 I've got a Zara unboxing today, so it's a really big box. It's a really really big box. Red Vanilla Goumand Addict. I got the minimal collection discovery set, the weekend collection and the nude collection. Right let's try these out. Hi guys, you just ignore my hair. I did it yesterday and it was nice and sleek and flat and soft and then the humidity went up and it just went so there we go. But we're going to start off today with this Zara haul. We have a lot to get through, so I'm just going to be going through really quickly. We've got red vanilla, so I have read so many good things about this, but when I wanted to buy it at Christmas time it wasn't available, but then it became available sometime in February for some reason. So here we go. So according to the box it's supposed to have black currant, iris and vanilla. So we're just going to try it here and so I can keep track of the cards that I'm using. I'm just going to write RV on here, but yeah it's a very cute little bottle, very simple, nice and small and it's the sort of thing that if I liked this fragrance I could see myself carrying this in my handbag. Very sweet on the bottle, so I'm just going to... Ooh, lovely berry blast. It's a bit of sharpness. I like it, I like it. So I'm definitely getting the black currant, the dark fruit very much. So you know kind of like when you buy that Robinson's all forests, raspberry and all forests and black currant. Vimto, that's it. I'm getting some Vimto. Yeah, some Vimto and there's some lovely muskiness beginning to come through, but this is definitely a winter fragrance. I would say it's sweet, it's sweet and musky, so definitely a winter fragrance. So far I can't say I'm picking out the iris, maybe the iris comes out later on as a base note, but immediately the burst is the black currant and a little bit of the musk underneath is quite clean and sweet. So yeah I would say that this is a winter fragrance, it's not screaming to me at all that it might be a spring summer fragrance. The experience that I've had with Zara fragrances is that they don't last very long on me. I'm lucky if four hours later I can still smell it, which you know if I have time to respray then that's fine, but I normally don't have time to respray. I've got five kids doing homeschooling, having a blog and things like that. So I tend to prefer for perfumes to be long-lasting, but I do think that this is a little lovely one. But having said that there are certain days that I'm not in the mood for something that's just going to carry me throughout the whole day. Sometimes I do want something that is light and doesn't last too long, so for the price that I'm paying for this not too bad. So the next one that I have is a roller ball and it's called the Goumand addict. Now when I did my first Zara shop I had hoped to get this, but again it was sold out and then it just rocked up again in February, so I was like I'm going to try it out by getting the roller ball. It's nice and it's small and if I don't like it I haven't you know got a big hundred mil or a big 30 mil or anything like that and if I like it I can always go back and get it and they are 4.99 here. So this has got peach cacis and patchudni. Yeah we're just going to dive straight into it. Oh very sweet it's like a really strong sweetness to it. I wonder if that's the peach note. I'm not really too familiar with the peach note. I'm just going to rub this a little bit on my skin here. Oh there we go. Now I got the peach. Yeah I got the peach note. There we go. Patchudni is coming through so it gives it that earthiness to it. As far as gumans go to say that it's got the name gumand in it I'm not feeling like I want to eat this up. All right it is all right. That's not too bad actually not too bad for what it is for 4.99. Quite impressive so quite fresh quite floral but also quite sweet so you've got the fruit and the floraliness going on in there. What would I wear this with? I can definitely see myself wearing this maybe in early spring when it's still a little bit cold but it's not like winter. I'm not feeling like this is a winter fragrance. Definitely when things are still a little bit cold but not wintry cold but spring. I'm thinking that I could wear this in spring. So the other thing that I have is the weekend collection discovery set and these are all the toilets. Sorry I did forget to say that this is an order toilet as well the gumand addict and I think the red vanilla is the only one that is the oh no it's also an order toilet so it's not going to last very long because it's not a platform but yeah so this is the discovery set called the weekend collection and it's made up of the farm, tuberose, twilight mauve and pink flambé. So I was looking at the perfumes I couldn't make up my mind what I wanted to get so I decided to get the discovery set so that I can also have the little samples for when we do get back around to traveling again. I will have some little samples to carry with me. So we're going to start off with the thumb so that's this one see if I can find out what the notes are it's got peony vanilla and musk so a vanilla musky type let's go it's warm it's very warm but like a light kind of warm not a raging fire kind of warm very very light