Bitter Sweet

Eh Eh .. SWEET bitter SWEET! Clean floral opens with creamy orchid and warm gourmand contrasts of orange, cocoa, coffee. I take a nice smooth fresh texture of spice, cardamom, maybe cinnamon, sandalwood and an amber sweetness that gets creamier and creamier over time until it becomes a fluffy cocoa powder with a medicinal twist. Feminine, very sweet, creamy. Here, the only bitter taste is good ground coffee, sometimes fortified, which stays on the skin for a long time but succumbs to the vanilla sweetness in the wake. Between a genuine dessert and a winter cuddle with the usual, sexy, satisfying and very sweet happy ending that distinguishes the brand. Nice!

I decided to wear Bitter Sweet by TRNP today as its been a while since I smelled it. I waited so my first impression could be uninfluenced by previous wears. Right off the bat I had a scent memory when I sprayed Bitter Sweet on skin today. I was transported back to the old drug store on main street where I used to go as often as I had some money to buy comic books that were displayed on the old wire spindle racks. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. Can I just say that the experience today literally was, "bitter sweet", so the name of this fragrance is completely appropriate. The smell of coffee brewing in a glass coffee pot, mixed with the smell of candy on the shelves of the store along with a very slight medicinal vibe. It was just uncanny how I literally felt like I was walking into that old drug store as a 10 year old kid again. Almost brought a tear to my eye. Not sure I'll ever do full wears of this fragrance as it's more of an experience for me than it is a fragrance I want to hose myself down in, but I'll definitely be visiting many more times to experience that bitter sweet feeling once again.

Quite beautiful, that bitter orange note is to die for... It's stunning. Unfortunately, as with a lot of natural fragrances this just doesn't last long, or project that much😔.

Old burnt coffee (yuck) giving way to cacao (nice) and sweet creamy sandalwood (meh). 5/10 This has been another edition of "LittleDinkums Reductive Reviews."