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.

This is a fruity, syrupy tropical scent that reminds me of pina coladas and salty mangoes. Like Rihanna dipping her mango into the sea before eating it. I don't love mango as a scent profile, even though I really love mango as a fruit. There's something quite 'earthy' about it that reminds me of wet soil combined with a saltiness.

Basing my review on a sample from a top sample house... does anyone else feel this has a retro vibe? Only after the top wore off did I find this fragrance remotely wearable. Not at all fruity, more like the combination of scents emanating from a park in a crowded large city. So strange.

You will find me weird, but to me it smells nothing like the notes listed. No fruitiness, no sweetness, just burnt oregano.. yes, like a pizza, you read me. I have tried it three times to be sure it was not 100% me, but I mean apparently it is.

It starts with a splash of passion fruits and whip-cream. Then cranberries, lime and pineapple forms a sour mix and thrown to the whipped cream forming a new fruitti sweet blend. Then neroli comes in the way and changed the formula to push mangoes in. After few minutes (15 minutes) something quite harsh comes in and i believe it's the freesia. Eventually, it's pineapple, cream, cranberries, mangoes, passion fruit, neroli, and whipped cream on a bed of freesia flowers. It's quite confusing but a very interesting blend specially in cold weather. I remember i tried it in Milan esxence 2016, i applied it on my wrest & i kept on sniffing my wrest none stop. That day i didn't know which fragrance it was! the only info i was having was the bottle shape and the release date, & eventually i found out. Indeed, cold weather makes this bloom.

Just a curiosity: Ipanema in tupi-guarani (the idiom of native Brazilians) means a very bad smell because near Ipanema there is Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon that emanates methane and eventually is very smelly (fishes die when that happens, the whole place smells rotten).Also, although asiatic natives were found by the Portuguese the original inhabitants, long extinct were similar to the ones found in Africa and were either indigenous or had come from Africa tens of thousands of years before.They were wiped out by ditto Asian migrants 5000/6000 years ago but their bones and skulls are still found at remote locations.At the southernmost of South America indigenous people are a mix of Asian/African genes because probably the Asians had lost the initial impetus of killing and lived along the original inhabitants.

This one is very sweet, and lacks some of the depth and intrigue found in other A Lab on Fire fragrances. I smell lots of neroli, a bit of mango, some vanilla and loads of rather generic 'sweetness'. As it dries down the sweetness gets tampered, the fruit disappears completely, and you're left with a candied neroli and vanilla fragrance. It reminds me of one of the nicer fragrances you might find in a Bath and Bodyworks or even LUSH, but it's a bit of a disappointment for me as I expected a bit more punchy, fruity fragrance and instead got a sweet floral. Sillage is low and longevity is so-so. Over all it's a very inoffensive fragrance that I can see on a new mother or a young teenager, but it doesn't work for me.

Coconut, peach, ripe berries (like raspberries), BBW Lemon Verbena & whipped cream first come to mind on initial application with a light touch of gardenia petals. Reminds me of spring/summer mild temperatures and breezes in a garden. Tooty-fruity sweet? . . . not so much. More like a fruity smoothie with a dollop of sweetened whipped cream since all the fruit seem to be melded altogether. I get no aquatic or watery notes. Suffocated by all the sweetness and light. @OTA Mom, yes, I can feel a retro vibe. 70's-80's spring/summer beach scenes. It does not last very long, almost a skin scent after about 10 minutes or so. I applied lightly.