The Gourmand Lounge

Some of the notes listed on this fragrance are wrong. This is a fragrance I did with DUA. This is a cotton candy fragrance. Spraying this reminds me of the carnival. When you first spray it you get apple, cotton candy and then as it dries down it’s pure sugary, airy spun sugar. It smells kind of like of DUA sugary fantasy and DUA happiness had a baby. The opening reminds me of cirque.

This fragrance smells exactly how I expected Xerjoff italica to smell

I bought this in June of 2025. At the time it arrived to me I was very sick so I couldn’t really wear to test it. Then it sat in my perfume cabinet for months and here we are January 2026. It has definitely darkened in color which is guess is normal for some perfumes. I just spray tested it on my arm and hand. With my skin chemistry, the almond note is definitely coming out strong and the cotton candy sweetness is kind of coming out second place to the almond. This combo of the light sugary almond is reminding me of those Jordan almond candies. I get hints of the violet too but that’s about it for me on my skin. It’s not a bad perfume but it’s also not an amazing one to me.

This is basically a rebottled version of Happiness of Soft Cloud. Disappointed.

This is a really pretty soft, fluffy, and sweet cotton candy fragrance with some florals and it's not overly sweet either! It's like a "grown up" cotton candy scent and not the typical sticky sugary cotton candy scent that many of the cotton candy forward perfumes have. Mahsam did a great job creating this perfume! I can also smell the almond and violet notes. Really pretty and those extra notes make it more unique. 😍🍬😋 I reccomend this if you like sweet scents and you want something that is a little different than the Pink Sugar type cotton candy DNA. Side note: It's odd that the user who said that they made this with Dua said the notes are not right because I copied/pasted these fragrance notes directly from The Dua Brand website ⤵️ (and Dua says it does include all of those notes they said it doesn't 🤔): "Pink Berries, Bergamot, Lemon Zest, Pear Nectar, Airy Cotton Candy Accord, Sugar Crystals, Caramel Swirl, Raspberry Coulis, Violet Blossom, Lily-Of-The-Valley, Powdered Almond, Cotton Candy Syrup, Vanilla Bean Absolute, White Musk, Cashmere Wood, Toffee Accord, Praline, Powdered Sugar, Cotton Candy Crystals, & Ambrette"