Review | River Island Paris and London Perfume | Sweet Scents

River Island London 75ml
RRP: £12.00

As you can see from the photos, I've actually been using both of these products for quite a while before reviewing them and that's mainly because I wasn't too sure on how to review a perfume! But here I am, giving it a go so I would just like to apologise in advance for any strange descriptions or basically any language that would offend someone who does this regularly haha!

So here we go! The picture on the left here is River Island's London perfume which is priced at £12.00 for 75ml (as is the Paris edition below) but both can be purchased for around £10 each for a 30ml bottle. The London perfume is quite a deep, musky scent and I use it a lot for going out at night, purely because it suits the occasion. Although it is fruity, I would associate this perfume with scents such

River Island Paris 75ml
RRP: £12.00

as blackberries and other 'forbidden fruits' and this is exactly what kind of element this perfume encompasses. It is enticing and exciting and isn't the kind of perfume that needs to settle or smells better on skin than it does when simply sprayed on to clothes which makes it more than perfect to just spray and go or to take out with you on a night out. I should also mention that I am a bit of a perfume junkie and the style and shapes of bottles are important to me. I feel that although the bottle is just a simple cube with a ball as a cap, the shape gives a bold feel to this perfume which suits the scent, as does the vibrant colour of purple coupled with the black giving it a dangerous and sexy image.

The Paris perfume, however, is the complete opposite of London. It is very much a sweet and uplifting fragrance suited to day-to-day use and is very summery in nature. Completely feminine and incredibly girly, this perfume is pretty much the embodiment of someone like Taylor Swift - innocent, sweet and pure. Enriched with flowery and creamy scents, this perfume is perfectly finished with a simple and gentle pink colour with a smoothly rounded bottle, the top giving associations with a crystal.

Overall, both scents are perfect for different occasions and at such amazing value (especially from River Island!), it definitely wouldn't hurt to have both of these handy! Both scents are also available in gift-sets - great wee gift idea since Christmas is coming up!

Do you have any low budget scents that smell fantastic?
Leave a comment and let me know - I'd love to try them out!