Strawberry

To those who don't get true strawberry, I am truly sorry. I suppose this has to be a chemistry issue, or perhaps the body mist or fragrance oil is different, I have the EDT. I grew up growing strawberries, and this smells like fresh, ripe, red, sunwarmed strawberries. Like when you walk outside on a hot day and you find the perfect glossy juicy strawberry and you pick it and eat it and it's so much sweeter and has so much more flavour than anything you could ever get at the grocery store. Although I am young(ish), I am not a fan of teenage, fruity/sweety scents...please don't chalk up my love of this to that. In fact, fruit scents, to me, are usually disappointing, as they rarely measure up to the real thing. This DOES. My usual kind of scents are usually big creamy white florals, and wood/oud/incense/leather/tobacco type stuff. But I never want to be without this. It's also great layered with my favorite layering juice - Elizabeth Arden Green Tea. Very fresh. I am not a fan of the rest of the body shop strawberry beauty products, as they DO smell of fake strawberry. But this EDT...mmmmmm. It's so good. However, it is quite linear. While you get a big, delicious, juicy, sweet strawberry - that's all you get. Also, the sillage and longevity are sadly lacking. But gosh, it sure is good while it lasts! 9/10

I love this, and I don’t care that it’s a one-note-wonder; everything that’s good doesn’t have to be complex. This is just fresh, juicy, yummy strawberry all the way. The eau de toilette has a little more of the tartness that is missing in some of the other bath products in the strawberry scent. I find that the shower gel and the body puree have more of a strawberry candy smell, while the eau de toilette has a fresh berry smell. If anyone’s grandmother puts up strawberries in the freezer, and cuts them up in homemade syrup with tons of sugar, this is that smell. I think of my grandma’s strawberry shortcake every time I smell this. The longevity isn’t great on this one, but it is much better than their pink grapefruit for staying power. I’d say it’s strong for a couple of hours, and then you can only catch occasional whiffs. It does help to spray it on your clothes as well though; that seems to help the scent stick. This is easily my favorite scent from The Body Shop, with pink grapefruit as a close runner-up.

Just got this! This is just a perfectly juicy little innocent strawberry scent. Seems to me there was a strawberry version of the Skinny Dip cologne. I want to say this is exactly what it smelled like, but I'm only going from memory....and it's not so reliable anymore! It might have been Love's Fresh Strawberry, if they had one? At any rate, this is a teen strawberry scent from when I was a...teenager. A scent I've been searching for! I was about to give up. ALL the scents out now, and I couldn't find just a plain juicy strawberry scent! I bought this blind and I'm not let down one bit! If you were a fruity teen like me, you just can't go wrong. I used to sneak a spray of mom's perfume when I was a child, and in front of the mirror, it transformed me into a little woman. This is just the opposite. Ya might wanna skip the mirror part, and the wrinkles will cease to exist! Magic!

If you're trying this, looking for a realistic strawberry scent, or any development, you should just keep on walking. This is a sweet, delicious, SYNTHETIC strawberry from beginning to end. Period. It's not sophisticated, but then who says perfume always has to be? It IS a heck of a lot of fun and is a total blast from the past for those of us who remember being 13 and having half the girls in your class smelling like yummy strawberry bubblegum. Completely nostalgic, fun, and decidedly uncomplicated - and it makes me happy. What more can I ask from a perfume than that?

Tutti fruity jammy candy-like Strawberry scent. Makes you feel like a young kid again, with all those strawberry-scented soaps and shampoos. The scent in the EDT is considerably stronger than the body mist, so I opted for the EDT. (pst, for the mango one, the body mist will suffice). Now I'm about to go skip into a childhood fantasy land. Sillage is rather moderately strong as 3 squirts made everyone in the elevator turn their heads.