Black Raspberry and Vanilla
by Bath and Body Works

The scent lives up to its name and is to die for. However, like all BBW fragrances - whether they be body splashes, EDT or EDP - are incredibly weak. I literally sprayed 1/2 of my 2.5 oz. EDT bottle on myself at one time and neither my husband nor I could smell it on me unless we plastered our noses to my arm. I'm rating it neutral only because the scent is so darn good ... like sweet raspberry jam. Otherwise, I'd give it a thumbs down for its weakness.

8th August, 2010.

Incredibly sweet and rather sugary... It lacks a woodsy scent to anchor it, when I wear it. The scent itself is pleasant enough on the shelf, but I can't see it translating into something worth investing in as a regular fixture in a fragrance wardrobe. I've had teenage boys compliment it, saying I smelled very good, but personally I found it to be too juvenile to be worn anytime other than on a girl's night in.

24th September, 2009.

A creamy black raspberry. Has a woodsy warm sweet scent as well. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to sample Trish ~Sexy No. 9. I would say these two scents are very similar, though Trish will cost you a bit more.

15th July, 2009. (Last Edited: 3rd August, 2009.)

I can tell you right away: this scent doesn’t change all that much from top to bottom, the most heavy notes here are, basically the blackcurrant, the blackberry and the sugared vanilla. That’s most of it.
The rest is just too faint and too overpowered by the notes I just mentioned.
The juice is not really fresh and is very reminiscent of the end of summer-very early fall.
I liked it a lot because of its simplicity and because I love blackberries in general and this one is straight up blackberry. Almost like a diluted jam, it doesn’t have the prepotence some niches have, it doesn’t have the ambivalence some others have.
The other notes that are on the background are the sandalwood and the orris but they certainly don’t play a key role here, they play more of a balancing act between the whole composition and I like it that way.
It’s simple, it’s sweet and it’s just a bit dark –and not too “pretty”- , the right amount not to be called a pink fruity floral, and that takes it just a little bit ahead of that category.

9th April, 2007.