Ariana Grande Ari Eau De Parfum Spray 100 ml

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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. 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...

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 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. 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. 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. 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.

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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. 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. 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 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. She's sweet, she's aromatic, she's relaxing, she layers beyoootifully with Zara Fields of Nightfall aka Zadig & Voltaire This is Her.

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! 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 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. 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.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. 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.

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. 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 like some sweetness to my perfumes, but I like it cut by other interesting notes, so I generally can't stand things like Pink Sugar or Ariana's Sweet Like Candy that are pure sugar. But, while waiting for a friend, I tried REM on a whim because the bottle was so pretty, and wow, talk about love at first sniff.

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.