![]() When I gave Windows Down by Henry Rose a smell at 39, I was right back there: “Oh my God, it’s like grown-up Gap Dream,” I gushed. As 15-year-olds, we spritzed those pieces of cardboard with such hope and collected bouquets of them, convinced there must be a scent that would help us express - and cement - who we truly were. Our plan for our last afternoon was to go shopping, in the 1999 sense: mindlessly wander from one store to another, looking for nothing in particular and open to everything, like we used to do at the mall.Īmid Y2K-is-back shimmery lip glosses and frosted eye shadows at the modern clean-beauty store Credo, I gravitated toward the perfumes, lined up next to a beaker of tester strips. We’d spent the weekend having conversations with people we hadn’t seen since we were 18 and revisiting yearbook photos of our former selves wearing PJs for Spirit Week and one-shoulder dresses for homecoming. ![]() As the scent warms up as if by rays of the sun, the soft floral petals suddenly pop and become crunchy toasted popcorn.”Īvailability: Department/drugstores in Asia that stock Anna Sui fragrances or Strawberry.When my childhood friend Bridget and I arrived in Chicago after a trip to central Illinois for our 20-year high-school reunion, we were already saturated with nostalgia. Official description: “Sky first opens with a welcoming kiss of juicy pears. Pillows of fluffy white clouds made of lily of the valley float through the middle of the fragrance. A mishmash of things one might like, but don’t necessarily go together. But none of that fae whimsicalness suggested by the campaign. It was never as airy as the name suggested, and rather than the actual ride, Anna Sui’s Sky is the ferris wheel ride at a midsummer carnival with its compartments painted to look like hot air balloons. Though it’s a beautiful bottle that I’m happy to have in my collection, I’d not recommend anyone paying full price for a bottle. I do enjoy the occasional waft of middle school nostalgia of Sky’s opening and heart (especially as Lola has been discontinued), but it’s too watery sweet for everyday wear (I think I’d enjoy this in a bath product more) and the overwhelmingly prominent salty popcorn note that pops out of nowhere doesn’t add to the fragrance in any other way apart from being that ‘interesting note’ either. However, I had sprayed Sky liberally on my wrist on a Friday afternoon, left my coat in the office over the weekend, and upon arriving at work Monday morning – found myself wafting a cloud of powdery vanilla, burnt caramel and salted popcorn from the small amount left on my sleeve. With only the bergamot and musk becoming slightly more pronounced with wear (if you like Marc Jacob’s Lola, or Alkemia’s Les Courtisanes – you’ll probably enjoy this part) I’d initially dismissed Sky developing into anything more as it gained a citrus peel bitterness (which, in my mind – was as ‘rebellious’ as the scent would get), and disappeared within the 4 hour mark (not bad, nor impressive for an EdT). It’s super nostalgic to me for smelling like one of the few ‘clean’ scents that were released into the celeb-frag market in the early 2010s, dominated by fruity-flourmands after the success of Britney Spear’s Fantasy, or even Katy Perry’s Purr. Upon first spritz, I almost thought I was holding the purple thorned rose bottle of Avril Lavigne’s Forbidden Kiss (is it still available nowadays?) all sharp edges in design despite smelling like Japanese shampoo, and anyone looking for a throwback for outrageously clean-bubblegum body spray vibes will find themselves whooshed right back to simpler times by Sky’s opening.Ī combo of pink pepper, lotus, and a crunchy juicy fruit note (pear in this case).
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