So Hooked on Carmella Benefit for women

Bought this on a whim at a beauty store check out. It was a mini and the price was good so I thought is give it a whirl.....this is really delicious. I think it smells like vanilla ice cream and bath and body works brown sugar and fig mixed with say a whip cream covered peachy/ Apple dessert drenched with cinamon. This is definately a winner. I love it. lOVE...I love vanilla and gourmands so this is right up my alley. It also is a bit fruity as I said. This could be a beautiful year round perfume. I love it. Very femininine

Carmella to me smells like plant stalks/cut open leaves mixed in with a vanilla caramel scent and topped off with a hint of coconut. It is very strong. I sprayed one spray of this with my friends and all we could smell for the rest of the day was carmella and it was not nice. It is so sickly, I don't get why anyone would want to smell like it? Great sillage though, I'll give it that.

smelled god awful at first I thought "great now i smell like a ______" (trying to keep it clean, u fill in the blank) it changed over after awhile to a kinda smokey caramel, like ummmm, like an antique store selling caramels (for whatever reason). It was not great but kinda nice, and it grows on u and becomes kinda addictive, but u can't smell your arm close up or u for some reason will sniff out a horrible chemical that shoots straight up your nose. As long as no one sniffs your skin and just smells it from standing next to you it does seem like a fragrance that would u would get complimented on. But for me it was gone in 2hrs :-/

It's definitely an interesting scent, I've never smelled anything similar. To me it smells like really rich powdery caramel. I love it on paper but I have the feeling it would become cloying when sprayed on myself, and I would get bored of it, so I'm not going to buy it.

Yum. This is a strong salted caramel and vanilla scent, too bad it doesn't last longer on me. I also smell some other wonderful, mysterious stuff that I can't pinpoint. It's not too citrusy or floral as listed in its notes. Just addicting.

I was at a restaurant one time and this lady kept looking at me, which I was fine with at first but then I started to feel challenged and stared at her back. Turns out she only wanted the name of my perfume, hahaha. She had a beautiful accent and told me she usually wears Coco Mademoiselle, so this stuff must be good.

So Hooked on Carmella is one of my favorite perfumes hands down. It's very distinct from other scents and it really stands out on the skin. I always receive compliments when I wear this fragrance, and it has amazing lasting power. I spray it on before I go out at night, and literally the next morning my skin and clothes still smell the same as if I have just applied it. It lingers on your skin and in the air with a pleasantness that you will always remember.

This smells exactly like coconut flavoured salt water taffy. IDENTICAL!!!

I have a love/hate for this scent. Some days it's a delicious sweet vanilla coconut with some white floral in the background. Other days it is cloying. Which makes me feel ill. I'd love it if they had added more woods and made it less sweet.

This thing is soo long-lasting :)

More long-lasting than Dior Hypnotic Poison

i love this one. it is so vanilla-caramel-like. very very nice. i think it is the best of the "name" collection from benefit. sprayed on clothes it lasts all day long. put only use three sprays (one on the hair two on the clothes) as it is very strong otherwise you might appear as a super sweet cloud that people can smell one mile away;).
i know it contains citrus-notes, but i cannot smell them -.-.

This reminds me so much of bath and body works brown sugar & fig with the addition of a sweet lemon top note, a gourmand lemon. The dry down of both is so similar, centered around caramel and vanilla. The other notes look different but something about the composition of each makes them so similar. I love them both but love so hooked on carmella more really just for the fact it lasts longer than bbw. i could do without the lemon top note.

How odd to open sweet warm caramel with a sour lemon!? In spite of that I find myself craving the dissonant notes. Like a strange piece candy that once the first tart lemony coating has dissolved you are left with a delicious grainy melting vanilla center. In the end I'm really delighted by this. A bit of dusty caramel with a just hint of lemony sourness lingering. I only wish it had stronger projection. It seems to be mostly a skin scent though. Smells wonderful on the cuff of my sweater however. I find it uniquely delicious. Longevity is good on skin, great on clothes.