though quite comforting got some on my face I like it I like it it's got a similar subtle fish feel to the red vanilla so I'm kind of thinking that I could actually wear this even in winter as well I feel like I could wear this right now because we're still in winter here in the UK but yeah not too bad not picking out the peony but having said that I have never been able to pick out peony I have never been able to pick it up it's one of my favorite flowers I've got peony flowers in my garden and July when the bloom is like a you know I love that time but I can never pick out peony in any of the perfumes that I've come across that say they've got peony so maybe I'm a nose make to that but definitely the vanilla is there and the musk is there the musk is more dominant than the vanilla though but yeah it's very lightweight it's very um you know I think it's it's very inoffensive I don't think it's a fragrance that is particularly overly noticeable I think it's a I think if somebody's coming in to hug you they'll feel like oh you smell lovely but it's not necessarily something that's going to announce your arrival when you walk into a room so that's fun from the weekend collection the next one is twilight mauve and this one has got magnolia apple and lily okay so let's uh have a go just lily not lily of the valley so I'm expecting it to have a a heavy a heady smell to it so let's try you out and because it's twilight I'm expecting it to be light okay it's very fresh very oh my gosh very fresh very um fabric softener fresh is what I'm thinking is what I'm immediately getting a little bit of the magnolia but it's very much reminding me of laundry room freshness uh to it similar to uh I guess nude by Rihanna is kind of maybe a better version of the freshness but it's got that freshness to it but yeah uh definitely probably more of a spring I can see myself wearing this in spring or in summer but yeah I feel like I've smelled your fabric softener a really nice luxury fabric softener that smells like this so that was twilight mauve uh so the third one is imaginatively named tuberose but it's got black currant vanilla and tuberose so it's not just tuberose on its own so when I got it I first thought that oh it's just going to be pure tuberose that would be a good opportunity to see you know get uh just what tuberose smells like on its own and adulterated but no it's not black currant so I'm expecting it to have a bit of a a mix of the gourmand addict because I think that that also had some black currant so let's just try this out I have to say that the atomizers on these little samples are really quite nice they spray out very smoothly without any issues it's a comforting one it's a very again very light but at least I'm not getting laundry room vibes from it fresh there's a little bit of freshness coming through and obviously the tuberose is in there but it's not actually very strong I didn't really get the black currant though I didn't quite get the black currant coming out in terms of it's only very mildly sweet it's not cloyingly sweet not like say the red vanilla was but yeah it's that that's all right I would try this in spring definitely okay so we have pink flambé now we just got pear violet and praline I like praline in perfume so far the perfumes that I've tried that had praline in them were quite nice although I have to remember that this is an order toilet it's not actually a perfume so let's try you pink flambé this is me right here this smells delicious it smells like it's from a cupcake factory or you're like in a donut factory the praline is really popping through yeah I like this one I like this one it's sweet it's it's got a nice sweetness to it and it's got the floraliness underneath it as well kind of smells like those palmer violets as well like they've been crushed and added into there but yeah this is more my cup of tea this this is the sort of fragrance that I tend to like so yeah pink flambé quite like this would wear this in spring would wear this in summer right so the next one is the minimal collection discovery set and this one has got this one has got orchid orchid intense gardenia and ruby berries and this is supposed to be immersed in the universe of essences and aromas we wanted to represent tones and notes that can go with all moods looks and moments divided into seven collections our fragrances act as another piece of clothing in our daily lives a sensory journey beyond what can be seen okay so let's see if you can deliver on that Zara okay we're gonna start off with gardenia which strength enough doesn't actually have gardenia in it it's orange blossom coffee and vanilla I like a coffee note I tried black opium the other week it's called coffee I absolutely loved it I only had a teeny sample of it but I'm a big fan of coffee in fragrances because I also like drinking coffee so let's try out gardenia oh wow do you know this actually does remind me of black opium it really does it's definitely there the coffee undertone is there mixed in with the vanilla it's like a latte type thingy an orange creamy latte so sweet definitely something I could wear now and I'll check on the well I know that the logma if it isn't going to be that great on me because it's an odd