Lovestruck by Vera Wang is a romantic floral-fruity Eau de Parfum that combines juicy pink guava, radiant mandarin orange, and green angelica with aquatic lotus, creamy tuberose, and angelica blossom. Sheer musk, smooth woods, and soft vanilla create a clean, powdery, lightly sweet dry down that feels youthful, feminine, intimate, and easy to wear.
Released in 2011, Lovestruck was created by perfumer Stephen Nilsen in collaboration with Doreen Bollhofer. The fragrance was developed under Coty and inspired by the excitement, uncertainty, passion, and emotional intensity of falling deeply in love.
Vera Wang described Lovestruck through the idea of a modern Romeo and Juliet story. Its launch campaign featured actress Leighton Meester in a romantic scene inspired by the famous balcony moment, but reimagined on a New York City fire escape.
The fragrance opens with pink guava, mandarin orange, and angelica. Guava creates tropical fruitiness, mandarin adds bright citrus sweetness, and angelica introduces a green, herbal, slightly musky contrast.
As Lovestruck develops, lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom form a soft floral heart. Lotus gives the fragrance a fresh aquatic quality, while tuberose contributes creamy floral depth. Angelica blossom connects the green opening with the musky base.
The dry down combines sheer musk, woody notes, and a subtle vanilla effect. Musk creates a clean and intimate finish, woods provide structure, and vanilla gives the fragrance gentle sweetness without turning it into a heavy gourmand.
Lovestruck is especially appealing to women who enjoy tropical fruit, guava, lotus, soft tuberose, clean musk, powdery florals, romantic fragrances, and perfumes that work naturally for brunch, dates, shopping, school, offices, travel, and casual evenings.
What Does Lovestruck by Vera Wang Smell Like?
Lovestruck smells fruity, tropical, floral, musky, aquatic, powdery, woody, softly sweet, and feminine.
The fragrance opens with pink guava, mandarin orange, and angelica.
Pink guava creates the opening’s most recognizable fruity effect.
It smells tropical, juicy, lightly sweet, and slightly tart. It is softer and less sharply acidic than grapefruit and more unusual than apple, pear, or berries.
The guava gives Lovestruck a bright and youthful personality without making it smell like a dense tropical cocktail.
Mandarin orange adds smooth citrus brightness.
It creates a sweet, rounded citrus effect that blends naturally with the guava. Mandarin is generally less bitter than bergamot and less sharp than lemon, giving the opening an approachable quality.
The guava-and-mandarin combination can remind some wearers of tropical fruit juice, fruity shampoo, or a softly sweet body lotion.
Angelica adds a distinctive green and aromatic contrast.
Angelica can smell herbal, earthy, musky, slightly peppery, and faintly powdery. It prevents the guava and mandarin from becoming overly sugary.
The angelica also gives Lovestruck a subtly unusual quality. Some wearers may interpret it as green, smoky, damp, mineral-like, or softly herbal depending on skin chemistry.
As the fragrance develops, lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom become more noticeable.
Lotus creates a fresh aquatic-floral effect.
It smells airy, watery, clean, and lightly sweet rather than dense or strongly botanical. The lotus helps the fragrance feel fresh after the tropical opening begins to fade.
It also gives Lovestruck a soft, floating quality that supports the romantic concept.
Tuberose adds creamy white-floral richness.
The tuberose in Lovestruck is significantly softer than the bold, heady tuberose found in many traditional white-floral perfumes.
It does not usually become intensely indolic, buttery, or overpowering. Instead, it adds floral body and gentle sensuality.
Angelica blossom reinforces the green floral effect introduced in the opening.
It creates continuity between the tropical fruit, aquatic lotus, creamy tuberose, and musky dry down.
The floral heart feels romantic and youthful rather than formal or mature.
The dry down combines sheer musk, woody notes, and soft vanilla.
Sheer musk is the most noticeable base element.