Totally love this one! Fabulous!! Smooth caramel note dry down, with sparkling lemons opening it. What a intriguing combination of lovely notes. Delish! <3

Seeing the notes, I am rather confused. And an oriental floral? I would never have guessed.
Either way, what this fragrance is is extremely yummy! I get the most amazing sweet milk and caramel, with vanilla musk undertones. Definitely gourmand, but not overly sweet. This is a comfort scent for sure, warm and cosy and softly sweet. It's certainly not a dressy fragrance, nor is it very perfumey. This is for being at home and snuggling with your boyfriend, wrapped up with a book on a rainy day or for putting small children to sleep. Inviting, reassuring and delicious, this is my favourite gourmand scent.

This is missing a key ingredient in the listed notes. I think CARAMEL should be added or something else that is sweet. This is a sweet caramel fragrance. Strong and long lasting. I know I left a trail behind me. I could definately smell it on myself without any effort.

This is most definitely very sweet and creamy - quite like caramel. The sweetness of the vanilla and amber are dominant, but I also pick up on a slight spicy/woody oriental quality in the drydown. I love it...so far my favorite of the Crescent Row series by Benefit.

This is a light and creamy scent. After Sofia I like Carmella most of the "women's name" scents by Benefit. It's a gourmand with caramel notes. Sweet and rich. But it doesn't last long on me.

'So Hooked On Carmella' is my fave of all of them! It's so creamy, warm, cosy, rich, delicious, not too sugary neither too bland or over-done! Suits my skin perfecly!

I'm gonna get this no doubt!

warm fragrance, caramel smell
nice :)
I had many compliments

I admitedly have I love hate relationship with this perfume. I originally loved this perfume when I first tried it at a Bnefit counter but then when I bought it it gave me a headache. It smells lovely but beware... it's definately strong!!!

This one reminds me of a toffee near the skin and something peppery fruity around. One of the most interesting from this two series.

this might be the sweetest caramel scent in the world and quite possibly way to young for me, but I like it anyway. love the bottle.

I tested this one today, not sure if I want to smell like straight-up caramel. I like Gourmand but I gotta think about this one...

I love these little bottles, but the scent doesn't always work for me. This one went on great, as a White musky sugary vanilla with wood notes. Then it rapidly turned cloying and over sweet. To add insult to injury, it also doesn't really scrub off,so I was stuck with a wristful of gooey, invasive white sugary musk. In the end, not a happy union on me.

Tried it on last night, and this one is definitely a gourmand-type scent rather than an oriental floral. The opening and middle notes are much better than the dry-down, in my opinion. So Hooked on Carmella starts off as a rather nice caramel based perfume with lashings of peony and a few other flowers I can't identify, but then as it moves on, it ends up becoming a sticky toffee mess that is frankly, a little nondescript.The sillage and lasting power were fairly good when I tried them out. Carmella manages to linger on my skin for several hours, and I even caught a whiff of it this morning (remember that it's an EDT!)

An ok, comfort gourmand perfume, but I think I've smelt better.

EDIT: Tried it on again today, and the weather was much cooler. Carmella smells much nicer in the crisp winter air! Amazing how fragrances can vary depending on the kind of air you expose them to.

Carmella is gourmand, gentle and plush as a Victoria's secret indulging body cream with fresh succulent peonies and roses spread out in a steam of aromatic vanilla and cream.

Carmella may catch you in her ever so sweet snare ;)

LOVE the girls at Benefit in Macy's in C olonie Center Natashia is the best, she got me 'Hooked on Carmella' i smell coconut,pineapply,chocolate so believe me any one who puts down sweet smells everybody is saying behind your back
'you stink'
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LOVE this perfume. I just wish I could smell it on my skin after a couple hours. I don't know what it is about this fragrance, but it has no stay power. I have to apply and reapply..Ugh!

