Love Spell

[This review is for the EDT with the name in text only and squared bottle as pictured, purchased from eBay circa 2014] I had a college roommate with the most terrifying grooming habits. She’d lock herself up in the bathroom for an hour, put in tons of hair products, and finish with many liberal spritzes of Love Spell body mist. For years, I was convinced I hated this scent. It was nauseatingly sweet, smelled like plastic, and reminded me of hairspray. However, reading the notes on this as an adult made me want to revisit it. I adore peach, cherry blossom, and jasmine, and the key notes read like a perfume I would design for personal use. I begrudgingly bought a bottle of the EDT from eBay, and was surprised, because I actually love it. In my experience, the EDT formulations from the VS Garden collection smell way better than their body mist and other body products. They are more complex instead of sweet all the way through, and contain some tartness. I was disappointed to find that none of the listed notes really translate to this perfume, but I get juicy stone fruit with a delicious pucker of tartness from the tamarind. I never noticed that it was tamarind previously, but now i can taste it. This note really works well to cut through the sweetness, as I find the addition of red apple to be too much, and the “peach” is more like canned peaches or perhaps a cobbler, as it lacks the floral fragrance of fresh peach. Beyond this, there is an amorphous musky-woody base to keep the fragrance from smelling like candy. I definitely don’t detect anything like cherry blossom or jasmine, but perhaps generic spring flowers. Juicy stone fruit, generic spring flowers, musky woods, and a punch of tamarind. It doesn’t sound so appealing, but something about this really works for me. It sits well on my skin and becomes less sweet and more floral-musky, but stays pretty stable for a few hours. I love wearing this at home while relaxing, and letting the scent open up. Too much (as I discovered through a faulty sprayer) can definitely make this a sickeningly sweet, plastic scent, where the tartness is lost and all you get is hairspray. Enjoy with a light hand, and Love Spell is lovely!

Love Spell is the epitome of a postmodern perfume. Why? All of the American cultural references it evokes. Love Spell smells like artificially flavored fruit candy, grape soda and fruity cereals mixed with inexpensive drugstore musks from the 70s and 80's. The scent reminds me of eating Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms on Saturday morning watching cartoons when we only had three channels and you had to change the channels manually. Love Spell effortlessly brings up memories of Life Savers, Skittles, Jolly Ranchers getting drunk on fruity wine coolers in the 80's, peach schnapps, orange chewable baby aspirin, Smarties, Blow Pops and Jello shots. It's like an olfactory advertisement for nearly all mass marketed sugary products from the late 20th century. But I experience Love Spells' vulgar artifice as appealing rather than disgusting. It's so cheerful, innocent, cheap and optimistic. Love Spell smells as if it was painstakingly designed by some diabolical genius social engineer. Let's bottle an entire generations' scent memories around the turn of the millennium to get the nostalgia for the old world out of the way to herald a new age that will be nothing like the late 20th century. We'll Pavlov every scent memory possible out of everyone and see what comes up. We'll get it all out of their system before we change everything and make artificial flavor, colors, speech and perfume ingredients verboten.

Love spell is one of the most popular Victoria secret scents of all time. You probably have or will have smelt this before, and at least owned it or can think of someone you know that owns it. It’s not as popular as it used to be in the 2000s, but it’s still timeless. Love spell is very similar to pure seduction, except that the florals are more stronger. Oddly enough, when I spray this, I can smell oranges. I’m not sure if there is an orange note in this, but I can definitely smell that other than peach. I love wearing this one in the spring and summertime. Sometimes I love her, wearing her every other day. Other times I smell love spell and I just think that it’s too juvenile and strong. This may be because there’s a slight sour smell to love spell, and I know I’m not the only one that smells it because I’ve seen other people mention it in reviews. Yes, love spell is similar to pure seduction in the way that it’s fruity, girly, fresh, and clean. But love spell has a slight sourness to it that smells too sharp and almost like medicine. Perhaps it’s the cherry blossom or the musk, I don’t know. The lilac note can also smell a bit off for me too. I do have to be in the mood, but I can’t hate love spell.

Synthentic is the proper term to describe this scent, but lets be honest here, this is a cheap body spray, if your going into this thinking its going to be the most realistic peach youve ever smelt, from Victorias Secret no less, then you are going to be deeply dissapointed. That being said, I love this scent. In the same way i love the artificial flavoring of a jolly rancher. Its sweet and satisfying towar someone with a gourmand like sweet tooth. Ilmow vanilla isnt in the notes but I swear some days I smell a strong vanilla note. Other days this smells very clean and almost fresh. I reach for this quite often, even more so on days when i cant choose a scent or in the summer when I tend to gravitate more towards body sprays. I hate when people describe scents as "stripper" scents. I feel like its used as a way to degrade not only the scent but the women that wears it as well through not so subtle slut shaming. Flaunting your sexuality is not a bad thing, neither is wearing synthetic peach body sprays. Rock what you got and what you like.

smells like PE after food tech and gcse mocks (“and year 8" according to my sister) — none of those are times of my life that i particularly want to revisit but it was the shoulder-tap of nostalgia that made me pick up a bottle of this again (or maybe the 4 for £40 deal on vs body sprays <3). it is SO juicy and smells exactly like a mocktail i'd love to drink on a hot summer's day! i don't see any citrus in the notes but there is something like a sweet-ish tangerine coming across imo which makes it super mouthwatering. i sprayed it yesterday after a gruelling journey back home from uni to lift my spirits and hit me with a dose of dopamine while my feet ached like i'd been walking on lava >.< it worked so well and lasted over 4 hours on my clothes which, in my mind, is nearly nuclear for a body spray. sorry to everyone that has to interact with me irl for the foreseeable future bc i'm about to be wearing this every day until it runs out... and then i'll go and buy another bottle 💜🪄