100 Bon is such a delightful name for a perfume brand: it reads like ‘sent bon’, meaning ‘smells good’. A sent bon (as a noun) is a synonym of perfume, it’s kind of a cutesy replacement word.

I’ll admit, I bought this perfume for the brand name alone, I had no expectations for it. And boy did they exceed! Neroli & Petitgrain Printanier had me buzzing. The name is just slightly misleading, I think it smells of summer more than spring, or perhaps the very tail end of it.

One of my aunties has a young lemon tree that’s just started flowering last year, and when I came over to visit, she was really proud of it and couldn’t stop gushing about how good the flowers smelled. She was so right, I could not get my nose away from them! Neroli & Petitgrain Printanier reminds me exactly of those delicate flowers - a delicious, invigorating and uplifting blend of citrus flowers, what’s not to love!

Longevity-wise, it lasted an afternoon, but after the initial spray, it was like walking in my own personal cloud of neroli goodness. Absolute sunshine in a bottle.