Dream Angels Heavenly Stardust

WOW Heavenly Stardust is such an absolutely gorgeous, luminous, enchanting, and intoxicating fragrance! Hands down one of my all time favorites, definitely in my top 5!!!😍 This stunning fragrance has the perfect sweetness to it (maybe from the winter berries and honeysuckle?), a lovely super cozy and comforting warmth, some subtle and lovely florals, a smooth and warm vanilla (I don’t see it listed in the notes, but I believe it’s in there!), and a delicate and powdery musk (but not overly powdery musk)! These notes combine to create truly one of the most exquisite, beautiful, elegant, sexy, sweetly warm, enchanting, and cozy fragrances that I have ever experienced! I could not recommend and rate this fragrance enough/more highly! I desperately wish that this gem was still available! It was my signature colder weather scent for years! I bought several once they went on sale back in 2010 because I never wanted to run out! It’s now 14 years later, I’m still completely addicted to this fragrance, but fortunately I still have a couple bottles left. I also had the lotion which had such a strong scent as well as a bunch of golden shimmer. It was amazing, but I’ve long since used it up. Heavenly Stardust also has great performance! The longevity is fantastic for me, it lasts the entire day! The projection is really nice too, it radiates out about an arm’s length to a few feet from me! I see that it’s compared to Dream Angels Forever in the “reminds me section”. Considering that Dream Angels Forever is another one that’s in 5 top 5 favorites, I’m extremely familiar with it. I can see why they might remind someone of each other, but they are definitely not the same. They are both absolutely gorgeous, sweet, warm, fruity, and floral fragrances with a similar scent profile. However, they have some noticeably different notes as well as a different feel too. Forever’s notes are blackberry, Iris, and amber, but I’m sure it has other notes as well. Personally, I prefer Stardust for fall and winter, it’s more sweet, warm, and cozy. I prefer Forever for spring and summer, I also find it sweet and warm, but with a juicier fruity blackberry scent. I also think it’s odd that so many people think the 2 of these are similar, but if you look in the reminds me section they only have Jessica Simpson Fancy in common as a similar scent.

Next time I was at VS, I took a sniff and was intrigued. This is a big departure from their usual Heavenly Angels which is very generic and entirely forgettable, and thankfully they smell nothing alike. Stardust notes include winter berries, honeysuckle and liquid musk. I can’t smell the berries other than a sweet note that rounds out this lovely scent. For me, I smell mostly rich floral bouquet with hint of musky slightly powdery drydown. Its sweet but not cloying, rich, elegant and a definite departure from the “teenage “scents that VS mostly produces. I picture sophisticated fashionable woman, wearing a dress or a suit, or an evening dress-this fragrance is more “dressy”, imo. Another reviewer on different board compared it to Pleasures by EL-I’ve had Pleasures but, imo, they smell nothing alike, since regular Pleasures is woodsy floral that smells a lot fresher and greener than Stardust. There is however, some resemblance between Pleasures Intense and HS, even though the notes in PI are completely different and its lacking the powdery note that HS has. I also think its somewhat similar to Jewel by Alfred Sung(which I also owned previosly). When I first tried it in VS store, I sprayed it once on my wrist and once on my neck. These 2 sprays lasted me for at least 4 hours which is no small feat since my skin eats up perfume and most of them do not last long. It is EdP rather than EdT so that may account for its lasting power. All through the day I kept getting whiffs of this lovely warm scent and was convinced that I HAD to have a bottle. After my H heard it, he braved Black Friday crazy lines to get into VS and buy it for me(what a guy!:) I wore it to work for the first time today(layered with matching lotion) and it has amazing lasting power on me-small spray lasted at least 4 hours and I adore getting whiffs of it on myself throughout the day. Its very warm and cozy and would have been perfect in cold weather but alas, I live in the tropics, so ladies who live in cold climate will probably enjoy it quite a bit during winter season. I liked some of VS limited edition scents before but Heavenly Stardust is definitely one of the best fragrances they produced to date P.S. The bottle is gorgeous as well and i love displaying it on my dressing table since purple and gold are among my favorite colors!

One whiff and I was hooked. This stuff is truly intoxicating. If I had to compare it to something familiar, I'd say it was slightly reminiscent of Estee Lauder's "Pleasures". But not quite. To my nose, Heavenly Stardust is richer and more complex (YMMV). "Pleasures" doesn't change on me throughout the course of the day, it just fades. But Heavenly Stardust does, and it's lovely with each transformation. Not too sharp, but I get a little bit of a sweet and spicy note at first, then the spicy note fades it sweetens up a bit more, then the dry down is just soft and warm. If you love "Pleasures", chances are you'll love this too. If you don't love Pleasures (or have never tried it) this is different enough to at least sample. It's more floral than fruity, not fruity enough to be considered foody, but a little bit sweet. It's simply luscious. :) The packaging is also very pretty, consisting of a purple cylindrical canister with gold glitter and stardust effects trailing around the sides. When the canister's cover is removed, the beautiful bottle is standing upright, embedded within a cylindrical pedestal. The bottle is decorated with trails of gold stardust, and the bottle is clear with a pretty purple gradient at the bottom. It's a shame that it's a LE Holiday 2010 scent. :( The scent is light, pretty and inoffensive. VS describes this as: Sensual Winter Berries, Honeysuckle, and Liquid Musk. Love this.

I had this years ago as a VS employee and I got my gma to love it too. We too bought backups once I knew it was going to be discontinued. But we only bought the body spray and it performed like a perfume. I ended up purchasing a new (old) bottle recently but it *turned soapy, with just a memory of the scent in its dry down. By chance I blind bought Jessica Simpson Fancy at a store and it is the closest thing to stardust as I could ever hope for. I am not going to purchase a bunch because it helps bring back so much good memories. And it’s addicting and sweet and warm to my nose. I will have to get my nose on Princess by Kilian but I don’t remember it smelling similar to Stardust.

I was at the local VS and smelled this when it came out, and I thought "Hmm, this smells exactly like Fancy." I had just ran out of Fancy, so that's why I bought it, plus it a was a really good deal. It's long lasting and smells good, but if you own Fancy, don't bother with this one, unless you just want to add it to your collection. So far, the only difference I can tell between the two is in the dry down, which is slight; Stardust stays a little sweeter while Fancy takes on a slightly more powdery approach. Both are very nice and I'm not knocking either one, but there's really no need to own both.