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Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:10 pm  |
I'm not sure if it's OK to write perfume reviews here since I so rarely see them, but I'm SO impressed with this perfume I thought I would give it a shot.
Some background on me: I'm one of those poor souls who flat-out can't wear perfume. I can't wear most lotions. Everything gives me terrible migraines. Even many candles will make me feel instantly sick. I pretty much have to take my life in my hands to go into a joint like Victoria's Secret or Bath and Body Works, and running by the perfume counters at department stores is the equivalent for me of running the gauntlet. Believe you me, I WOULD that this were not the case. I'm sooooo envious of the women who can wear Chanel no 5 to bed and nothing else. Luckily I have discovered a few scents I can wear, and I'm incredibly thankful for them. Burt's Bees Baby Bee scent is one of the few, and that's why I'm STILL pestering Burt's to bring the solid perfume back! However, hope does spring eternal, and so when I swapped for a decant of Serendipity 3 in a roller bottle on MUA I thought to myself "I'll just apply the tiniest drop to my wrist, and maybe I'll be ok." I was expecting the worst--- I've done the same experiment many a time, only to end up in bed with a headache for 3 days straight--- not cool! However, this time I got pleasantly surprised: from the very minute it hit my skin it smelled sexy and delicious, and there was not a hint of that twinge of pain that signals a migraine. An hour passed. 2 hours. 12 hours. 24 hours! At the 24 hour mark I knew I had a winner. I could still smell it (and it only smelled better by the hour!), and I had experienced no headache whatsoever.
In the official description for Serendipitous it says its notes are: cocoa, vanilla, and blood orange. Judging by the reviews on MUA it will smell different on everyone based on their chemistry, but on me it smells like milk chocolate, vanilla ice cream, and caramelized sugar. Very warm and inviting--- DH loves it on me. However, I'd like to point out that that I absolutely can't abide overly sweet, syrupy fragrances like most drugstore vanilla perfumes, pink sugar, BBW Warm Vanilla Sugar, etc. They are all way too sweet and make me feel ill. Serendipitous is just right. If anyone else is sensitive to scents like me, or if anyone has been looking for that perfect warm, chocolate fragrance, this one is a winner.
You can buy Serendipitous at various perfume sites such as luckyscent.com for around $38 a bottle. You can also buy samples on ebay or swap for them on MUA if you're interested in trying before you buy. Love the bottle too--- very classy.
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