My friend gifted me this perfume and I was about to tear into it but then I decided to make an unboxing/mini review video instead…

Main Accords

Sweet Like Candy Eau de Parfum by Arian Grande is a sweet fruity scent with prominent vanilla notes launched in 2016. Its main accords are:

• Sweet
• Fruity
• Vanilla
• Powdery
• Lactonic

If you love sweet fruity scents then I promise you, this is for you.

Fragrance Pyramid and Notes

The top notes are Blackberry, Pear and Bergamot. The perfume is well blended because I was unable to pick out a particular fruit. It just smelt deliciously fruity.

The middle notes are Whipped Cream, Marshmallow, Black Currant, Frangipani, Jasmine & Honeysuckle. This is where you get all the candy-like sweetness. This is literally where the perfume gets its name.

The base notes are Vanilla and Cashmere wood. I always love it when a perfume has either vanilla or patchouli (preferably both) as its base notes.

My First Impression

At the first sniff, I thought it smelled like a perfume I already had but then all my perfumes (with very few exceptions) are all sweet & fruity with Vanilla and/or patchouli notes. But when I sniffed again, I realised it wasn’t a dupe for anything I already had. It’s an explosion of irresistible edible notes. I am a sucker for sweet fruity scents and when I sprayed it on my wrist and the fruits and vanilla hit me, I knew I had hit a home run. As the perfume dried down, the floral and vanilla notes became more prominent making the sweetness more complex.

Performance

This fragrance’s only failure is its performance. It’s longevity is poor. It doesn’t last up to 4 hours on my skin and clothes. It’s sillage and projection are barely average.

Packaging

As for the packaging, as you can see, it comes in a regular perfume box with a cute pic of Ari on it. The bottle however is anything but regular. It literally is the cutest, most portable perfume bottle I own and I am a sucker for small cute perfume bottles. This particular one I have contains 30ml of product but it also comes in bigger sizes of 50ml & 100ml.