This perfume smells like cheap (and strong) shampoo or highly fragrant dryer sheets. I sprayed some on a piece of blotter paper, recoiled at the onslaught of aroma chemicals, and then put it back in the box. About a half an hour later, I saw a friend who knows I love (and collect) perfume. She commented, "You smell like cheap perfume!" What she was smelling was merely a few scent molecules that had wafted off the paper and "stuck" to my clothes. This supposedly "soft feminine" fragrance is one of the reasons perfumes are increasingly banned in public places. This fragrance was popular in the '90s; perhaps it's been reformulated. Perhaps not. Either way, this iteration is simply awful to my nose.