It creates a clean, powdery, skin-like finish that may suggest freshly washed fabric, soft body lotion, clean hair, or warm skin.
The musk can become more prominent than the fruit and flowers as the fragrance settles.
Woody notes provide gentle structure.
They do not smell strongly like cedar, sandalwood, oud, or smoky timber. Instead, they create a smooth and understated foundation.
Vanilla is often described as a supporting base nuance.
It adds warmth and restrained sweetness without making Lovestruck smell like cake, caramel, frosting, or a dense dessert fragrance.
Overall, Lovestruck smells like juicy pink guava and mandarin softened by green angelica, floating over aquatic lotus and creamy tuberose before settling into sheer musk, pale woods, powder, and gentle vanilla.
What Are the Top, Heart, and Base Notes?
Release Year: 2011
Top Notes: Pink guava, mandarin orange, and angelica
Heart Notes: Lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom
Base Notes: Sheer musk, woody notes, and soft vanilla
The opening is fruity, tropical, citrusy, fresh, and lightly green.
The heart becomes aquatic, floral, creamy, and romantic through lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom.
During the dry down, sheer musk, woods, and vanilla create a clean, powdery, softly sweet, and intimate finish.
Some fragrance databases list only musk and woody notes in the official base.
Vanilla appears in several launch and retail descriptions as a supporting dry-down effect. It is best understood as a soft underlying sweetness rather than the perfume’s dominant base note.
Angelica may appear in both the opening and heart because the fragrance uses both the plant’s green aromatic effect and its softer floral interpretation.
Is Lovestruck for Men, Women, or Unisex?
Lovestruck is marketed as a fragrance for women.
Its pink guava, mandarin, lotus, tuberose, soft musk, romantic presentation, floral cap, and tulle bow support a traditionally feminine identity.
However, the fragrance is not dominated by rose, heavy powder, caramel, or an extremely sweet gourmand accord.
Angelica, watery lotus, clean musk, and pale woods give it a relatively flexible personality.
Anyone who enjoys tropical fruit, soft white flowers, aquatic florals, powdery musk, and clean woods can wear Lovestruck regardless of gender.
How Long Does Lovestruck Last?
Lovestruck typically lasts approximately 4 to 6 hours on skin.
Some wearers may experience longer performance from the musky and woody base, especially when the fragrance is sprayed on clothing or hair.
Performance can vary according to skin chemistry, temperature, humidity, application amount, bottle age, and storage conditions.
The pink guava, mandarin orange, and green angelica opening is generally most noticeable during approximately the first one to two hours.
Lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom then become more prominent.
Sheer musk, woods, and soft vanilla may remain detectable for several additional hours.
The clean musky dry down often lasts longer on fabric than on bare skin.
Applying Lovestruck to moisturized skin can help improve its longevity.
A light spray on clothing or hair may also extend its presence, although delicate fabrics and hair products should be considered first.
Because the fragrance has a soft and intimate character, reapplication may be helpful during a long workday or evening.
How Strong Is Lovestruck’s Projection?
Lovestruck has soft to moderate projection.
The fragrance is most noticeable during its tropical-fruit opening and early floral development.
Pink guava, mandarin orange, angelica, lotus, and tuberose create a pleasant scent bubble during approximately the first one to two hours.
It gradually becomes softer and remains closer to the skin as sheer musk, woods, and vanilla develop.
Lovestruck is not designed to dominate a room or create an aggressive fragrance trail.
Its restrained projection supports its romantic and intimate identity.
The fragrance works especially well in offices, classrooms, restaurants, travel settings, family gatherings, medical environments, and other shared spaces.
What Fragrance Family Is Lovestruck?
Lovestruck belongs to the floral fragrance family, with strong fruity, tropical, aquatic, musky, and woody characteristics.
It may also be described as a tropical floral-musky perfume.
