Plage Privee

I am not a big Zara perfume person but I was looking for a summery banana scent and noticed this was a new release. I ordered it and it arrived on March 18; I've worn it for the past two days. To me, this smells like the drawer where I store my swimsuits - they retain the scent of my sunscreen and my summer perfumes and the salt water and they all just meld together. The banana note isn't prominent but it's a very beautiful summery perfume. If you like Vacation by Vacation Inc. but want something less obvious, and more feminine and sweet, this would be a good option. I sprayed it at 8:00 am and could still smell the salty, musky base notes at 5:00 pm.

Give this a couple hours, you will love it then. At first I didn't like it, smelled like all the other beachy perfumes, like holidays by mancera, however Holidays is straight up tanning lotion smell this smells nothing like that, this could be in the same capsule but def a distant cousin.. after waiting a couple hours My goodNESS its a creamy a little salty, not too much..tropical vanilla musky delight. So far lasting 7+ hours, I should have given my review after a full day but I couldn't believe how much I love this now.

OH MY SWEET BABY JESUS. ok. yes. This one and the Solar Mango and the Golden Decade Paradise. They're allll good. This one is sweet, banana, coconut milk - the creamy kind, definately salty notes but not overwhelming. A little sandy. No chorine. Less sweet than Golden Decade Paradise and Solar Mango. Better than Maui in a bottle. Honesly, all of these are better than any $150-$200 / bottle new summer fragrances. Daytime. "Private Beach". This is it.

Very summery sweet and solar! I am impressed at how well blended this is. Yellow florals are more prominent that the banana note which is very subtle and adds a bit of sweetness. Salt goes away sadly in the dry down but the sweet and solar aspect stays throughout. Amazing longevity and projection. I am planning to layer it with Berg to add a bit of saltiness for hotter days and with Thousand Silent Ways on colder days or in the evening.

A rather faint version of Gucci's Gorgeous Orchid IMO. They're very similar, yet this one melts away about 15 mins after spraying. I've bought it on sale and it's very pretty so I cannot complain but I wouldn't repurchase it.

For me is light Saffron secret by Maison Crivelli summer edition with frangipani flowers. Sunny feeling, like yellow color.

Nice and balanced, very sophisticated smelling for a banana scent. Nice for summer!

A delicious tropical beachy banana. Very pleasant, the oerformance is moderate.

I am surprised I love this fragrance as much as I do. This fragrance is aggressively summer. It smells so youthful, but not childish. The banana in here is not a photorealistic one, or candied, but almost like a banana cream cocktail. The frangipani is very bright, intensely tropical, and sun-kissed. There is a small hint of sunscreen but the dry down is perfect. It’s milky, sweet, salty and almost vanallic, your skin but better scent. To me, this fragrance is atmospheric. It is a scent memory of some of the best times in your life. This reminds me of surf shops and valley girls. It doesn’t remind me of these fragrances exactly, but it is definitely in the same realm as JHAG’s Vanilla Vibes or Vacation by Vacation Inc. If you have the latter, then I wouldn’t purchase this, although I believe Zara’s version is a much more wearable and prettier version of that vibe. Otherwise, the projection/sillage is better than average on my skin. It isn’t loud, but I can imagine it will bloom in hot weather. I am unsure if it is a safe blind buy for most, but it is definitely worth it at its current price point.

I blind bought this and did not have expectations. My biggest surprise was that on me this smells like TESORI DE ORIENTE THALASSO which is actually a good summer scent. On my skin as, all Zara perfumes, this has great longevity 10+ hours and silage/projection is great.

Smells like banana candy, coctails on a hot summer day! INSANE lasting power for a Zara perfume. Can still smell it on clothes days later. Very comforting&warm

On me this smells like a mix of Eden Roc from Dior and Maui in a Bottle from Kayali. Real nice scent. The best of the three.

I’m actually a little disappointed by this fragrance. It was a blind buy in store after wanting something for summer. Despite what the other comments say, this isn’t a summer scent to me. I don’t get any banana, no “tropical” scent which is the main category on here. Very light aquatic and aldehyde hiding in the background. It smells like a sharper Golden Decade on first spray then disappears to ... nothing. Almost like hairspray mixed with a multitude of generic perfumes. I almost selectively use Zara fragrance (especially those co created with Jo Malone) and am often complemented as I am very liberal with my use, I’ve worn this for a week now and it has zero longevity or projectivity.

It's a well blended perfume. After spraying the first thing I picked up on was frangipani soon banana note showed up. Banana note is fleeting but it is beautiful. After that the perfume smell like salty vanilla with lingering floral notes and creaminess( maybe it from banana). I don't get any sandalwood. Maybe a bit of musk. Drydown is a floral vanilla. It definitely has that summer vibes.Its not bad especially given the price when it's on sale.

I usually like Zara perfumes, but this one smells awful on my skin. I blind bought it and expected a summery, sweet fragrance with a bit of a tropical vibe, but in reality all I can smell is something slightly sweet mixed with a very sharp and unpleasant salty note that literally makes me feel sick. Over time, that note fades and I can finally smell the musk, but unfortunately it’s impossible for me to wear it until that point. My advice is to test it before ordering/buying, because there’s a good chance you won’t get what you expect.

Smells like Prada la femme but less annoying. Not sweet. On my skin there is no banana just soap and some salty beach air. On clothes the banana is there but not sweet and then turns clean and soapy too. Not a safe blind buy. I am trying to get used to it. I will update if I am going to keep or not. Edit: kept the weird soapiness and I don’t think I like frangipani. The drydown did get sweeter.

I tried this the other day in store and I’m thinking of buying it. It’s reminds me of Sol de Janeiro Rio Radiance but less sweet and a little more sophisticated. I don’t really get some of the mentioned notes, like banana, but it’s definitely beachy but not like suncream. It dries down nicely and doesn’t have the weird ‘ketchup’ screechy note that seems to appear in so many Zara fragrances. 5 hours later it still smelt good on the back of my hand, very pleasant, definitely inoffensive in the best way and smells more expensive than it is.