Ariana Grande Ari Eau De Parfum Spray 100 ml

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Coffee break has coffee, this does not. If you want to keep your collection a reasonable size and are not too bothered with this scent profile, you don't need both. But if you want a coffee REM flanker? Try it out! I am in heaven when I wear this. It doesn’t smell masculine to me, but I guess I could understand why some feel it does. The lavender note can be interpreted that way. But to me all the sweet gourmand elements make it overtly feminine. I had wanted to try ariana grande's perfumes for a very long time. However, since I live in a country with hot and humid weather, I stay away from gourmands as much as possible. Same goes for most AG perfumes, I fear that all of her perfumes smells great in air conditioned room but not outside of the mall. I love lavender and this is one of my top 5 favourite perfumes ever. I crave it. I want it. Half of the time, I will start off my day with one perfume and end with this one.

The projection is fair, longevity about 4 hours. But since I usually spray perfume when I freshen up myself mid day, so I don't find the sillage and lasting power as a problem. Nothing in this screams too much, yet this is wonderfully pleasing and calming to wear throughout the day even on the warmest day.

I think R.E.M. gets a bad rep because people tend to associate lavender notes with colognes, which is why they find this scent masculine. Now I love lavender & unisex scents. I own Coffee Break, Libre, and Libre Intense, and I think R.E.M. uses a lavender note that smells quite expensive. I would label it a feminine-leaning unisex fragrance because it smells a bit too sweet for a cologne. I don’t get dryer sheets or essential oils from this at all. I get a beautiful lavender, salt, zefir, tonka bean and caramel opening that dries down to a sweet, clean, white musk. This doesn’t smell like any other perfume in my collection, including Coffee Break, which could be R.E.M.’s cousin, but is different enough due to the coffee and milk notes. She's sweet, she's aromatic, she's relaxing, she layers beyoootifully with Zara Fields of Nightfall aka Zadig & Voltaire This is Her. You're in your late teens or in your early twenties. You've just spent the entire day with your boyfriend, snuggling at his place, watching Netflix shows together. It's the weekend & the weather is a little bit chilly--- you were dressed in your coziest sweater. I really love this. REM is delicate, creamy, and unusual amongst Ariana's fragrance line. The sweetness in it is tempered by this lovely, salty lavender. The dry down is gloriously smooth, creamy, lightly powdery, and musky. REM feels like a younger cousin of Clean Reserve Skin (one of my absolute favorites), but goes a little bit more floral, fruity, and powdery than Skin while keeping those same salty, musky, praline/tonka vibes.

Anyway Imo its pretty and lovely; warm and sweet scent. It doesn't smell like celebrity scent...to me it smells like expensive components. Now you're going home, you realize his cologne is still lingering on your clothes and is mixing with your sweet perfume. It's already making you nostalgic of this magical moment. R.E.M is a more unisex perfume than Cloud, more nocturnal. Once it dries down, you can feel the sweet note of the caramel and the powderiness of the tonka bean and sandalwood appear. It seems to me that when it dries it becomes much more feminine, but I guess it has to do with the chemistry of each person. I've used used it in the colder days and the perfume has lasted me lmost 8 hours in skin.The caramel keeps the lavender from being too fresh, giving it a semi sweet edge. It doesn't mean it's a bad odor; it's actually a little bit sexy and natural smelling. This is such a lovely skin scent and is honestly one of my favourite fragrances at the moment. I feel like the best way to describe it is as your skin but better. It smells like clean skin (but it's not at all soapy) with an added sweetness and something else that's just amazing. I think it's a pretty unique smell, especially for a celebrity perfume. This is a really reassuring and romantic perfume, in that sense. Very bold for an affordable, celebrity fragrance. It's great for linen too--- spray your bedsheets and have the sweetest dreams.

