Eau d'Ipanema

I tested this for the first time yesterday and immediately after spaying it on my skin I thought that I had smelled this before. When I smell this fragrance my thoughts go straight to the year of 2003, specifically the summer. It has been driving me crazy that I couldn't figure out what it reminds me of, but suddenly it occurred to me. This fragrance has a pretty strong resemblance to Versace Versus Time for pleasure. It obviously doesn't smell the same, but there is enough resemblance to trigger my memories of this specific summer. I have loved Versus and used almost to bottles of it in my lifetime so I appreciate Eau d'Ipanema very much. This fragrance isn't much of a crowd pleaser, but it I like it! To me this is quite heavy on the floral notes, especially freesia (which I love), but it's a very tropical, fruity floral. It's a very linear scent and it doesn't develop much at all on the skin. Moderate sillage and moderate longevity.

I'm surprised that some of the reviewers below couldn't detect the fruity notes because, to me, this fragrance is super fruity. I can detect mango, pineapple and bergamot, and only after an hour or so it turns into a sweet vanilla. It's a very interesting fragrance in that it reproduces the smell of tropical fruit quite realistically, but I'm not sure I'd like to smell like a Tropicana juice. But for someone who loves fragrant smoothies, this could be a very enjoyable summer scent.

Feels like the sister fragrance to My Own Private Teahupo'o. Sweet, tropical, light and feminine. I don't see this one as being very unisex, though, while I find Teahupo'o to be unisex. I like that it does not smell syruppy. Great hot weather scent.

Interesting smell of a powdery mango. Staying power is so so. No sillage.

This fragrance does not appeal to me. It has a strong ginger like bite that dominates. Then that ginger turns to a rather bitter, herb like note. I don’t get anything close to sweet and whipped cream like. I do smell a pineapple and mango in there. I ordered this as a 2 ml decant from a reputable fragrance shop, along with other pineapple and mango type scents for summer. This isn’t as good as Pineapple Skin or Sunset Hour, IMO.