One of my favourite things to treat myself to is perfume and those who have read my earlier reviews will know that I am a self confessed perfume addict. I love the different varieties you can buy all with their own distinctive scents and pretty bottles. I have worked hard at my perfume addiction though and have really cut back on the amount that I buy – these days I adopt a one in one out rule as I started getting far too many bottles of half used fragrances sat in my wardrobe (any perfume lover knows that you keep bottles out of daylight to keep them smelling fresh).

Vera Wang is a successful designer born in New York who originally wanted to become an actress; however she gave up this dream when she realised that it was unlikely an Asian woman would become successful in this field in the early 1970’s. Despite having no formal design training she worked at Ralph Lauren as Design Director for two years and was also an Editor at Vogue for 17 years. She has designed dresses for a number of celebrities including Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone, Tyra Banks, Jennifer Garner and Mariah Carey among many others. She is well known for her wedding gowns, her range of accessories, designing a Barbie gown collection and for her fragrances.

The perfume comes in a pale pinky lilac colored box with a heart shaped emblem on the front which tells us the perfume is called “Vera Wang Princess”. The perfume bottle itself is absolutely beautiful a heavy clear glass shaped heart with a flat bit on the bottom so you can stand the bottle up if you so wish. It comes with a crown shaped gold coloured lid which snaps on to the top of the bottle covering the spray dispenser, underneath this is a detachable gold ring studded with small amethyst style gems. I think this is a lovely touch although I wouldn’t wear the ring as an item of jewellery in my opinion it is better suited as an adornment on the bottle. The back of the bottle has been designed to look as if it is faceted and this adds an extra bit of detail without being over the top. The perfume inside the bottle is a pale lilac colour and one of the things I like is that it is easy to see how much is remaining. On the front of the glass is “Vera Wang Princess” written in black italic writing which I think looks very sophisticated and classy.

Now for the smell…….it’s always hard to try and describe the smell of a perfume in a written review but I’ll do my best to give my personal opinion on this fragrance.
The first thing I can smell when I spray this is a lovely floral smell with a sweet but very slightly musky background, I personally think that this is probably the water lily as a top note with the vanilla as a base note. After a short while the perfume changes slightly and kind of becomes fruitier and slightly less floral which I would image the pink guava starting to emerge. The aroma is very distinctive and romantic it does smell quite strong at first but after just a few minutes it soon dies down to leave a subtle but noticeable smell on the skin. I can find some floral perfumes quite heady but not this one, I think because it dies down to a pleasant scent quite quickly it doesn’t have a chance to get too much for me.

30 ml bottle of eau de toilette spray £29.50
50 ml bottle of eau de toilette spray £39.50
100 ml bottle of eau de toilette spray £49.50

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I would say if you are looking for a very feminine fragrance which has a distinctive smell and you love floral aromas then definitely consider having a tester of this next time you are thinking of buying a new perfume.