Super sweet vanilla sandalwood. It's a bad combination on me, very cloying and in the end goes up my nose. It started okay, but gradually became so clingingly sweet and thickly gooey that I had to scrub. SO not for me.

I love the bottles, but this one is way way too cloyingly sugary on me. The sandalwood goes right up my nose and it makes me a little bit queasy. Too dusty, too sweet. I had to scrub this one off.

Sweet, rich, caramel-goodness. I could tell there was some kind of white floral (the tiare) in it as well- I have a particular affinity for them. It's a warm, comfort scent. I couldn't smell the amber much from the bottle, but it bloomed on my skin. It is long-lasting on me, I can still smell it fairly well 6 hrs later.

i went to house of fraiser in richmond and i smelt it from the bottle at first i thought it was a little bit sickly :P
then i tried it on and it was really nice im defently gettin it 4 christmas followig by a PB bag and a PB jumper xx

Once the perfume is on and is aired out enough it smells amazing. I didnt like it too much just smelling it from the bottle, so i tried it on and I loved it! I got two bottles :)

Yikes kind of an explosively sweet opening- lemon and caramel which simmers down to a sweet vanilla. I like gourmands but this is too young for me(30s)- maybe for a teenager?

Benefit SO HOOKED ON CARMELLA is more of a gourmand than an oriental fragrance, well, provided that your idea of tasty eats includes extraordinarily sweet lemon-vanilla cake icing!

This is actually the sweetest composition that I've sniffed since Jessica Simpson TASTE, which also has major diabetic coma potential. Are there flowers in here somewhere? Perhaps, if one digs through the thick layer of icing. But, to my nose, this seems pretty unidimensional, with no significant development at all, just a diffusion of sugar over time.

Definitely not for me. It's time for recuperative black coffee and a pitcher of ice water!

So Hooked on Carmella is the right-most one in the picture.

It's the lightest one among the three. A soft natrual flower scent, hmm... the Cyclamen. I'd smelt a real yellow Cyclamen before, it's exactly like it.

I love this one, it has nice lemony vanilla fragrance for gourmand lovers. My friend from work said it smells like chocolate. Lasting power is also very good more like perfume than EDT. I wish that they produce bigger bottle because 30 ml is not enough for me.I think I will buy this one again.

Everywhere I go it seems to be sold out already. It's been out only a few weeks right? There is a waiting list in the UK. This new line was created by a Chanel nose. It's not a completely complex perfume, but it is a good comfort gourmand scent. Since we are moving into the cooler weather months then it's naturally going to attract people. Vanilla never gets old and always gets compliments. This genre of perfume is the one that appeals to both men and women 9 out of 10. The price is decent for the amount you get. So hooked on Carmella is like a softly coconut vanilla fragrance that is not too strong nor fake smelling. I wouldn't call it a body mist type scent by any means. The florals keep it from being overly sweet. Even if it's not a single perfume you can wear, it's a great one to layer to add something delicious.

First accord is a pleasure - gardenia tinted with caramel - but then quickly fades into a simpleton scent. Actually, like this whole line is a nuisance. It can be a body mist from the Dollar Store - just terribly overpriced, probably on the account of a cute bottle.

I love this one.Its so sweet and gourmand.
at first sniff I had a sweet lemony vanilla. Then it gets more warm ambery vanilla. I definatly gonna buy this one. Staying power is wonderfull on my skin.

i tested it today and like it,i think best of this triology,smells like eating fresh lemon cake at a full of flower garden.but not longlasting.

This one is rich & sweet, smells to me a little like strawberries and caramel - though strawberry isn't listed as one of the notes.

I prefer this to the other popular gourmands I've smelt - it isn't as strong as Fantasy, for instance, and it's rather more warm and rounded. I like the smell, though I don't think it's one I'd wear too often.

This one is for gourmand lovers.
My first association: minty chocolate / minty caramel. For me, a nauseating combination.
Then come exotic vanilla tiare & light mist of pink peony with a hint of citrus.
Not me at all.