Today was Tanuki's Cherrytchi day. He wasn't ready to transform into his next form, so I didn't have anything to report really. He was very good. I didn't turn his sound off at work at all today, so some of my customers were treated to a bit of beeping. ^_^ It's all good.

So I wanted to post my review of the next fragrance from the Harajuku Lovers line:

Lil' Angel is COMPLETELY different from Love, and I really really dig it. It's named after Angel, birth name Jennifer Kita. She's an American hip hop dancer with Japanese heritage.



(Okay, about that psychotic hallucination and talk of "Gwen's dream world" — I believe Gwen's just making a very convoluted, ironic comment on pop star eccentricity by making all her Harajuku Girls play into this weird background story. Because I get the strong sense that she's not actually crazy. I mean, she loves Björk and she married Gavin Rossdale. She knows what's up.)

Lil' Angel is a very sweet fragrance, sugary like candy, but light and airy. It's actually a very interesting scent. It smells like a familiar, identifiable candy, as if it's something from your childhood that you've eaten a hundred times, but you just can't put your finger on it. It's just beyond your reach. It's somehow a very nostalgic scent.

I made three of my friends sniff my wrist at different parts of the day: Mary in the morning, and my friends Rachel and JM at about 9:00 PM when we were out for dinner. All three of them were in wide-eyed agreement with me about it smelling like some candy, and they were all stumped, clutching for some way to identify what it is. JM was like, "It's like some far away memory…" I find it so interesting that my friends who are different ages and genders all had the same reaction to the fragrance as I did. The perfume also lasted a long time and stayed the same the whole day. It only disappeared after about thirteen hours.

I was struggling all day to try to pin down what candy it smelled like, and I finally concluded that it's like a cross between Rockets and cotton candy. So it's like a fresh, airy, sugar candy with just a hint of citrusy fruit. Really, really cool. I have never smelled a perfume like this before.

I was kind of on the fence with Love, but I am definitely seriously considering buying a bottle of Lil' Angel. I think it rocks. I think I could make this my signature scent, especially for spring, when the sweetness would work really well, and around Hallowe'en, when all the stores are stocked with candy!! ^_^