Baby Doll Paris (1999)
by Yves Saint Laurent

This suits my girlfriend perfectly.
Shes a short, svelte (read: slim, sexy & womanly) natural redhead, who's not afraid of a bit of a flirt & definately in touch with her feminine side. She looks beautiful without trying, and when shes trying to look good, well beautiful only just covers it. Shes not afraid of wearing pink, and is definately not a tomboy.
Anyways, onto the fragrance itself.
It opens with a sweet passionfruit, mixed with a lovely light rose accord. Normally I'd associate rose with an older woman, but in this its so much lighter and feminine that someone under 25 can pull it off with ease. The fragrance smells fizzy and fresh, like a summer cocktail.
The dry-down is passionfruit, grapefruit, and that light, oh-so-feminine rose. Lasting power is great, and it can be found in big bottles for an absolute steal.

My dirty secret. I ride a Harley and play roller derby, but grapefruit and rose makes for nice daywear. Age 12 meets age 30 in a curious, yet effective twist.

I love this. I have to be feeling in a lively mood to carry it off though. I started wearing it a few years ago when living with my GBF who decided I was in need of scent therapy, and it worked. It is a perky fruity floral, and unlike most of the fruity florals filling the shelves at the moment it is citrus rather than sweet berries.
As BettyBoop's review says, it is a contradictory scent. It starts really quite sharp with the grapefruit (reminds me of breakfast), then gets sweeter and quite cutesy, and then goes all 'grown up' again.
I'm on my third bottle, but it does strike me as very young feeling so I'm not sure whether it'll continue to suit me enough to get to bottle 4!

This smells like fruit punch to me. The grapefruit and grenadine comes off first, that smells young, kind of kiddy...but then it dies down to a soft rosey, powdery smell that makes him want to come closer. I liked it, but it wasn't me, so I gave it to my 16 year old sister for her birthday. She absolutely loves it!

Phase 1) - fresh grapefruits,
phase 2) - roses, roses and roses. Decent.

I wore this exclusively for 4 years. It's very sweet (the grenadine?) and grapefruity - a very youthful scent. Light, feminine. Might be a bit sickly for me now. Packaging is so pretty and cute