Pleasures (1995)
by Estée Lauder

My go to day time refresher at work. Very "clean" and American, perfect for what I do for a living

27th November, 2011.

I never have gotten any pleasure out of pleasures. It is an unobtrusive blend of florals, none of them realistic, all of them with a cleanness that is too sharply focused. It goes on bright and plain and stays that way. The acidity is firmly affixed to the florals, not to any citrus. This type of fragrance is not my genre at all.

2nd June, 2011.

Pleasures is a pure, clean floral - and there is nothing wrong with that.

In Perfumes:the Guide, Luca Turin says Americans have a obsession with smelling clean. He makes it sound like it's some kind of flaw in the American character. Well, I do like smelling clean, be it a flaw or not. And I like the clean scent of Pleasures.

27th May, 2011.

There must be something about the way Estee Lauder manufactures her fragrances, because there is always a distinctive note that I can detect in every one of her perfumes.

I think Pleasures is a lovely floral, everyday scent. It's just so light and pretty that it's hard not to be drawn to this fragrance. I think anyone past their teen years would smell lovely wearing this. It is in no way an "old lady scent" like some people assume it might be.

Like all Estee Lauder fragrances, Pleasures has great lasting power, so great that you can still smell the scent 24 hours after applying it. However, I think the price is a little outrageous, which is the only thing about Pleasures that bothers me. It's a nice fragrance, but not one I'm prepared to pay $120 AUD for.

26th April, 2011.

Lovely summer scent,always makes me feel sweet and happy and pretty.

8th August, 2010.

Not exactly floral... but not really anything. At first Pleasures seemed to be a ridiculously generic white floral. But then I had smlled a couple of fruity notes. And then greenish notes. It's fresh but not too clean that it's like laundry sheets clean because there's some sweet notes in the background that's a part of the overall scent. Fantastic as an everyday scent.

17th July, 2010.