Samba (1987)
by Perfumer's Workshop

I was expecting something that smelled like Carmen Miranda's hat, with a cacophony of every imaginable tropical fruit and flower creating an olfactory equivalent of an Escola da Samba batucada parading down the street in Rio at Carnaval. Samba is actually rather subtle --- perhaps they should have named it Bossa Nova. It opens with a bright, sweet generically fruity note, no individual essence standing out, and quickly mellows into an equally generic ambery vanilla. Not unpleasant, but not particularly memorable or distinctive either.

23rd March, 2010.

Pleasant, inoffensive vanilla-covered fruit frag. I'd like to say more, but I really can't, as there's not much more here to say.

Expect the sweet vanilla in the opening notes to dry down into a powdery vanilla, with the fruit notes staying sweet throughout the dry-down.

4th March, 2009.

Another pre-teen perfume choice. I must have liked the fruity stuff, and the bottle looked like a toy an infant plays with.

13rd October, 2006.