Review of True Love Perfume, by Elizabeth Arden

Recently I was invited to a wedding, and this included the whole 9. An engagement party, a bridal party, a bachelorette party, and of course the wedding.

Every bride to be makes up those silly want lists, they go and register themselves for. I never follow suit on those things, and I usually make up a basket of goodies for the receiver instead. For the engagement party I made up a basket full of household goods, and while shopping I came across an adorable little bottle of perfume called True Love, by Elizabeth Arden. I would have initially skipped on it, but since the package was so adorable, and so suiting to the theme of things, I went with it.

You see, True Love comes in a pure white package, with two wedding bands linked together. It was adorable, and looked like the perfect scent for the bride to be. I knew she would love it too, if she hated the perfume, I knew she'd save that box.

Sadly, that was exactly what had happened. She opened her gift, and fell in love with the package, and was in awe at how I found a perfume that matched up to the event. Pure luck really.

She opened the package, and took out the perfume. True Love may have had an impressive package, but the perfume bottle itself looked really generic, like one of Avon's fragrances. It was a bland clear bottle, with a cheap looking nozzle fixed at the top of it.

The Scent:
 
Now initially when you think of weddings, you think of roses, florals, and clean white linen. What came shooting out of True Love though was nothing I'd want to associate with a wedding.
True Love smelled like true garbage.

It had a high note that hits you like a ton of bricks, the high note is something old fashioned, ancient even. Like mothballs in Grandmas closet. Once that scent hits you, you are left with this odd chemical like stink that reminded me of a dirty Jacuzzi smell. Combined True Love had this toxic chemical fragrance mixed with an old fashioned mothball musk.

Once the scent begins to fade, then and only then do you get a faint rotting rose scent. Yuck!
I knew that the receiver of the perfume did not like it, and we laughed about it. However I was correct, she did save the bottles package. Haha.

Overall:
 
Skip it, unless you are going to a wedding, because the box it comes in is pretty neat, and fitting.