Fancy by Jessica Simpson
Fancy by Jessica Simpson debuts later this month, but if you are like me – the girl who just can’t wait – you can sample it in the September
CLASSIFICATION: Slightly floriental, gourmand
AGE GROUP: College
SIMILAR SCENT(s): Vaguely reminiscent of Aquolina’s Pink Sugar
FORM: Eau de Toilette
I am not a fan of florientals, as most of you know, but I can say that Fancy isn’t that bad.
At first application, the fruity notes can be detected (although I can’t really pick out anything specifically – it’s more like a fruit medley), with a layer of “sweets”, such as caramel and vanilla. The dry down comes swiftly, and with it, the majority of the fruit medley from the opening fades.
T he result is a pleasant, sweet, and ultra-feminine floriental, with some strong underlying gourmand notes. The perfume reminds me vaguely of Pink Sugar, but unlike Pink Sugar, it is smells like a perfume, not just a piece of sweet candy that I rubbed on my wrist.
I was expecting something, well… “fancy”. Where it is not ultra-young, it is definitely not something that I would consider classy, such as Flowerbomb. It isn’t bad, however – I would probably wear this perfume before I would wear any other sweet Floriental.
The perfume is very long-lasting, hours after application, I can still smell it, and it remains very consistent to the scent I first experienced after the initial dry down.
Despite the fact that this fragrance is relatively young, and not really that “fancy”, it is a world apart from Jessica Simpson’s Dessert Beauty line. If you like one, you will not necessarily like the other, as Fancy is a bit more suitable for the older, more sophisticated young woman.