Its most noticeable fragrance qualities include:
Musky
Fruity
Tropical
Floral
Powdery
Aquatic
Citrus
Woody
Softly sweet
Romantic
Pink guava, mandarin orange, and angelica create the opening.
Lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom form the floral heart.
Sheer musk, woods, and soft vanilla provide the intimate base.
What Seasons Is Lovestruck Best For?
Lovestruck is best suited to spring, summer, and early fall.
Spring may be its strongest season because mandarin, angelica blossom, lotus, tuberose, and clean musk complement mild temperatures and blooming outdoor environments.
Summer also works beautifully because the tropical guava, citrus, aquatic lotus, and restrained projection remain comfortable during warm weather.
The fragrance is especially suitable for vacations, brunches, shopping, daytime dates, and summer evenings.
Early fall can also suit Lovestruck, particularly when the woody, musky, powdery, and vanilla-like dry down becomes more noticeable.
It can be worn indoors during winter, although its soft fruity-floral opening may become less noticeable outdoors in very cold weather.
Best season: Spring
Also excellent: Summer
Good option: Early fall
Suitable indoors: Mild winter daytime wear
Less effective: Extremely cold outdoor conditions
Some wearers may prefer Lovestruck during fall because the guava, musk, woods, and powder can feel slightly deeper in cool air.
Is Lovestruck Better for Daytime or Nighttime?
Lovestruck works during both daytime and nighttime, but it is especially well suited to daytime and soft evening wear.
Its guava, mandarin, lotus, and restrained projection make it ideal for mornings, offices, school, brunch, shopping, travel, errands, and casual daytime activities.
Tuberose, musk, woods, and soft vanilla provide enough warmth for coffee dates, movies, casual dinners, garden parties, and romantic walks.
It is not primarily a dark, dramatic, formal, or intensely seductive nighttime fragrance.
Lovestruck performs best when the goal is to smell feminine, romantic, youthful, musky, approachable, and softly sensual.
What Occasions Should Lovestruck Be Worn For?
Lovestruck is well suited to romantic, casual, professional, social, travel, and everyday occasions.
Recommended occasions include:
Brunch
Lunch dates
Coffee dates
Casual dinners
Garden parties
Romantic walks
Office wear
School or college
Shopping
Running errands
Travel
Vacations
Movies
Spring events
Everyday signature wear
Its tropical fruit, aquatic flowers, clean musk, and soft woods make it easy to wear without requiring a formal occasion.
What Age Range Is Lovestruck Best Suited For?
Lovestruck is suitable for approximately 15 years old and older, although fragrance preference matters more than age.
Its pink guava, mandarin, decorative bottle, and romantic presentation make it especially approachable for teenagers and younger women.
Tuberose, angelica, woods, musk, and soft vanilla provide enough depth for adult fragrance wearers.
Teenagers may enjoy it as an affordable first designer Eau de Parfum, school fragrance, or romantic gift.
Women in their twenties and thirties may appreciate it for offices, travel, casual dates, brunch, and everyday wear.
Women in their forties, fifties, and beyond may enjoy its tropical fruit, soft musk, approachable floral structure, and nostalgic connection to its 2011 launch era.
It feels youthful but is not exclusively limited to younger wearers.
Is Lovestruck Office Appropriate?
Yes. Lovestruck is an excellent office fragrance when applied moderately.
Its mandarin orange, angelica, lotus, soft tuberose, sheer musk, and woods create a fresh and pleasant professional impression.
Three to five sprays should be suitable for most workplaces.
Smaller offices or fragrance-sensitive environments may require only two or three sprays.
Its restrained projection makes it less likely to distract coworkers than heavily sweet, smoky, spicy, or powerful perfumes.
Lovestruck works especially well for shared offices, reception areas, retail environments, classrooms, business travel, and warm-climate workplaces.
