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Brown Sugar The Saltworks Company 1996

6.3 / 10 36 Ratings

A perfume by The Saltworks Company for women, released in 1996. The scent is floral-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Fruity

Gourmand

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Freesia

Mango

Heart Notes

Lily

Jasmine

Peony

Base Notes

Musk

Vanilla

Caramel

Ratings

Scent

6.336 Ratings

Longevity

6.121 Ratings

Sillage

5.018 Ratings

Bottle

6.721 Ratings

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/16/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Missk
1350 Reviews

Missk

1

Sweet and musky

This is my favourite out of the three, however it is very sweet. I also think that this is the girliest of them all.

The mango, vanilla and lily hits you almost immediately. This fragrance is well blended, however everything is sugar-coated, sweet and pink. It reminded me of a more grown-up, less candied version of Kylie Minogue's Showtime.

I'm almost defining this fragrance as a gourmand, however I'm hesitant to do so due to its floral aspect. Despite the prominent vanilla, mango and caramel notes, I can't say that it smells particularly edible. The combination of syrupy sweetness and fresh flowers sprinkled with icing sugar, makes for a very interesting sweet floral.

In the opening Something about Sofia smells very much like bubblegum, however the more it settles, it becomes a delightfully sweet bouquet of fresh blossoms. Very light and pleasant.

The lasting power is moderate. A little better for wear than the other fragrances in this series.

02/10/2014

5Scent

Marianne
65 Reviews

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Marianne

2

First the flower, then the sugar.

SaS starts with an exclusively floral note, the flowers are more in the style of how grandmothers used to scent their soaps.
Later, the tide turns and it becomes floral-synthetic-sweet...in the base it then smells very much like Juste un Baiser by Fragonard...sugary-pink.

The fragrance has rather a weak aura and serves as a pleasant everyday scent; I can't pick out any special flowers or notes, as it seems rather artificially made.

Unfortunately, it takes quite a long time for the simply structured top note to fade away - it gets better in the base.

04/02/2011

8Scent 7.5Longevity

Milosava
8 Reviews

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Milosava

Top Review 24

A Jugendstil Vase with Lilies

Last night I had a very restless sleep, as always when something changes in my life. I lay awake for a long time - or better, half awake - and during that time, this scent rose to my nose. I thought about it and many other things... Unfortunately, I have forgotten some of it again, but the memory remains that I absolutely wanted to write a comment...
Yes, I have grown up and become so rationalistic. Yet in half-sleep or with the right drug or the right person, I find myself back in a liminal space where I also felt very much at home as a child. I believe Sofia helped me with that yesterday.
But back to the scent. I don't like many floral fragrances, but sometimes there are those that I consider something special and have to buy. Last year, those were "Lola" and "Something about Sofia." "Lola" represents for me a bacchanalian thirst for life, celebration, and intoxication - and Sofia is for me such a melancholic liminal scent. Are the two the two sides of a mirror? This classification is so subjective that I think one should not expect these images when testing for oneself.
Sofia is for me the scent of a young, romantic woman who is unhappily in love. She lives around 1900-1920, perhaps in England. She is pale and rather quiet, but inside she has great feelings. She reads works of "Sturm und Drang," but also writings by Virginia Woolf. She is serious and ultimately (warning: pathos) takes her own life.
We enter her abandoned room, and there we perceive her scent. It is very lush floral and slightly sweet with a fairly high presence and longevity. Sofia's perfume has only a slight scent development; in any case, it is not a classic one. Rather, the notes are more or less recognizable the whole time. What gives this perfume a morbid touch is probably the lily. I find it very beautifully embedded, as the whole scent seems "round" and well-composed to me. The lily often has a certain flamboyance for me as a perfume component, and here too, it definitely does not cross the line into the repulsive but rather evokes a summery floral ripeness (Sofia waits in her sun-heated room for something that will not come), which is soon coming to an end. But not yet, while we have this scent in our noses. The scent represents the full (emotional) life of a young woman! (I do not mean to say that this scent is only for young women. I am no longer 20 myself.) Besides the lily, I strongly notice the sweetness of vanilla (not cloying) and also the peony (a similarity to Lola). When I sniff closely (though I don't want to overanalyze here), I also recognize a hint of jasmine, which ensures that this scent can be seen not as morbid but rather as lively and perhaps even summery. A mini-component of fruitiness and the warmth of musk also contribute to this. Perhaps Sofia changes depending on the "interpretation."
I believe Sofia is somehow still in this room; you just can't see her very well.
"Something about Sofia" is not overly refined, but still a little masterpiece if you are open to scents in the floral-sweet to floral-oriental range!

03/27/2010

7Scent 7.5Longevity

DeGe53
559 Reviews

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DeGe53

Helpful Review 10

What’s up with Sofia?

Benefit. American female friendship and dissatisfaction with conventional makeup products led the two founders Jean and Jane Ford (!!!) to create a witty makeup line with functional products that are easy to use and promise a flawless complexion. The packaging is retro-funny, the main focus is on coverage and of course - what Americans understand by natural. And it works, tested myself.

But this is about the fragrance.
I was a bit skeptical about this American naturalness when it comes to the scent. Could it be something?
Yes, it can. And I would buy it.

Sofia starts off with powdery floral notes. Mango is hardly detectable, just refreshing everything a bit. I was surprised at how uniform this fragrance comes across. The pyramid is quite straightforward, and one might assume they are getting a watery scent. That’s misleading. The fragrance lasts very well, the floral heart notes remain stable, and towards the end, after about 4-5 hours, which is acceptable, they are slightly pushed aside by the base. The vanilla and caramel notes are hardly noticeable, a bright musk allies itself with the flowers.

This is a present but not overpowering scent for everyday wear. In winter, you might need to reapply more, or switch to My Place or Yours, Gina by Benefit.
The bottle is cute and fits well in the hand. The price is in the mid-range at €36 for 30ml EdT. For that, it lasts well for an EdT.