Zara Orange Blossom & Mandarin
4.2
Overall
Accords
white floral
citrus
vanilla
lavender
sweet
Notes Pyramid
Top
Mandarin Orange
Heart
Orange BlossomJasmineLavender
Base
Vanilla
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ Love this!!! For reference, I enjoy Libre but hated Golden Decade, something about it was bitter and off to me, just not a pleasant scent. Of the Libre line my favorite is the le parfum. This is sweeter and thicker than the original golden decade so I believe this to be a dupe of the le parfum.
- ✅ The OG is very good, but elixir is next level. It is deeper, intense, all the good facets amplified. 10/10 🥰💐
- ✅ A fresher Paradoxe Intense whereas Libre Le Parfum is sweeter. Opens similar to Flowers & Flames. Prefer it to the OG, it's juicier & less soapy. Versatile & classy I smell very ripe mandarin, orange blossom & jasmine. In other words, candied oranges🍊🍊
- ✅ Usually do not fw florals but im trying to become more open minded…
- ✅ I have Libre Vanille Couture in my collection, and I have already tried the Intense and Le Parfum versions. I have just tried (and bought immediately :D) Golden Decade Elixir and I'm blown away by how fantastically they captured the scent of the Libre line. Extremely good dupe with the same longevity and sillage. And for a great price.
- ❌ Jasmine is more prominent than orange blossom. Jasmine and lavender combo is very harsh for my nose and unpleasant. Spray stem is troublesome to use for a certain type of atomizer. Some of Zara perfumes spray stem have the same issue. I liked YSL Librè Le Parfum, but this is NO for me.
- ❌ had to blind buy this because the sweetest girl in my class sat beside me and smelt so good i couldn't help asking her what perfume she was wearing. surprise surprise smelt absolutely gross on me. it becomes very sour, and not in the nice citrus way. i've sprayed ysl libre before and it does not smell anything like this, perhaps only out of the bottle. the notes all feel very muddled to me, and where it should smell like walking down a street in spain in the summer, past the orange blossom trees lining the road and the warm afternoon sun, it smells like a very unfortunate bouquet and is quite overwhelming for me.