quality and it's for Zara fragrances but you know what it is a lot cheaper than the black opium and I'm getting the same black opium vibes from it but yeah not too bad for gardenia which actually doesn't have any gardenia in it so the next one is orchid and this one has got bergamot orchid and vanilla not sure what orchid smells like because there's like literally thousands of different types of orchids out there so let's have a try it's bright it's quite quite bright and uplifting so for me this is screaming spring it does have fresh clean laundry vibe to it maybe that's what orchid smells like yeah yeah it's like it's got like a really fresh clean laundry that's what I'm getting from this hmm it's a very clean very very clean I could definitely see this as also something that I would wear say maybe if I'm going to the gym as well I think that this would work really well for going to the gym oh I miss going to the gym so much so much I used to love going to the gym hmm okay some of the floral is beginning to come through now but yeah it's like a really clean white floral pretty much not too bad so there's also the orchid intense which I just assume is the bergamot vanilla and orchid just as an intensified version because it doesn't actually list the notes on the website to say is an intense perfume I don't think it smells quite as intense so this one was the orchid I'm really struggling to see the difference between the two they are very similar but I did notice that on the website you can't actually buy the orchid intense as a separate bottle but that's in the United Kingdom maybe it's different in other geographical locations but kind of just smells the same right let's try the ruby berries which is the last one of this minimal collection berries has got red fruits peach and vanilla so we're gonna have to see what that smells like oh mole function in atomizer oh wow oh my days this is like a fruit ball dessert like red fruits really popping out and punching out I'm not getting any flowers at all at all mm this is like high summer mid summer when all of the red fruit berries are ripening and they're overly ripe and these wasps going around you know drinking them that's what I'm getting I love it absolutely love it smells very very scrummy and then you put in the vanilla that comes in there and it's just it's like a it's like a pudding a dessert or something like that yeah no I like this I like red berries no ruby ruby berries yeah but to me this is a screaming spring summer yeah like it so that's the minimal collection and I think out of all the four of them the ruby berries is the one that really stuck out the most for me really like it so this one is the nude collection right and it's got things like a deep garden lightly bloom nude bouquet cashmere rose but it's got like this really interesting little saying so for deep garden it says I'm the first notes of spring lightly bloom is I'm delicious and tender nude bouquet is I'm fresh cozy and vibrant cashmere roses I'm soft and charming fields and nightfall is I am unknown but mysterious place so I think that's really quite interesting because it gives you an idea of what sense they're trying to evoke from the fragrance so we're going to start off with a deep garden okay so deep garden the notes up here tuberose and tonka bean and this is the one that says I'm the first notes of spring so we're expecting this to be nice and fresh and light and uplifting and luminescent you know all those lovely sort of things okay and it is it is a spring incarnate oh I love it love it it's fruity the tonka bean you get the tonka bean coming through with the vanilla as well those are more dominant I'm not really getting the pear that much I don't think that the pear is as dominant as the tonka bean and the vanilla but it's all very lightly lightly lightly think April showers you know I like this I like this and I also like the bottle so the bottles have got like this floral botanical look going I'm a big fan of flowers hello gardening as well flowers everywhere so I quite like this and I think I would like the bottle definitely something that I would definitely consider getting even for the price lightly bloom is lotus peony and musk and she says I am delicious and tender so let's have a look at you so lotus peony and musk I do have a lotus plant in lotus pond lilies in my plant in my pond so but I've never stepped up close to them to see what they smell like malfunctioning atomized very fresh so this is the I want to say the laundry clean you know so clean like a lot of the nude fragrances that have that clean vibrancy this is what I'm getting from this so very it sort of reminds me very early on in December I got a sample of a muck Jacobs daisy oh so fresh I think or one of those or days I don't know it was one of the flanker flanker flank is kind of reminded of that yeah so it's got spring I mean it's not kind of like oh like the other one but yeah it's all right I can see the tenderness in it is it is very understated it would be a very comfortable one to wear I think yeah not my fruity floral but it's okay okay has got jasmine begumette a honeysuckle vanilla and musk I think and it says I'm fresh cozy and vibrant so let's have a look at you so