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06/08/2023
Julipet
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Julipet
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My Long-Lost Signature from Years Back
I’ve been browsing through the “reminds me of” section of other perfumes lately and suddenly… I saw the light! Pretty Nina circa 2008! There WAS a pink Nina Ricci flanker back in the 2008, it wasn’t a dream!
I had a 80 or 100 ml bottle of Pretty Nina as a gift and I loved every tiny drop. It was my signature perfume for my senior college year and a then a bit beyond. Only one little “but.” I didn’t keep the box, so I thought it was just “Nina.” Then I went to Sephora to buy a replacement bottle and… that Nina smelled different. And looked a bit odd – too red, not pinkish. I thought that I must have had some sort of a replica before – a fake Nina. I bought the “real” Nina and grew to like it, but I still missed the “fake pink Nina” and used to laugh a lot at how I preferred fake to the original.
ALL THOSE YEARS later I find out that both were much very real and my “fake” was a limited edition Pretty Nina. That sweet, fruity, gentle, girlish fragrance – that used to be so “me.”
I must say Pretty Nina used to be lost on me after a couple of hours– I couldn’t smell it, but friends kept complimenting me, saying that I smelled nice and this fragrance suited me so well. Sweet-sweet caramelized apple covered in pink vanilla glazing, with a zesty grapefruit touch – mmmm.
I love it. I definitely will be looking for a vintage Pretty Nina bottle now. Until then, I have a Love Generation Sexy by Jeanne Arthes that seems to be a clone of this.
I had a 80 or 100 ml bottle of Pretty Nina as a gift and I loved every tiny drop. It was my signature perfume for my senior college year and a then a bit beyond. Only one little “but.” I didn’t keep the box, so I thought it was just “Nina.” Then I went to Sephora to buy a replacement bottle and… that Nina smelled different. And looked a bit odd – too red, not pinkish. I thought that I must have had some sort of a replica before – a fake Nina. I bought the “real” Nina and grew to like it, but I still missed the “fake pink Nina” and used to laugh a lot at how I preferred fake to the original.
ALL THOSE YEARS later I find out that both were much very real and my “fake” was a limited edition Pretty Nina. That sweet, fruity, gentle, girlish fragrance – that used to be so “me.”
I must say Pretty Nina used to be lost on me after a couple of hours– I couldn’t smell it, but friends kept complimenting me, saying that I smelled nice and this fragrance suited me so well. Sweet-sweet caramelized apple covered in pink vanilla glazing, with a zesty grapefruit touch – mmmm.
I love it. I definitely will be looking for a vintage Pretty Nina bottle now. Until then, I have a Love Generation Sexy by Jeanne Arthes that seems to be a clone of this.
