This Is Love! for Her

okay , I have JUST ROCK,THIS IS HER and THIS IS LOVE. Whoever wrote that this is similar to 'this is her' obviously hasn't got 'just rock'. Let me explain. All three share a similar dna. To me just rock was such a love...such an intriguing and well blended perfume, but: too much patchouli.Like way too much. Its quantity kind of ruined it for the rest of its magical composition. It didn't make it smell bad or anything, it just made it unwearable for certain circumstances, certain seasons, certain weather conditions-and this comes from someone who is a very light sprayer, like one spritz in one inner arm and then dabbing that arm to the other arm to transfer the perfume, and that is it. This is her, shared the dna, only way less patchouli, creamier and very very lactonic. I really liked that one, only... too lactonic to me. Too much milky vibe that made it a bit 'bleh' to me... 'This is love', is basically 'just rock', only the patchouli is waaaay toned down with a small touch of 'this is her' ( just a bit of its 'lactonicness' -yes, I like creating words here). So you can say it is the love child of these two, only it took more of 'just rock' and just a little bit of 'this is her'. To me this is the safest blind buy choice of the three as it combines the gorgeous perfume dna, and took down the notes that made it too much for some people in the other two. It lasts fairly well and projects lovely and creamily and yummilly within an arms length, and this is indeed love for me! (pun intended :D )

I'll start with: The dry down is the winner! This is quite a surprising gem, with fairly authentic, rather sweet juicy ginger. It opens with a blast. The first 10 mins made me nervous that it's just another generic sweet-juicy frag, because it really has a sharp opening. Blast of sweetness, and sparkly fresh juiciness of ginger. But then it starts to open the violet note, just slightly, but in the combination with really really detectable ginger it's super nice combo. And then...after an hour or so, the Z&V smooth DNA starts to be obvious there. So so smooth and creamy vanilla-sandalwood combo (disclaimer; I have often problem with vanilla, but this I love). Imagine eating flat waffles with vanilla cream and the little crumbles got lingering on your clothes - creamy, smooth, being there but not overpowering. But the ginger stays almost through the whole journey, giving the vanilla little fresher and sparkly vibe. I bought it in a massive sale as a blind buy. I never saw the bottle before and when checking online, I couldn't find it for purchase, so my weak will was like "it's probably limited release, tou have to have it". And I am glad I do. Eventho the first minutes after first spray, I wasn't on board. Lasts ca 7h on me, strong projection and sillage for the first hour, then rather a skin scent but still present, more than other Z&V frags I tried. Definitely feminine.

Black Opium is one of my fav perfumes, but I was looking for something different. So bare in mind that I picked this one over my favvvvv scent. Really love it, it functions so well with my skin ph. Sugary front notes of a vanillary violet, spiced up by the ginger. The sandalwood is quite faint, but so refreshing; all the notes are realllyyyy well balanced, making it a sweet, dynamic, sultry, addicting, multi-dimensional perfume. The more you smell it, the more you SMELL. The deeper you breathe, the more it reveals its layers. The linger scent is GORGEOUS, an almost creamy vanilla with a hint of pop-corny, buttery touch? And the violet/ginger tickling the nostrils, making you wanna smell it again and again. The longevity is okay (2-4h on skin) but longer on clothes - then again, few fragrances actually hold long on my skin. One of my fav perfumes, I personally think it can be worn year long (maybe more of a summer/spring fragrance because of the ginger, that gives a sort of "icy" side, but I definitely wear it during fall/winter days too). Such a comforting smell. Love at first smell, as far as I'm concerned.

When I got this I absolutely loved it. This is Love has a really softly sweet cozy yet super fizzy smell to like like a fizzy drink. There is a softness, smoothness and roundedness that the Violet gives. I assume its the ginger that gives it the fizzy drink sort of vibe like ginger-ale. It’s woody, powdery. The sandalwood is there, Zadig & Voltaire do sandalwood so perfectly. The bottle is also beautiful with the gradient colors Sadly it doesn’t even last 1 hour and disappears. Tried several times but had to sell my bottle because it wasn’t worth it. Such a shame since it smells absolutely delicious and drinkable. If you don’t mind longevity and no silage I would definitely check this one out!

First sniffs are absolutely gorgeous. A sweet, powdery ginger-blackcurrant cream that smells like a walk-in cloud of 'pink' to me. A scent to love and to go live inside it. After 20 minutes, the pink gets pinker and pinker, where it borders on drugstore-brand synthetic flowerbomb. But hang on, after that, there's a dry vanilla nougat-like note that is absolutely lovely and long-lasting. Zadigs chestnutty This Is Her profile certainly noticable (and lappraciated). Both are powerful fragrances that make heads turn to get a second whiff.