Cheirosa 87 Rio Radiance
Body Mist, Sol de Janeiro (2022)

Rio Radiance by Sol de Janeiro!

Normally, tuberose + coconut makes me feel like I'm a goose at the foie gras factory, overstuffed and looking for an escape.

But not here! This is coconut water, not coconut cream. With a whiff of tropical ylang and tuberose. Light, breezy, and super refreshing.

With this, you're sipping something cool on the beach, a joyful treat in the heat with flip-flops.

And for a body spray from a brand with a festive and overly gourmand reputation, it really feels like a proper and rather elegant fragrance

I actually have come to dislike Alien Goddess personally, but *this* little body spray is more along the lines of what I had hoped AG would've been.

It's a powdery coconut...plush, soft, with 0 juiciness. In fact, I would claim this fragrance is quite dry.

But it's also solar. The yellow color of the bottle is SO spot-on, and I do appreciate when that happens. Tuberose and ylang ylang? Yes...well, maybe. But they're very, very simplified and *friendly*. Nothing green (as tuberose can be), or overly indolic/heavy. Just playful florals atop a plushy coconut.

I absolutely agree with some folks who have stated that this is underrated, I do too. And I actually think it smells the most upscale of the bunch.