bit of coconut on this would have been lovely. As it is, it reminds me of the scent of melting chocolate and vanilla ice cream on a hot summer day, when it's melting so fast, you give up and just want to suck it through a straw like a milkshake. A very "my childhood" kind of smell. There IS a boozy opening though, identical to what you smell when you open up a bottle of vanilla extract for the first time. The vanilla is heavier to me than the cocoa. When I say cocoa, don't accidentally imagine chocolate which has the milk and sugar and all of that stuff added to it, just imagine the unsweetened brown powder. Maybe the powder that goes into making those Frrrozzen Hot Chocolates smells like this? It's a very simple smell, on the light and airy side. I feel like something is missing to make it really POP maybe whipped cream? or marshmallows? Or maybe amp up the chocolate or make the blood orange actually smellable? But maybe I just want those accidental coconuts! But yeah: melting vanilla&chocolate ice cream or vanilla hot chocolate mix powder: if this is the smell you want, you found it! Try before you buy. It's not easy to imagine what this smells like and if you will like it, even with the analogies.

I am truly disappointed with this one. I cannot comment on the scent since there really isn't one to "talk about". If I said that it smells of some kind of extremely light scented chocolate- something for about a second after 2 full sprays, would that be fair? Then it's all I can talk about. My nose cried sympathetically with me because I did spend about three thousand unicorn pennies on it. I am reading myths and tales of when this fragrance had some staying power and I truly wonder if that were the case why the company changed anything about it, the notes sound luxurious, it's like that saying "action speaks louder than words" I can read the notes, but where are they? May as well have sold me a bottle of water... This is just my opinion. I really wanted a chocolate perfume that would have staying power longer than a second. It really does hurt. If someone can point me to a chocolate fragrance containing these notes but with actual staying power...please help me.