When I first stroke the juice onto my wrists I’m not in the least surprised by the scent I’m greeted with. Sugary, fruity and blonde, Sui Dreams smells remarkably like cheap women’s deodorant. I could declare this insight to be a disappointment but it simply isn’t, it is precisely what I was expecting. There is a distinct alcoholic niff flanking the initial notes (listed as bergamot, bitter orange and tangerine), which just compounds the artificial feel of this fragrance and prevents what could have been a pleasantly soft vanilla scent from flourishing. What we are instead treated to is car air freshener, complete with headache.
In the description of the base notes, Sui Dreams supposedly possesses a “distinctly oriental flavour”. Again I am left wanting. Admittedly, the fragrance does dry down to the soft woods that are advertised as the base, but the alcohol just refuses to shift and allow the scent to mellow and develop naturally so, as before, it feels entirely artificial.
I imagine this scent being passed around along with a stolen tube of lipstick at a slumber party full of eleven year olds who still have the sweet tooth that will appreciate it. As for me, my fondness for sugar and spice and all things nice has simply dissipated with age, rendering Sui Dreams an unpalatable, unsuitable and unbearable fragrance. Heed my advice, wake up and avoid this oversweet nightmare.
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