If Chanel No. 5 was like the Godmother whom introduced the whole wonderful perfume world to me, light-hearted floral fruity perfumes from Moschino are like cute little friends I’d have when I was in primary school, without too much grown-up’s worries, Moschino opens up a world of curiousity and fascinations of simple things, mostly yummy, light-spirited and fun.
I remember about three years ago, when I was standing in front of the Moschino section in a duty-free shop, sniffing and comparing. The striking similarity of Funny! and I Love Love was one of the first things which tripped me over to the fume world and hooked me up to my perfume addiction :) Funny at that time I was just trying to find the ‘better’ one from the two, because I only wanted one bottle for myself. Little did I know, soon after that, I’d started my investment to my perfume wardrobe.
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| Image of five Moschino miniature perfumes. |
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- I Love Love by Moschino
As time pass by, I Love Love gets a bit more floral, it is not the typical floral centred smell I can put my hands on; it is just a conceptual floral hint, vaguely there, like a chiffon scarf flying in the wind. Somehow, this floral hint blended well with the fading citrusy note and evokes an optimistic feeling. I guess this is what I Love Love is aiming at—optimism, just like most of people would feel when they all of a sudden, falling in love, all the hopes and bubbly feelings.
Since this is not a typical sensual perfume, I Love Love smells like something would please most of the office workers who want something nice and inoffensive.
- Cheap and Chic Moschino
Cheap and Chic Moschino is an interesting scent, which goes from promising to something I’d love to steer away from.
Upon application, it’s sweet, but not that sweet; it’s floral, but that that floral. It’s like a nice balance of nearly everything which has now been amplified so much to power-house grade in most of the commercial perfumes launched around 2010. The start of vaguely floral and fruity notes is like a shy smell on a child’s face. Soon after, there’s this slightly peach-y tone mingled in. Somehow, it makes me think of those simplistic little black dresses. It wouldn’t stand out, but it wouldn’t make you feel uncomfortable either. Just when I thought that this is going to be one of those easy-to-wear scent, a rather weird tart-citrusy-mix-with-rice-powder kind of accord comes and just lingering around. I guess I’m quite discriminate towards anything triggers me into thinking about rice powder, to me, it’s a note/accord which simply shouldn’t be worn (similar to Amour by Kenzo, I had hard time to like it). The sharp yet powdery combination lasts for a while, which oddly makes me think of witches with pointy noses. I guess this is actually the failed peach-y accord here(which was also found in many of the En Voyage Perfumes peach dominant ones), a bit too harsh and never juice enough to my taste.
- Light Clouds
Light Clouds, from the Cheap and Chic range of Moschino, how I always wanted to try it on due to the cute bottle and a weird yet nice association of it to infants and push toys.
The start of Light Clouds is oh so delicious, in a pasty coloured, fluffy, dreamy way. I can smell a rather nice and soft sweetness here, as appose to the typical high voltage sugar smell from many perfumes launched these days. The sweetness is kind of fruity-sweet, but I cannot really tell what type of specific fruit it is—it’s like a fine blend of real life gold delicious apple scent with some stone fruits, subtle and somewhat quite unnaturally nature to me.
Soon after the top notes, some watery rose scent and baby-powder accord added in. It feels really soft and light. Somehow it reminds me a bit of Versace’s Baby Rose Jeans, but Light Clouds had a more gourmand quality added in, which somehow reminiscent a whiff of brown sugar on some morning cereal.
The scent stays rather linear, lightly rose scented, a bit light gourmand with the significantly soft and snugly quasi-baby powder feel to it.
I guess Light Clouds will be in my lovely comforting scent list, however, as light as it seems to be, I still find that one spray of this would do, for the powdery aspect sometimes might appear rather overwhelming.
- Glamour
Moschino Glamour represents quite a lot of the newly released perfumes in the past five years. Quasi-watery freshness plus a pinch of sugar and floral accord. Not bad as a mundane scent, however, glamorous? I don’t smell so.
The opening of Glamour is near-aquatic sweet floral, somehow overloaded with a kind of apple-y sweetness. A similar opening can also be found in Aqua di Gioia, by Giogio Armani.
After about 5 minutes, Glamour becomes a bit sweeter, tarter and thank goodness, the aquatic quality is nearly gone (not sure why, I find the aquatic accord, which normally found in ‘sports’ perfumes, smells really pretentious and somewhat stink in its own way). The tart sweetness has a slightly canned-nectarine-mixed-with-white-flower quality, syrup-y and somehow mouth-wateringly delicious, somehow, this is quite similar to Orange Sunset by Hugo Boss; however, unfortunately, I find the sweetness a bit overly done and when inhaled a bit too much, I do find myself dealing with a mild headache. As the perfume develops, it reminds me a lot of Juice Couture’s Juice Couture, but a bit fresher.
Then the scent simply dries down to something quieter.
Not impressed, and since the weird orange-white-floral combo is not my usual thing, I’d say it’s not even a decant-worth one to me.
- Toujours Glamour
Toujours Glamour actually surprised me a little in a good way, in comparison with Glamour. Even though it is a bit generic, as many other newly released perfumes orientated towards the floral-soapy-clean-powdery end, it is pleasant enough.
The beginning is quite unsweetened bergamont-y refreshing along with a slight hint of cooling violet-y floral notes. Somehow it’s like a violet version of baby powder to me, quite comforting in a way.
As Toujours Glamour develops, it settles down with a rather quite hint of green, zesty, palm leave type of blissful smell, similar to Palm Beach, by Micheal Kors, the difference is, Toujours Glamour has the added violet-y and nutty-powdery notes here to bring it to a more neutral daily floral-y spectrum. Somehow it’s like a perfect cross between Palm Beach by Micheal Kors and L’Instant Magic by Guerlain.
I would not really go crazy for this scent, however, if I don’t have anything to wear, I don’t mind to put this one on either. Anyway, nice improvement on the Glamour flanker Moschino.
