Fresh Cream

Fresh Cream is the most realistic creamy fragrances available. It smells like fresh whipped cream, sweet milk, creating a light, airy dessert scent that’s comforting while being sugary. The fragrance stays soft throughout the wear, making it perfect for those who want to smell clean, creamy, and subtly sweet. It’s also an amazing layering fragrance that enhances almost any vanilla or caramel perfume. Genuinely just whipped cream in a bottle, one of my first very vanilla perfumes and it did not disappoint.

This may be a polarizing comment, but this is one of my top perfumes for life. It super creamy, almost salty but not in a summer type of way. When I smell it, my nose can't believe how good it smells...every...single...time. Does it smell like fresh whipped cream? No. However, one day I bought a squeeze packet of sweetened evaporated milk for a coffee concoction and when I opened it got a HUGE whiff of the exact same scent. So, they nailed sweet evaporated milk on this one ha. I will always have a bottle of this.

I really love this perfume. I know a lot of people feel like it smells spoiled on their skin but I think that must be a skin chemistry thing because it smells so sweet and warm on me. When I was a child my family would give us kids cup of warm milk with a teaspoon of sugar at night and that’s the exact smell I get from this. Warm cozy sleepy time scent

idk if it's because i'm a barista but i absolutely do not want to smell like spoiled frothy milk , very offensive smell

Very faint skin scent

This smells like the Hannah Montana pillow you'd suck milk in and out of as a child.

I think this a beautiful scent but I sadly can’t wear it often as it nauseates me. There is a clear milk scent however it doesn’t feel too sweet, almost too nutty at times however there are no nut notes. Good for a day out in winter where you won’t be cramped in a room to smell it for hours with no fresh air.

I have been wanting to smell this for years. And I love it. Though, it’s not what I was expecting. To me, it smells like English-style rice pudding. It has a baked, creamy smell. Delicious.

Milky, semi sweet, mild. This is the most basic milky fragrance in my collection but in the best way. It becomes slightly powdery on the dry down but the milky notes do not disappear for as long as it lasts (admittedly not very long). The perfect layering scent for gourmand lovers who don’t want to smell overly sweet.

Smells like a warm vanilla milk bath but someone dumped the whole sugar bowl in it. Still cute tho.

Smells like a nostalgic cereal milk. Pretty photorealistic. However, it’s pretty beastly, and on the dry down it turns into a bit of a screechy musk. Not universally likable or a safe blind buy. I go through phases with it, and in a phase of my liking it, I really like to wear it around bedtime

For how mild this fragrance is, the layers surprised me. Upon first applying, it smells like drinking a vanilla milkshake with luxury makeup on. After 15 minutes, I start to understand why it’s frequently described as reminiscent to baby puke. To me, it registers as plain heavy cream. The initial sweetness definitely hides under the lactonic notes. Finally after several hours of wear, it smells less like a perfume and more like “you”. The sillage drops from about 3 feet to maybe 6 inches. It’s hardly noticeable, but just enough to feel fresh. The scent transforms into marshmallows and baby doll heads. Those sweet, powdery notes are what’s left behind. All around, it’s an extremely maternal scent. It smells like a stay at home mom who loves to bake.

If you want all lactonic and nothing else this is the one. Straight up sweet cream. I've been wearing this for years and always get compliments on it. I usually wear it alone, but sometimes will layer with something floral.

Lactonic Vanilla Cashmere, lowkey smells like a baby reflux but if the baby had drank vanilla flavored milk. Very weak and not really intresting.

This literally smells like cream - one note, just cream. There's nothing else there. Have you ever opened up a can of Carnation evaporated milk? It's that. If you want to smell like straight-up cream, this is the fragrance for you. I can see it working as a layering scent, maybe. On my body, it just did not work. As it dried down, it smelled almost like buttery milk powder or even fresh urine to me.

My ride and die. My safety blanket. They could never make me hate you. I read a lot of people layer this but I have ALWAYS worn it by itself. It was love at first sniff, I've gone through 5 bottles in 3 or 4 years? The scent opens with a cute punch of whipped cream, sweet. Bam! It's like suddenly I have my armor on, but it's made of fluff, but it's doing its job. It's HEAVY on the whipped cream part, which is why I would not see someone who is more chill wearing this. In fact, it's more for women who probably have some type of issue and need something to hold onto for safety, this perfume. No, this perfume is for women and girls who are bubbly, cute, a lot. If a person also liked this smell ON me, I would say they have issues too OR they wish they could one day swim in a tub of sweet sugary puppies. However, oddly enough, I've had guys tell me I smell like flowers. Go chemistry I guess. If applied to clothing, it lasts forever in my experience. Could someone quiet wear this? Yes, but I bet they're a whole lot of person. The perfume is not for someone who wants to be invisible. However, note that I have lost track of how much I spray. Is it milky? 1000% yes. It's pure whipped cream to me and the most delicious thing I have ever smelled. It's not elegant, it's not fresh, it's not sweet in a red way. It is bam! and aww and oh? It is creamy, and A LOT. It's like if whipped cream could be a light switch, a light bulb, and then said light bulb gives you a hug and then you think to yourself, "I am not alone" and no one knows you're thinking these crazy things so they just go "aww she's nice."

