perfume diaries #6
Today was very exciting, I got the chance to peruse the selection of britney spears perfumes at chemist warehouse and priceline!! And got myself a 30mL bottle of her midnight fantasy. And can I just say. For a $24.99 bottle of perfume, I am wowed. Not only has it stood the test of time- it's been a major seller since the mid 2000s (it's literally 19 years old), but the scent itself is really nice. It's top notes are plum, raspberry and cherry, as I mentioned in another post, it's one of the most popular cherry scents out there. The middle and bottom notes of amber/musk and white florals really back up this scent too. It's pleasant, not overbearingly sweet, definitely fruity. I'm post- maturely jealous of the fourteen year old girls who wore this at its peak, who clearly had more sophisticated tastes than I do at 22. The scent settles from fruit to florals to a gentle musk after a little while of wear, and does have to be reapplied pretty often, but the bottle is pretty easy to carry around, and for the price, reapplication every hour or so is a luxury it can afford.
The comments on this regard it as a bit of a juvenile perfume, which I think is an old school way to think, considering today's twelve year old girls have moved from harmless, inexpensive celebrity perfumes to my behated (not really) sol de janeiro, which is wayyyyy more overbearing and sweet, and expensive, and low-key an appropriation of Hawaiian girl culture. I've come to the understanding that vanilla is a valid scent, it's old school and classic and generally enjoyed, meanwhile caramel is the juvenile scent. But even I don't really care for what other people wear.
The other scents I was considering purchasing included her hidden fantasy, which I definitely will purchase one day, but not on this occasion because the notes were too similar to my Eilish no. 1, and I didn't want to double up. Also fantasy sheer, which looks interesting considering it's blend of sweet, aquatic, floral and fruity.
Much love and more to come.
