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Cherry Gold by Brandy Designs Eau de Parfum 85ml
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Main AccordsScent family: Oriental Floral
- Woody100% , strength 100 percent
- Warm spicy92% , strength 92 percent
- Amber62% , strength 62 percent
- Sweet58% , strength 58 percent
- Vanilla55% , strength 55 percent
- Cherry54% , strength 54 percent
- Balsamic53% , strength 53 percent
- Fruity49% , strength 49 percent
Fragrance Notes
The first impression, and usually the lightest part of the fragrance. These notes evaporate first, which is how a fragrance is built to open.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
The main body of the scent, emerging as the top notes fade. It shapes how the fragrance smells once it settles on skin.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Heavier molecules that evaporate slowly, like woods, musk, amber and oud. They are there from the start, and they are what remains once the rest has faded.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Product Details
TL;DR
- Boozy fruity-floral, cherry liqueur and bitter almond into rose and jasmine
- Best for: evening wear, cooler weather
Cherry Gold opens on cherry liqueur, black cherry and bitter almond, joined by jasmine sambac, Turkish rose, sour cherry and plum through the heart. Peru balsam, tonka bean, vanilla, cinnamon, patchouli and cedar close it out with a warm, spiced woody-amber base.
What Does Cherry Gold Smell Like?
Cherry Gold opens on cherry liqueur, black cherry and bitter almond, a boozy, slightly nutty fruit accord that avoids reading as simple cherry syrup thanks to the almond's dry edge. Jasmine sambac and Turkish rose form the floral core of the heart, joined by sour cherry and plum for a tart, fruity counterpoint that keeps the florals from turning too sweet on their own. The base is extensive and does most of the work: Peru balsam, tonka bean and vanilla build a warm, slightly resinous sweetness, cinnamon and cloves add spice, benzoin deepens the amber character, and patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood and cedar bring in enough earth and dry wood to stop the whole composition tipping into pure gourmand territory. The shape it settles into is a boozy, spiced fruity-floral built on a genuinely warm, woody-resinous base rather than a straightforward cherry scent. What makes the note list unusually layered is the doubling-up on cherry itself, cherry liqueur and black cherry at the top, sour cherry again in the heart, which keeps the fruit present at every stage rather than letting it disappear once the florals and spice take over, even as the ten-note base pulls the composition toward wood and resin by the end.
How Does It Develop Through the Day?
The opening is led by cherry liqueur, black cherry and bitter almond, giving Cherry Gold a boozy, fruity start with a dry almond edge that keeps it from reading as sugary. Within the first hour, jasmine sambac and Turkish rose move to the front, joined by sour cherry and plum, so the fragrance shifts into a tart, fruity-floral heart that carries the fruit theme forward in a different register. This middle stage lasts a good stretch before the base notes begin to dominate. From around the two to three hour mark, Peru balsam, tonka bean, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves and benzoin build into a warm, spiced amber character, while patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood and cedar bring the finish back down to something dry and grounded rather than purely sweet. By the later hours the cherry has faded into a supporting role, and what's left is a warm, spiced woody-amber base with only a trace of the original fruit. The sheer number of base notes here means the drydown keeps shifting subtly even in its final hours, with the cinnamon and cloves surfacing intermittently against the sandalwood and cedar rather than settling into one flat accord.
Is It for Men or Women?
Cherry Gold is built as a unisex fragrance. The cherry-almond opening and rose-jasmine heart could read traditionally feminine on their own, but the spiced, woody-amber base built from patchouli, vetiver, cedar and sandalwood balances that out, and the composition doesn't carry gender-specific marketing. The interplay of fruit, spice and wood across ten separate base notes gives it enough structure to sit comfortably on anyone drawn to a boozy, layered fruity-floral.
Who It's For
Cherry Gold suits anyone who likes a boozy, fruity-floral scent with real depth in the base rather than a straightforward cherry note. The almond and rose-jasmine heart give it a rounded, slightly tart character, while the tonka, vanilla and cedar base carries it well into cooler evenings. It works well as a signature evening scent for someone who enjoys spice and wood alongside fruit and florals.
- Brand
- Brandy Designs
- Concentration
- Eau de Parfum
- Size
- 85ml
- Gender
- Unisex
- Scent family
- Oriental Floral
- Season
- All year
- Barcode
- 9505171358253
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Brandy Designs is a perfume brand from the United Arab Emirates, and we're its sole South African distributor.
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