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To be honest, after sharing my little NR collection, I thought I was done with NR for the moment, but this beautiful baby I just couldn’t unsee. It went back to cart & finally checked out.

Context: These are literally my top fave florals, gardenia, frangipani, African orange flower specifically & of course tuberose. Add that musk & jasmine, we got a beauty to my heart.

The ONLY thing that was holding me was the patchouli, especially because I can see it in the accords, which likely means it’s not a silent base. I’m scared, but I have holy grails with patchouli, for example Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia also had patchouli in the accords but doesn’t bother me at all, im not even able to identify it in the perfume. So I’m holding onto hope with this one too. Sadly it’s not easy for me to check them in person.

I’m afraid to ask, do you have any insight on this beauty? Hopefully one that doesn’t say it’s terrible, but I’m open!😅

I wanted to wait until it arrives to do a post on it, but this is one of those perfumes that pulls some strings. Although looking “basic” I like these profiles for everyday!🥰

Should I do a review of Orchid Intense or any one of them? I thought about doing OG vs. Intense review.

Those are my favorites, some I love more than the other but all are perfumes that I enjoyed having in my collection. 🤩🌸✨

Which Flora Gorgeous is your favorite?🥰

I do like Jasmine & magnolia but not as much as buying them. Although I did consider getting a mini of magnolia or both, but since I have a good amount of florals already I chose to skip. 💕

🌸 Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia.
🌸 Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Intense.
💛 Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid.
💛 Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid Intense.

I finally got my first la vie est belle!🥰

I went with vanilla nude as it was the safest blind buy for my taste & purpose. 💕

This is a line for some reason I was rarely near at its counter. I smelt a few & OG, wasn’t my thing, so I never checked them out again. But the amount of people who love this line i was intrigued, I finally took the plunge & tried one, happy with my purchase.

Vibe: Funny, it does smell like vanilla “nude”. 😆 It’s similar vibe to your everyday nude lip, it might be basic but pretty & very useful that you wear it everyday & can depend on it. This is what this perfume vibes it gives me!

Review: This is an everyday perfume for the ladies. It’s elegant, soft & delicate, not too much! It’s not gourmand, it’s powdery vanilla with musk elements & a bit of soft wood sprinkles that gives it that grown up vibe instead of juvenile. It is beautifully layered with a complementary body mist, which I’ll do a combo inspo as it’s gorgeous! 🤩✨

One body mists gives it a solar vibe & another one gives it a more powdery vibe, works for all season. It may be simple, but beautiful in its simplicity.

Strawberry, fruity Opium? I tired it closely the past 3 days & here’s what I’ve found. Including a scent of the day combo & why I chose those fragrances to go with it. ♥️🍓✨

I’m sorry this is long but in detailed review.

I’m weird, I love notes & how they work in perfumes. To understand the perfume enough to enjoy wearing it in complementary ways. This way I get the best out of the perfume! 🥰♥️

Black Opium Pink Glaze: Has 3 different elements that stands out, fruity, vanilla & Amber. Built around Opium DNA. I was curious of how the fruity aspect would be presented in the perfume & how it would blend into the amber’y vanilla sexy DNA. Was it going to be gourmand or perfume’y? Hoping the scent profile compliment each other without fighting for their place to shine.

Expectations: Of course I expected them to make the fruity aspect perfume’y not gourmand. But I also expected it to be more noticeable as it’s a special note in this flanker. As well as less crowded in the get go, more smoothly blended, that I can easily detect its main attributes which were the reason for my purchase. I’d have loved for the strawberry to be fresher, more prominent & at least lead the opening.

Scent Profile: Strong from the get go, sweet & perfume’y fruity, but unfortunately a bit too crowded in the get go. As it settles down, I can smell the fruitiness more, but not enough to detect any specific notes. Having said that, overall even though I expected better, I’m fine with it, it’s nice, just not outstanding.