Is it good for dates? Yes. Lovestruck was designed around the excitement of falling in love and works particularly well for brunch dates, lunch, coffee, shopping, movies, garden events, romantic walks, and casual dinners. Guava, lotus, tuberose, musk, woods, and vanilla create a soft, feminine, playful, and intimate impression.
Is it a safe blind buy? It is a reasonably safe blind buy for someone who enjoys tropical floral perfumes, guava, lotus, soft tuberose, clean musk, and restrained sweetness. It is less suitable for shoppers who dislike musky or powdery dry downs.
What Fragrances Smell Similar to Lovestruck?
Shoppers who enjoy Lovestruck’s tropical fruit, aquatic florals, tuberose, clean musk, soft woods, and romantic personality may also appreciate these fragrances from the South Beach Perfumes catalog:
Jeanne Lanvin by Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin combines blackberry, pear nectar, lemon, raspberry, pink peony, rose, freesia, white musk, sandalwood, and amber.
It shares Lovestruck’s juicy fruit, romantic flowers, white musk, pale woods, youthful character, and daytime versatility but feels more berry focused, tarter, and less tropical.
Rumeur 2 Rose by Lanvin
Rumeur 2 Rose combines lemon, orange, grapefruit, bergamot, pear, green notes, rose, magnolia, mock orange, jasmine, honeysuckle, lily of the valley, musk, patchouli, and amber.
It shares Lovestruck’s citrus brightness, green-floral freshness, transparent flowers, musk, and romantic personality but feels more rose focused, greener, and less sweet.
Modern Princess Eau Sensuelle by Lanvin
Modern Princess Eau Sensuelle combines pink grapefruit, peach, tangerine, lemon, pear, peony, jasmine, orange blossom, musk, sandalwood, and vanilla.
It shares Lovestruck’s juicy fruit, citrus, soft flowers, musk, woods, vanilla, and romantic character but feels peachier, creamier, and more directly floral-fruity.
These fragrances are not exact copies of Lovestruck. Each captures a related aspect of its personality, including juicy fruit, transparent flowers, clean musk, soft woods, restrained vanilla, or romantic everyday wearability.
What Is the Difference Between the Available Concentrations?
Lovestruck is primarily available as an Eau de Parfum, commonly abbreviated as EDP.
The South Beach Perfumes product is a 3.4 oz Eau de Parfum Spray for Women.
Lovestruck Eau de Parfum
The Eau de Parfum is generally:
Juicy, fruity, and citrusy during the opening
Aquatic, floral, and creamy through the heart
Musky, woody, powdery, and softly sweet during the dry down
Soft to moderate in projection
Suitable for daytime and soft evening wear
Best during spring, summer, and early fall
Appropriate for offices, school, travel, casual dates, and everyday use
More substantial than a body mist or lotion
Lovestruck has also appeared in 1 oz, 1.7 oz, and 3.4 oz Eau de Parfum sprays, along with gift sets, body lotion, shower gel, rollerballs, and miniature bottles.
Lovestruck Body Lotion
The body lotion is generally:
Lighter
Creamier
Softer in projection
Designed for moisturizing and fragrance layering
Useful for extending the Eau de Parfum
Less complete when worn alone
Lovestruck Shower Gel
The shower gel is generally:
Very light
Designed for cleansing and layering
Short lasting when used without the perfume
Useful for creating a coordinated fragrance routine
Lovestruck Gift Sets
Gift sets may include the Eau de Parfum with body lotion, shower gel, miniature sprays, rollerballs, or travel products.
Lovestruck Floral Rush
Lovestruck Floral Rush is a separate flanker rather than a stronger concentration of the original.
It features:
Champagne
Pink pepper
Apricot blossom
Pink passion flower
Marigold
Freesia
Cashmere wood
Musk
Ambergris
Floral Rush generally feels brighter, more sparkling, more floral, and less focused on guava and tuberose.
The original Lovestruck and Lovestruck Floral Rush should not be treated as concentration variations of the same formula.