The best for layering! I always crave a creamy note and got tired of searching for it and wishing for more in every fragrance. Now I just have a huge bottle of Fresh Cream and I layer it with literally every fragrance I have! Highly recommend the body lotion as well. I mix a little of the lotion in my hands with all my other lotions. This scent just makes sense in lotion form, so I would try it if the EDT feels too weird at first, but on dry down they are the same. I understand people not liking this though. When I first smelled it on my skin I did get that heavy milky baby spit up feeling and it scared me away. And yeah for the name Fresh Cream it’s really not that fresh! But I always came back to it and I found that layering it really freshens it up and then you can really enjoy the creaminess. Goes well with basically everything - florals, fruits, freshies, honey, spice, woods… try it, you may like it.

slightly too photorealistic on its own for me, but i layer with al rehab choco musk and it smells like one of those chocolate + vanilla ice cream cups

Y'all, this smells like rotten milk that someone threw up, and it dried on clothes. I absolutely love Philosophy's pure grace & amazing grace scents; I own the shower gels, body lotions, body butters, body spritz, and perfumes for those. This is genuinely their only scent I've ever smelled that I just can't stand 🤢🤮 I always say, I know scent is very subjective and personal, but you NEED to smell this in person before you throw $$ on it, or just be prepared to have to go through the refund process as there is a chance you will feel like me & others here who think this smells like something rotten or spoiled. I *wish* this smelled like a sugary vanilla ice cream like some people apparently think, but I don't get that AT ALL. I sprayed this on myself once at Macy's and changed my shirt/scrubbed my skin to get this off of me immediately once I got back home. Didn't expect to hate a Philosophy fragrance! This is gross. 👎🙅♀️🚫 Fragrantica: "when to wear" Me: "absolutely never"... unless you want to ward off a stalker, or personally offend a specific person you're going to be around whom you can't stand

I loveeee this perfume! It’s so good for layering!

This is what got me into perfumes. Perfect for daytime wear. It's a little juvenile, but is at a good price point.

Definitely in my top 5 favorite fragrances---it's sweet but not too sweet, warm and fresh at the same time, almost everything I could want in a perfume. BUT the sillage is very weak. It is an EDT so it won't last as long either. I'd give it a 10/10 if they made an EDP. Nonetheless, I love it. It smells like whipped cream, vanilla, and oddly enough...fruit loops? In the best way possible. A lot of perfumes with lactonic/whipped cream notes miss the mark by a long shot, but this one comes VERY close.

Ew ew ew, smells like mold or like when you combine whipped cream and water, shes a gross mess

wow this smells like vanilla cornbread with whipped cream on top. i told myself i'm not into gourmands but i might have to change my mind.

this is awful- it genuinely smells like baby formula

I’m a vanilla girl at heart, and this fragrance smells like the vanilla you find in ice cream shops—almost like a fresh-baked waffle cone🍦. Today I found it at TJ Maxx for $24.99 and bought it for the second time! I also have the lotion and body cream, which I love. I think it’s a great basic base for layering with other fragrances or wearing on its own—which I especially love after a shower before bed, or in the morning before the gym or Pilates. I also work with kids, so it’s a nice close-to-the-skin fragrance. I really love Philosophy for that! 🫶

I can see why this is a controversial fragrance. To me this smells exactly like when my grandma used to make whip cream from scratch, but there is an added "warmth" to this fragrance which I think is where the "baby vomit" allegations are coming from. I think it would have benefited this fragrance to keep in on the "chilled" side of the spectrum. I also don't really smell any sweet notes. It's just straight up cream, which I'm disappointed by. I was hoping for something sweeter. I found I really like layering this with Fresh Cream and Cashmere, which on it's own is also underwhelming. It creates that perfect creamy warm vanilla that I was hoping Fresh Cream and Cashmere would be from the start. I wish they could combine the two into a single fragrance- I would give that glowing reviews.

Sweet, milky, creamy. No coconut, thank god. Light and great for layering. A little on the candy side of things though. I think there might be a way to add warmth to this, to get a more natural milk smell. One of my favorite scents from Philosophy. People's experiences seem to vary a lot with this fragrance so definitely try it before you buy it. I imagine skin chemistry is a huge factor rather than a reformulation.

For me this is a sweet, creamy lactic fragrance. Is warm, comforting and cozy and is an easy grab in the cooler months. It doesn’t turn sour or anything on my skin but YMMV as with all lactonic scents.

This smells like babies in a bad way.