Italian bergamot opens with a bright, fizzy lift, and lotus flower sits right beside it, cool and watery. Pink Woods is one of the LOVENOTES, scents conceived as small love letters from Ariana Grande to the world, and its first line reads like one: short and light.
Despite the name, the wood is not parked in one place. Vetiver in the heart adds a dry, rooty shade, while jasmine petals and tea leaves soften the space around it. The tea's slight bitterness keeps the jasmine's sweetness in check, and the lotus's clarity wraps the vetiver's earthiness.
At the base, tonka beans bring a rounded sweetness and cashmere woods a smooth woody texture. Then comes a pinch of cotton candy. It is not the lead; it tints the dry wood with a faint sugar, and the surprise of the scent grows out of that small contrast.