Aside from the cozy and intoxicating notes, which all blend together in perfect harmony, the best thing about this scent is that it’s a year-round fragrance. The sweet notes transform the perfume into the perfect winter scent that’s ideal for cuddling and watching movies. The salt and musk notes make it light enough to wear in the summer without it being cloying. It’s easy going enough to wear to work without it being offensive. You can even wear this to sleep! I wouldn’t label it a sexy fragrance, so I’d choose something more decadent for a date night. MM's Coffee Break is a smoother, unisex lavender perfume but it does have masculine undertones too. If you find that R.E.M is too masculine, you might have the same opinion on Coffee Break. To me, it even smells like it could fit a more mature young man? IMO, R.E.M could suit a boy in his late teens - early 20's whereas Coffee Break would best fit a young man getting close to 25 or even older. Coffee Break is still relaxed and youthful but it's definitely more mature too. R.E.M is sweeter and still has that "one of my very first perfumes" vibe. It takes some getting used to. I'm really confused by the notes listed here because I thought the "thank you, next" perfume smell very buttery and salty. I didn't smell any saltiness or butter in this at all. I feel like I can smell all the top notes for quite a while, the scent doesn't change much throughout the day. I also think this perfume is quite feminine but not in a really young or over-the-top way, it's quite subtle in the best way possible. I can still see why some people say it's unisex though. I think sillage is moderate, I have gotten compliments on it even after it's been on for hours. On my skin pretty much all the Ariana Grande scents last including this one. I feel like I can get through a full 8-hour work day and still smell wafts of it around me. It does become more subtle and intimate after maybe five or so hours though. I really love this salty lavender perfume. It's a rather weird concept, but it's the first thing I can detect. The salt, which rounds off the lavender, and gives the quince that gourmand taste, like fruit with a little salt. I can also smell some coconut,(which is more like the milkiness of the fig), so I understand the comparison with the Cloud. But it has nothing to do with it.R.E.M is also great layered with Cloud. I would do 2 or 3 sprays of R.E.M for 7 sprays of Cloud (yes I'm an oversprayer 🙈). I found that it amped up the lavender in Cloud and made it less sweet. I would get compliments from my therapist, coworkers and a friend that doesn't even like sweet scents that much. REM is probably the biggest, most pleasant surprise I've had since getting into fragrance. I've smelled most of Ariana's perfumes while puttering around Ulta, but can't stand most of them. Cloud gives me dentist office vibes, God Is a Woman gives me a headache, and Mod Vanilla and Blush give... well nothing really because they disappear practically as soon as you spray them. That being said, I don't think it's a perfume version of Lush' Sleepy lotion. They layer beautiful, though. But if you're looking for that soft & milky candied lavender, R.E.M won't give it to you. The lavender is not sweet. The lavender is cologney, masculine and not as smooth nor delicate as Lush's Sleepy body lotion. The sweetness in R.E.M is there because of the gourmand and fruity notes on top, but it's also fleeting. It doesn't give a candied effect to the lavender, if that makes sense... If for some reason I was told that I could only keep one perfume for the rest of my life, I would choose to keep R.E.M. I just finished up my 1.7 Oz bottle and I’m waiting for a sale at Ulta to buy my next bottle because I don’t think my collection is truly complete without this scent. In my opinion, R.E.M. is the best Ariana Grande perfume and it doesn’t smell like a conventional celebrity perfume. This is a dream. It doesn't blow me away, but it has its own charms. It's interesting because when I smell it closely, I mostly get a very pure lavender (the kind of scent that you get going to a lavender farm or from a small pillow / sachet filled with lavender), and a subtle sweetness paired with woodiness that likely evokes that slightly fougere signature that some people talk about with R.E.M., but from arms length / with my arms laid flat on my desk (I spritzed it once on my arm for test), I enjoy a very gourmand touch to the perfume. I personally don't agree with the cologne comparison but I see where they're coming from because of the lavender element. I really enjoy the zefir in this and it shines with the subtle saltiness in it. The quince and pear give it such feminine elegance. I would call this a comforting and feminine fragrance, but its also quite unisex appropriate.

Could they have switched the bottles when they bottled them? Lol. I wasn't smelling the tester vial, I was spraying strait from the tester bottle. I do find the bottle design to be ridiculous and a waste of too much plastic, especially the holder part. I suppose AG had wanted to target younger audience with the design but I feel that the bottle on its own without the cheap plastic holder looks better and matches the scent better. It give a whole channel vibe without the holder, and that to me looks elegant. Twilight from Lush is a really good comparison. R.E.M is more complex but that is the closest comparison. Using Lush Sleepy body wash and lotion would be a good base for this to increase longevity in my opinion. This lasts a long time on me, but it seems that varies greatly from person to person.

Will you be claiming the VAT back?

On first spray, it’s all sweet lavender and salt. I’m not usually a fan of sweet lavender but this really does it for me. The caramel and marshmallow do make it sweet, but it’s not cloying. It reminds me of a dessert you’d get at a Michelin starred restaurant. Like a salted caramel and lavender s’more with tonal creme under a salt dome with sandalwood air upon removing the dome. The dry down is like a cozy hug. This was a really nice one for me. I think if I was trying to get something new that I liked I would get this. It's one of those fragrances that you're not sure if your head over heels for or if you just like it. I don't buy lavender scents I am so happy I don't feel it because Lavender would complete ruin that beauty. I like notes with Clean, Fresh Soap. Its well composed scent. That being said, I don't think I'll be repurchasing, because it doesn't project as much as Id like it to, and the lasting power is poor. Once it's sprayed, it sits close to skin. I always found that the sweet opening would be more prominent on textile vs on my skin. With my skin chemistry, it also pulls more masculine.