My fourteen year old daughter was given a set of Harajuku perfumes for her birthday, but although she's a Gwen Stefani fan they've never been used as Charlotte's just not a make-up and perfume kinda girl. Her mum is though, so I claimed the perfumes (well, swapped for a pair of boots actually) thinking they'd look nice with my collection of bottles.

There are a few different versions in the Harajuku Lovers range, I've got the three which came in the set and they all have that nice-but-nothing-special thing about them. This Baby perfume is probably my favourite, it's really clean and fresh with a definite girly scent.

It's very subtle, when you first spray it you might think it's going to be a heavy fragrance as the initial burst is quite a strong floral jasmine blend. This settles down quickly though and a lighter flowery scent comes through, to be fair this will linger for a good eight hours but it's extremely subtle and one you will probably lose track of very quickly. Mark doesn't like it, he prefers me to wear a stronger perfume as he says it's usually better to have a decent fragrance wafting around than an air freshener! I could tell you about the time he used my bottle of Vera Wang to refill a plug in air freshener, but it would only cause a row if I start thinking about it!

To me this perfume always reminds me of babies, it's got a sweet powdery fragrance which has a faint vanilla scent but also reminds me of baby powder. The fragrance isn't complicated at all, but it's not basic either and it's one I can feel confident wearing as it's not likely to offend anyone. I can go a bit over the top when I apply perfume, I like to be able to smell it myself and know I put too much on throughout the day as my nose gets used to the fragrance. This one can be topped up regularly enough that I can always smell the gorgeous scent, but it would take half the bottle to get a really overpowering perfume.

It's completely floral, nearly every note in it is flowery but this is balanced with a delicate woody fragrance and is also sweetened by the vanilla. I love jasmine so am glad this note lingers throughout the life of the perfume, it does get pushed back a bit by other floral scents in Baby but the jasmine definitely fights its way through and this gives it a gorgeous sexy frangrance. I usually like my perfumes to allow the individual scents to come through, but with this one I'm glad it's so well blended as (apart from the jasmine) you get an unusual mixture of florals which can't be sorted out but they all compliment each other perfectly. Sometimes this can give you a floral disinfectant smell, but Baby is just not like that at all which is down to the clean fragrance in my opinion.

I've only used Baby during the day, it wouldn't stand up to a night out as the perfume would be completely overwhelmed by all the other women (and men) in the room! Even a strong body lotion will overpower the delicate fragrance of Baby, but this is the same with the entire Lovers range. My other daughter loves the perfume, at eleven she's more excited about the cute Japanese bottle but I think the scent does suit her and definitely isn't too sexy for a girl of her age who loves perfume.

It's a shame this is an Eau de Toilette, a parfum version would be great as the fragrance would have more body and that's what all of Gwen Stefani's Harajuku perfumes need as although they all smell fab they haven't got the Wow Factor.

The bottle looks brilliant, but if you're buying the shaped version (you can buy a large bottle without the doll) you're spending money on a large bottle but very small amount of perfume. The one I have contains just 30ml of perfume but is designed to stand taller than many 50ml bottles, I feel like a moaner now because the Harajuku bottles are funky, eye catching and look great. But they feel like a bit of a rip off.

£20.95 (30ml bottle (that looks much bigger!)) from Fragrance Net.