Cherry Elixir No. 33

I don't know why VS decided to release this fragrance and leave as if they didn't give us such a delicious and seductive, ambery, dark but cozy cherry scent. I loved it, I would wear it everyday if i weren't scared of finishing it, and coming from me, an ONLY VANILLAS AND GOURMANDS GIRL, this scent made me want to explore berry and cherry scents. It's opening is sweet cherries, a new and just opened maraschino cherry bottle. The dry down is a cozy, woody and nutty scent, maybe from the coconut rum, I thought it'd be almond, but I don't see it in the notes, but as I write this, I'm pretty sure it is the coconut rum. The only bad thing is the longevity, but since it is a body mist I wont complain. I'd say it lasts half an hour or an hour, but I bet that if you pair it with a perfume with more sileage it can last longer. a 8.9/10 for me!

I crave this in perfume form. This is dark, alluring, deeply rich. Sooo caramel. This is the mist that has sent me on a hunt for a staple dark cherry perfume. I’d probably wear this to a masked ball. Quite possibly the best release from VS in a lonnnnng time. It bothers me that they will not continue to make this. If you want something affordable and you love gourmands but you don’t want to smell like typical candy, milk or tropical fruit, this is your ideal. Did not expect such decadence from VS. I hope it makes a come back. It lasts surprisingly long especially on clothing

This fragrance deserves more hype!! Delicious chocolate covered cherries. Deep and boozy, syrupy sweet. I got this on a whim some years ago and still love it for the cold weather. Would love to see a perfume made of this, the notes could make it. As it is, I accept it is a body spray so I don’t expect longevity. Sad to see it’s more or less an unknown lost to the shuffle of VS marketing.

Boozy vanillary cherry with almond syrup. Smells like Disaronno. For a body mist the longevity on this is impressive! I get whiffs of this hours after applying throughout my day. So sad they discontinued this. If you are fortunate enough to find this and love dark vanilla scents - BUY IT!

I wish this came in a perfume form. I've never smelled something like this from VS before. I get boozy pistachio dessert and rich cherry almond with a little bit of a smokey note. So pretty, dark and sexy. The longevity is super terrible, though.

I got this ages ago on clearance, and I still love it. Bright cherry top note that fades into smooth, boozy, almondy amber. It's delicious, the type of scent that sticks my wrist to my nose.

THIS SMELLS LIKE MARASCHINO CHERRIES WITH A SOFTNESS UNDERNEATH WOW OH MY LORD.

Sexy dark cherries & rum. Dry down is chocolate dipped cherries & rum

100% a night time scent. the cherry isn't sweet but dark with the rum n amber. it's too strong for me

It’s OK ig. Cherry note is kinda artificial

Sugared red cherry notes and amber-y black cherry notes smell like coffee on me and that's what I get from this one. The amber is slightly spicy and syrupy and renders the black cherry sugared-spicy, balsamic slightly boozy and smoky like black coffee with cherry syrup, with sugar and liqueur added to it. It radiates so much warmth as a scent. It's an amazing scent to me and I instantly fell for it when it came out and I still love it. The bonus with these body mists is that they last me for years without going bad dusty and stale in the bottle while perfumes tend to go bad quicker. To me this is close to Sugared Cherry Crisp which is much lighter and minus the baked vanilla-notes of that one. It's also close to Black Opium, like a cherry black opium without orange blossom and obnoxious notes. Smooth smoky balsamic boozy, not peppery and very comforting to me perfect for fall and winter. Not for everyone tho. It is heady by how balsamic and amber-y syrupy it is and it is dark with deep smoky spice which stays smooth, nothing patchouli peppery and annoying to me. It opens bolder smokier and becomes more aromatic gradually. Not sure why sugared or amber-y cherry notes translate to coffee to my nose and on my skin, but I'm here for it. BBW's Sugared Cherry Crisp's red cherry smells like coffee to me too; the cherry note there is very sugared syrupy by the spun sugar and slightly smoky as spun sugar tends to be so much that it translates to a coffee-cherry smell just like the black cherry here as influenced by the amber. Here the black cherry is less syrupy in comparison and this doesn't remind me of cherry pies. My first thought when I first smelled Sugared Cherry Crisp was that it smells like a coffee shop baking cherry pies haha. Sugared Cherry Crisp tho has the biscuit baked goods note so it's also like cherry pie on me and much lighter than this one due to the fact that it's a red cherry note, not a dark black cherry as in this one, and by the lack of amber there replaced by vanilla-spun sugar. I smell some of the Sugared Cherry Crisp's syrupy coffee-like cherry here too, but this is A LOT smokier and darker by the amber and more boozy too, so the coffee impression here is over the roof for me haha. I get it why people are smelling some of D&D The Only One which is a Black Opium coffee loaded cousin (even tho The Only One smells closer to Love by Sofia Vergara to me more than to Black Opium). I expected to see coffee scents in the reminds me of. This mist is like perfume and performs as such on me. I absolutely love it since I love cherry and black cherry and I've grown to like some coffee perfumes esp when they're boozy like the BBW Coffee and Whiskey. Much lighter berry version of these is Everlasting Magic which lacks any smoky effect and lacks the baked goods note of Sugared Cherry Crisp.