L'Eau de Parfum Cirque du Soleil 2024

Opens like fruity pebbles, or maybe lucky charms. I can smell the flaky, thin crisp of sugar that coats sweet box cereal. As it evolves, I sense a more baccarat-like cloud of metallic cotton candy and caramelized hazelnuts. In the middle it's deliciously sweet, crispy, nutty, and edible. The cereal disappears completely and you're left sitting in a velvet theater seat, munching cracker jack corn. After several hours, it's mostly sandalwood, but a dry, papery, whispery sandalwood with little sweetness. On skin it was undetectable after 6 hours.

It didn't wow me, but I do find it pretty. I think most people will really like it. It'll go on my wish list, but mostly because I love Cirque du Soleil and the bottle is stunning.