I’ll be honest here, I’m just as surprised as anyone that I really like this scent. There’s not much to say about it. It’s a marshmallow skin scent, a sort of floofy vanilla, a low-key magical-realism, everyday-fabulism, quotidian-fairytale scent…with an elusive hint of sour, canned pears. That’s a weird element that shows up very rarely, but I can’t pretend I didn’t smell it.
God these bottles are friggin' massive! The scent is pretty massive too. If you like the saccharine sweetness and technical modernity of BR540 then you'll dig this. Baccarat Rouge 540 was a scent that I loved when it was first released (commercially for MFK rather than the crystal one which I was aware of due to Fragrantica some time before that) but vowed that there was no way I could wear it. So a bad scent then? right? No absolutely not! Something about it seemed like a paradigm shift, even before the subsequent hype, something about that formula just made a statement in modern perfumery and the more polarising, the more impactful the statement. I was digging the strange, plasticy saffron which cloud seems to have slightly less of but is no less of a molten sugar, aroma chemical haze and for the price actually a really accomplished fragrance, even if you want to call it an 'official clone'
I’ll be honest here, I’m just as surprised as anyone that I really like this scent. There’s not much to say about it. It’s a marshmallow skin scent, a sort of floofy vanilla, a low-key magical-realism, everyday-fabulism, quotidian-fairytale scent…with an elusive hint of sour, canned pears. That’s a weird element that shows up very rarely, but I can’t pretend I didn’t smell it.