Ignorabilis

This morning I stood perplexed in front of my perfume collection and thought: "Maybe it's a good time to try the Parfumo Assistant for the first time!" So I did... For a spring morning, I was recommended: DKNY Be Delicious. Mh, ok. I had to search for it first.
Be Delicious is a pleasant, refreshing scent. I mainly smell apple, cucumber, and the woods in the base. A linear, uncomplicated fragrance that doesn’t have much to say. Also, because it fades away quite quickly anyway.
So what’s the deal with this scent? Above all: memories.
Be Delicious is the classic "reminds me of..." fragrance, to which everyone probably has their own story. My father and I had chosen this scent together to give to my mother for her birthday. During my school years, it was one of her favorite perfumes until it eventually passed on to me in middle school. Be Delicious smells to me like summer vacations, aimless drugstore visits with friends, family outings, and much more.
Today, I don’t want to wear it anymore. Maybe also because it is already so full of memories that no new ones can stick to it. But I will keep it nonetheless - as a little 2000s time capsule.

First I want to apologize to everyone who loves Cloud. I know how emotional one can get when a negative review pops up about a beloved perfume. So I’m already sorry for the following review.

I bought a 7,5ml sample of this and have forced myself to wear this all in all for more than seven days now (and still have a lot of it left). I really gave it a try and I wanted to love this so so much.

The opening is bizarre. I get the lavender, pear and something sweet but for me they don’t blend. It’s like every single note tries to stand out on its own so they all seem to be competing with each other instead of blending together. It’s pure chaos.
In the dry down the musk becomes more and more prominent – and with the musk I notice a heavy plasticy smell. I mean really heavy!

The first days I tried this I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I didn’t get it and just sat there asking myself „Is this really the perfume everyone is raving about?“. It was so weird that I couldn’t even hate it. I just wore it for hours trying to like it until I scratched it off again when the plastic smell got to heavy.

To me Cloud by Ariana Grande is a teenage girl, constantly nagging and being overdramatic about the smallest things. She's trying so hard to act like a sophisticated and sexy grown up with her sticky 1$-lipgloss while actually being so indecisive.

But then she holds so much power and stubbornness! She doesn’t know what she wants but she wants it all. This perfume stays on me forever. I mean forever! I sprayed it on my wrist once and 20h later I could still smell it.

Some days it can be quite fun wearing it because it smells so weird. But I would never consider wearing it for days I want to smell good.

I have never smelled BR540 so I can’t say anything about their similarity. I’m talking here about Cloud as Cloud and not Cloud as a BR540 dupe. Since some stated in the reviews though that BR540 smells less plasticy, I can just guess that it would be a more authentic grown-up version of this.

Maybe this perfume just doesn’t work with my skin chemistry at all. It could be that for others it works well. So I’ll just leave with saying: This is the absolute opposite of a safe blind buy :)

I'm a woman but I got a sample of it so I just tried two sprays on my wrist.
Some memory hit me really hard when I first smelled this. I can't remember the person who smelled like this (also can't believe this was released in 2018, I feel like I have known this scent for ages!) but it made me feel happy and secure instantly. Also it's so sexy?

Honestly I just couldn't stop sniffing on my wrist so my nose went anosmic already after a minute. Now I just get slight whiffs of it and it smells so so good.

I'm gonna get my SO a bottle of this as soon as possible!

I think it's really interesting how your personal taste changes over time.
I remember loving this on guys when I was still in school and everyone – without exception – smelled like this. Then I forgot about it for a long time until a few weeks ago my boyfriend came along with a sample of this.
He never tried 1 Million before and I was actually excited since I haven't smelled this for such a long time.

And honestly I kind of didn't care about this scent. I can't say it's bad and also I don't care about hypes and hate and all that. But it just didn't get me, there was no spark, no feeling of wanting to smell this again and again.
It has a really nice fruity fresh opening – warm spicy the dry down.

It's nice but if I smelled this on someone on the streets, I wouldn't think twice.

Edit: Also I heard many say this was more of a unisex fragrance (which I'm into!) so I tried it for myself on the wrist and in the opening I thought "Oh, this could work!" but for me personally I felt like the dry down was too masculine.

This is nice for leisure, office and sport. It's uncomplicated, clean, fresh, very easy to like and inoffensive. Very pleasing!
I really like wearing this in Home Office. A nice every day scent in warm seasons – for those days where you don't need to impress anybody.

For me the mandarine is the most present note. Longevity is up to two hours and it sits quite close to the skin. If you want something similar but with a better performance, try the original Lacoste Pour Femme.