Once Upon A Garden La Perla for women and men

So gross smelling. Maybe I got a bad bottle? Literally one of the grossest things I’ve ever smelled. Smells like moldy flowers

Calming floral scent with lots of dry herbs and distinguishable camomile note. For me it’s smells like a realistic camomile flower, because I have never smelled sweet pea. Maybe there are some similarities in this flowers. I can also smell nice fresh rose. Interesting scent!

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In my nose, it smells like iced tea with a floral scent, similar to jasmine tea, but with the aroma of sweet pea flowers instead. It's not the kind of perfume that would attract people to wonder what you're wearing. However, since it smells like tea to me, it's relaxing. This perfume will be more pleasant in colder areas or when it's raining. Hot and humid air won't bring out the beauty of this scent.

This fragrance smells nothing like a garden to me and everything like a dusty old bowl of dried potpourri. Straight up brown leaves and shriveled rose petals. It’s not an offensive smell but under no circumstances would I wear this. It’s nostalgic like my great aunties powder room from the 90s. I adore some of the others from this line but this is a definite “no” for me.

A scent that captures the daintiness of sweet pea flowers, the loveliest sweet pea-forward scent 💞💞💞

Green, delicate, light, rosy, fruity sweet, juicy, tender, fresh

I really love this. I am not familiar with Sweet Pea as a note, but I am wondering if that's what's perhaps giving the sort of pruney/geranium, maybe marjorum even type of smell?

If I were guessing the notes, I'd be way off -- I'd say marjorum, rose, geranium, raspberry, dried apricot, grass (again maybe this is a dead ringer for Sweet Pea, and if I just knew how that smell, I'd recognize it...). It's fuzzy, herby and grassy like marjorum, but distinctly rose, and distinctly fruity. Not at all like anything I've smelled; Very elegant. Smells pruney but also dewy because of the green aspect I get.

Great signature scent for someone who wants something pretty and feminine-leaning, but spunky and different. It's safe but it's unique, and I could see it on a teenager as equally as I could see it on a more mature woman.

Like walking through a lush garden under the moonlight, full rose bushes, crackling crushed granite underneath your feet and dark rich soil everywhere, and all of the surrounding plants. I really enjoy this scent and I have a lot of rose scents at this point. I like that others compare it to tea. I do not get a tea note, but it has an ever so slight pungency of tea and isn't a jammy rose, but rather a very fresh perhaps dewy rose.

I don't have a clue where I should wear this so not fb worthy for me as some others in this collection, but I do enjoy it.

I've never smelled actual sweet pea flower before, but the strangest thing is that this fragrance smells almost exactly like the metallic "Red Jade" black tea from Taiwan, making it rare, exotic, & nostalgic to me 😄

Department store scent w a notable amount of greenness. Forgetable. Weak staying and sillage power. The second in Haute Perfumerie line that I can stomach, after Possibilities.

It has a very similar vibe to English Pear & Freesia by Jo Malone except for the fresh sweet pea note at the beginning.
The drydown is however similar, maybe a bit less sweet than Jo Malone. I would say they are not twins, but definitely related.

Once Upon A Garden is an unusual, slightly challenging floral scent. Sweet pea, a flower I adore, is very prominent to my nose, bolstered by sweet raspberry. Pink pepper adds nice rosy spice too, but the mint is very strong, making the other notes jostle for attention at the early stages of this scent.

As it develops, sweet rose comes to the fore, becoming increasingly powdery as it develops. The mint remains, still discordant but mellowing ad the scent develops. I get a lovely tea note at this stage of OUAG, a pleasant surprise.

The drydown is earthy, led by patchouli which complements the rosy florals nicely. There is a synthetic ambroxan-like note in the base, which I'm not a fan of, but it is subtle enough that it works, detectable after it fades. Sillage and longevity are moderate.

An interesting take on the tired feminine floral, there is much to like here. It doesn't fully work for me, but bonus points for creativity. 3/5.

Very interesting floral scent. Comparing it to CH is just ridiculous.

Doesn't smell like CH good girl AT ALL. I see the bath and body works comparison, but this is more unique and refined, nuanced. I have the sample set of this whole line sitting in front of me and I'm amazed, everything is BEAUTIFUL.

I pick up sweet pea for sure it's a pretty bold sweet/green opening, a slight touch of very light watery and spicy rose, and then i also get what must be the mint but it smells like the dried mint leaves before you brew tea, not the fresh green mint you would pluck from the plant. It's not for me one bit, but i can definately appreciate it. Just like lots of others in this line, not always for me but i think they are amazing.

I'm not usually one for rose or floral dominant scents. However, as my nose matures and my tastes grow ever more diverse, I must admit I REALLY like Once Upon a Garden!

OUaG piqued my interest due to the Raspberry (my favorite fruity note) in its heart notes. Along with Rose and Peony, I get a tea-like aroma and it's lovely. The entire composition is breezy yet sophisticated. Romantic and minimalistic. It's a little more than a skin scent. It has a presence and aura which conjures images of summer weddings, garden parties and gauzy dresses.

I've also tried Invisible Touch, which is my favorite, so far. I see at least a 30ml bottle of these two in my immediate future for Spring/Summer '22.

I was hoping for noticeable mint in this, but I did not detect any. There was also no raspberry on my skin. For a couple of hours it was all Sweet Pea + floral amalgam, akin to the scent you are met with when entering a Bath and Body Works store. The dry down is a lovely sweet floral musk, identical on my skin to the ending of the original Jour d’Hermes.

If you’re considering purchasing a sample set, every fragrance I have tried from my La Perla Haute Perfumerie sample set has been more interesting than anything in the Estée Lauder Luxury Fragrance Collection sample set. The La Perla fragrances seem like bold acrylic paintings to Estée’s demure watercolors.

Smells like Good Girl by Carolina Herrera (the first one). Nice and sweet but nothing special.