Oough

So much honey. Wow. Redefining "way too much" while also being complex and artistic. The word "diva" gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but this perfume deserves it. Way too sweet, but in like... a mature way? Completely unwearable, but I can't help feeling like if someone were to wear it, they'd somehow pull it off.

And they're all absolutely correct. There's really not much else to say-- it smells like a lemon cake, or cupcake, or pie, or any other lemon confection. It's that thing where it has the flavor of a lemon, without tasting sour, or tart, or bitter. Whatever smell you're imagining is probably spot on.

More of a Green, Tea scent than a "Green-Tea" scent. It's a nice green, tea scent, but it is not nearly strong or interesting enough to justify the price point, in my opinion. It could just be a skin chemistry thing, but I had to use half of my sample to actually be able to smell more than the faintest whisper, and even then it left me feeling beige.

I feel like I'm being gas lit right now. Like, I'm not saying I don't see it, but it gets compared to apple pie so often you'd think that it would at least smell... a little sweeter? I've never smelled Angels Share, so maybe that one is closer, but this one has a much stronger fresh/floral aspect than I was expecting. I get why people say they smell apple, but to me it still doesn't come off as apple pie-- just like... apples with spices and vanilla. Which sounds like it should smell like apple pie, but it doesn't-- there's a distinct lack of a "baked good" quality.
Still very nice, just not what I was expecting.

It's a unique, fresh, everyday fragrance that reads as masculine (if you believe in gendered frags) without smelling blue, and still being a little sweet. It's not my favorite, but it is by far the one I reach for most often. It's the perfume equivalent of a woman wearing pants-- it would have been defying gender norms like, 50 years ago, but now its probably one of the least polarizing things you could possibly wear.