I recently got yet another awesome opportunity through Crowdtap. This past month I was able to sample Marc Jacobs Daisy and Daisy Eau So Fresh perfume and host my own party.
Marc Jacobs sent out this beautiful little party kit complete with just about everything I would need.
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It came packaged safely so the nice white Marc Jacobs box wouldn't get all beat up or opened.
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Inside they provided sample/tester bottle of the two different perfumes, a special gift for me, twelve samples for my party guests, balloons, a table cloth, faux daisy heads to scatter over the table for decoration and all the tools to make adorable daisy chains.
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For entertainment they sent supplies to make adorable daisy chain bracelets. I received a bag of white beads, a bag of green beads, a bag of beautiful gold beads, string, jewelry clasps, and needles to make it easier to thread the beads. (I forgot to include the needles in the first picture so they are pictured separately).
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The bracelets turned out really cute but we had a lot of issues making them and unfortunately some are difficult to wear. The beads, string and needles were so tiny it was difficult to thread the needle and continue to place the beads on the string. The tiny beads made the bracelet really cute and petite and helped to make a perfect daisy but they were really difficult to work with. I ended up with beads all over my floor, the whole time we were making the bracelets all we heard were the sounds of tiny beads dropping. That really wasn't that big of a deal because they are easy to vacuum up and with bracelet making that's bound to happen. Another problem that we had was the string and part of the jewelry clasps. The string was super thin, obviously with such tiny beads it cant be very thick but the material reminded me of floss and it wasn't easy to work with. The one end of the clasp was a hoop but the hoop wasn't a solid piece. There was an open slit on the hoop where the string kept sliding out. No matter how we tied the string the hoop would always slide around and the string would slip off through the slit.
Here's a picture of the hoop and string. (sorry for the poor phone photo quality).
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The only option we had was to make a loop at the end of the string to connect the clasp to. I thought that this would work fine but unfortunately the string is so thin that it even slipped through the tiny gap on the clasp!
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So unfortunately were going to have to find another way to secure our adorable bracelets or find another use for them. One of the girls made hers into a cute key chain!
Here's what my finished daisy chain looked like.
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Although the daisy chains didn't turn out as well as I hoped they would that was just a small part of the party and really just an extra perk to the Marc Jacobs party kit so it wasn't a big deal that it didn't turn out perfect.
Here are some pictures of the bracelet making.
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To explain why you only see two people in these photos...I had originally invited about 20 people to attend my party and many planned on showing up. unfortunately during the week of my party a nasty cold was traveling around. I actually ended up getting sick almost a week before but got myself well enough to go on with the party (unfortunately the next day I ended up back in bed for about a week). Most of my other friends that planned on attended got unlucky and caught the bug too, so only one of my friends was actually able to show up (and of course my mother on the left). So to make up for this I took my kit to my old high school (where my mom works) and asked the teachers to try the perfume and tell me what they thought. I'll show you pictures and their opinions in a bit.
The other (and most important) contents of the kit...
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The sample/testers of Daisy (on the left 3.4 oz.) and Daisy Eau So Fresh (on the right 4.2 oz.). Also the 12 Daisy samples for the guests and Marc Jacobs was kind enough to include an adorable mini bottle of Daisy for me :) The bottles are absolutely beautiful with the flower tops!
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I had my party planned for a Saturday night. I had gotten pizza, some drinks and snacks and made cute little chocolate fudge cupcakes with white chocolate "Daisies" on top.
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I had found this adorable idea of how to make Daisies out of balloons on Pinterest. They kit had the perfect amount of colored balloons to make one white daisy and one pink one. It was a little more difficult to get the balloons to stay then I thought it would be so I just made one balloon flower and let the others float around.
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My table set up. I had this perfect little bucket with a yellow polka dot ribbon handle that I had gotten from Target one year (in the dollar section! such great finds). It held all the little samples for guests to take home.
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Opinion time:
Before the party I hadn't really tried many of Marc Jacobs perfumes. My sister has Marc Jacobs Daisy and wears it daily so I would often smell it on her. She got me a perfume sample kit (my absolute favorite gift to get) for Christmas which had 16 mini samples, one of which happened to be Daisy. I had only tried it once or twice since I had 15 others to test out. Personally I really like the smell of Daisy. I feel like it has a really sophisticated floral scent to it. This was my first time trying Daisy Eau So Fresh and I have to say I love it even more then Daisy. It's a more floral, and fun scent then the Daisy. I plan on wearing these scents often because I love them. I wont be wearing them daily just because I have a few other perfumes I love to wear and I have all my samples to try (once I pick my favorite out of my sample gift it came with a card to bring into Sephora and I get to pick one of the 16 fragrances to get in a full size!). I think the Daisy will be a great scent to wear for more formal occasions like work, weddings, dinners, etc. and Daisy Eau So Fresh will be a great scent to wear on more casual days like when I'm hanging out with friends, shopping, casual parties, etc.
My friend Shannon who came to my party is my age (21) and she also like the Daisy Eau So Fresh the best. I assumed it would be the all around favorite but found that it tends to be more of a favorite for people in their 20s and the Daisy seems to be more of a favorite among people in there 30s and older. I think the results fit well with my idea of Daisy being a more sophisticated scent and Daisy Eau so Fresh being more of a fun, relaxed scent.
As I mentioned because of the bug going around the party ended up not working out well so I took the fragrances to my old high school (where my mom works) and asked some of the staff what they thought. Here are some of the girls posing with Daisy.
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I was even able to get the opinion of a male, my old math teacher.
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This is what they said about Daisy:
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"I like this one better, it smells much more fresh then the actual "Fresh" Scent".
"Like this one - more "perfumey" but not too much so".
"Reminds me of something I wore in middle school".
"Smells like something an older woman would wear"- male opinion
"young smell, smells lovely".
This is what they said about Daisy Eau So Fresh:
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"More sweet - like best for a young woman".
"I have used/owned this; didn't really like it. It has a very powdery/old-fashioned smell".
"Not as nice as Daisy".
"I do prefer Daisy more the longer I smell it".
"Older person would wear" - Male opinion
"Smells younger and more floral".
Some of them didn't care for the perfumes. I didn't know how much I liked the perfume until I wore it for awhile so they may change their minds when they try their samples. Others tended to prefer the Daisy over the Daisy Eau so Fresh. Some even said that the Daisy Eau so Fresh smelled more like something a younger woman would wear. The one male opinion I got thought that the perfume's smelled like something old woman would wear. I think I'm going to have to ask my dad and my boyfriend what they think and maybe see if I can get a few other male opinions to get a better idea of how males feel about Daisy and give you guys an update. I think a males opinion is important because that's a reason many of us wear perfume! We want the men in our life to think we smell good.
Overall I got some good and bad reviews about the scent. Have any of you tried Marc Jacobs Daisy or Daisy Eau So Fresh? If you have comment and let me know what you guys think :)
If you haven't go try it out! It just might be your new favorite, it's definitely one of mine!
