Abercrombie & Fitch 8
Introduced: unknown
My Description: Winter, Cool, Cute, Sweet.Top Notes: Clementine, Mandarin Orange, Grapefruit.
Middle Notes: Lily, Melon, Amaryllis, Violet, Freesia
Base Notes: Amber, Musk, Bourbon Vanilla, Vetiver.
During the cold, cold Christmas of 2003, my best friend at the time bought me a bottle of this as a gift. It was one of her favorites and she knew it was one of mine too.
I flipped out. And across all the intervening years, I haven't lost my association between this perfume and those cold nights shopping with her.
I wouldn't call Abercrombie 8 a "sophisticated" perfume in the same way I consider Gap Simply White to be sophisticated - although that's highly relative and certainly a matter of one's individual taste. Instead, I'd call 8 cute, adorable, and in a cute sort of way, a little sexy. Abercrombie 8 has a way about it of smelling *better* after you wear it under a cozy sweater, and the bourbon vanilla, star of this perfume's show, is one of the first things you smell when you spray it and one of the last before it fades. Everything else in this perfume compliments that note. One might think, because of that, that it's a cloying, sweet, sticky, and unforgiving scent. It's actually not. I think it *almost* is...but it goes to the brink of cloying, taunting you across the line. "See, I'm still wearable, aren't I?" The clementine and other fruity hints on top make it eminently youthful without making it childish. It's classy and girly.
Abercrombie 8 is still in production.
