True Religion Love Hope Denim

(Real review below) I'm currently layering Guess For Men EDT with True Religion Love Hope Denim and the two pair so nicely! They really complement each other. The Guess spice and leather brings an earthiness the TR was lacking in my opinion. The circus sweetness of the TR gives Guess a more feminine kick. If you own the two, give it a try and let us know what ya think. Maybe I'm nuts for this combo but it's Christmas day, I'm alone and not offending anyone else with my perfume so I don't even give a bother! This pairing is divine for me. Patchouli was greatly missing in the True Religion. Adding it in with Guess and all those deep notes he carries with him just made me fall in love with Love Hope Denim. Now it's truly a hippie scent. 😁 EDIT: for a real review of this on its own... It smells like a carnival, but the food truck area. Not the stinky rides part of the carnival or circus, but buttered popcorn, caramel apples, sweet taffy, cotton candy, funnel cake oozing with syrup and that happiness you felt as a child walking through there knowing you're about to go on all your favourite rides. 🎡🎠🎪🎢 We never got to partake in the food part due to the costs as we were a 4 kid family, but walking through the food area was such a treat and that is exactly what this smells like. A treat. It was a blind buy and I had no idea what I was in for but it's a beautiful gourmand junk food-lovers paradise of a scent. I don't smell any "hippie" at all, and the fruit (aside from candy apples) doesn't stand out at all to me, just carnival food area with a hint of cleanliness - but the bottle is gorgeous and the box is cute. Anyone could wear this, really. It's kind of unisex, if you like it. Seeing the price of this online now that it's discontinued makes me kick myself a bit that I didn't just sell it off, as it came 2nd hand but still in its wrapper, untouched. Got it for peanuts! And because it's such a great scent, I think I'll just keep this gem. I LOVE this. It's winter up here in Canada, but I'd bet it's even more intense a scent come summer! 🍿🍬🍭🍫🥮🎪🍎🍮

Happy gourmand scents assault me immediately after I spray True Religions Love Hope Denim. I smell vanilla, buttered popcorn, caramel and brown sugar with a hint of nuttiness. The overall muskiness simply sits low. The total effect is one of carnival-type smells, very summer-like and very enjoyable. All-in-all, a delicious fragrance to me. I've read in reviews that this is a perfume for the "younger sets." Well then, I guess I should hide in the corner when I wear this with shame because I'm not part of that "younger generation" and I still enjoy it. Perfume shouldn't necessarily be age-specific, not always. If you like it, and it agrees with you, wear it. Love Hope Denim happens to remind me of a few other scents that blend well with my chemistry, that are also gourmands, and yes, I enjoy a snack or two of a foodie perfume. Prada Candy, comes to mind, along with Pink Sugar, Angel, Tattoo, and Dior Addict. Just hang me up and call me a perfume wench if you must, but there are just times I don't need to wear my Chanel No. 5, my Lanvins, my Magie Noir, or my Must de Cartier. I just want to smell tastefully good (pun intended) in a gourmand way and True Religions Love Hope Denim does that for a short time, about two hours or so, with minimal projection for me. Good times to use it are when you don't want to over-express yourself with your perfume, just getting cozy in the evening, or layering with other scents. The notes of caramel, brown sugar, and vanilla are most prominent for me throughout the projection of this fragrance with a close to the skin muskiness. The almonds are barely there and I cannot get any of the fruits mixed in with this. If you can find this in a small purse-sized bottle, I'd say go for that one, because of it's limited longevity. You can easily reapply anytime during the day with one you can slip into your purse.

Well...can an elephant even smell better than this!? I LOVE this. It's what I wanted/expected Fancy to smell like. I find no similarity to B&BW Amber Blush. I do not find this to be a cotton candy scent like many do either. I smell mostly the caramel. They might be making cotton candy in the next carnival trailer but I'm standing in front of the caramel corn trailer. It's a very soft caramel that I compare to the dry down of Guess by Marciano. Guess is a bit sharp at the very first....this isn't. It also isn't as long lasting as Guess which I am sad about. Another comparison is that I find this very close to The Body Shop's Brazil Nut. Both are very much like a carnival scent. Of the two, I find this one to last the longest, and it's superior overall to Brazil Nut. You can wear this any time of year. For me, I prefer summer most of all. This is the scent of a carnival, but it's perfection for any summer festival, art fair, concert in the park etc... This is just a beautifully done fragrance...for young or old? I guess if it were targeted to any one group...I'd have to say stuffed animals! YEP! This is a bottle of fluffy stuffed elephant your lover just won at a carnival game while eating caramel corn. You will feel only joy when you spray this on. Edit- I understand the Pink Sugar comparison now! I sprayed a bunch on last night before bedtime. I awoke and could smell Pink Sugar. The two appear to be VERY similar after hours of wear.

As much as I thought I loved my highly coveted bottle of Prada Candy I just can't get past the "dusty" note that pops up in the drydown. I was digging through some old samples I had purchased on ebay a while back and found TR LH&D, sniffed the tiny little bottle and sprayed, Oh my goodness I forgot how good this stuff smells, almost exactly like Prada Candy but minus the annoying dustyness! I scrolled through my myriad of reviews to find that I loved it when I first got my samples....why did they wind up in my perfume rejects bag I will never know! I am considering a proper bottle of TR (though I have 10 sample sized bottles to plow through first!). TR is lovely, vanilla and caramel goodness, very soft, very smooth, I imagine it would be prefect for cooler weather (still summer here). It seems to last about 5 hours on me before a respritz is necessary. So while my Prada Candy is still in my rotation and on "display" on the bathroom counter (the bottle is cute!), it will probably not get much use in the future. Sorry Prada..... Sillage: 5/10 an average projector Longevity: 6/10 about 5 hours Overall: True Love!! 10/10!! YUMMY!!!! :0)

I just got this in the 3.4 oz. bottle. I really would have preferred the smaller size, but they only had the large size at the store. This is a huge bottle. It really dwarfs the other ones on my dresser. The bottle is pretty cute though with the dangly charms, and I don't think those come on the smaller bottle. I'm pretty impressed with this scent. It's sweet but in a mellow way. I love Paris Hilton's Can Can, and this bears a resemblance to that. I prefer Can Can slightly but not quite sure why. I'm just trying this out for the first time today, so I'll update when I see how sillage and longevity are. If you love sweet scents, this is one to try. It doesn't have that burnt sugar smell to it either, which I appreciate. Update: This is one I reach for a lot. I actually love it. Sillage and longevity seem really good too. It's a great fall and winter scent. I'll test it in summer, but it might be rather sweet and heavy for summer. I'm glad now that I got the bigger bottle because I wear it often. And that is saying something considering I have a large perfume collection.