Top Notes 
Blackberry jam
Elderflower
Heart Notes 
Jasmine sambac
Base Notes 
Oak wood
09/07/2025
CurlyHen
36 Reviews
CurlyHen
2
Beautiful opening, but the oak in the dry down is at war with the sweet fruitiness.
On paper this is a fruity jammy bomb but on my skin it opens as an entirely different perfume.
On spraying, it’s a bright, sweet and playful fruit gummies affair; orange, pear and black grapes. Within a minute or so the musky sweet elderflower arrives along with some blonde woods. It’s extremely pleasing when it hits your nose. Feminine, sweet, breezy with a little tease of powder. After a few minutes a slight jamminess appears and the muskiness disappears as the sweetness increases. I grow blackberries and I get zero blackberry in this perfume. It’s much more like red currant. The jasmine pulls through very smoothly and the perfume becomes a blended accord of bright summer fruits and jammy red berries with a hint of white floral. It’s somewhat whimsical with the musky elderflower. It’s very familiar here, it definitely smells like something from my teenage years. And this is where I start to lose heart. Because I think it reminds me of a body spray. An Impulse maybe? And is that a bad thing? That’s defo thrown me.
Anyway, as it starts to dry down it behaves somewhat like a changling. I get breezes of whimsical musky elderflower, sudden whiffs of fresh raspberry and redcurrant, some orange, pear and black grape all dancing on top of a floral blonde wood base. At times the oak becomes very prominent and catches me off guard. It’s nice from afar but when I bring my nose close to my skin it gives an earthy rotten wood whiff that clashes terribly with sweetness, somewhat synthetic and chemical which makes it take a turn of nail varnish remover and pencil shavings.
It has taken me a long time to write this review and I still haven’t figured out whether or not I like this perfume. I’ve worn this perfume multiple times to gather my thoughts and it still leaves me confused.
The smell from the top of the bottle is so sweet, fruity playful, fun and pleasing. I love the moment it’s sprayed very much indeed and the first 10 minutes after. It catches my attention but each time as it dries down I’m just not sure where it’s going or what’s it’s trying to be. I do like a woody perfume, but, to me, the woody base feels like it’s at war with the sweet fruity floral rather than complementing it. A quite masculine, earthy, vintage oak mixed with sweet fruity gummies that makes it lean into, at times, an unpleasant synthetic chemical smell. Instead of adding a sensual or alluring layer of intrigue and maturity, it smells at times like a body spray that’s meant to be sweet and playful but instead smells a bit dirty, like an unwashed teenager that’s trying to compensate, wearing a weeks worth of layers of various cheap body sprays on a stale school blazer that has had nail varnish remover spilt on it.
I think I can at least be certain that I won’t be buying a full bottle. But I can see people buying this in a department store when they immediately smell it, but then not being sure about it when they take it home and wear it properly. I haven’t smelt this on another person in the wild yet, so it will be interesting to see how my nose interprets that encounter.
On spraying, it’s a bright, sweet and playful fruit gummies affair; orange, pear and black grapes. Within a minute or so the musky sweet elderflower arrives along with some blonde woods. It’s extremely pleasing when it hits your nose. Feminine, sweet, breezy with a little tease of powder. After a few minutes a slight jamminess appears and the muskiness disappears as the sweetness increases. I grow blackberries and I get zero blackberry in this perfume. It’s much more like red currant. The jasmine pulls through very smoothly and the perfume becomes a blended accord of bright summer fruits and jammy red berries with a hint of white floral. It’s somewhat whimsical with the musky elderflower. It’s very familiar here, it definitely smells like something from my teenage years. And this is where I start to lose heart. Because I think it reminds me of a body spray. An Impulse maybe? And is that a bad thing? That’s defo thrown me.
Anyway, as it starts to dry down it behaves somewhat like a changling. I get breezes of whimsical musky elderflower, sudden whiffs of fresh raspberry and redcurrant, some orange, pear and black grape all dancing on top of a floral blonde wood base. At times the oak becomes very prominent and catches me off guard. It’s nice from afar but when I bring my nose close to my skin it gives an earthy rotten wood whiff that clashes terribly with sweetness, somewhat synthetic and chemical which makes it take a turn of nail varnish remover and pencil shavings.
It has taken me a long time to write this review and I still haven’t figured out whether or not I like this perfume. I’ve worn this perfume multiple times to gather my thoughts and it still leaves me confused.
The smell from the top of the bottle is so sweet, fruity playful, fun and pleasing. I love the moment it’s sprayed very much indeed and the first 10 minutes after. It catches my attention but each time as it dries down I’m just not sure where it’s going or what’s it’s trying to be. I do like a woody perfume, but, to me, the woody base feels like it’s at war with the sweet fruity floral rather than complementing it. A quite masculine, earthy, vintage oak mixed with sweet fruity gummies that makes it lean into, at times, an unpleasant synthetic chemical smell. Instead of adding a sensual or alluring layer of intrigue and maturity, it smells at times like a body spray that’s meant to be sweet and playful but instead smells a bit dirty, like an unwashed teenager that’s trying to compensate, wearing a weeks worth of layers of various cheap body sprays on a stale school blazer that has had nail varnish remover spilt on it.
I think I can at least be certain that I won’t be buying a full bottle. But I can see people buying this in a department store when they immediately smell it, but then not being sure about it when they take it home and wear it properly. I haven’t smelt this on another person in the wild yet, so it will be interesting to see how my nose interprets that encounter.
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