"wasting a fragrance day on it" is a perfect way to describe my frustration from the failed expectations, adore your sense of humour, thank you, Veronica )
Veronica! I am not sure you know how amazing you are! Thank you for this video and so excited for 2023! Fun fact; you inspired me to make a video (my most recent upload - 2022 Fragrance Awards) - filmed it a week ago and just uploaded it. You are magic! Have a blessed and fulfilling 2023 ❤
Veronica you deserve an award for the wonderful content on your channel. That word, you repeated it almost six times, did you mean "moist" 😁..... Here I am I listing down few "more" of your recommendations, hopefully will be able to put my nose on these gems. 🏝Oasis, this is how I feel about Soleil Blanc TF. Jazz Club MM did not work for me, on my skin it leaned very masculine.
Hi Fatema! 💖 Yes, I hate the word "moist" but sometimes it's the only word that works! 😂 Hope you get to try some of these. I agree - Soleil Blanc = oasis. Perfect description! And Jazz Club is now smelling awesome on my hubby.
Oh how I agree on the over hype! I’m right there with you! I just can’t get on board. I’m done after the sample! I love Deep Red! Wish it lasted longer! It’s lovely! I love Malibu Party in the Bay and I’m so excited for the right time to wear it! It is one of my favorite blind buys!! I adore your videos!! Thanks Veronica!!🥰🥰
Thank you so much, Jackie! 💖 I found that Deep Red lasts a good half day then dwindles into a skin scent. Not the worst longevity! How about for you? Malibu Party In the Bay is summer in a bottle! Woohoo! 🥳🥳🥳
@@VeronicaSays definitely can get a half day if I overspray! That’s easy enough. So many of Hugo Boss’s scents are gorgeous and just need a little boost! MPITB is Summer in a bottle!! It makes me feel good!!
Great video! I just missed my opportunity to get my hands on Bronze Tonka. I’ve had Gold & Whiskey from Commodity the first time they launched, had a great conversation with the owner when they relaunched and resurrected the brand. 💞
Thanks for bringing us your own unique roundup of 2022 fragrance category winners! I always appreciate how much thought you put into your content, your presentation, perfume descriptions & stories❤
I’m so happy to see Pure Nectar on your list. It’s an underrated scent which no one talks about, and every time I wear it, I get compliments and I enjoy smelling it on myself. I wore it in the spring and summer of last year, haven’t tried during fall and winter…yet 😉
I'm SO glad you include "the bizarre" in your reviews. I really love everything odd, so having a source of inspiration for what else is "out there", like... way out there - is really awesome!
Hello Veronica, I love these videos. I think the Zerjoff bottles remind me of papal hats and gowns. I can't shake the thought when I see the bottles. 🤔I wasn't surprised about your number one pick. Milk especially was in quite a few of your videos. I wonder if it will continue to be a stand out favourite for you in 2023? Thanks for your video! So much fun! 💛- Jenn
Ah yes! Papal hats! I think I read that they are supposed to be like the headpiece of a pharoah. But I like your imagery too! It will definitely be interesting to see how Milk ranks next year. 👍👍👍
Happy New Year, Veronica!!!!! I wish you all the best, and lots of exciting new perfumes so we can further enjoy your wonderful videos! Big hug from Transilvania!
Veronica!!! Gosh, I really feel like you’ve created something special, memorable and something to look forward to with your monthly fragrance awards. This year end version is 😚 chef’s kiss!! Perfection!! I am in full fraghead-nerding out on perfume- Heaven!! Huge fan of Pear Inc. ✌🏻🕺🏼♥️ …and you!
