Everything & Nothing

This whole line has turned out to be one that I find interesting and unique. This is candy and baby aspirin (yes! that is exactly it!), girly and frilly, this is a scent for Lolita girls in their ribbons and bows on a mild spring day. Opening with an effervescent Orange and white flowers, the vetiver smooths it into hard candy on the drydown.

I bought a set of 4 Tokyo Milk rollerballs that included Tainted Love, Bulletproof, La Vie La Mort, and this one. This was my least favorite one when I first tried it as it made me recoil in disgust. It was too strong and artificial smelling and I HATED it. Fast forward about 6 months and I'm craving something different, something a bit more fresh and happy and light. I pull this one out and sniff it and think "Okay, I'll try this one again". So I do. And I end up coming back to this everyday for two weeks. The artificial orange (which is literally all I smell when I wear this fragrance) really grew on me and now I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a full bottle or not. For whatever reason it just makes me so happy and gives me uplifting fuzzy feelings. Makes me picture being in the orange grove that used to be by my childhood home. So yeah this is basically a mouthwatering orange scent that starts out loud and strong and then calms down after a bit.

Sweet, plastic orange. There's a grassy softness to it thanks to the vetiver and white florals, but sadly that only serves to bolster the screechy, cloying top note. I agree with the reviewer below who compared this to an orange Tic-Tac. It's like an orange Tic-Tac hand soap. Pass.

I really like this scent, the balance of white florals, sweet orange, and earthier notes like moss and tea is just somehow magical. It's like Red Riding Hood traipsing through the forest with a basket of goodies. The first hit once applied is a sweet freshness, like entering a meadow to pick wildflowers while the scents wafting from the basket mix with those of the distant forest. The orange scent weaves in and out here, but doesn't really read as "citrus" to me, and certainly isn't tropical; it somehow comes off as a more gourmand note, like thin candied orange slices. In these opening notes, I pick up the white florals perhaps the strongest, but they are balanced by the orange so it doesn't come off as a traditionally floral perfume. Even though sweet, it is not cloying, nor overpowering. After an hour of this pleasant sweetness, the Earthier tones start coming through, as if Red's gone from the dewy meadow to the outskirts of a damp forest, and is now picking her way through the underbrush and getting her bearings. The sweet scent is still there, but lighter, now flanked by richer scents of moss and tea. It's this middle wear which is my favorite, though I love it start to finish. The earthiness grows deeper for a while, as if going deeper into the forest, with the day wearing on, with perhaps the scent of a wolf snatched up by the breeze now and then. But then it begins to lighten again. The tea recedes, though the moss still balances the sweetness, as if I've gone past the thickest trees and am headed to the other side. The sweeter orange scent begins to fade entirely. At last even the moss recedes, and everything lightens, as if we've finally reached Grandma's house and are inside now, but the scent of the forest still comes through the window. The "final form" of the perfume rests very close to the skin as a soft tea-tinted floral, as if Red finds real-grandma waiting, not a wolf, and grandma gives her a cup of soothing green tea with petals afloat to rest after the journey.

Only scent I have ever bought blind and it might be my favorite. Has a subtle musty-ness to it that makes reminiscent of old book smell. I'd describe it as "musty orange", which makes it sound awful, when it's really such a mature and comforting scent. It smells clean in a lived-in kind of way. Smells like I've just finished eating an orange at my grandparent's house. I find it much more masculine than others here have. It's completely gender neutral to me.