But is it groundbreaking? No. Could it be better? Absolutely. I wish they took a little more advantage of the beautiful notes in here. But since they didn’t, I will. 😆♥️

Lattafa Yara Candy Perfume Oil: A great support to the strawberry, as it has strawberry fizz candy. I chose it because it’s strong enough to be noticeable under Opium strong DNA. As well as give it that sweet gourmand element I wanted, without making the whole perfume gourmand, it simply gives the strawberry & fruity element a shining base! 🥰🍓✨

Sol de Janeiro Sundays in Rio Body Mist: This is a amber’y vanilla body mist, enhances the vanilla & amber in this perfume in a beautiful sexy way! 🤗🍓✨

Honestly with this combo, I amplified it beautifully!

In a brand full with rose fragrances *not a fan rose* I have finally found my jams! All loved, no regrets.🌸

One of them is the first rose perfume I fall in love with after decades of no rose. I have a more in depth review on it if you’d like to read, just scroll down a bit on my page. 🥰♥️

Pure Musc Blanc: LOVE at first sniff. Was given a tester with an online order, immediate order after trying it. This is the most sophisticated fresh powdery musky perfume I’ve come across. If you’re into clean, powdery, cotton softener on just washed linen but more elegant? You’ll LOVE it! Paired it with the body shop white musk & it was DIVINE! 🤍🫧

Narciso Rodriguez Intense: Musky, powdery, with vanilla a bit of fruit, peach. The peach isn’t screechy nor intense, I didn’t recognize it was peach at first. A beauty alone & with white musk mist for a clean vibe with a touch of fruit. Or with a peach mist to get more of the fruitiness out. Both case, stunning!

Musc Noir Rose: As a rose fragrance hater I was like “wow, this is GOOD!” A sultry, sexy, expensive taste in perfume. Very sophisticated & elegant. I’ve made a review on it, check it out for more details.🤩

Narciso Ambrée: A sexy solar, tropical & amber’y perfume. It’s a quite unique take, different than the solar & tropical I have. They took yellow florals Like frangipani & ylang ylang, with a sexy dose of amber, musk, cashmeran & vanilla.

Narciso Cristal: Fresh, clean, a bit powdery. They used my fave white florals like freesia & orange blossom. Of course musk, amber & cashmere for some dimension. This does have a slight rose to it but very light & comes across as powdery in the background. It isn’t screechy, doesn’t scream not too much at all. With white musk body mist, a beautiful clean powdery fresh everyday perfume.

Leite nectar said, I’m sweet, I’m juicy & I’m delicious! Pure diamonds said, watch me! Ever since they’ve become a team. A very delicious team!🥰

The Vibe: They share notes, peach specifically & that fruity summery profile. They’re sweet, juicy, summery & playfully mouthwatering! Take what you love about Leite Nectar & imagine it stronger in a complementary way. You only need few spritz of pure diamonds here to elevate the whole profile (not change it). The ylang ylang in pure diamonds give a beautiful solar touch to the whole profile! 🤗🍑🌼

These layering combos are for inspo purposes, so if you don’t have the perfume, I hope it helped inspire you to pair something similar from what you already own.

I tested hundreds of combos throughout the years, every time it makes me love & appreciate what I have. Because of all the possibilities I get to wear my loved perfumes. Out of every tested possibility, I choose only the best from them to wear. 🥰

I like to enhance & support the perfume as it is, not change it. A perfume should also be good & loved on its own, you shouldn’t need to layer it for you to love it, otherwise I don’t purchase it. The purpose of layering is to have fun with the fragrances you love!

I don’t hate many things in life but rose fragrance? Is one of the few things I hate. Although I love smelling it on people, they pull it off well.

I smelt it multiple times in stores & I finally got it. Very happy to have it, such an unexpected purchase for me. That’s also why I got 30mL to make sure we really vibe when wearing it not just smelling it. 🥰

The Vibe: A classy, sultry & sophisticated woman out for a dinner at an expensive restaurant. Outfit on point & heels are expensive. Hair is simple but gorgeous. Makeup is stunning, not too much, but a little sultry lightly smokey with the colors of the bottle & nude lip.

