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A beautiful mayfly of a perfume
Virgin Island Water is undeniably a gorgeous scent. It's got a bright zing of lime with a coconut that smells like it's fresh from the tree - not cloying or artificial like a lot of coconut in other perfumes. It's a tropical summer day distilled in a bottle.
That said, I can never detect the base notes because this fragrance has the lifespan of a mayfly. It is with you for a too-short, glorious moment...and then it's gone. It dries down to a skin scent for maybe a handful of minutes, and then you are either left with the memory, or you can spritz yourself again.
And you probably don't want to spritz it too much because it is prohibitively expensive for how terribly it performs. For people who love the scent, you'd be better served to try Malibú - Party in the Bay by Simone Andreoli. It is very similar, outperforms this by a country mile in both sillage and longevity, and is available for a fraction of the price.
That said, I can never detect the base notes because this fragrance has the lifespan of a mayfly. It is with you for a too-short, glorious moment...and then it's gone. It dries down to a skin scent for maybe a handful of minutes, and then you are either left with the memory, or you can spritz yourself again.
And you probably don't want to spritz it too much because it is prohibitively expensive for how terribly it performs. For people who love the scent, you'd be better served to try Malibú - Party in the Bay by Simone Andreoli. It is very similar, outperforms this by a country mile in both sillage and longevity, and is available for a fraction of the price.