![]() ![]() I like the other vera wangs (they're a little boring but good for an office)… but princess/flower princess was just so… BLAH for the lack of a better word. I've already said I don't care what anybody wears. ** Now don't go screaming at me because you're 52 years old and wearing Princess. Vera Wang Flower Princess was developed by perfumer Harry Fremont, and is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette and in matching body products. It isn't what I'd call sophisticated, but it is a bit less girlish than Princess, and it takes a bit longer to fade to a basic vanilla musk. But if forced to choose, I'd take Flower Princess over the original Princess. I don't love Flower Princess, and it seems to me that you could do much better for a girly spring-time floral. There aren't any dramatic changes after that 30 minutes both scents just get progressively weaker. Princess is a little more musky, Flower Princess a little more floral and fresh. ![]() ![]() While Flower Princess is quite different from Princess in the opening, after about 30 minutes, they're not so very far apart. It is a little citrus-y, a little green and a little sharp, and as advertised, smells first like watery-fresh orange blossom, then like watery-fresh rose-ish blended florals (the notes: green ivy, tangerine, water lily, orange flower petals, Moroccan rose, jasmine sambac, mimosa, apricot skin, amber, precious woods and musk). The opening is simply more flowers, less pink fruits. Yep, in a rare case of truth in fragrance nomenclature, they added more flowers. In the case of Princess, which was already about as pinkified as you can get, they florified it instead. Now, generally what happens to flankers geared towards the Asian market is that they get pinkified: they usually end up lighter, sweeter, fruitier and girlier than the originals. Although it is probably in the sophisticated league of Barbie fragrances, like many perfumes of its type, Princess is difficult to imagine on anyone over 12.** Princess is a cocktail of pink fruits sweetened with vanilla and topped with a dollop of frosting. ![]() The composition plays by all of the rules of a girly fragrance-its sugary sweetness is comprised of fruity notes and vanilla, its sheer base is laced with musk and amber, which bear little relationship to their animalic predecessors. Victoria's review of Princess at Bois de Jasmin pretty neatly sums up my own feelings: It's probably no worse than any other sweet fruity floral geared towards 'tweens, but sweet fruity florals geared towards 'tweens aren't my thing. And my second disclaimer: I didn't like the original Princess, not even a little. I'll add my usual disclaimer here: I'm not only way past the target age for Princess, I'm way past the target age for most any fragrance as near as I can tell, perfume brands are not interested in women over 30. The original Princess fragrance was supposedly geared towards 18-24 year olds, but based on the advertising (and the juice) I'd guess they were shooting at a much younger ('tweens and under) target. They did add some flowers to the outer box, perhaps that is kawaii? Or can a smell encompass the kawaii movement? At any rate, Flower Princess will be a permanent addition to the Vera Wang line in Asia in the US and elsewhere, it is a limited edition. How it encompasses the kawaii movement isn't clear to me, as the only change to the bottle itself is in the color of the writing (they didn't even bother to add the word "Flower", so it still just says "Princess"). It reportedly "encompasses the kawaii movement of Japan - a cultural obsession with cute, adorable, spirited items"*. Flower Princess, new this month, is Princess's first flanker, and is largely geared towards the Asian market. Vera Wang launched Princess in 2006 as the line's first youth-oriented scent, and as near as I can tell, it did very well indeed. ![]()
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