Learn more about fragrance concentrations
Is Lovestruck Discontinued?
Lovestruck has limited distribution and is generally regarded as discontinued from Vera Wang’s current core fragrance collection.
The fragrance is not currently featured among the main perfumes promoted on Vera Wang’s official fragrance page.
However, authentic bottles continue to circulate through South Beach Perfumes, established fragrance retailers, distributors, discount fragrance channels, and remaining inventory.
The South Beach Perfumes 3.4 oz Eau de Parfum Spray is currently available to add to cart.
Availability can vary according to bottle size, retailer, country, packaging generation, gift-set configuration, and distributor.
A retailer having current inventory does not necessarily confirm broad active production.
Certain body lotions, shower gels, rollerballs, gift sets, miniature bottles, and Lovestruck Floral Rush presentations may be especially difficult to locate.
Because the decorative floral cap and tulle bow can make storage and shipping more complicated, some current bottles may also appear with slight packaging variations.
When Was Lovestruck Released?
Lovestruck was released in 2011.
It was introduced outside the Vera Wang Princess collection as a romantic fragrance built around the emotional experience of falling deeply in love.
Vera Wang described the fragrance concept as being overwhelmed and hopelessly in love despite the situation or possible consequences.
The campaign reinterpreted the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene in contemporary New York City.
Actress Leighton Meester, known for her role on Gossip Girl, appeared in the advertising campaign wearing a dramatic Vera Wang gown while leaning over a fire escape.
Model Tommy Dunn portrayed the modern romantic counterpart.
Photographer Carter Smith photographed the campaign.
The bottle was designed to reinforce the romantic theme through a sculptural arrangement of dark berry-colored flowers and a tulle bow.
The exaggerated floral cap became one of Lovestruck’s most recognizable visual features.
Who Created Lovestruck?
Lovestruck was created by perfumer Stephen Nilsen, in collaboration with Doreen Bollhofer.
The fragrance was developed through Givaudan under the supervision of Coty.
Stephen Nilsen has worked on numerous designer, celebrity, lifestyle, and mass-market fragrances.
In Lovestruck, pink guava, mandarin orange, and angelica create the tropical and green opening.
Lotus, tuberose, and angelica blossom form the romantic floral heart.
Sheer musk, woody notes, and soft vanilla create the intimate dry down.
The composition demonstrates how tropical fruit can be balanced with green angelica, watery lotus, creamy tuberose, clean musk, and woods without becoming an intensely sugary gourmand.
How Many Sprays of Lovestruck Should Be Used?
The recommended number of sprays depends on the setting, temperature, bottle performance, and desired projection.
School or classroom: 2 to 3 sprays
Office or professional setting: 2 to 4 sprays
Casual daytime wear: 3 to 5 sprays
Lunch or daytime date: 4 to 5 sprays
Dinner or soft evening wear: 4 to 6 sprays
Outdoor spring or summer wear: 5 to 7 sprays
Because Lovestruck has soft-to-moderate projection, some wearers may prefer a slightly more generous application outdoors.
However, the musk can become stronger when heavily applied, so begin with a moderate number of sprays.
A balanced application can include one spray on each side of the neck, one on the upper chest, and one on the back of the neck.
A light spray on clothing or hair may help extend the musky woody dry down, although delicate fabrics and hair products should be considered first.
Avoid excessive application in classrooms, small offices, vehicles, restaurants, medical environments, or fragrance-sensitive spaces.
Is Lovestruck Authentic?
Yes. Lovestruck sold by South Beach Perfumes is authentic.
South Beach Perfumes sells authentic designer fragrances sourced through established distribution channels.
Because Lovestruck was released in 2011 and now has limited availability, bottles may come from different production periods, distributors, packaging generations, or international markets.
Boxes, labels, caps, flower colors, tulle bows, logos, ingredient lists, concentration wording, manufacturing information, fragrance color, and batch-code placement may vary.