Review: A Rose delicate on one side & sultry on the other side. Has that oomph for a night out without being too much. Not screechy, not intense nor offensive. Very blended, enveloped in a beautiful bubble of the other scent notes. Unique to my nose. ♥️🥀

It shows that it has a big fruity element in the accords, but for me, I don’t smell a fruity perfume. I smell a very well made sultry rose, with every note working to make the rose stunning! The notes fairly basic but the scent is absolutely not basic. It surprised me, I was like wow, that’s good! I love that it has tuberose too. 🥰🥀

A fruity twist?😍 To be honest, when I saw the notes & accords it was hard to say no for that blind buy, especially because it was on a STEAL deal! Share your thoughts, have you tried this? ♥️🍓

I hope it is as what I picture it to be, a lovely flanker of the black opium dna I love. I actually only have black opium OG & black opium glitter, love them both but I haven’t dived much into other flankers, just quickly sniffed some.

I hope this strawberry, mandarin & orange blossom mix works well with the ambery vanilla dna of black opium, simple notes but still makes me excited. 🥰

Scent of the day coming in strong for golden hour goddesses only, that’s you & me reader. 😌☀️✨

I’ve told ya, Rio radiance coming in strong this sexy season, here is another bombshell combo!

Will be posting SOTD inspos with SDJ mists, if you’d like to see body care included too, lemme know!

One part that I absolutely love with fragrance & body care like SDJ is the endless combos I get to make. I take this job very seriously, only great A+++ grade passes the standards, simply “good” is not enough. 🤗💛

Al Rehab Zahrat Hawaii Fragrance Oil: Tropical Candy. Pineapple, piña colada, strawberry & even caramel. I posted about it previously, one of the best tropical oils I have. 5.50€ & more accessible than the others I own, so I chose it here. It enhances the fragrance, last longer & project better.

Rio Radiance: We all know & love her, but do you know how amazing she pairs with solar & tropical perfumes? As well as yellow florals like ylang ylang. Now you know. I fell more in love with her when I saw how she enhances the team together. Solar, Sunny, St.Barts, is her title. 😌🌼✨

Rabanne Olympea Elixir: I hit the jackpot with this blind buy, it was OBSESSED at first sniff! Golden hour goddess perfection. It’s solar, tropical, sensual, flirty, sophisticated & so damn sexy! She that girl everywhere she enters! Nothing harsh, nothing overpowering, just class one a plate of gold. 🤩✨

Full bottle upgraded Vanilla Salt has finally reached home. This perfume has been an unsuspecting love at first sniff this spring & summer season! To the point, I didn’t want to use my 10mL before this baby gets home safe & sound, to save it for the handbag!🌝💛

This season im extra obsessed with solar & tropical perfumes, preferably both together! I found great ones this year. Something about them makes me feel the best!🌼✨

1- Al Rehab Ishq perfume oil: Shares vanilla & ylang ylang. Oils makes perfume last longer, often project better, skin smell great & it even helps enhance the perfumes you love without changing it.

2- Rio Radiance: My ride or die this season, we all know how she works! She’s really good with her scent family members. Makes a great base as she shares notes in the best way!🤍🌼

3- Ellis Brooklyn Vanilla Salt: Forget your heavy gourmand, Michelin star pastries, we love them in cooler weather. This is a sunny sexy season, you still smell like a snack but a sexy snack, not pastry snack. In all seriousness, something in this smells just so sexy, like you smell like you use expensive body care & perfume, even your swimsuit is gucci. I feel like it still has a gourmand touch, but more airy, light & sexy. 💛🌼✨

Hmmm, a floral with added rice, it feels like a rice pudding desert. 🌸🍚

I’m a bit confused, a bit not able to put my thoughts together. It’s a pretty scent, I won’t lie, but not what I expected. It doesn’t smell like vanilla rice, it smells like a cold pudding desert made with rice & desert florals. (This perfume is not gourmand)

I was going to blind buy a full bottle as it’s cheaper than buying both & I do like all the notes, but after seeing review on Fragrantica I got a mini to try first.

