Review of Stella Sheer Perfume for Women by Stella McCartney

I was curious to try her new scent, "Sheer", since I'd heard so many hype reviews of her classic "Stella" and it's considered a best-seller. Ok, so the conclusion is: I am totally in love. I usually am quite critical of perfumes in the past, but this scent epitomizes the quite perfect and unique balance between florals and citrus, and ultimately feminine and playful *without* smelling too immature, or cheap drugstore material. I think what also makes it so unique, is the fact that Stella uses harvested Persian roses from a mountain in the middle east. It's a rose scent for sure, but it's a very delicate and beautiful, unique-scented rose.

The first words that come to my mind, after smelling this on my skin: Fresh, feminine, Mediterranean blue, summer picnics, sea breeze, flowers. Imagine summertime under a canopy by the beach. Your love has brought you pink roses and the scent still lingers in the air. Sipping on sugary lemon and green apple teas. Your fresh cotton tunic catching the breeze and smelling of clean laundry. Just beautiful, youthful, feminine. This scent transforms beautifully. It starts off quite energetic, with citrus notes dancing, but then gradually settles into a softer floral amber (still with the citrus detectable-- lovely!).

I really love this scent. I recommend it especially for the summer.

Kim Kardashian Eau De Parfum Rollerball

I was pleasantly surprised with this scent, but it's nothing incredibly memorable, in my opinion. It's supposed to smell sultry and sensual, and sure, it sort of does, but a little too generic. It definitely smells feminine without being "over the top," though.

I had tried another rose-rich scent before, the popular one by Stella, but it smells like rotten roses on my skin. However, the KK (Kim Kardashian) scent ended up smelling like actual roses on my skin, with a hint of soft vanilla tuberose.

This seems like a more toned-down version of the Victoria's Secret "Sexy Little Things." It is jam-packed with a bunch of different scents, like jasmine, tuberose, orange blossom, orchid mandarin and gardenia (mainly florals), and for the musky undertones: tonka bean, jacaranda wood, and sandalwood. Usually, scents will evolve over time, smelling the top notes first (usually citruses), then middle notes (usually florals), then the heavy undertones (musks, vanillas, etc). However, this scent seemed to smell the same way on my skin over some hours, which is sort of boring, in my opinion. Additionally, this is not a very long-lasting scent, at least in the rollerball form. It's a nice, "safe" female scent, but may turn out more sensual and exotic on other skins.

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