Bonbon by Viktor&Rolf

I absolutely love it, smells like caramel with lots of milk, a hint of canned peach, tangerine and soft jasmine. The longevity is minimal, almost a whisper, so it’s not worth the price, but the bottle is gorgeous and I see it for younger people.

At first it’s pure caramel, then the peach comes out and over time it becomes the sweetest and most exquisite. I receive many compliments from men and women. It lingers in my wake, though on the skin it disappears after five hours. Nothing like Fantasy.

The scent and bottle are lovely, but it lasts less than a VS body splash. It’s not worth the cost. Of V&R I prefer Flowerbomb or Tiger Lily.

It’s my perfume of choice, I already had two bottles and I’m hunting for the last one because they discontinued it and I don’t understand why, it’s so special. They say it resembles Britney’s Fantasy, absolutely not! I have that one too and I don’t like it. It doesn’t last long, but I love its DNA; if you like very sweet perfumes with a citrus touch, you’ll love it.

Smells like caramel water and a bit of amber. They say men like it, I don’t understand why. It’s a sweet scent but nothing more.

It is Fantasy in a super luxurious packaging. The box is incredible, arrives well protected, and the bottle is beautiful. In its dry-down, it is 98% identical to Fantasy. It smells rich; initially it is peach and caramel, then it transitions into an ambered Fantasy. On my skin, it lasts five hours with good projection, and another three hours close to the skin. Worth it for the packaging and the scent, although it is nothing new or different.

It seems quite similar to Fantasy, especially in the dry-down. I like sweet perfumes, but this is not my style; the dry-down is jasmine and slightly sweet woods, very sharp. I think it is because of the jasmine; I do not smell much caramel because the jasmine and woods overpower it. A pity, I had high expectations 🙁

Delicious. I have a perfume that smells very similar, Yara by Lattafa; they are both gourmet and from the same line.

I had not reviewed it. I bought it last year thinking of it as a winter scent, always avoiding it because gourmands are unbearable for me and give me headaches. I decided on this one and was amazed: it is extremely elegant, very well made. It opens with a soft, caramelised citrus before moving to something more mature. It is a scent you want to be perceived all day, warm, comforting when it is cold, sweet in just the right measure. It has good sillage and excellent longevity; it lasted about eight hours close to the skin and on clothes until the next day. I use it moderately, spraying the air and passing through it, because it is exquisite and I do not want to overwhelm.

In my opinion, it is one of the best gourmands that exist (they tend to be childish, sickly sweet, or not smell like perfumes); this one combines with flowers and woods and becomes refined (something rare with so much caramel). It opens with orange, peach, and caramel, and when it dries, the caramel intensifies and becomes sweet. The orange blossom and jasmine are barely perceptible but complicate the scent and give it a feminine touch. After hours, the caramel passes into a soft woody and amber phase. Very versatile, suitable for teenagers and women of all ages. A pity its longevity (especially because it is not cheap); on my skin, it lasts five or six hours with moderate sillage. I only have one decant and it is on my wishlist, although the price and longevity make it not a priority.

Rich aroma, but I think the price is a rip-off for how little it lasts and projects. It feels like we’re paying more for the bow-shaped bottle than for the liquid inside.

One of my favourite perfumes, especially for autumn-winter. Among my favourite V&R brands, Flowerbomb and Bonbon are two of my top choices; they stand out and cause love at first sniff, hypnotising me from day one. If you want perfumes that dress you up and turn heads, here is elegance, distinction, sillage and longevity. I dare say it’s one of the few that stays on the skin all day and soaks into clothes. I like Bonbon as a sweet liquor, an un-mass-market scent, despite being gourmand. It’s one of the few brands producing quality perfumes with explosive longevity. Highly recommended.

The best V&R I’ve tried, but I thought it would be creamier; it’s something very Juicy Couture, with a touch of talc that gives it another dimension. The scent is rich, it doesn’t smell like what you pay for, it’s like a Juicy Couture with more longevity. Very rich, I won’t deny it. If you’re going for the price expecting the seven-flower scent, no, it’s not new either, but it’s very rich. It reminds me a lot of Poison Girl but without the spice or plasticine, instead a talc. To think about having both. It’s a sweet peach jam and talc; visualise opening the bottle and that typical jam peach smell comes out, plus the talc of a marshmallow and musky. Good sillage, super sweet. Edit: I fell in love and bought it. I hesitated a lot because I have Poison Girl, which is also orange and sweet, but I was tired of its bitter orange. I think this Bonbon leans a bit more towards summer, at least at night, and the sillage smells so good I couldn’t resist. I went home regretting the expense, but opening it… what a treat! How good I am for buying it. Very pretty, just for sweeties: warning, during use I felt things I don’t know where from. At one moment I felt something dark, as if I were wearing L’Interdit Intense, then that went away and the innocent Bonbon returned. Then I felt red berries very present, I thought someone else was wearing perfume and even asked, haha, and no, it was my Bonbon. That still has me wondering; it seems simple but it’s not as simple as their notes declare. It also reminded me of Flowerbomb Nectar for the same characteristic sweetness, a sparkling sweetness that appears and disappears. On one hand the caramel gets tiring, but on the other the little peach relieves and refreshes, giving context as a product. It’s a kind of modern Poison Girl, not spicy, works the same but with other notes.

A charming and to a certain point sensual gourmand fragrance. Its opening reminds me of an orange peel candy, sugary and intense; the caramel is always present in the background. I think the most notable aspect is its dry down, where the caramel and woods take more prominence, giving a warm and creamy sensation. Its longevity is excellent, about 6-7 hours with a quite perceptible but not overwhelming sillage. Although Viktor&Rolf fragrances are a bit pricey, I consider they are worth every penny, and this is no exception.

I have a strange fascination for Viktor&Rolf fragrances. The brand basically has three lines (Flowerbomb, Spicebomb and Bonbon) from which thousands of flankers are born, and although they have had others like the magnificent but unfortunate ‘Antidote’ and some high-end ones (their prices are quite high for designer fragrances), without a doubt these three commercial lines are the brand’s axis. Bonbon EDP is a straight-up gourmand fragrance, a very edible caramel, but not repugnant or excessively loud. It’s caramel and more caramel, but not a cheap teenage perfume sweet; it’s a well-structured fragrance, although simple in appearance and quite linear (especially in its dry down). The first minutes are more striking and that omnipresent caramel note catches the orange and peach, enveloping them without letting their fruity or citrus side escape; rather they get caramelised and encapsulated, you know they are there but trapped in that amber sugar and hard, which immobilises them and only lets them be confined fruits. To this is added a neroli blossom that appears through ephemeral flashes. This amber caramel note becomes denser and denser, as if it had a whipped cream filling between buttery and lactonic that makes our mouths water. All this happens in the first 45 minutes to an hour; afterwards the sweetness settles closer to the skin, projecting very moderately and letting those slightly floral nuances of the neroli show with a sweet, shy and almost imperceptible sandalwood. The longevity on my skin is 5 to 7 hours depending on factors. I don’t deceive anyone if I say I wouldn’t mind if it projected a bit more (perhaps it would be too much for many). In summary, Bonbon is a gourmand experience that makes you want it; although simple, it doesn’t feel cheap, or perhaps it’s its bottle in which the master craftsmen of the Pochet du Courval workshop used revolutionary (and patented) techniques to create this beautiful pink bow.