Holy Forking Shirt balls, this smells EXACTLY like what?!
EDIT: This really isn't an ad, I swear. I'm no influencer and I didn't even post any links to any sites. I just get super excited when I find cool shit......sorry if I gave off those vibes! I work in HR for a school district. I'm not cool enough to have brand deals. LOL I'm also the one that got super excited about Pacifica's Beach Day.....
This has got to be the craziest, most amazing fragrance experience I've had since getting more into fragrances last year!
I bought Cotton Malaki at least 6 months ago with a bunch of other Middle Eastern scents and I was just "meh" about it and forgot about it to the point it fell off my perfume tray in my closet and got buried underneath a pile of bedding for months. (Don't judge! lol) At that time, all I wanted were caramel, vanilla, and almond gourmands or beachy scents. Welp, today I'm washing all the blankets and out rolls this bottle from the closet....I go back to read the notes.....it's supposed to be fruity mango with white florals and a lot of vanilla/caramel in the base....heck yeah, I love mango. I always retry Middle Easterns because they really do change alot after sitting and Y'ALL.....this at least 85% a friggen dupe of Donna Born In Roma Extradose 💀🤯😲
Hear me out!!! I didn't know about Extradose when I first tried and got this perfume. I don't even think Extradose existed before Cotton Malaki but I don't know....my obsession with these ultra feminine, sexy, designer scents is really recent. I only got my nose on Extradose 2 months ago and I have the Oakcha dupe. Now Extradose is supposed to be just black currant, vanilla, and rum and, to me, it's really all of those and none of those because it's so well blended into a whole new thing. Have y'all seen Georgina Chapman? Co-founder of Marchesa and maybe the most stunning woman on earth? This is what I expect her to smell like. Like rich, feminine, sweet heaven.
I do get a slight mango quality at first spritz with Cotton Malaki and I would also say there's a cleaner white floral in the drydown that Extradose doesn't have, but I am telling you the FEEL is the same! My flabbers are genuinely gasted! And for under $30.....gimme 2!