I gotta agree with Beans review about this smelling like a blue Jolly Rancher. Barbe a Papa is going between a blue raspberry note and chemicals on my skin. As this wears the chemical smell vanishes and the blue raspberry note softens and looses it’s initial fruity tang. Hmmm it’s been about 10 minutes and I smell like a blue raspberry scented doll head, lol. Does anybody remember the vintage strawberry shortcake dolls and their smell? Well I smell like a blue raspberry replica! I usually HATE plastic smells on my skin but I’m strangely intrigued by the aroma. I’ll probably end up giving this to one of my friends teenage daughters as I can’t see myself reaching for this too often. I’ll have to experiment some with layering but I wasn’t expecting this punch of blue raspberry. It’s not bad, again it was just an unexpected result with my skin chemistry. I just realized that I’m burning a Mr Hex’s Blue Slushy Lemonade incense stick. I guess the theme of the day is blue raspberry. Yesterday it was banana and the day before I attempted rose. Barbe a Papa settles into a soft candied blue raspberry scent on my skin.
A fruity, buttercream frosting, cotton candy scent. I like it.
Mmmm, much refined sugary goodness fills my nostrils as soon as I pop the top. A bit of carnival/ fair nostalgia comes with it. I get the rich “pink” sweetness that I expected, but there’s an unforeseen cuddly warmth to it that I dig. I get a blast of tropical/ citrus fruit too, which has been a running theme with cotton candy from Hex. Idk if my nose is just broken on this or if there’s a complexity to the fruit aspect that just reads EXTRA. It never smells like strawberry, which is supposedly what classic cotton candy is? On my skin, it stays true. The warm presence melds it well to my skin; it’s soft and lovely. That melding gives it just a little bump up from childish. It’s still recognizable cotton candy, but I’m not mad at it. It’s all about the warm, airy sugar and it never goes cloying for me. That’s likely going to be personal preference. I love gourmand. I can go for a good straight foodie sometimes too. This 100% works for those categories. I would personally buy Cloven over this for the addition of spice depth. They’re similar enough. The dry down here is less fruity and more sugar but always staying true to the cotton candy vibe in the bottle. I get good wear out of it, lasting for several hours. I like it, but don’t love it. Ambivalence prevails. If you’re looking for a straight-up cotton candy that sits well on skin and maintains its character all the way through, this is worth a test. Otherwise, I’m recommending Cloven. That one won my heart.
I was expecting this to be straight up pink cotton candy but it is not. It’s very sugary sweet and fruity like candied raspberries. It would be great for layering to add sweetness.
This is distinctly blue jolly rancher to me. And I’m definitely not complaining. there’s a bit of that burnt sugar cotton candy scent, but it’s not overly detectable. However, the way it dried on the hair tie on my wrist is definitely more of a cotton candy scent, so it may just be my skin that’s amping the fruitiness. Either way I really enjoy this blend. It’s a very happy candy scent.
I gotta agree with Beans review about this smelling like a blue Jolly Rancher. Barbe a Papa is going between a blue raspberry note and chemicals on my skin. As this wears the chemical smell vanishes and the blue raspberry note softens and looses it’s initial fruity tang. Hmmm it’s been about 10 minutes and I smell like a blue raspberry scented doll head, lol. Does anybody remember the vintage strawberry shortcake dolls and their smell? Well I smell like a blue raspberry replica! I usually HATE plastic smells on my skin but I’m strangely intrigued by the aroma. I’ll probably end up giving this to one of my friends teenage daughters as I can’t see myself reaching for this too often. I’ll have to experiment some with layering but I wasn’t expecting this punch of blue raspberry. It’s not bad, again it was just an unexpected result with my skin chemistry. I just realized that I’m burning a Mr Hex’s Blue Slushy Lemonade incense stick. I guess the theme of the day is blue raspberry. Yesterday it was banana and the day before I attempted rose. Barbe a Papa settles into a soft candied blue raspberry scent on my skin.
A fruity, buttercream frosting, cotton candy scent. I like it.
Mmmm, much refined sugary goodness fills my nostrils as soon as I pop the top. A bit of carnival/ fair nostalgia comes with it. I get the rich “pink” sweetness that I expected, but there’s an unforeseen cuddly warmth to it that I dig. I get a blast of tropical/ citrus fruit too, which has been a running theme with cotton candy from Hex. Idk if my nose is just broken on this or if there’s a complexity to the fruit aspect that just reads EXTRA. It never smells like strawberry, which is supposedly what classic cotton candy is? On my skin, it stays true. The warm presence melds it well to my skin; it’s soft and lovely. That melding gives it just a little bump up from childish. It’s still recognizable cotton candy, but I’m not mad at it. It’s all about the warm, airy sugar and it never goes cloying for me. That’s likely going to be personal preference. I love gourmand. I can go for a good straight foodie sometimes too. This 100% works for those categories. I would personally buy Cloven over this for the addition of spice depth. They’re similar enough. The dry down here is less fruity and more sugar but always staying true to the cotton candy vibe in the bottle. I get good wear out of it, lasting for several hours. I like it, but don’t love it. Ambivalence prevails. If you’re looking for a straight-up cotton candy that sits well on skin and maintains its character all the way through, this is worth a test. Otherwise, I’m recommending Cloven. That one won my heart.
I was expecting this to be straight up pink cotton candy but it is not. It’s very sugary sweet and fruity like candied raspberries. It would be great for layering to add sweetness.
This is distinctly blue jolly rancher to me. And I’m definitely not complaining. there’s a bit of that burnt sugar cotton candy scent, but it’s not overly detectable. However, the way it dried on the hair tie on my wrist is definitely more of a cotton candy scent, so it may just be my skin that’s amping the fruitiness. Either way I really enjoy this blend. It’s a very happy candy scent.