OK Posse! I finally hit the CheckOut button on a bottle of Stash Prive by Sarah Jessica Parker. There have been so many nay-sayers and knockers that I’ve not gone through with it till now. Though it has been in Australia, it’s never been on a shelf in any store, at any time I am. So, come ye blind buy. Fortunately my expectations are at rock bottom. Even the advert looks like everyone involved has given up all hope. There’s something just sad and jaded about the whole shebang. BUT I’ve yearned so hard for this cheap as shit fragrance, and now it’s in my hands it’s easy to be embarrassingly excited. So you get to join me on my first application.
WHAT?!? This came out in 2017! NOOOOOO, for reals? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. What a saddy am I? EIGHT years I’ve been wanting this stupid bottle. Ha Ha Ha. Stash Prive will be 10 years old in just over a year. It came out the same time as Stash Unspoken. How does time fly so fast? Better get sniffing then.
Stash Prive by Sarah Jessica Parker 2017
Featured accords offered are:
Top: grapefruit, pink pepper, quince
Heart: Moroccan orange blossom, sage
Base: birch wood, musk, Haitian vetiver
On opening and into the first few minutes Stash Prive gives that fresh, zingy pink pepper and amorphous fruits that we have expected from the fragrance industry for years. It’s been bandied about from the cheapest drug store offerings to the highest costing designer and some of the niche.
Is there Moroccan Orange Blossom in here? HA! Probably not. It’s an amorphous white floral idea that is neither breathy nor fleshy. It has been shorn of all interesting or confrontational bits and left as a whisper of itself. It does skirt the radiant idea and winks at it from a distance.
That something so polite and pretty could be called Prive is strange to me. SJP is a notoriously good co-creator of scents. Some of them have been downright weird (looking at you Covet, which I love). Yet here we are being given a simple, sweet nothing.
Stash Prive is not terrible. It’s very pretty, undemanding and wearable in almost every situation. Unless you are a conspicuous over spritzer it will not attack innocent bystanders or outrage the clergy. What it smells like is a slightly elevated celeb-u-scent.
Will I wear my 30ml of Stash Prive. YES! You know it. I’ll be running dry and buying a 100ml at crazy prices in the very near future. I can just tell this wispy excuse for fragrance is going to become an easy spritz and go, just like Unspoken did. I’ll overlook the iconic, the expensive and the fabulous for it. How perverse we humans are.
My bottle came from FragranceNet with a few 8ml Travels. Not affiliated but bought some stuff and you’re reading about them in a bunch.
So, does Stash Prive read like it might be a you fragrance?
Portia xx
I loved the book about the creation of her first scent. However, I have no memory of it even though I did try it — and I’ve not tried any of her other offerings. I will pass this by unless I meet it somewhere (don’t know where that might be).
I went to the same secondary school as her husband, Matt Broderick. He was a jerk then. I expect he grew into a decent man if she married him.