Oh, thank you a lot))Montale Intense Cherry
You can read about it here, with reviews near the bottom: Fragrantica Montale Intense Cherry
If those notes aren't what you're after, you can use that site to look up other Cherry scents..
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Personally, I think if a fragrance needs to be layered, then it's just not a good fragrance--or, at least, it's not the right fragrance for that person. A fragrance that costs hundreds of dollars for a bottle should be able to be appreciated on its own.
True I agree. I'm not much of a layerer but since she already has it maybe she can layer it to make it work?
Or I suppose gift it to somebody.
I spray the vanilla then immediately spray the raspberry on exactly the same place. Not giving time for the vanilla to dry. I do the vanilla first (as the base) since vanilla is often used as a base note.Quoting you from the other thread
May I ask how you layer your fragrances? Do you spray one, let it dry and then spray the other on the same spot, or do you spray each in a different place?
I do the same thing Jen. I like to layer Coco with Vanille Abricot by Comptoir Sud Pacific. I do the Coco first because it is a heavy fragrance and the CSP lightens it up.
Nice! Now I'm going to 'have to' wear my CSP Vanille Abricot on Sunday.... Thanks!
I LOVE Vanille Abricot as I think I posted to you before..
I loved it so much I bought the set of yummy samples and fell in love with 2 more.. I bought the full size bottles of Vanille Blackberry and Vanille Extreme.
There is also a Coconut & Vanille Banane but and this is a FIRST from me, they're a lil too sweet for my nose.
So I am intrigued by the notes/reviews of Xerjoff’s Starlight. However, I did not like any of the other Xerjoffs I have sampled: La Capitale, Italica, Naxos, and Cruz Del Sur II (I liked it at first sniff but it became too cloying). I found those scents too loud, screechy, and synthetic. Is Starlight the same, or is it different? Can anyone weigh in? Debating whether it’s worth it to buy a sample.
I don't have any personal experience with it but whenever I'm researching a new fragrance I check out this site.
Starlight Xerjoff On Fragrantica
They are pretty good at breaking it down, posting all the notes, what it reminds them of etc...Most telling are the reviews from actual testers at the bottom..
Please forgive me if you already use this site.
I think the brand's aesthetic is just one that you don't respond to positively, which is why it comes off as synthetic and screechy to you. I'm the same way with a lot of modern, overpriced houses, including Xerjoff. Houses like that rely on nothing but chemicals that are reproduced synthetically in a lab instead of extracted from a natural source. That's part of the reason I scoff at lots of the prices that they charge.
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@Purses & Perfumes and @ultravisitor Thank you both for your Dior Exclusives recommendations. 
I got to sample a whole bunch and they were really nice! Of your recommendations, Gris Dior was the best on my skin. I will be returning to sample it again soon, to get an idea of what it smells like without having tried a whole bunch alongside it.
The only one unavailable that I really wanted to sample was Feve Delicieuse. Hopefully they'll have a bottle the next time I visit because it sounds great.
BDK parfums smell much smoother and better blended to me, though they are over half the price.
I got to sample a whole bunch and they were really nice! Of your recommendations, Gris Dior was the best on my skin. I will be returning to sample it again soon, to get an idea of what it smells like without having tried a whole bunch alongside it.
The only one unavailable that I really wanted to sample was Feve Delicieuse. Hopefully they'll have a bottle the next time I visit because it sounds great.
I don't remember if I have smelled Starlight specifically, but every Xerjoff I have smelled has felt screechy to me as well. I don't know what it is, but they start okay and then very quickly become intolerable to my nose. The boutique SA was shocked by my reaction and kept trying to convince me these were top of the line, wonderfully blended scents, with die-hard fans, but I found them too screechy to handle.
BDK parfums smell much smoother and better blended to me, though they are over half the price.
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Yep. Once you hit the price point where Xerjoff exists, you start seeing that a very great number of those houses pump out tons of perfumes that are easily produced entirely with chemicals that came from a lab, which enables the company produce such a wide number of them, yet they're priced in order to deliberately appeal to the "if it's more expensive, it's better" crowd. And then those houses give out free bottles to social media influencers who rave about them in order to keep the freebies coming, which causes the fragcom hive mind to love them.BDK parfums smell much smoother and better blended to me, though they are over half the price.
Went a bit crazy with samples yesterday on Lucky Scent...
Nasomatto - Absinth Parfum Extrait
D.S. and Durga - Pistachio
Marissa Zappas - La Divina
Marissa Zappas - Queen Nzinga
Marissa Zappas - Ching Shih
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Lady White Snake
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Sand Dance
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Mortal Skin
Sarah Baker - Loudo Extrait de Parfum
Nasomatto - Absinth Parfum Extrait
D.S. and Durga - Pistachio
Marissa Zappas - La Divina
Marissa Zappas - Queen Nzinga
Marissa Zappas - Ching Shih
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Lady White Snake
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Sand Dance
Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 - Mortal Skin
Sarah Baker - Loudo Extrait de Parfum
Would you please post an update with your thoughts on this one when you've tried it? I've been wondering if pistachio smells nice in perfume but can't imagine it as anything other than gelato!