I do like the scent. If it was based solely on scent I’d like to have a full bottle, but is it 150€ full bottle worthy? I don’t know. It’s also an intimate everyday basic scent, which I do have perfumes in that category. I am a little torn to be honest.

Any thoughts? Would help!🌸💕

After the last family member arrived, I thought we’d do a family picture. Am I missing something?🤗

I certainly have a fave, it’s the reason the family grew, do you have a fave too?💕

THIS combo is called Old but Gold & SEXY! I had to share it. Love the coffee aspect & would like it to be a bit more there? Add a beautiful latte to the base. Not too much & not too little, just perfect!🤩✨

Vibe: Sophisticated, mysterious, flirty, dark feminine power, sexy & STUNNING!🤩 Imagine a woman with a form fitting expensive black dress, dark brown hair & eye color, with gorgeous black heels with few gem stones on the front! That’s the vibe it’s giving!🖤💎
Eye looks magnet & ultimate compliment getter!

Sol de Janeiro Leite Café is a modestly sweet latte scent. Layering a scent like this would add a unique touch to the perfume. Rather than the usual layering with vanilla or white florals, this time we are adding a unique touch of just the right amount of latte. It makes a GORGEOUS & unique scent bubble!🫧

It’s not Gourmand, it’s not too sweet, it’s not bitter nor does it change the iconic black opium scent, it just elevated it so beautifully & different. 🤍☕️

I take my combos a tad seriously it has to be great or there is no point. 🌝 Honestly? Thankful to Sol de Janeiro for giving us a scent like this as a body mist, combos like this that makes us appreciate the scent more!

If you have it, try it & lemme know!🤗☕️

I LOVE applying perfume oils before my body mist application, it grabs the scent & makes it last longer, often project better & skin smells so nice! Ready to rock your scent bubble, making viral fragrances unique to you!🤗🌸✨

I have a couple of brands but I chose some that are more accessible. All of these were purchased for 5.50€!

Cheirosa 62 + Al Rehab Golden Sand: They share vanilla & caramel, lovely together but no almond pistachios here unfortunately. 🧁🍮

Cheirosa 62 + Al Rehab Choco Musk Pistachio: This is pretty much kayali pistachio gelato dupe. It smell really nice!💚

Cheirosa 40 + Al Rehab Fantastic: Fruity Vanilla with a touch of white floral, layers beautifully together.❤️

Cheirosa 48 + Al Rehab Zahrat Hawaii: This oil is one of the yummiest tropical fruity fragrance oil I own. It goes stunningly with fruity tropical 48. Pineapple, pina colada, strawberry, coconut & even caramel, DELICIOUS! Few swipes is all it takes. 🏝️

Cheirosa 59 + Al Rehab Narjis: The color purple in a bottle. The star in 59 is the violet, the star in Narjis is the lilac, both layer beautifully with one another. I’m still looking for a powdery violet but this works every time.💜🪻

Rio Radiance + Al Rehab Ishq: They share Ylang Ylang & vanilla, with a touch of white floral. They layer beautifully, a little goes along way with this oil. 🌼✨

Limonade Gelade + Al Rehab Soft: Powdery, sweet vanilla lemon, clean & cozy, but also, like a vanilla lemon cupcake. It brings out all the pretty flavors of Limonade Gelade. Not bitter nor zesty, making it the best perfume oil to layer it with. 😋 Even as (usually) a lemon fragrance hater, these won my heart. 🤩🍋

One of the best fragrance combo I’ve done this summer, without breaking the bank. The body oil & perfume are new loves!