it's got nude in the word so I have a pretty strong expectation of a clean scent and yes because I've noticed that a lot of things that are called nude they've kind of like got this like clean freshness to them getting the honeysuckle definitely so honeysuckle has got like a light sweetiness to it and there's nothing like during summer when you catch the honeysuckle in the breeze I love that it's one of the things that I really love about summer hmm it's not too bad it's not a very uh sweet definitely it's got a strong white floral nest to it out of the ones that I've tried so far this is the one that smells the most mature to me not too bad warrants a second try definitely I think that this would be suitable for women with us we've got cashmere rose which is lotus peach and white musk not musk but white musk and her little blurb is I'm soft and charming I kind of think that whenever they put rose and something they just call it soft you know okay so let's try cashmere rose so because it's got the word cashmere I'm expecting something smooth let's see it's very sweet it's quite sweet and I think that the sweetness is probably what the peach is bringing to it musk the white musk is definitely more dominant yeah so it's quite musky and a little bit on the powdery side as well quite confusing because there actually isn't any rose note in the note profile so why is it being called cashmere rose am I missing the plot probably this smells to me a little bit more like an evening perfume I'm not getting the sense that I would want to wear this during the day and that's how I determine whether something is an evening day spring summer it's whether it makes me feel like that's what I want to be in but yeah it's actually not too bad if not definitely something I could wear in winter because I'm getting this nice warmth from the musk from the white musk I can't say I got any lotus asshole I can't say I can distinguish the peach there is definitely some sweetness coming through mixed in with the musk I quite like it I quite like it do you know this is kind of like six degrees away from red fleur reanna's red fleur I feel like it's got that similar but sort of like an echo of an echo of an echo of an echo of it but yeah it's not too bad quite like that cashmere rose definitely one of the top ones in this discovery set so this one is filled at nightfall and it's got pra line sandalwood and tonka bean that's the holy trinity for me I love pra line love the creaminess of sandalwood and I like tonka bean I do and the blurb is I'm a known but a mysterious place I have high expectations for this please please be good please be good who's the goddess of perfumes who's the good I need to look that up yeah please let this be good because it's got all of the notes that I really do like come on give it to me give it to me oh gosh I really want to like this I really do but it's not doing it it's not doing it what is wrong why why are you not working okay the sandalwood is really strong right off the bat the sandalwood is popping out not getting the pra line that much and the tonka bean is being flattened out by the sandalwood which which is giving it more of a woody without the sweetness that I would expect to get from the pra line a little bit a little bit like camphor just a touch of the balsam ah what a disappointment ah well I guess it just goes to show that sometimes the notes don't quite meet your expectations okay so out of this discovery set of the nude collection I really quite like the cashmere rose and I liked the deep garden and those were really quite nice so that was a lot of fun I think that the discoveries are really good value considering it's five pounds and you're getting two mils of the sample so for me a two mil sample I can get at least a good nine wears out of it but if you're an oversprayer then probably a little bit less I'm not yet at the point where I'm an oversprayer because I'm still getting a little bit too precious about them but I think it's been so much fun doing the discovery sets and I think that with Zara it's definitely worth trying out the discovery sets because they're really great value and the perfumes are you know they are affordable they're not so expensive and even though they don't stay as long and you have to kind of refresh them and all that I don't know about you guys but I feel like they feed the beast in me that wants to try new perfumes okay I just I have a beast and it wants to try new perfumes the Zara perfumes are cheap they are not unpleasant the only thing is they don't last that long so it's okay it can feed the beast and I'm happy about that so that's my Zara haul I'll definitely be getting some more Zara's I've been looking at getting some summer perfumes for my son I bought him some Zara winter perfumes I did a haul about that and he loves them and he's been wearing them but we kind of need to change it up as we're going towards spring and summer so that's it guys thank you so much for watching for coming along this discovery set journey with me with Zara and I will be back again with another unboxing another review and just another round of chat about perfumes from somebody else who loves perfumes and until I see you next time lovelies take care bye