Ooooh I bet Pear Inc smells AMAZING on you! Thank you so much for your kind comments. You are a real one. Glad to see you back in the mix, my friend! 💖💖💖
Hey Veronica, I chose your video to watch as my Jan 1st fragrance treat. I just love your videos and you’re a delight to listen! It makes me smile every time you giggle.. Thank you so much for creating this content and I want to say that you’re spot on when it comes to overhyped perfumes! Lots of love and best wishes for the new year!🇨🇦
Thank you sooooo much! I'm so delighted that you watched and that you enjoy me laughing at myself! 😂 I try to have a little fun with every video. Happy New Year! 🥳🎊💖
“Stale bad breath plus laundry detergent” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I almost fell off my chair. You always always make the funniest comments and jokes! TF Soleil Blanc also made a huge dent for me in 2022, I love it, especially when I layer it with HOS Disney/Mickey. Omg, I’m so glad Commodity Milk came into my life ♥️ (I also have both Expressive and Bold), it had become my staple and most reached for fragrance. The hype is real! Happy New Year!🎉🎉🎉
Happy New Year, Marie! 💖 Glad I could bring you a chuckle! Yes, Lemon Island hurt my fragrance feelings TWICE 😂😂😂 Glad you're loving Commodity Milk, and thanks for the Soleil Blanc layering idea! 💖🎊🥳
This was a great wrap-up for the year! I totally agree about Jazz Club. I bought a small sample to try because of all the online hype. I found it way too smokey and masculine for my taste - but when I layer it with Demeter's Amber, or Pi from Givenchy (which, despite being labeled a men's cologne is a very nice soft vanilla scent) it ends up much more feminine and complex, great for winter!
@@uniquelybeautiful85 I like it too! My husband stopped wearing cologne and before he could declutter his bottle I tried it on myself and realized how unisex it really is. So I kept it for myself lol
@@imadarfish great call lol. I watched a video with a feminine take and she recommended. Got my nose on it and really enjoyed it. I myself like unisex slightly masculine scents every now and then. Nothing like wearing a pretty dress and heels with the sillage of powerful scents.
This is such a fun review! For years I was stuck in a rut and was so afraid to make perfume mistakes so I purchased nothing new. I found your channel in the fall and here is my year end wrap up of purchases that I made after watching some of your reviews. I’ve learned so much about notes and scents - thank you. Si Fiori (my all-time favorite scent), Mont Blanc Signature, Coconut Milk Chai, Cloud, La Nuit Tresor a la Folie, Fresh Cream Warm Cashmere, Kayali 28, Delina, Kyse Marshmallow. The biggest surprise goes to RL Beyond Romance (omg, the opening) - absolutely love. The only miss was Bella Rosa but I love the bottle. Have samples of Lost Cherry, Commodity Milk, Soleil Blanc, and Pear Inc. on the way. I purchased Cloud for my younger nieces for Xmas and Fresh Cream Warm Cashmere for my older nieces - all hits! I need to stop watching!!
Teressa - stop watching now before your wallet bans me! 😂😂😂 No seriously, it's so heartwarming to hear that so many recommendations worked out for you. That is awesome! I don't have Delina so perhaps another reviewer influenced that purchase, but I do have Delina Exclusif dupes that I really enjoy. You made some amazing purchases and have some lovely samples on the way. If you remember, please let me know your thoughts on the samples. 💖💖💖
Hi Veronica! I don't know how I didn't see the notification for this video??! I want to tell you that I've tried a few fragrances on your recipe this past month and they're all hits! Milk+ (bold) is so cozy and yummy. It also performs really well on me and I actually got a compliment on it today. Sometimes I mix it with Wood Elixir from MixBar, ir or with Pink Canyon from Skylar... I also tried Lalique Soliel and Dolce Garden and although I liked both I prefer Soliel but my mom loved Dolce Garden, so I gave it to her. Great recommendations though. 😚💜🤟🏻
Thank you so much! 🥰💖 I don't know about the notifications thing except to say that I don't always get mine either. Sounds like some winning combos with Milk+ - woohoo! Thanks for sharing.
I definitely agree that Jazz Club (and also By the Fireplace) is overhyped, but I just don't understand the hype for Commodity, except that maybe you can buy it at Sephora and that's why it's hyped. I have Milk+ and Gold and I like them but they are like less complex, less long-lasting versions of some of my other better perfumes.
