XO Victoria

So I have this as body mist and EDP. The mist smells nothing like the Parfum. The mist is very bitter, unremarkable peppery on my skin. I've had the parfume for ages, having bought it on sale on a whim. And I was debating opening it up at all because I don't really like the mist anymore. But I was pleasantly surprised. The parfum opens up with sharp clean apple on my skin. The kind of apple you know from kids shampoo and shower gels. in my mind it's a Granny Smith. For me this skips the rose entirely, landing straight on the ivy and remains very fresh greens, almost out of the shower. I really like it. It's my cup of tea scentwise. It's something I see myself reaching for when I can't decide what to wear that day. It's a nice, office friendly everyday scent that will not stand out and certainly will not offend, might even get you compliments.

This perfume is interesting to me, I just got it. The notes are balanced in this perfume, I feel like you can smell each note the same. The green apple gives a sharpness to this perfume, the green apple, and ivy to me mix together once it dries down, and then the rose starts to come through. To me this is the perfect floral / rose perfume it's not over bearing, it's just right. I would say it's more of a rose petal smell, than just a straight up rose. To me smelling out of the bottle, and on skin is slightly different. Once I smelled this perfume out of the bottle it was a Love, and something different that Victoria's Secret has done. This is a perfect spring time perfume. Overall I give this perfume a 9/10. I will be doing a more in depth review on youtube sometime later this week.

I have the body mist, so what I'm smelling may be different from the EDP. This smells like walking through an ivy covered door leading into the rose garden of a little cottage just after a light morning shower. The ivy is very green, fresh and almost vegetal smelling on my skin and the dewiness of a fresh red rose soon joins in. The drydown on me is pretty much just the wonderful ivy and rose, although I do get hints of apple. I plan on going back to try the EDP and see if it develops differently from the mist. I do recommend this one as a nice alternative summer scent to the usual coconut/fruit salad scents that VS releases this time of year (which I also like, but ultimately they begin to sort of 'run together' and smell too similar to justify purchasing).

VS has the semiannual going on so these extreme over priced perfumes (IMO) are dirt cheap currently. So. I grabbed several. One of which was XO. My sister wears it and it smells fresh on her. For me the first spray and wear I said oh wow. This is Selena Gomez’s 2nd fragrance Vivamore. Like. To a T. And after a long day of wearing it, while it had similarities it was much stronger and less “grassy” like vivamore. It set well on my skin and heavy on my chest but not. Choke me heavy. Very good scent for $17 for a full size bottle! Happy happy!

So feminine, so fresh, so beautiful. This is perfect for spring. First spray it opens up with sweet apple scents mixed with beautiful dewy fresh cut rose. Then after awhile it smells green and fresh but still slightly sweet. Its like fruity floral fresh scents.. I bought the bodyspray.but I am so going to get the perfume. I love it!