My journey on finding the perfect "Cotton candy" perfume !

Hiii ! ・❥・

I've been busy trying to find the perfect cotton candy scent ever existing. For that, I've been eyeing expensive to cheap perfumes as I want to open my horizons to the find. I will not be reviewing perfumes that are impossible to get in Europe. The scent has to be perfect with no flaws.

𖤓 The perfect cotton candy scent for me? :

Airy, sugary, fluffy sweet but subtile. Soft sugar with the well known synthetic of cotton candy. A fair example of what forced me back onto my journey? Victoria's Secret lip gloss (Candy baby to be exact).
This lip gloss made me believe in the perfect find, with its subtile/soft and sugary cotton candy scent and by not being overpowering and by NOT smelling like burnt sugar.

𖤓 What I don't want in my hunt for the perfect "Cotton candy" scent:

Cloying, syrupy with PINK SUGAR dna: with the licorice note that smells nauseating and overly sweet to a point of not forgetting that scent. May pink sugar stays away from me I had enough (after having 3 of them I'm tired).
Burnt sugar: Even if cotton candy is literally just burning sugar, I'm on a search for the soft cotton candy type and (like I said above), the famous cotton candy synthetic that you can recognize in
shampoos, lip glosses, etc.
Just sugar, bubble gum/marshmallow, fruits: After finding many "cotton candy" scents, I've seen so many of them having a lot of fruit notes (the fruits being the main character sometimes) (which i'm not searching for), smelling just plan on sugar is not what I'm searching either. People has been saying that "bubble gum" as much as "marshmallow" perfumes smells like "cotton candy", like NO, I want cotton candy and NOT bubble gum NOR marshmallow.
Bianco latte, caramel DNA: Even tho it's not a problem for me, I'll try my best not to try and find cotton candy scents more focused on "caramel" and Bianco latte dna, and I'm really tired of that as well, I hope my perfect cotton candy will not be smelling like that ! (we'll see)

ׂ╰┈➤X🚫 "Cotton candy" perfumes I will NOT be reviewing: ꘎🚫 X━━━━━

🚫 Any Kayali's or Ariana grande's: None of them smells like cotton candy, and none of them were created to smell as such.
🚫 Cotton Candy: the reviews on this one are a mess lol, so...
🚫 🇺🇸 IF USA ONLY 🇺🇸 ---> Fine'ry, Boardwalk skylar, Outremer Vanille, Kyse, Cirque du soleil, sugarful by michel germain, Le monde gourmand, Calgon, Alkemia, Truly, the dua's brand, Indie houses in "ETSY" that are available mostly in USA/CANADA as well. As an European, it's not possible for me (or just too complicated with the custom fees), to obtain them from here.
🚫 Candy Eau de Parfum : not cotton candy??
🚫 Guerlain La petite Robe Noir Intense (2016): NOP, NOT COTTON CANDY.
🚫 Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum: Do I really have to say why? This was the worst recommendation ever.
🚫 Vanille Extreme Eau de Toilette: Same, No Cotton candy (it's just vanilla hello)
🚫 Toy 2 Bubble Gum Eau de Toilette / Snow Fairy Body Spray: these are HEAVILY bubble gum and only that, so sadly.. Nop
🚫#Love Reaction : not cotton candy, smells citrusy with heavy moss

𖤓 "Cotton Candy" fragrances that I've tried: ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡ ━━━━━━━━━━━━

(0/10) North: HORRIBLE, this is full leather and a bit of sweet vibe, it reallyyyy doesn't smell like cotton candy AT ALL. Headache including :/
(0/10) Cotton Candy Eau de Parfum: It opens as a sweet and airy perfume, and fades into full florals - clean - musky/powdery perfume. Sweet at first ? for sure. Cotton candy? NO.
1. Prady - Nube de Algodón: Same type of scent, watery down sweetness that ends up smelling like a sweet - laundry and super musky scent. Absolutely nothing in there smells like cotton candy.
(1/10) Candy Land: Smells fruity, no existence of cotton candy.
(2,5/10) The Fruit company - Algodón de Azucar: Weird? Very strong coconut mixed with caramel... really not what i'm looking for.
(3/10) Pink Sugar Eau de Toilette Berry Blast Eau de Toilette Red Velvet Eau de Toilette: They're iconic I get it, but even how they're different on their own, and even if the last two don't have the licorice note... They have that strong dna that I hate, dna that is too overpowering. Not what I'm searching, I want something way softer.
(3,5/10) Delicious Cotton Candy: I had high hopes for this, until... it just literally smells like pink sugar, with a more faint licorice note. But still one? Somebody said it smelled better but I swear there are no differences !!
(4/10) Candy Yum-Yum: It smells like candied Guava, good ! but not cotton candy to me. It's a candied fruit type of perfume and so, not fully focused on it.
(4,5/10) Sucre Noir: This smells like marshmallows / lucky charms. It's absolutely beautiful but not cotton candy at all.
1. (4,5/10) Zucchero a Velo Body Mist: Same as "Sucre Noir", but more focused on the sugar. Beautiful as well buttt... Not cotton candy.
(6/10) Tutti Délices - Barbe à Papa: Almost perfect... Until it wasn't. The dry down is so freakin perfect, like a soft - airy and fluffy cotton candy. But at first, the red berries get on the way of the perfectness (you get it) of the cotton candy. Leaving the perfume with the smell of MUSTY red berries, blended together it smells pepperish. SO NEAR PERFECTION. :(
(8,5/10) Cotton Candy Clouds : OMG. ALMOST PERFECT?? This smells airy-sugary with a cotton candy twist. Even if i don't like red berries as a note, it's barely there !! making this perfume the highest in my ranking. The name "cotton candy clouds" is the perfect name, it does smell like a comfortable little cloud.

𖤓 "Cotton Candy" on their way ! (Trying when they arrive, will be an update): ₍^. .^₎⟆ ━━━━

𖤓 "Cotton Candy" (waiting to try list) : ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

My journey ends here, as I'm still trying to find the best cotton candy scent ever ! I'm mostly searching on tikotk - reddit - parfumo. My cravings continue as I did not find it yet, i'm still on a hunt for it. Will update (of course) everytime I'm receiving a new cotton candy perfumes ;)

BYE ! <3

Last updated 08/06/2025 - 12:30 PM