Hi Christine! Thanks for weighing in! Yeah, not everyone is into the Milk hype. I adore it and it lasts on me! Gold, I like but don't love. Care to share which fragrances are similar but you prefer more? Would love recommendations! Happy New Year! 💖🥳🎊
Okay, I'm convinced! I'm getting Deep Red. LOL. I have to say I was surprised by two of the top three. Milk didn't surprise me but I wouldn't have guessed L'eau d'Issey Pure Nectar or Cloud 2.0. As always, the review was fun and informative!
Hey Paula! Remember - the ones selected are just from others in that category in these monthly awards. My real top three might be different! Although... perhaps Milk Bold would still have made the list? 🤔🤔🤔
Yes! The first day I got choco musk in the mail, I immediately layered it with Strawberry Snowflakes. I’ve also layered it with Chocolate Queen. Great layering minds 😉
@Barbara Melville hi Barbara, I believe it's only sold on the Navitus website. navitusparfums.com/product/chocolate-queen/ It's sold out right now though. You might find a bottle on Mercari or eBay.
Tuberose Castane from Maison Lancôme was one of my last perfume purchases for 2022 (& before no-buy 2023!🙈), it was deliciously surprising. Especially since I got Armani’s Rouge Malachite at the same time & don’t find to be an interesting tuberose at all… but maybe I’ve not spent a full fragrance day on it. Really enjoy your channel, here’s to a more prosperous 2023!
Hi Uchechi! Happy New Year! 💖🥳🎊 And thank you very much. So something funny... I got a bottle of Rouge Malachite for Christmas. I love it! 😁 But it's definitely a more traditional tuberose, which I am a fan of. Tubereuses Castane is a unique one. 👍
If you like Hugo Boss The Scent Private Accord you should try The Scent Absolute, I only have The Scent Absolute, but for me, it's a lovely chocolately fragrance that lasts decently on me.
I tried Kiss Me Intense yesterday at a perfume shop and could still smell it 24 hours later! It was so strong that it was giving me a headache, lol (and that was from one spray). Strange how we all experience things differently. Happy New Year!
Oh no! Not a headache?! 😩 Sorry to hear that! You know, it's entirely possible that the fragrance projects and lasts longer than I think. I've only ever worn it at home so... who knows? Thanks for watching and Happy New Year! 🥳🎊🥰
Hi Veronica, thank you for treating us with so much fun and entertainment these holidays!⛄ I really need as much insight as I can to make the best of all those sales! 👛By the way, I don't get the hype around Jazz Club myself, and your comparison of a bad dry down to a toxic date is hilarious 😆
LMBO! I have a weird way of personifying my fragrances! It makes it more fun. Glad you enjoyed the back to back videos this weekend. Enjoy those sales! 🎊🎊🎊
What a fabulous recap!!! 💖💖💖 I agree about Jazz Club - nice, but there are so many cheaper equivalents. And I agree about Dua being very hit and miss (and they can totally step up their packaging game for what they’re charging!). Happy new year, beautiful!!!🎊🎉🍾🎈🥳
Thank you Joss! Happy New Year! 🎊🥳💖 I'm going through all of my Dua bottles TODAY and giving them the Marie Kondo treatment. 😂 Jazz Club is smelling great on hubby so far. It's now on HIS shelf! 💖
@@VeronicaSays ok so Veronica I went in Sephora yesterday and smelled the Bold and Expressive and I really like them, they kinda remind me of by the fireplace, either way I'm getting the travel size to try on skin.
I got Mandarine Basilic for Christmas and absolutely love it and most of the other fragrances in the line! The only problem is the fragrance doesn't last too long so you have to reapply often. It's still so perfect and lovely and makes me feel like I'm on an Italian vacation though, so I don't mind! lol
Yes, jazz club is definitely over hyped! I recently found one that actually lives up to the hype, Laya by Ne'emah It's a beautiful 😍 woody vanilla. I highly recommend. I found my bottle on ebay. Only issue is it can be hard to track down. Great longevity & projection and perfect for winter.
your top lists, thoroughness and clear passion for fragrance are just unparalleled Veronica! Could watch you all day. so grateful to have spent time with you and picked up so many recommendations from you in 2022. Happy new year!!
