Cherry Bomb

Ok, get this: I hate gourmands. I hate fruity florals. Most of all, I hate the scent of cherry. Except that I love love love this scent. On me, the chocolate notes spring forward, and it smells like opening a box of chocolates on Valentine's day. It's sexy, but not at all in-your-face. Can be found at Anthropologie in the US.

Cherry Bomb starts of smelling very edible like chocolate cordial cherries, but it very quickly (like, within 45 seconds) winds down into barely-there vetiver and flowers without of a trace of its gourmand beginnings, before disappearing completely into the skin. This EDP has almost no sillage, which is unfortunate because I have to admit this leaves my skin smelling pretty good. Even after being applied extremely generously via dabbing from a sample vial, Cherry Bomb still had absolutely no sillage. I'm disappointed because this scent could have been amazing if it just had some more power behind it!

this scent was lovely right out of the bottle. wet it smelled luscious and fruity. the dry-down turned immediately to chocolate, then quickly died. this scent has no staying power or throw whatsoever. an hour later and it's almost totally dead. the slightest floral base remains.

Bomb indeed. This is an unfortunate agglomeration of obviously synthetic gourmand smells. Sweetnspicey said it more kindly but the obvious inspiration for this stuff are those hideously cheap cordial cherries that you can get in drugstores--the ones where I'm pretty sure the cordial flavoring is formaldehyde rather than brandy. It's not often where lousy persistence could be seen as a benefit. If you want an inexpensive well done gourmand with chocolate notes I'd recommend Aquolina Chocolover--true chocolate and delightful herb and sweet notes. If you really want something from Tokyo Milk try one of their good gourmands like Milk and Honey or Let Them Eat Cake. Sillage: 1-2 ft Durability: minutes Fabulosity: Cherry Slushee Price to value ratio: poor 2/10

i'll start by confessing that i am a very big fan of tokyo milk, but cherry bomb fell flat. i couldn't detect any of the single notes listed, and i literally sprayed it over & over again....couldn't smell anything. --anything at all. 'let them eat cake' is next on my wishlist!