Tease Strawberry Bisou Review
I’ve been wearing this for a few days now and this is what I think! YMMV
Bottle is cute, top stays on firmly but comes off easily. The color is perfect for the contents!
First whiff takes me back to the last century when I was young and my mom would make strawberry shortcake. She would make fresh biscuits, put the sweetened strawberries on them, then top with vanilla ice cream. (I miss you, mom 😢) Second whiff: I am standing in a you-pick strawberry field, red-stained hands and a full bucket; of course it’s sunny and hot, so all I smell is strawberries!
On the dry down, I get some vanilla. It’s very sweet: I am making strawberry cobbler for my hungry family and I have spilled some vanilla extract on my hands that already smell like strawberries because I just finished chopping them up. Unfortunately for me, I prefer the dark and stanky vanillas, that grow on twisted trees in dark forests! This vanilla is not that one at all; it’s pure white vanilla ice cream.
I don’t really get any marshmallow out of this. Whomp whomp.
After an hour, a faint chemical-ly smell comes through. This is strawberry ice cream that is yummy, but the flavor is just sliiiiightly artificial. The initial bright and sunny strawberry is about half gone. Maybe that weird note I’m getting is that white vanilla extract.
Today I am wearing it over Sticky Dates and I’m enjoying the combo. I smell like what I am: a sweet dessert!
TL dr: 4 stars out of 5. A similar scent to the Pink “Boy, Be Gone” mist—this Tease is BBG’s older sister. Staying power not great on my skin. Marshmallow MIA. Smells lovely at first, good for layering over something deeper. Not sure if this will end up in my permanent collection yet.
ETA: after a while day’s wear, this perfume is just a skin scent on me. And if you have to get this close to smell me, I will probably smack you. Maybe we could call this “Bare Strawberry”. I will try layering it with Bare Rose to see what happens.