I just can’t imagine anywhere I could wear this, and I’m not someone who’s usually a stickler about time and place of use for fragrances. And finally, in the final hours, Very Sexy takes a turn towards a slightly powdery finish, the hints of warm floral musk drying out as they evaporate.
At the heart the hints of vanilla orchid and blackberry are most present, jammy and sweet in the midst of the industrial red-and-pink musk bomb. Very Sexy is sharpest in the opening, with an edge of black pepper and clementine leading the musky charge.
YEP REVIEW OF FLOWERS SKIN
I’m going on 48 hours and there is still a very noticeable skin scent where I sprayed lightly one time. Perhaps I’m simply not sexy enough to appreciate its charm. I’m smelling an old sheer body mist formula, and I have no idea where, when, or why I would wear this. It smells kind of cheap in that incredibly musky designer way, but it’s at least semi-unique for a Vicky’s Secret fragrance. Sweet, peppery, floral without being too soapy, weirdly a tiny bit cheesy… this isn’t unpleasant. There’s nothing particularly sensually interesting to me about a run-of-the-mill VS floral with a touch of fruit and pepper, but to each their own. They want you to come back to the store and buy their underwear. They want you to think this smell is sexy. Very Sexy smells like a Victoria’s Secret store. Very Sexy smells like something that wants to be very sexy, the sort of perfume you’d smell on a teacher and feel like you’re seeing something you’re not supposed to see. Is it sexy? It’s certainly intensely musky in a way that wants to be all red lipstick and seductive glances. I don’t recognize any particular woods or strong resemblances at all. Very Sexy is a bit woody, only in the way that any musky designer perfume is “woody” when people don’t really know what else to call it. None of the individual notes are at all distinguishable to me, nor does this remind me at all of any sort of real flowers, just the sort of soft pink musk I’ve come to expect of generic designer florals. They all blend together into a generic red-and-pink sort of floral-tinged musk. Blooms of mimosa, camellia, vanilla orchid - not a real floral note, but whatever - and hydrangea, also known as hortensia. This is incredibly musky in a clean, perfume-y, industrial floral sort of way. I honestly don’t pick it up prominently anywhere, though, and I don’t think many people do. Perhaps the coffee is hiding in that peppery accord, lending it a hint of gauzy warmth. I don’t notice it unless I’m really paying attention to pick the notes out. I don’t know whether I’m the only person sensing something vaguely cheesy here. It’s an odd description, but… maybe a cheese pizza with clementines and blackberries strewn haphazardly upon its surface?
I don’t get anything I would think to describe as coffee, let alone a cappuccino I can sense a mild lactonic note, but it feels more like an array of fruits and soft cheeses than cafe au lait. While it fades out, the general mix of musky and flowery notes fills in the middle, with sweet sparkles of sugary amber and blackberry jam in between. The clementine and blackberry make up a nice crisp fruity edge to the first hours of Very Sexy. I can sense a fruity freshness beneath it all that might very well be blackberry.
Regardless, this is a peppery floral with a playful, kind of juvenile hint of clementine. I grow cactuses, and sometimes they bloom, but I have no idea what that cactus flower fantasy note is supposed to smell like. I can clearly smell the clementine in the opening. This puts a nice twist on the floral heart of the fragrance and obscures its soapier nuances. Right from the beginning, Very Sexy is actually Very Peppery. It’s a fresh-ish, synthetic-heavy, drugstore sort of scent, with some pretty, powdery pink floral soap in the background. You sniff it and respond: yep, that’s a Victoria’s Secret perfume. Before I had the vocabulary to describe scents, I’d simply describe this as perfume-y.
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