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 💜🪄

Oldie but goldie. I still remember the first time I smelled this in highschool, on one of the rich popular girls. The sillage was insane, the whole classroom filled with the most fresh bubbly scent when she stepped in, and I became obsessed with it. She definitely knew her impact too, probably felt like queen of the school. You could only buy it at the airport at the time, so you know she had just been on a vacation too. I smell sweet peach ice tea, but some others have said it smells like beer. Honestly I don't care if someone says it smells like piss, you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. I'm never quitting Love Spell.

I think that the majority of the americans who smell this would have to agree that this scent is all but synonymous with awkward pre teen dances and braces. But I don't mean it in a bad way at all, in all honesty it is still a scent I wear proudly at the age of 23. It has a beautiful effervescent quality to it, almost like a dry champagne. I do not think it is as sweet and syrup like as some people describe! It's light and fresh and very girly. I wear this scent a lot because lately it's the only one that doesn't seem to nauseate me and I get a lot of compliments on it. It's a pretty safe scent to chose, but wear it with pride!

When I first bought the scent, I didn't like it. It was heavy and ''weird'' and too fruity instead of floral. But I didn't want to waste it so I sprayed it on at night when I was at home. Slowly I not only got used to the scent but genuinely enjoy it so much to the point where I'll definitely repurchase it as soon as this bottle finishes. It just smells so.. magnificent to me now. It lives up to the name and men do actually really like this scent! It isn't the most elegant scent nor the most unique but I have a soft spot for this fragrance and im so glad I got it

This is a time machine in a bottle. I have so many memories attached to Love Spell and I went through so many bottles back in High School. Friends and family knew I wore this so much for Christmases or Birthdays someone would always gift me a spray and a lotion. I miss the old bottles too not a fan of the new ones. When I smell it on someone else I can instantly identify it and the memories come flooding in. I've moved on to other perfumes but I wish I could turn back time and smell this for the first time all over again.

Peachy, apricot? It smells very fruity on me for the first half a minute and quite a bit of alcohol so it’s almost like dousing myself in an fruit cocktail or something. Then after awhile the alcohol dies down and I’m left with a musky peach scent. Probably not a scent for those who don’t like fruity scents but a lovely one to wear over late Spring and throughout Summer. Would be absolutely ideal for the younger age group and a bit of fun for those who are 35+ who want a bit of fun. A real daytime perfume.

Love spell literally reminds me so much of my childhood. My mom either had this exact scent or another one that smelled exactly like this. I got it in a 4 piece set for Christmas from my husband and this is my favorite scent out of them all. The note I smell the most is definitely the Lilac, which is my mom's favorite flower so I'm not surprised she had this. It's definitely a scent that you can immediately point out what it is but I love it so much, not just for the nostalgia

I have 2 vintage body mists, bought in the US circa year 2000. I always made an impression everywhere I went, and I even made a boyfriend during a party while wearing this. Someone wrote below that Love Spell can be easily identifiable and I agree. The body mists still smell amazing to this day, fruity and juicy, although maybe the longevity is slightly reduced. Honestly, I don't have the current version so I can't compare the 2 but I assume that they share the same DNA.

I'm so glad I don't have any annoying adolescent memories attached to this scent like so many others do 😅 To me it's just so, so gorgeous. Fruity without being too childish or too nonchalant; it's flirty, fun, and pretty. One of those scents that isn't a gourmand, but could still undeniably be described as yummy. To be frank, I enjoy it WAY too much to care if anyone around me thinks I smell like their middle school locker room LOL.

i wore this throughout high school and my early university years, and i still love it! it helps that i absolutely love peach i remember drenching myself in this when i first started going out to bars. i smell this and i can immediately also smell vodka cruisers and cigarettes, lol. i’m in my 20s now and i’ve managed to find a perfume oil version of this, which is a bit more mellow and close to the skin. my partner loves it still :)

I wore the body lotion for a long time and I just bought the fragrance. I love the freshness of this scent and the sweetness is so light and fresh if that makes any sense!! The cherry blossom note is what I smell most and the musky notes are a great compliment to the cherry blossom. I love spraying this on after I’ve had a shower and applied the body lotion. Great fresh scent.

What can I say? It smells really, really good. It's one of the scents that made me realize I love a peach note in my fragrances. It smells fruity, sweet, and girly. I smell a bit of a citrusy opening that isn't in the listed notes. Yes, it's not a mature scent, but it doesn't have to be. However, due to their longevity, I would never pay full price for a VS body mist.

I just purchased this after trying it in store. It's fantastic; it has decent longevity (especially for a body mist), it's a massive compliment getter and has a sweet fruitiness that is overall appealing especially due to cherry blossom note. The main note I get from it is peach and it's a fantastic sweet daytime fragrance that's not overbearing.

Love Spell is the perfect name for this because this scent is very mesmerising and hypnotic. It's fruity, fresh and sweet, all in one. It's delightful. The peach and cherry blossom makes such a youthful and pleasant combination. I'm in my mid thirties but I still love to wear this. It's perfect for warmer weather, and very charming.

Say what you want ladies. For me when this came out the name was accurate. Most men my age at that time (and still today) were hypnotized and could do little to break "the spell". @cardigan I don't care what Freud would have to say. You can hate on it all you want but there's a reason its still around today.

Pears, peaches and more. There are a lot of different fruits in here. But it isn't 100% fruit. A little dated. But unique and sugary delicious. Brings back memories. Surprisingly long lasting. Something about it smells a little waxy. Maybe that's the fixative. It's a gotta have for me😊