Classic Skin

This was a blind buy that I picked up really cheap. I purchased one for myself and one for my 18-year-old daughter. This is a very intimate perfume. It is only for the wearer's enjoyment... and I like that sometimes! This is very nice and very feminine. I decided to wear this to work today with a nice dress. Also, I have errands to run, then I'm going to visit my Aunt who is sick and shut-in--I don't need a 10 foot trail of fragrance following me today. This has a melon note, that is not listed above. I am not a fan of melon or cucumber notes, they just don't sit well with me usually. But, the subtlety of the melon is done to my liking in this fragrance because it disappears pretty quickly. Additionally, it is a synthetic melon note. Non-melon lovers, like myself, will be able to cope with it being in there. This is a very nice fragrance that can be worn at anytime, during any season, and anyplace.

Out of 4 blind buys, this is the only one I don't regret!! I've become very sensitive to perfumes and can handle only light and airy, feminine type (have dozens upon dozens of beautiful perfumes that now give me instant migraine and nausea). So I tried researching and looking for something simple, light, yet feminine. This smells almost exactly like Chacharel Noa. Very powdery, somewhat sweet. Not too much musk, at least in my opinion...even though I see musk as the main note. This is what I would consider a safe perfume. It's an every day perfume, but even moreso in the fall and winter because of its powderiness and softness...makes you think of sweaters and coziness. One spray is all you need.

The original line's Clean Skin is soapier compared to the sweeter Reserve version, due to the lotus, mountain air accords, and lack of praline. Also due to the "melon" dew drop without any fruitiness. All of these different notes make the scent more fresh soapy and aquatic than sweet, although the amberwood and vanilla are doing heavy lifting to add sweetness to this. Fragrantica labels aquatic and ozonic as accords under musky, which make sense. I actually prefer the original, as the praline in the Reserve started clashing with the fresh salt accords after I finished my travel, purchasing a full size and receiving more mini travels. The clash made me nauseous and I could no longer wear it.

This fragrance is everything I hoped Glossier You would be lol. Truly a skin scent but despite the projection being very intimate, longevity is pretty decent on me. It's got equal parts musk, wood and floral and I find that mix altogether makes for a clean but soft scent that's good for daily wear. This was my signature scent about 10 years ago but unfortunately they stopped selling this physically in my country, which makes it a little less convenient to repurchase. I want to revisit this again one day.

I have a roller ball of EDT and a sample tube of EDP. I don't know how old they are. They both are purple but they smell different. From the EDT I get the vanilla and the honeydew and it's slightly coconut-y, it's a very soft and comforting scent. From the EDP I do get the vanilla and the honeydew but I also get more aquatic notes and the musk, it's more "clean" kind of scent and a bit tangy. I love my EDT but not the EDP. I wonder if the EDT of the pink bottle smells the same as my purple EDT.