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.

I love warm caramel scents and recently purchased this on a blind buy. I LOVE IT! My signature scent use to be Prada Candy and when I sprayed this on it smelled identical to me! The only difference is the ever so slight hint of almond and berry burst which gives it its own identity.... It is scrumptious! It begins differently then Prada Candy because the top notes have a more fruity beginning; however, once it is on the skin and warms, the delicious caramels make their appearance and the musk gives it enough of an adult smell that you do not smell like a little kid. It does have more vanilla and fruit in it. It is also less powdery smelling than PC. PC is great for the winter where this would be great for the summer. I walked by my husband and he stopped me, kissed my neck, and asked me what I was wearing because he loved it.... DEFINITELY a winner!!!!

I have been on the hunt for the perfect caramel scent. I bought Prada Candy, which I like, but don't absolutely love. I have Mariah Carey Dreams, and I get no caramel from that. I have Fancy, but the red berries are a little more prominent in that perfume than I would prefer. Then I found a bottle of Love Hope Denim stashed in my closet, unopened. I have officially found my perfect sweet caramel perfume. It's definitely sweet, but it isn't too much, even as I've been testing it in the warm summer months. Caramel and brown sugar, some vanilla, and pure comfort and joy are what this perfume is made of. It also layers well with Philosophy Fresh Cream. I need to buy a few bottles of this since it looks like it might be discontinued.. if you find a good price on this perfume and like sweet caramel scents don't sleep on it. Gorgeous!

I love caramel,vanilla,almond and musk so I had to have this First about it's bottle.I love it.it's cude also heavy.it's box is cute too About the scent.I like it very much.it's better than my imaginations.I can't get any fruity notes.it's all about caramel blended with powdery almond and musky vanilla.I can also feel a smokey/burnt sugar undertone here.I feel there's also licorice in it,though unlisted.this burnt undertone may be off putting for some people but I think it gives a unique dark bite to it's warm,buttery-powdery sweetness and make it more mature I think it develops different from most people on my skin,I also think it's more a night fragrance and definitely a winter perfume Can't tell about longevity yet but sillage seems to be more than moderate.it's not very intense and in your face,it's not a weak one either

If anyone likes sweet fragrances, this is for you! I love anything with vanilla. To me, it is sweet, but it does not give me a headache, and there is more to it than plain sugar. It reminds me of caramel, sugar cookies, and wild violet fields. I would never have picked out this fragrance by looking at the bottle, which does not really suit the fragrance, in my opinion, but this is definitely my favorite fragrance. I could go all year, and it is definitely not one that people could complain about, as when I wear perfume to work, I always try to think of what others might think of what I am wearing. Also on a positive note, this is actually one of the only fragrances of mine that my boyfriend likes. =)

I LOVE the smell of this perfume! Vanilla, sugar and caramel - it's amazing. A lot of perfumes are too strong for me and make my head hurt, but this one is very light. But the unfortunate thing is that it doesn't last nearly long enough. I feel like I have to reapply it every hour, and the bottle is a bit big to be carrying around in my purse. Also, I don't smell much of a similarity between this and Can Can, and I have both. Either way, I'd recommend this perfume if you love to smell delicious, just be prepared to reapply a few times throughout the day!

This is my new favorite perfume! I am so glad I found this website or I would have never heard of this! This is not a strong fragrance with a bunch of notes in it but its amazing IMO. It starts off as a warm caramel vanilla sprinkled with brown sugar and stays that way through the dry down. Nothing changes...just simple and delicious. I don't smell any fruit or floral at all. To me it lasts pretty long. All day actually I still get whiffs of it but it is subtle. I like to mix it with Pink Sugar for an extra sweet treat.:-)

I just tried it in store and bought it. It's an airy fragrance, as opposed to sticky or heavy, so it is easy to wear, even though it is sweet it's a light fluffy sweet. On the tester bottle, from what I recall, it said: top: kiwi and peach blossom; middle: iris, sugared almonds; and bottom: brown sugar, madagascar vanilla, and musk. The top had a nice sharp kiwi note that didn't last long, and then the frag was just purple iris with hints of almond and sugar, not too musky at all. Very nice.

I loved this one when I spritzed it on while wandering through Kohl's the other day. On me it's a nice warm vanilla caramel smoothness. It lasts forever!! I have the test strip that I sprayed it on 4 days ago and it's still nice and strong, perfumes my car nicely. I will be getting a bottle soon. Sillage: 3/5 stays pretty close Longevity: 5/5 lasts all day! Price: I believe it was $50 for an ounce but don't quote me on that. Overall: very nice, longlasting vanilla/caramel creation.

This is the perfume that started it all for me! The almond sweet vanilla dries down to have an amazing cream soda note that I absolutely adore. I went through my entire bottle and wish wish wish I hadn't! Please bring this one back to Kohl's stores! The almond sweetness is so light, but also so warm and sweet. There is no perfume exactly like this perfection, but Pink's warm and cozy is pretty close! Ah, tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all...

To any gourmand lover-- this is a must have! I love gourmands, the sweeter the better! This is a lovely, light caramel/vanilla with a hint of floral. (I think it's a floral/lighter version of Kat Von D's Saint-- which is a creamy/buttery vanilla/caramel). I wish this was stronger/more potent and projected more.... but alas it's a great scent. I do not find this similar to Can Can (I have both) because CC is heavy fruit and I don't get much fruit from TR: LHD.

I really enjoy this fragrance, it's has a sweet smell of caramel and vanilla. I find it to be perfect for these current winter months, (it's 9 degrees where I am.) I love putting this on before I take my walk to class in the cold, it's warm and comforting-- just what I need in this cold weather :) Lasts on my skin for about 6 hours... I know that is can be purchased at Kohl's, but I found mine for $25 at TJMaxx for a 1.7oz !

Works well with my body chemistry too. This is a delicious scent. I was not expecting to like this--the name is ridiculous...lol. Can't judge a fragrance by its name I guess. I can see this being a favorite for everyday. Especially if you like gourmand scents but don't want to radiate of cotton candy. Give it a try; I think it will surprise you in a good way.

I was instantly drawn to this scent. I continued to smell myself with the thought that it must smell very similar to the original as the familiarity failed to escape me. Once I arrived home it dawned on me that it is exactly like Shakira eau de florale, and I love it! This has equally great staying power and actually now available at discount. It's a winner.

very very sweet almost too sweet but not quite.. I get the vanilla, brown sugar & caramel.. not fruits or florals on me.. projection was mild if at all, lasted about 3 hours which I consider poor on me. I may get a bottle if I can find it cheap at ross/marshalls as I did like it enough to buy, but with low projection & longetivy not enough to pay a lot for.

update to my 5/19 review - i still love this True Religion fragrance and recommend it for the many reasons I stated but will add it back on purchase to my collection after ive had longer opportunity to wear my new found treasure - in M. Germaine Tattoo. I favor it at this time as I teach for a caramel and citrus note sort of combination in my collection.