I can’t hear the word ‘daisy’ without immediately flashing in my mind to Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday saying, “You’re a daisy if you do” in that movie Tombstone, from the 90s. Totally one of my guilty pleasures.

I can say that Daisy ($57) (the Marc Jacobs edition, not the Val Kilmer edition) is a true pleasure, and not a guilty one. I’ve wanted, for a long time, to try this fragrance. I have a picky nose, so I hate walking into any store that has perfumes stacked all atop one another because the scents mix and mingle and make me sneeze…that’s my excuse for dallying so long in adding this to my collection.

Short story? I love it. It’s delicate, feminine, and sexy in that…honestly the best way I can describe the sexiness is the Sunday morning standing in the kitchen with the sunlight shining through the window while you’re wearing his button up shirt and your hair’s all rumpled then you get a little half smile when you realize the sleeves are a little too long, but who cares because you took his shirt when you slipped out of bed this morning…that kind of sexy. Nothing naughty, just sunny and sweet and feminine and soft.

I’ve mentioned before that my chemistry makes any perfume I use smell even sweeter than it may already be designed to be so I’m always a little hesitant about the way I’m going to smell after a couple of hours…but Daisy doesn’t become cloyingly sweet. I can’t taste it on the back of my tongue and don’t feel like I’m leaving fume trails every where I go.

Top: Wild strawberry, violet leaves, ruby red grapefruit
Mid: Gardenia, violet petals, jasmine petals
Base: Vanilla infusion, white wood, musk

Initially, the violet and grapefruit are kind of lost on me, except that the grapefruit makes the first hour or so have a bit tangier scent. Strawberries are my weakness, but they’re not overpowering. After the scents have had time to warm up and mix with my chemistry, the gardenia & jasmine mix well with the white wood and musk to give me a soft, sweet smelling, girly smell. Something I really like, particularly in my work environment.

Of course, the bottle is adorable. The flowers are green on the sticker edition, which is was what sent to me. I think normally they’re white.

The only quibble I have is that since it’s an EDT, the fragrance isn’t as long lasting as I would like…but it gets a pass, because it’s an EDT. As I understand, the EDP has a much better staying power.