A
lot of you are probably, understandably, thinking that all Directioners were
bound to buy Our Moment, regardless of whether they liked it or not. I can see
where you’re coming from, however, this is not me. I am very particular about
perfumes. A lot of them make me feel extremely nauseous and therefore if I don’t
like it, or if I have any reservations at all, I just won’t wear it, let alone
buy it. So when I heard about the impending release of Our Moment I thought oh
god, this is potentially going to smell disgusting. If so, I certainly will not
buy it. Perfumes in general are not cheap, and I wasn’t going to spend out on
something and then not use it.
So
last weekend when I was in Liverpool, I popped into the shops to investigate.
The perfume had been released that week so naturally, there were cardboard cutouts
and displays galore. I was impressed to hear that The Perfume Shop had
completely sold out, and were waiting on a delivery of the fragrance. So I
popped over the road into Superdrug to suss out the situation there. There was
a large crowd gathered around the sample on display. Groups of teenage girls,
mothers and daughters, even a man buying it for his girlfriend (how sweet,
awh). I took a step back and watched the rabble for a few minutes. It became
clear that Superdrug had sold out of the large and medium sized bottles, and
only had the 30ml left. The sales assistant behind the counter was frantically
phoning around other stores to try and find out who had what in stock. It was,
crazy. When I could get close enough, I bought the 30ml bottle (£20).
I
love this scent, it is exactly my taste. I do not love the packaging. When H
Styles was asked, he said that they wanted to make the perfume as affordable as
possible, in the best interest of all the fans. In my opinion, the box kind of
does look like it’s a child’s perfume. The floating heads of the 1D boys is
quite frankly weird, and there is a whole lot of pink. What I did like, upon
opening the box, was the cute little booklet/note basically saying thanks for
buying this, you are amazing, with all of the boys signatures. (Nice touch
there, Modest). The bottle itself is…interesting. The pinkish tinge to the
glass is fine. As is the Our Moment written across the front. The crazy lid
certainly makes it stand out. It is kind of shaped like a crown (apparently, we’re
all 1D’s princesses…) which is okay, but the big pink netted bit in the middle
of the top not only makes it look cheap and tacky, but it’s quite impractical.
This makes it difficult to carry it around in your bag because of how big it
makes it, and it’s also so quite tricky to actually get in to.
Once
you do manage to open the bottle, you discover that the perfume smells amazing.
What I will say is that I can imagine this to be a total marmite product. You
are either going to love this perfume, or you’re going to hate it. My first
thought was, this is very sweet, it’s a little bit like Black XS. (I adore
Black XS). My Mumma disagrees completely, and thinks that it smells like Red
Door (I love that, too). She doesn’t like it, and described it as a very sickly
smell. It has top notes of pink grapefruit, forest fruits and red currants,
although to me I don’t think it smells overly fruity when you first spray it. The
middle tones of freesia, jasmine and frangipani work to mute the fruit element,
without actually taking any of it away. What really comes across as the day
wears on, are the undertones of patchouli and musk. All of these different
elements compliment each other beautifully to make admittedly, a particularly
sweet, yet not overpowering fragrance. It sits on the skin beautiful and does
last a long time with no need to reapplying. This product gets a huge thumbs up
from me – I smell yummy.
B
xxo
