Tropical, creamy vanilla with a sweet feminine profile.

This opens with a burst of super sweet juicy orange and pear with Jasmine announcing itself. There’s an immediate pang of familiarity, it’s a bit like Prada Paradoxe in its dry down (minus the ambroxan) and other super sweet, feminine fragrances of the 2020s.

But after 5-10mins it settles to become its own perfume. The sweetness eases slightly, the orange flower water is more delicate on your nose than the bergamot that is used in other perfumes with a similar profile, and then the coconut milk starts to gently come through. This isn’t overly coconutty, there’s just enough in here to give it a velvety, tropical edge. My nose doesn’t pick up any pink pepper in this accord at all. Maybe a tiny hint of spice, but maybe my nostrils are reaching here lol!

In the dry down, I’m getting what I now think is the Phlur DNA that’s in Missing Person and Vanilla Skin with the benzoin and sandalwood. It makes for a slightly creamy, sweet tropical vanilla but it’s gentle with a warm comforting, ambery base. An interesting observation, the morning after sampling this, I woke up and smelt my arm where I sprayed Golden Rule and it smelt like Missing Person.

I think this is a safe wear for a shared office on a sunny day. If you’re already a fan of Vanilla Skin and fancy a sweet tropical version, without the musk, for the summer, then this might be perfect for you. If you dislike super sweet perfumes, then you’ll likely dislike this.