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Olfactories

Tainted Love Prada 2015

6.8 / 10 91 Ratings

A perfume by Prada for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is powdery-floral. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Sweet

Synthetic

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Raspberry

Heart Notes

Rose

Violet

Base Notes

Musk

Perfumer

Daniela Andrier

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Ratings

Scent

6.891 Ratings

Longevity

7.379 Ratings

Sillage

7.077 Ratings

Bottle

7.985 Ratings

Value for money

5.821 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Olfactories.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/20/2024

7Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

Pwoo
5 Reviews

Pwoo

1

Boozy musk

I didn't expect to love this as much as I do but I'm blown away. The beginning strangely reminds me of sweet booze and after a few minutes it turns into pure powdery sweetness - something I absolutely love about the Prada Candy line. I'm slightly worried about the longevity compared to its price tag and it's not something I could see (/smell) myself wearing everyday.

02/17/2019

Misia
17 Reviews

Misia

2

Bag full of make up mess

This is potent one, i know it better be for that price they ask. I don’t justify price I don’t think it is ok.
But quality and beauty is there. You wont smell any synthetic “today” molecules.
It opens with raspberry and kind of mix of vanilla and fruit, it has smell like you enter in summer to icecream sweets shop ... but that goes away later and remains beautiful creamy make upy powdery (not dry) lipsticky scent.
Whole room where do you spray it will smell beautiful for day.
Projection is great and longevity average.

03/17/2018

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Smellie13
28 Reviews

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Smellie13

Top Review 33

Lipstick on-off-ON

The brave are said to own the world, and so I am not entirely averse to blind buys. However, I usually do not venture into the price range of “Olfactories - Tainted Love.”
When I read "lipstick accord" in the fragrance pyramid, it regularly blows my mind. I wonder where that comes from? Perhaps because it reminds me of my little cosmetic laboratory under my bed, where I mixed various creams and perfumes as a little girl?
The psychologist in me shows me a different picture from my childhood. It’s carnival time, and my mother paints my cheeks with lipstick that smells of lipstick accord ;-) princess cheeks. Yes, it probably has to do with those scent associations from rare and special occasions when my mother was close to me.
Anyway, in the fragrance pyramid of “Olfactories - Tainted Love,” the lipstick accord is written in big letters; it practically jumps out at me and gives me a kiss on the cheek.
I like the bottle; I generally like Prada fragrances, I’ve worked enough lately, and thus there was no problem overriding the rational, sensible part of me. Said-Ordered.
My idealistic fantasy held a "Prada infusion scent" with a lipstick note under my nose, a divine combination, so to speak.
To reality:
The bottle comes without outer packaging, but with a colorful patterned fabric pouch in 60s style. Unfortunately, I flooded it with coffee shortly after unpacking. Goodness, but at least this time it wasn’t the notebook.
The bottle is substantial, made of thick glass with a magnetic closure. I really like the combination of the salmon pink liquid and the blue, slightly ribbed label.
The first spray of “Olfactories - Tainted Love” is a revelation for lipstick scent fans like me, the ultimate “everything is good” note. But as already mentioned in the statements and stubbornly ignored by me until then, it quickly fades away.
Then it becomes herb-fruity; it strikes me as a mix of plum, cherry, and raspberry. Good, also nice.
At this point, it also becomes clear that the scent does not contain any “infusion DNA” and that it is not sweet and girly.
Shortly after, however, I completely lose the scent. As if it disintegrates into not really compatible components. Rather herbaceous, a bit powdery, the musk almost jelly-like, then there’s also a nasty slimy association; you remember that orange or green goo in the little plastic barrel, slightly metallic and quite synthetic at this point. Actually, one could say it’s an advantage that I couldn’t perceive the scent particularly well.
Oh no, I think, and yet I keep spraying and spraying and spraying, as if more of the same would yield something different.
After about an hour, a herb-powdery scent remains, reminding me of “Misia” or “Angel’s Dust.” Both had not occupied much space in my collection for long.
I do this for two days until I decide, with a heavy heart, to let the scent go. I would have liked to like it so much and had imagined it so beautifully with the two of us.
So I place a sales offer in the souk and go to the gym.
An overload of “Olfactories - Tainted Love” applied earlier in the day comes along out of necessity.
And then something completely unexpected and highly delightful happens. Obviously, the scent undergoes a real transformation due to the warmth generated during training.
The resulting dense-warm powderiness now reminds me a bit of “Brooklyn” by Gallivant, just without the orangey-citrusy notes. And the best part: the lipstick note comes back, is literally switched back on, and stays.
I even quickly interrupt my workout to take the scent back from the souk.
All’s well that ends well; the princess in me is beaming.
It is clearly a scent with edges and corners, which, after a certain time, stand in a meaningful relationship to each other and paint interesting scent facets. It is not an easy sweet girly scent; it takes time to fully reveal itself, which makes it quite interesting. And above all: it clearly needs warmth to unfold.
A clear recommendation for testing, then, for the warm-blooded among the lipstick scent fans and for the warm season.