Scandinavica

All-nighter, rainy streets, cold leather seats in the cab, sweat like glitter on her skin, lipstick on her shirt collar, she is long gone, but a part of her remains.
Burning fireplace, two half-empty red wine glasses, lying on the sofa, her head on her lap, her fingers stroking through his hair.

This fragrance can evoke both associations; She's a strong, headstrong boss babe and your understanding wife all in one.
Top notes open with a boozy cherry (I don't smell rum out), and sweet resinous aromas. In the course continues a lot of cherry buzz, a touch of Bulgarian(?) Rose and I perceive something spicy direction cloves. Sounds with well-behaved, now sobered cherry, musc and patchouli after 5h+ aus.

I feel Melting Lust as feminine, but the right man can certainly wear it stylishly, so no false shyness!

Where is Chloe and what have you done with her? Anyone expecting the typical Chloe DNA will be disappointed here. I've already tested Lumineuse several times over the past few days and I'm not warming up to it.

I personally don't smell any of the rose, which I usually find successful in Chloe. I perceive amber and a powdery-dry, synthetic vanilla, accompanied by jasmine and a fruity nuance that I had interpreted as orange before I read the notes.
The powder synthetic also remains throughout and reminds me of a note I've noticed more often in perfumes lately; in "Un Jardin à Cythère | Hermès" dry grass is mentioned as a note, in "Memori - Coeur Azuki | Kenzo" rice/vanilla. In the dry down, all that really remains is powder and something slightly resinous.

I would like to like it, but unfortunately it gives me a headache, even though the notes actually fall right into my sweet tooth.
Maybe I can fall in love with it if someone else wears it...

I've never been a Barbie girl and I've had super good, but also pretty disappointing experiences with Lush perfumes.

... What I absolutely am, however, is a sweet-gourmand-candy girl - and hell yeah, that's what's on offer.

The opening is berry-sweet; I can't clearly smell orange, it's more like a raspberry-cherry lolly, accompanied by a tonka bean that is more vanilla than woody. The fruitiness remains and after a short time develops into a fragrance that reminds me of a certain Build-A-Bear scent I once had. Barbie remains linear and lasts a solid 4h+ until it fades out with a skin-hugging floral (champaca?) tonka almond.

Must buy? - Well, yes.
But I don't understand the bad reviews. Barbie smells... Like Barbie and doesn't take herself too seriously, but is surprisingly wearable.

I admit it, I bought it blind... The price was okay and I couldn't test it, but the notes on another relevant perfume community sounded really good!

Well, unfortunately they correspond to an alleged version from 2018 (which is not even listed here on Parfumo?!) and not the one here. The listed base notes were vanilla, amber, tonka, almond and labdanum, heart of rose, jasmine and iris, geranium and bergamot as top notes. So I was expecting an ambery vanilla-tonka scent, accompanied by rose and jasmine.
But what I got were the notes listed here and - whew - iris, musk, white flowers, elemi(?!). Very old-fashioned, heavy and somehow aldehydic, so it's time to move out again.
Will I learn my lesson from this? - Probably not...

I get to the point quickly: I tested it once on a test strip and once on skin. It comes across as slightly synthetically powdery and creamy when sprayed on, there is no real division into head and heart, as is the case with many synthetic fragrance creations. But this combination of jasmine, sandalwood, peppery note and vanilla with "cashmere" aftertaste seemed familiar to me...
At home I look at the shelf and know it immediately: Sunny Side Up is the fuller version of Zadig & Voltaire's "This is Her!". Sunny Side Up looks a bit "more natural" when compared directly; the wood looks more authentic, the overall composition is a bit less sweet and clearly has the weaker Sillage.

They are both very mild and unagitated and therefore absolutely suitable for everyday use, but if you don't mind the extra sweetness, I recommend to buy the "Dupe" (Sunny Side Up actually came on the market later) from Z&V and to save the 30€.