Huda Beauty Easy Bake Intense Perfume- A Review!! 🍒
So, I got my hands on the infamous Huda Beauty Easy Bake Intense perfume. Just for reference I haven’t tried the first version that came out. I have had this for about 2 weeks and have been wearing it on and off during that time.
Now apparently many people were excited since this was a cherry vanilla perfume and also that the first perfume was appreciated but was limited edition.
My First impressions: 🍒
As soon as you spray it, you get a slight cherry but it almost instantly gets to the middle notes. I didn’t find the juicy cherry which they have described. For me, I get more of a dry cherry scent with slight powdery notes. It starts off slightly like those vintage perfumes associated with granny, which honestly had me constantly sniffing my wrist because I couldn't decide if I liked it or not, but it really grew on me over time. I just kept sniffing it, and honestly, I still think it’s sexy and confident in a way.
Also, just to clear it out, I don’t think this is the exact same as the Huda Easy Bake loose powder scent. It does share some of that DNA, but it’s really not the same.
Notes: 📝
• Top: Wild Cherry.
• Heart: White Flower, Cinnamon Bark, Caramel Milk.
• Base: Vanilla Bourbon.
How it actually wears:
Once that quick cherry opening passes, it goes straight into the middle notes, and here’s where I think people are comparing it to fish. Now it’s not mentioned in the notes but, I feel (to my nose) like there’s some indolic florals like tuberose and ylang ylang (esp ylang which I also found slightly sour). I feel these notes, which are not mentioned in the notes, are what gives people that fishy note. These notes were present in the og perfume so I won’t be surprised if these are in this version as well.
Along with that ylang and white flowers, there’s this slight spicy kick from cinnamon. The cinnamon just gives it some depth and warmth and it's not as strong in your face as the one in Lattafa Khamrah.
(Personally, I do get some slight powderiness as well in the middle but no such note is mentioned)
Then it settles into this creamy, slightly boozy, sweet (not in a very lactonic way) vanilla bourbon. As it dries down, the base feels very modern. It basically transforms into something completely different than what it started with.
Performance: 🕰️
• Longevity: It lasts for a good 6-7 hrs.
• Projection & Sillage: It projects nicely for the first 3 hrs (like 2-3 feet) and after that it settles into a skin scent.
• Sillage is mild to moderate.
• Maceration: I did notice that it macerated a lot in just these 2 weeks. I noticed it changed quite a bit over the last 2 weeks, and it may continue to develop with time, as many middle eastern fragrances do.
Vibe check and setting: 🎭
Okay, picture a woman getting ready for a late night lounge or a classy autumn evening. She’s dressed in a sleek, deep cherry red silk dress with a vintage leather jacket over it. As she walks into the room, she leaves a heavy, confident and mysterious trail of white flowers and that slightly sour ylang ylang, but it's warmed up and made cozy by the kick of cinnamon. By the end of the night, as she's unwinding with a drink, the scent has completely melted into a modern, gorgeous skin scent of boozy vanilla bourbon and sweet caramel milk. It's vintage leaning at first, but ends up super modern and dark.
Character aesthetic: 🎬
Midge Maisel (from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) but make it edgy. It perfectly captures her exact energy. She comes from that classic, proper vintage era (the powdery, floral opening), but then she gets the divorce, defies everything expected of her, and goes out to build her own career and earn her own money. She keeps that hyper feminine, gorgeous vintage look on the outside, but she has a sharp, independent, modern grit underneath.
This perfume is exactly that! 🤌
It basically starts off smelling like a vintage old vanity but completely transforms into this modern, independent, boozy vanilla.
Zodiac vibe: ♏️ ♉️
Scorpio or Taurus. It has that deep, slightly mysterious, and polarizing energy.
But wear whatever you want to, this is just for fun!
Season: 🍂
Fall and Winter. The warmth of the cinnamon and that boozy vanilla bourbon base make it perfect for cold weather.
Blind buy safe??
No, definitely not.
Now, does it smell like fish to me? NO. Most definitely not. This perfume is like how olympea is compared to a swimming pool or urinal. I love olympea though. So I guess it’s quite subjective and depends on how different nose perceives it. If your nose is sensitive to heavy, indolic florals, you might not like it.
TL;DR:
• No fish.
• It’s powdery cherry that quickly turns into a heavy white floral (slightly sour ylang note and warm cinnamon), which settles into a modern, slightly boozy sweet vanilla bourbon.
• Lasts 6-7 hours and needs to be macerated.
• Not a safe blind buy. Test it first!
Disclaimer:
This is written by me, a human. These are solely and solely my views.
I am just sharing my free perspective on a free platform. If it doesn’t resonate with you, that’s totally fine. Please skip.
If u choose to comment, I kindly ask that you to keep it respectful.
[Purchased with my own money. NOT PROMOTING OR BEING SPONSORED BY ANY BRAND(S) SHOWN/ MENTIONED HERE.]