A Sweet Pastry in Paris Zara

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A perfume by Zara for women. The release year is unknown. The scent is sweet-citrusy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Sweet

Citrus

Gourmand

Synthetic

Creamy

Fragrance Notes

Lemon

Vanilla

Cane sugar

Perfumer

Nathalie Lorson

Ratings

Scent

7.361 Ratings

Longevity

7.357 Ratings

Sillage

6.956 Ratings

Bottle

7.457 Ratings

Value for money

8.735 Ratings

Submitted by Eileweile, last update on 22.02.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/14/2023

6.5
Scent

DogiCoco
345 Reviews

DogiCoco

3

Nimm2 lemon candy!

I expected a pastry scent and got a candy scent. More precisely: The opening smells exactly like the yellow lemon hard candies with a gooey filling from the brand Nimm2. For some reason I thought of an already licked candy when I first smelled it, but I can't really explain why. It doesn't smell like saliva, but there is something that gives it that warm, wet feel like it was already in someone's mouth. Sorry if that sounds gross, I'm just trying to be accurate here. I was not too impressed at first.
But I got to admit that the drydown is better and even a bit pastry-like. At this point it's closer to a completely baked though vanilla cake, still with hints of lemon candy. Very warm and sweet. If you sniff really closely, a subtle woodsy background hum can be detected, but this is not complex or sophisticated. Just a very literal interpretation of food.

Even though the opening is weird, I don't really mind the scent. The drydown is fine. But lemon cake themed fragrances aren't exactly rare and I think there are many better options. If you like vanilla and citrus, try things like Kerosene Unknown Pleasures, Xerjoff Lira or the Shalimar Souffle line. Sure, they're all more expensive, but in this case, the upcharge is worth it.

04/10/2021

10
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

HolyBamboly
18 Reviews

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HolyBamboly

Top Review 9

Visit to the pâtisserie

The Zara fragrances I had so far not so on the screen. But this fragrance has totally blown me away!
I find that the bottle makes a statement despite or even because of its simplicity. I interpret the design like this: The fragrance is so magical that it doesn't need a flashy bottle to stand out in my collection.
Practical is that no frippery is attached to the bottle, so you can carry it around with a clear conscience (when traveling, in the handbag).

Now about the scent: you really feel like you're standing in front of a big mountain full of baked goodies. I have a great recipe from a cupcake baking book, where cupcakes made with light batter are topped with a fluffy lemon vanilla frosting made with Swiss buttercream. And that's exactly how this perfume smells to me.
When I close my eyes, I feel like I'm standing in a French pâtisserie. I spent a wonderful holiday on the Loire with my family in 2005. Every now and then we stopped at a pâtisserie by bike. There we treated ourselves to something sweet. Hach, that was nice.
Somehow, the scent also strongly reminds me of Kaufmann's Kindercreme for babies, which warms my heart so much. It makes me totally nostalgic, because this scent reminds me of my childhood, my parents.... My home.

I would give away some of my Viva La Jucies for this scent. And for me, this also shows that quality doesn't always have to be about price. The sillage is not bombig, but for it you smell him about 5 hours on the skin. Even longer holds the fragrance on the clothes ... More I do not need.

The Zara fragrances are often real, little treasures, I've noticed more often lately. Since I will have in the next time times an eye on it.
I got me directly a back-up of A Sweet Pastry in Paris. He is one of the best Gourmands, which I have tested so far.

09/28/2020

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Alilove
28 Reviews

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Alilove

Top Review 10

Tarte au Citron

I really like this favourable scent of Zara, although in the past I always avoided the citric scents, because most of them remind me so often of toilet flushers. But this one is different; so lively fruity and fresh, but still gourmand sweet and delicious. You should definitely be a fan of wonderfully refreshing sweet and sour butter-based lemon tart with airy meringue, because the scent is nothing else but that ;):P It seduces the wearer to the most beautiful patisseries of the city near Paris, where a variety of French pastry classics are served.
The opening starts very citric sweet, like a hundred lemon candies that suddenly start rolling like avalanches. The scent then settles very harmoniously without being pungent or penetrating. It bonds beautifully with the skin and becomes softer and softer over time. Sweet warm vanilla paired with sugar glazed lemons. A deliciously seductive dream, both in summer and winter. Super feminine, so full of sunrays. Pure joy of life!

09/01/2020

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 5
Scent

Stolzman
3 Reviews

Stolzman

Helpful Review 3

Synthetic Vanilla

Synthetic vanilla and citruses.
Pretty strong, I can smell it with a facemask on.
Strong sillage for the first hour or two. Six hours longevity on skin.

You have smelled that DNA before in cleaning products or in air fresheners.

It is pleasant, but smells cheap
All in all. There are cheaper and better vanilla scents out there.
Nothing to write home about. Pass

Edit: After 16 hours - still going strong as a faint skin scent. And mind you I have washed my hands multiple times since applying it in store.
Still smells bad.