Top Notes 
Bergamot
Papaya
Pear
Heart Notes 
Gardenia
Green tea
Ylang-ylang
Base Notes 
Green musk
Indian sandalwood
Vanilla05/20/2025
ClaireV
958 Reviews
ClaireV
2
Meh fruity-floral
Gigi is one of Olivine’s bestsellers. Its popularity proves that indie oil customers in the American market tend to be young women who love the safety of mainstream fruity-florals but either don’t want to pay designer prices or have turned to the indie oil sector as part of a lifestyle choice. And actually, Gigi is a good bridge between designer and indie. It could easily be sold alongside any popular fruity-floral on the shelves of the local department store or drugstore – yet it comes in a format that is definitely not the norm. Gigi is immensely sugary, with an amorphous fruit syrup element that could be anything from peach to papaya. Theme-wise, it is vaguely tropical, but soon veers into the well-trampled territory of Maltol bombs like Pink Sugar. It also shares something of the bubblegum floral DNA of Gaultier2 and the warm peach cobbler aroma of Burberry for Women. Gigi is pretty in a thoughtless way – a swirl of tiaré or frangipani mixed into a peaches-and-cream base, with ylang lending a soft, banana-ish quality. The streak of bubblegum keeps the mood determinedly pert. I recommend it (in the most under-enthused manner possible) to anyone who likes this type of genre. If you are determined to go all-indie, Gigi is a reasonable alternative to the Beyoncé Heat and Britney Spears stuff on the shelves of the local beauty emporium. Just keep in mind that the aesthetic here is young.