Oooh I was waiting for this! Well you convinced me to purchase commoditie milk not the gold one I prefer the lighter one lol it was not a long video I watched from start to finish with pen and paper lol 😉🥳☺️
Thank you so much for doing all the work it takes to bring these to us! (nice spread sheet!!) Your videos bring us so many amazing fragrances that we'd never know and love if it weren't for you. Thank you, Veronica! Happy New Year!
I love your videos and enjoy your sense of humor. Happy New Year ❤️ I went for a nice New Years hike with hubby today and a group of women walked past us. I mentioned to my hubby that one of them had on a beautiful scent. He tried to convince me that it was just him. Yeah..I didn’t buy that..lol..I wish I had asked her!!
Hi Margo, thank you so much! 💖🎊🥳 I'm so proud of you for hiking! I need to get my butt in gear and move more this month. I wonder what that woman had on? 🤔
Still loving Deep Red which I got because of you! ❤ Agree about Jazz Club for sure.. by the way I got a sample of Tabac Rose finally, and have yet to try on skin but really liked it sprayed on paper towel!! 😅 (that was the closest thing to me) lol Loved your 2022 recap 🥰
Happy New Year Veronica, 👏🏾 to see Carolina Herrera Amber Desire and Maison Lancome Tubereuses Castane in the line up. These fragrances are Unicorns 🦄. 2023 I will continue to be an Unicorn explorer.😍
I enjoyed this video as always! I haven’t tried Cloud 2.0 yet (maybe I will when I finish my current regular bottle) but adore the regular one and have gone through a small bottle and half done with my second small bottle plus a mist. Also Milk is a top favorite ever for me too. I got all three versions in travel sizes from scentbird and then found a second hand bottle of expressive and snatched it up.
Thank you, Kara! 💖 Yes, the regular Cloud is a winner. Try the 2.0 next. You were smart to get a second hand bottle of Milk Expressive - awesome stuff! 👍👍👍
Happy New Year! Great review! I completely agree with you about Dua's packaging. Lol. Glad to hear they are stepping it up in 2023. I own both Milk+ and I love them both. They are similar but different. Still on the look out for Malibu Party by the Bay. It's stays sold out. So I know it's good!
Thank you so much! Dua bottles... sigh. What was I thinking buying so many? 🤦♀️ Get that Malibu Party on the Bay if you see it. It's a fun summery fragrance. Happy New Year! 💖🎊🥳
I actually have really loved jazz club before it was hyped on here. I find it addicting and I do have other tobacco fragrances but I love jazz club too
Veronica, when I saw your first review on the oui Lancôme, I went to the mall to check it out. It is soooooo good! Love love love this perfume. I need to get a bottle!! Thank you for your review!!!!
I’m so with you on jazz club! I bought a travel spray set including jazz club and it was too masculine for me. I also think I may not get along with lavender very much. I ended up giving it to my SO and he enjoyed it. But even as a men’s fragrance it seems to lack something. I keep debating on Pear Inc. It smells good but I just got Ocean di Gioia for Christmas, another shampooey pear scent, and I wonder if having both is redundant. I also don’t want to pay retail price for it so I keep checking fragrance net for tester deals. I bought ALOT of perfumes this year so I really don’t NEED anymore but we all know how that goes… My favorite purchases in 2022 were Venom of Love, Black Opium Extreme, Utopia Vanilla Coco, and (late to the party, last but not least) Juicy Couture Gold Couture. Happy new year! 🎊
Hi Clarissa! First, yes... no need to pay retail when we can get things on discount. I am a huge fan of NOT paying retail unless you're head over heels for something and just can't be bothered to find a discount. 🙌 If you have a shampooey fragrance that you like and aren't feeling a need for more, skip Pear Inc. Jazz Club smells really good on hubby so it's staying on HIS shelf! 😁 Happy New Year, my dear! 🎊🎊🎊
Fabulous round up Veronica! I’ve got to try Commodity Milk you’ve really sold me on it! Next time I’m at Sephora I’ll have to give it a spritz. And Happy New Year!!!🎉
Happy new year. Your Chanel was a top fragrance discovery for me. Thanks for keeping it real with humour and knowledge. Love the worst bottle category!!!!
