Black Raspberry and Vanilla
by Bath and Body Works

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.

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.