I bought the viral Nyla perfume off TikTok - it smells like something you already have in your cupboard

What am I talking about? Nyla by Arabiyat, which is a newly-launched Arabian perfume for women, that influencers are going crazy for.

Which makes me suspicious. I am yet to see a review on TikTok that doesn’t have the magic words ‘commission paid’ at the bottom. So, I had to see for myself.

Now, there’s always some deal to be had on this perfume on TikTok shop, but I still wasn’t prepared to spend the best part of £30 on a perfume I’d never smelled, so I opted for the 5ml sample for £4.99 (plus £3.48 shipping). The sample meant I wouldn’t get the admittedly very nice presentation box and gold container, but nevermind.

Within a few days it had arrived at my door, the small plastic vial taped up to stop leaks. Excitedly I got the scissors out and started spraying.

Does it like up to the hype?

All the marketing material says there are notes of coconut, peach, white flowers, white musk and patchouli. Honestly, and frankly, I don’t know what all of those things are meant to smell like.

What I will say is that it’s very sweet on the initial smell. Like sweet shop sweet, before it settles down and you get a tobacco sort of note to bring it down to earth. I definitely get coconut, fruity and musk , and to those people who say it’s got “beach vibes”, yep, correct. This is a summery, happy fragrance, and it’s very remincent of...Piz Buin.

Now, I love the smell of Piz Buin, so that’s no slight at all. It’s a slightly deeper, smokier Piz Buin smell. Piz Buin in a smoky bar on holiday. In a good way. If you’ve ever tried Surfari by Saltworks, there’s a similarity.

Now 5ml isn’t a lot, so I wasn’t going crazy with the application, but on my skin, this perfume didn’t last very long. That was a negative. And some people will say it’s too sweet.

But if you want to smell like you’re on holiday, this won’t break the bank. And the bottle’s pretty.