 hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are today. I wanted to talk about perfume that's blue seduction from Antonio Banderas and this is what it looks like. I bought this probably about three months ago in the depths of winter from old BT. It is a relatively budget priced perfume. It's a celeb you sent obviously because it's an Antonio Banderas one but I didn't realize that Antonio Banderas had like a huge perfume empire and his perfumes are quite highly recommended and apparently he's one of the few celebrities who's actually really quite hands-on and involved in creating the perfumes. So I decided to try this because it is blue and at the time I was looking for an aquatic blue fresh summer fragrance. Even though we're not yet in summer I'd already started shopping for spring-summer fragrances and so I thought I would try this and I couldn't find, yeah so I thought I'd try this. So I ordered it and I received it. I obviously couldn't use it during winter but it has been warm enough for me to actually use it and I took this along with me when we went camping to the Lake District when it was gloriously warm temperatures of about 27 degrees and I tried this out at the same time as I'd also taken the Paris Pérys perfume. So this one has got a it's a very lightly scented perfume so I'll start by talking about my thoughts on it, my feelings about it before I sort of go into the notes profile but it's a very fresh smelling perfume and it's lightly scented and with the first within the first 20 minutes with that first burst of spray you do get a lot of light fruity floral but not sweet, quite fruity floral and you get the aquacickness so if it almost as if you're just being hit by these waves coming from the ocean from the cool ocean but it lasts only about 20 minutes or so particularly on my skin that's what happened and then on the dry down I felt like I missed a lot of the middle notes and it just went straight to the musk and benzoin to the point where starting off I definitely felt like it's quite a feminine, a fragrant perfume because I quite like to give you context I really love my feminine fragrances like the ones that can be you know the most feminine you can think of that is what I like I'm not a big fan of unisex stuff or anything like that I want something that is fruity floral and definitely something that you can smell and you can be like oh this is a feminine scent so this one I would definitely say that is dry down it feels more like a cologne that a man could also wear so that's where it fell short for me and I ended up using the Paris Hilton more because that's like fresh fruity floral and it worked out quite well it's got a beautiful bottle I think I love the bluiness of the bottle here but again even with the bottle design I do feel like the bottle design isn't it's not the sort of design that really appeals to me so for something that's got a blue bottle design so for instance I love the Britney Spears curious bottle because it's just something so beautiful and vintagey kitschy cheek about it but I do like the color of it so I got my son and my husband to try this they didn't like the initial burst they found it too too sweet was their word for it although I wouldn't personally call it sweet but they liked the dry down they thought that the dry down was quite nice and it had that musk because it's got musk and benzoine as one of the base notes it also has patchouli as far as I remember but I didn't really get a very strong sense of the patchouli I definitely felt the benzoine and the musk were in there I did find that I could make it last longer if I put it onto my clothes but yeah but it just lost out to Paris Hilton because that was the other one that I was trying out on this really hot summery day I think I am going to hand on to it it is not unpleasant but it's not something that I would definitely be reaching for but if you are looking for an aquatic fragrance and you don't like you like stuff that is sort of unisex in fact I would definitely say that a man could rock this in terms of the longevity it is a budget perfume so it's not exactly beast mode you probably have to top it up if you're somebody who likes to have that constant seage around you but it's not too bad otherwise so that's Antonio Banderas lucid action very quickly I'll tell you the notes so this is from Fragrantica and the top notes are melon begamot pear and violet leaf and you definitely get the melon and the pear in that initial first blast that you get within those 20 minutes the middle notes are peony jasmine lily of the valley godinia and bulgarian rose I would say it does have a little bit of the