Eau de Parfum sprays, miniature bottles, rollerballs, gift sets, body lotions, shower gels, and tester presentations may all look different.
Tester bottles may arrive in plain packaging or without certain decorative materials when clearly identified in the product listing.
The large floral cap may also vary slightly in color, arrangement, texture, or fullness between production periods.
Older and newer bottles can vary slightly in guava sweetness, angelica greenness, tuberose intensity, muskiness, projection, and longevity because of formulation changes, production periods, ingredient regulations, or storage history.
These differences do not automatically indicate that a fragrance is counterfeit.
Learn more about our product guarantee policy
Who Should Buy Lovestruck?
Lovestruck is an excellent choice for someone who:
Enjoys pink guava fragrances
Likes mandarin orange
Appreciates green angelica
Enjoys aquatic lotus
Likes soft tuberose
Appreciates creamy floral perfumes
Enjoys clean musk
Likes pale woody notes
Appreciates gentle vanilla
Wants a romantic perfume
Needs an office-friendly fragrance
Wants a spring or summer perfume
Prefers soft to moderate projection
Enjoys decorative fragrance bottles
Needs an affordable designer Eau de Parfum
It is particularly appealing to someone who wants a perfume that smells fruity, tropical, floral, musky, powdery, romantic, feminine, softly sweet, and approachable.
Who May Not Like Lovestruck?
Lovestruck may not appeal to someone who:
Dislikes guava
Does not enjoy tropical fruit
Avoids tuberose
Dislikes watery lotus notes
Prefers dark evening perfumes
Wants powerful projection
Needs all-day performance without reapplication
Dislikes powdery musk
Prefers heavy vanilla gourmands
Wants oud, leather, tobacco, or incense
Dislikes angelica or green notes
Prefers highly complex niche fragrances
Wants a mature vintage perfume
Finds youthful romantic fragrances too simple
Its guava, angelica, lotus, tuberose, musk, woods, and soft vanilla are central to its identity.
Shoppers seeking a dark, smoky, intensely gourmand, heavily spicy, or extremely powerful perfume may find Lovestruck too soft.
South Beach Perfumes Expert Review
Lovestruck by Vera Wang is a romantic tropical floral-musk that captures the youthful excitement and softness suggested by its name and dramatic floral bottle.
The opening is juicy and inviting. Pink guava provides tropical sweetness, mandarin orange creates citrus brightness, and angelica introduces green aromatic contrast.
The heart becomes softer and more floral. Lotus creates an airy aquatic effect, tuberose adds creamy floral depth, and angelica blossom connects the fruit to the musky dry down.
The base is intimate and comfortable. Sheer musk creates a clean, powdery, skin-like finish, woody notes provide structure, and soft vanilla adds restrained warmth.
Its greatest strength is romantic wearability.
Lovestruck feels feminine and playful without becoming excessively sugary, dense, or overpowering.
It works especially well for brunch, shopping, school, offices, travel, lunch dates, coffee dates, garden parties, movies, romantic walks, spring days, and summer evenings.
Compared with Jeanne Lanvin, Lovestruck is more tropical, more musky, less berry focused, and slightly creamier.
Compared with Rumeur 2 Rose, it is sweeter, softer, less citrusy, and less focused on rose.
Compared with Modern Princess Eau Sensuelle, it is more musky, more aquatic, less peach focused, and more strongly centered on guava and lotus.
Its primary limitation is restrained performance. Women seeking strong projection or an all-day scent trail may need to reapply it.
The guava-and-musk combination can also smell tropical and clean on one wearer but powdery, damp, shampoo-like, or slightly smoky on another.
For someone who enjoys pink guava, mandarin orange, angelica, lotus, tuberose, sheer musk, pale woods, and soft vanilla, Lovestruck remains an affordable and romantic Vera Wang fragrance with excellent spring, summer, office, daytime, travel, gift, and casual-date versatility.
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