Vibe: Sweet, feminine, elegant, sophisticated, luxurious, perfect amount of both tropical fruity & florals. Makes me feel like I’m in my best element. 🩷🌸✨

Carolina Herrera La Bomba Body Oil: I applied this on top of cheirosa 68 cream. It’s a beautiful tropical fruity floral with dragon fruit, absolutely stunning! Smells expensive, feminine, sophisticated, very elegant lady vibes. It’s also YUMMY not in a food way, in a SEXY way!🤩

Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 68: Tropical fruity floral that shares dragon fruit & the general vibe, excellent match. You can also use its oil but I preferred La Bomba to give that luxurious scent.

Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Florabloom Forte: Stunning!!! Tropical fruity floral, very chic, sophisticated take on a day time appropriate fragrance, I was very impressed. Usually I get bored from their high price but low interest (for me personally), this was the opposite!

📝 Note: There is a toilette version of the Guerlain, so make sure you sniff test the “forte” / edp version, it’s stronger. I got it on an excellent price, I don’t remember exactly but it was around 66€ I believe, for a 75ml on authentic online retailers. I’m in Germany though, so check with your country. I do 99% of my perfume purchases online for that reason, better prices.

For the love of fragrance, I thought I’d do a little comparison review on both of these. Especially because they’re often compared to one another. Let me know your face caramel fragrances. 🤗🤍

Review is based on skin application. I also tried to monitor from spray till dry down. This is what my nose & skin picked.

Kayali Boujee Kitty Caramel Milk: Sweet, dense but smooth & creamy, indulging delicious caramel. I get a whiff of that salted caramel note in between the overall caramel scent profile, as well as the white chocolate, it doesn’t scream but it is there. Though I cannot smell the marshmallow well but I’m sure it’s doing its job merging the notes together into that indulging creamy caramel. Everything is so very well & smoothly blended im impressed! 🤍🍮

For that reason I find this very fun, enjoyable & inviting to layer. If you needed a caramel base in your perfume combo, this is definitely one that could be relied on to give exactly that, without clashing. I have already made several stunning combos with it, you can check some of them on my page.

Is it spectacular & different or unique? No. But does it give me that gourmand delicious caramel? Yes. It’s very well made even within its simplicity which makes it easy to wear & foolproof to play with!🥛🍮

Ellis Brooklyn Queens Caramel: I got this a year ago, haven’t sniffed it since last Dec/jan, what happened bestie? 😔 I feel like it got lighter than when I first got it… or is it because I’m comparing both side by side? Maybe. When I first got it, it had that strong indulgent caramel I just mentioned, as well as am able to smell the maple syrup more.

Now I’m comparing them side by side, boujee kitty is sweeter, stronger, has a lot more caramel. The milk & white chocolate more prominent. While queens caramel is lighter & airier. However even though it’s lighter, it is still a pretty caramel perfume with a maple syrup touch!

Conclusion: They’re both nice & you can definitely say they’re similar, but not the same. Boujee kitty projects & last longer, more inviting, easier & better performance in layering. Queens caramel would smell best used with a suitable body spray & be its own show.

You may have different results, thats what’s fascinating about our noses & skin chemistry. Thank you for taking the time to read my review. 🤗💕

This perfume has been a pleasure playing with, it is so easy & inviting to layer. I didn’t expect it!🤗💕

Layering is one of my favorite way to enjoy my perfumes, you have no idea how many layers beautifully together in your collection! The perfume bubble you create, makes any perfume no matter how viral, special to you. You won’t have a signature scent, you’ll have a signature scent bubble no matter what perfume you wore that day!🤗💕

It elevate, gives it more of a dimension that enhances the notes in your main fragrance. But most importantly make it last longer & better projection. I’m not a fan of changing the perfume scent, just support it. Compliment getter!

