What interesting to me is how this fragrance gives me the feeling of sunscreen - it doesn't smell coconutty, not at all. HUBBA BUBBA, GERMOLENE, ALIEN ( not Mugler) FLOWERS, SEASIDE (MIXED FLAVORS OF) FUDGE, MARZIPAN AND MUSK. Its aroma immerses us in the memories of the best summer of our lives, sunsets among friends, some romance and moments of fun and water games. It has a skanky aspect, especially midday when I touch my neck and smell my fingers I smell something very ripe and animalic.

When there's no one around to offend, you can really test some of the more polarizing, yet curious, fragrances on your list. Well kept women who were applying generously nice fragranced sunscreen creams, oils and tanning marmelades smelled like this. I don’t get anything really beachy from it, but it IS warm and the sun is warm so perhaps it’s aptly named. If you are interested into hearing more details about this perfume, please watch my Youtube video review on my channel perfeptions on perfume perceptions.

However, to people who didn't live through that time or who were smaller children the impression might be more that of a warm 'mature scent' because it goes heavy on the Benzoin and because you may have smelled it before on your aunts, mothers, possibly grandmothers even etc. Its olfactory pyramid includes an infinity of flowers, sweet aromas and especially vanilla, perhaps the component that can best be appreciated in its wake. Here in Germany it‘s the olfactory equivalent of the Macarena, really overplayed in the 90s and I‘m not sure I want to smell like it. Despite the name this fragrance does not evoke feelings of the beach, summer, or even the sun itself. The first spray i find very ineresting, some flowery-vanilla- benzoin scent that does evoke a sunscreen- like scent but sweeter.

For those who are familiar with Dessange hair products, it smells exactely like their yellow Nutri-Etrême range. While on a kick to try every perfume that came out my birth year I stumbled upon the bold yellow font of SUN highlighted against a stark milk glass. If you experienced summers in the 90s this is clearly a summery scent and it does smell like sun tan lotion. Not a perfume for hot summer days, but days that are warm, beautiful with lots of warm wind, the sun spreading rays glowing with an orange tint rather than a bright yellow. What I can’t believe is thet Jil Sander Sun was actually launched way back in 1989 so this has been around for over thirty years!I'm trying out JS Sun in our Southern California "cold" season, and it's a nice, warm smell, but I could see how it could potentially work year round. Esprit d'Oscar has a sharper opening that's more ylang-iris forward, but as it dries down becomes more similar to Sun. I find myself reaching for it after a bath, before bed, or I spray in the morning for a happy, creamy burst.