Perfume-Celebrity Perfume-Britney Spears-Curious

Curious is one of the Britney Spears’ perfumes that I actually find easy to wear (in comparison with some high-voltage sugary flankers introduced year after year). The start is really watery (not aquatic sports perfume-y, thank god), feminine, with the magnolia wrapped with fresh discreet pear scent. It is sweet, but in a nice, girl-next-door sweet way if not over-applied.

After a while, it gets warmer with the vanilla-y notes coming in, but it’s not that in-your-face cake-y vanilla, it’s soft, smooth, and a good supporting background vanilla for the floral notes. Somehow it makes me think of high school, comfy beanbags and carefree girls (vice versa, high school girls do wear Curious a lot in my memory).

I find the final dry down a bit unstructured or too wishy washy, since it’s a washed down and warmed up, slightly stale and dustier version of the mid phase. However, since at this stage, people can barely smell it unless they press their noses against your skin, Curious gets my forgiveness.

Overall, it’s one of the celebrity perfumes I find nice to wear.

Perfume-Gorilla Perfume at Lush-Tuca Tuca

Tuca Tuca by Lush is quite a surprise; it is one of a kind in a way, judging it as an oriental floral perfume.  However, nice as it is, I find it a bit too edgy in a way that it falls in between grand and trashy (not literally, and by all means, all in a neutral or positive sense).

The scent develops rather linearly, it is like un-sweetened ylang-ylang mixed with woods, which resembles camphor/mothballs in a way, with a bit white floral type of light swirl of jasmine-like aura comes and goes. After checking the notes, I realised that the above smell is more a less a violet accord, oh well, violet does come in many different shapes, in Tuca Tuca, it is definitely a dried-up, bleached-off-of-the-nature-sweetness violet. The very start is slightly spicier and the final dry down is a bit more tamed.

I can see many violet lovers rave after Tuca Tuca, however, I prefer my violet smell more like the real dewy flower and would happily reach Apres L’Ondee by Guerlain, Aimez-Moi by Caron or Flower by Kenzo. However, to each of their own, Tuca Tuca may be a cult following by some, especially due to that Lush is quite a great company with either vegan or vegetarian-friendly products.

Perfume-Gorilla Perfume at Lush-Vanillary (solid)

The Vanillary (solid perfume) looks cute but to me it doesn't really have that much of a cute-cupcake-edible type of typical vanilla in it. It develops in a rather linear fashion with this really overbearing nuttiness and somewhat fuzzy hint of ink-ness in it, along with a really minimum level of vanilla hint. Somewhat this makes me (who had sweet edible vanilla experiences only) think if this perfume’s off, but…apparently it is not. As the scent gets warmed up, the nutty-ness gets closer to dried coconut shred, but in a non-tropical way and the vanilla brings the much needed lively-ness into the coconut-shred-y accord. The more towards the dry down, the more that there is a weird sense of butter-ness oozing out and haunt me, in such a strange way that I cannot decide if this is giving me a headache or I might become addicted to it.

To some this might smell heavenly, but I guess I'm not a fan of over-dried coconut-y scent combined with vanilla. I prefer my vanilla to be bald, oriental, maybe a bit woody or incense-y or even just a non-brainer type of gourmand-y delicious.

Will I buy it? Not really. Will I happily accept it if someone gifted me Vanillary? Yes! Because about half an hour after application, Vanillary is quite a mild non-bothering scent.

The bottom line? I would recommend you to try it, this could be one of those non-conventional vanilla you might actually end up liking.