So de Janeiro Cheirosa 62 + Kayali Boujee Kitty Caramel Milk: This one is simple, light, the same vanilla, caramel, pistachio & almond we know of 62 but with an extra oomph to its caramel base. You may pull this of this season, go with a light hand on the caramel & it’s perfecto!😋💕

So de Janeiro Cheirosa 62 + Kayali Boujee Kitty Caramel Milk + Eclaire Pistasche: Gorgeous! Nutty pistachios sitting on a delicious vanilla with extra caramel base. Boujee kitty gives the caramel in 62 a boost, making the perfume absolutely delectable. 😋🥜

Sol de Janeiro Leite Café + Phlur Heavy Cream + Kayali Boujee Kitty Caramel Milk: Hi! Can I have a Caramel Latte macchiato with extra caramel & whipped cream on top please?🤗 Is exactly what this scent it. It’s creamy, mild latte & beautifully unique scent. 🤍🍮

Sol de Janeiro Leite Café + Kayali Boujee Kitty Caramel Milk + Kayali Freedom Musk Latte: Caramel latte macchiato with an extra shot please!😋 This one is a more intense latte than the other one, it is also more unisex! You can apply Boujee Kitty under or above Kayali Musk Latte depending on the strength you enjoy! ☕️

Honestly… the options are endless! It is a very easy, fun & inviting fragrance to layer. I did not expect that. Yummy layering options:👇🏽

1️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + phlur heavy cream: caramel drink with extra cream + whipped cream on top. 🤍🍮

2️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + ellis brooklyn marshmallows: delicious marshmallow caramel. 🍡🍮

3️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + kayali vanilla candy rock sugar: vanilla caramel candy. 🍭🍮 You can add ellis brooklyn marshmallow for extra marshmallow or phlur vanilla skin for sexy spicy vanilla. Delicious for date nights or night outs.

4️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + sol de janeiro Leite Café: light caramel latte ☕️ and if you want extra cream, add phlur heavy cream. 🥛☕️

5️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + kayali freedom musk latte: heavier coffee latte, also leans more unisex. Add phlur heavy cream for extra cream if you’d like. 🤍☕️

6️⃣ Kayali boujee kitty caramel milk + kayali oudgasm vanilla oud: vanilla caramel on a light vanilla oud base. Great especially for at night.

I don’t have Bianco latte & I don’t like eclaire, great caramel but too alcohol’y. I have queens caramel & although they’re similar I only used it few times. This perfume brought something to my collection table. I find it nicer in layering with my perfumes, but I completely understand how this can seem repetitive to many. 🤍

Got it few days ago & had to do a little first impression review to the new sister of one of my fave fragrance. What’s your thoughts?

La Bomba OG is SEXY. It’s very balanced, sweetness, fruitiness, floral & tropical that just makes it DIVINE! Sophisticated, classy, chic, flirty & unique for a designer mass appealing fragrance.

Unfortunately, intense doesn’t smell like it’s an intense version of the OG, but a completely different profile. However, I am a sweet fruity lover as well & I like it for what it is. It is nice but it is not an “intense” of the OG, it’s just another perfume.

When I first sprayed it, apart from being very sweet & fruity, I smelt a strong passion fruit note? What was that fruit? Cause, it didn’t smell like berries nor anything in the notes pyramid. The passion fruit scent stayed for a while until it calmed a bit. I paired it with Ellis Brooklyn “Love Pom” and it definitely elevated it, made it very nice & fun to wear.

One last thing there are some medicinal scent claim, when I started smelling it with that medicinal scent/ taste in mind, I could correlate it to that, though at first I didn’t, so definitely sniff test it before purchasing. It isn’t unbearable or a problem for me.

I’m a bit sad tbh, I thought my sexy perfume was getting even sexier, but I got the little playful sister version, which also has her time but, I have lots of fruity fragrances I wanted the uniqueness & sophistication of the OG to also be present in the intense version. Even if it’s different scent, I’d be happier if it had the same qualities the OG has. Currently, it smells like my other fruity designer perfumes. Well made, but far repetitive.