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To me, this is a milky sweet vanilla with a back end of woody tonka vanilla; it's pretty, it's very sweet, but it's not cloying in the way that sweet sugar scents like Skylar Boardwalk Delight can come off. It's warm thanks to the amber. It's very much a fall/winter scent, and lasts a long time with decent sillage.

I didn't like this at first, as a person meh on gourmands but who loves sweet fruity florals. But I think this would be so good in cold weather, and layered with something cherry. It would be so rich layered with coconut or a citrus in spring. It would be amazing layered with a coffee scent! It's so versatile because it's just sweet woody vanilla.

This is what the Rare Beauty perfume was reaching for, and missed.

The ginger and green tea notes somehow melded with the marshmallow to create this sweet baby wipe scent that I couldn't avoid. It smells so lovely on paper, I really thought this could be a gourmand I'd enjoy, but sadly my skin chemistry said no. It's also got a sillage that's pretty intimate; that doesn't bother me, but for something priced as much as Kilian, it's kind of disappointing.

This smelled so nice, but then in the drydown, the synthetic sweet came out and gave me a headache. There are so so many notes to this that I can't point to one specific thing, but it just became cloying, and worst of all, did not come off after two rounds of makeup balm and soap.

I really wish that I hadn't gotten a headache from it, because it's definitely not a sickly sweet gourmand -- it's a nice, warm, probably perfect for fall scent. But I just can't do it.

I'm into cherry right now, and while I've found a lost cherry dupe that I love, I wanted to see what the buzz was about around Electric Cherry and so I purchased a sample.

I was not expecting such an expensive fragrance to basically smell like fake cherry on top of soapy dishwater. When a previous commenter says it smells like washing up liquid, they're not kidding; this is so evocative of dish soap. It doesn't smell expensive, it smells like something I might have purchased in a sampler set at TJMaxx for $7.99 -- it's like there needed to be something else to round out the cherry. It feels unfinished, rushed.

The soapiness lessened into the drydown, when the scent just became cherry, but I have to be honest, this was weak. I'm not even sure layering can save it due to the soapiness, maybe with a sweet floral to tone down the dishwater scent.

I get that glossier you is supposed to be a skin scent, and then this flanker comes along and adds a shampoo-like floral to it. This is like the La Croix of floral perfumes: It's a whisper of flavor on the background of salty skin. It's like you're smelling the shampoo of the person in front of you in the line you're standing in. Super close to skin, vaguely fruity-floral, mostly nothing.

This is the only Glossier You flanker that I like -- I don't even like the original. But like is a strong word here; tolerate might be better. Would be a great work perfume where sillage should be intimate. Not full bottle worthy; not even travel size worthy. I'll probably use up my sample as a linen spray because I honestly think it would be good for that, at least.