Description
Boudoir, a chypre-floral fragrance for women, is present since 1998. It is dedicated to a feminine and strong woman, with accentuated sexuality. Just like a boudoir, the fragrance defines a private and intimate space, charming and seductive, while touching the woman’s skin, neck and decollete.
It was designed by Martin Gras with an intention to create a fragrance that will make all men turn their heads after the woman that wears it when the smell wafts past them. The top notes are aldehydes, sweetly-fresh bergamot, hyacinth, and orange blossom.
The heart is sweet and opulent with jasmine, luscious rose, narcissus, carnation, orris root, cardamom and coriander. The base brings patchouli, warm and milky sandal wood, tobacco leaves, cinnamon and powdery soft vanilla.
The bottle was designed by Fabrice Legros. The top is made as a globe encircled by a ring, which symbolize the power of femininity.
snake2513 – :
The first hour of this is disgusting. Blast of vomit acid and wild animal piss or something organically vile, blanketed in talcum powder, face-sitting on top of a barely noticeable boozy sweetness. And maybe some unripe bananas. And freshly manufactured plastic? Absolute chaos. Loud too.What the hell is going on inside this little bottle. The image I get in my head is a woman with heavy makeup throwing up after a night of partying.
Eventually all that simmers down. I think this is the part everyone is raving about? It’s the skankwhore hangover. I really like it. Like a dark velvet and gold boudoir room at 4am, pantyhose lying around, rum stains on the carpet, and dead flowers on the vanity table. Very powdery on me from beginning to end. I looove powdery. The spicy/floral-ness is traditional, there’s not much to comment on. Without the above mentioned chaos fuzzing between it, it would be a traditional ordinary perfume. What’s unique is the sweetness in the core feels rather boozy than vanillary as advertised. Lasts about 8 hours on me. The bottle looks beautiful, the cap, the tinted juice, the thick base, the gold label, all of it looks simply darling.
The development really paints a picture, and it really sings to me, and it’s a beautiful one, believe me, but I can’t tolerate an hour of the piercing vomit smell to get to the good stuff. It was a wild experience.
Membx608Unlogrere – :
Boudoir By Vivienne Westwood:
Having had this Perfume some fifteen year’s ago & it being a rather hit & miss affair with me, I decided that it was deffo time to bite the bullet & try it out again, & I’m really so glad that I did, as now it smells absolutely stunning on my skin!! On First Spray I still get that blast of what I call “THAT JUST AFTER SEX SMELL” lol’lol’lol’lol That makes me really blush & flush!! & can be kind of off putting to say the least!! Then After around ten minutes it starts to settle into the most beautiful aroma I’ve ever smelt!! Spicy,Soft,Powdery,Warm with this really beautiful Carnation flower aroma which seems to linger around on my skin till the very end dry down!! Wore This Absolute Stunning Beauty yesterday for the very first time,& no joke I received six compliments in the Supermarket from complete stranger’s gosh!! & the lady behind me compliment me on my beautiful Perfume aroma I was wearing saying you smell gorgeous!! Then while at home in the Kitchen busy & forgetting all about what Perfume I had on me that day, my husband as soon as he walked in from work said O heck Paulie your smelling stunning what perfume is that your wearing love!! Indeed the power of Perfume!!
This morning when I got up to see my husband out to work as usual I could still smell it on my skin!! So deffo Boudoir has real good staying & lasting power!! That was sprayed on me at 10am & the next morning at 8am I could still smell it on my arm!! Wow’Wow’Wow!! This Stunning Beauty is deffo from my all time favourite Perfume group “Chypre Family”!! & I can honestly say that it’s an absolutely AMAZING Perfume & one I’ll now never be without ever!!
bliznetss – :
I love a risky blind buy. From the reviews, I surmised that I was to receive either a) a bordello in a bottle, or b) a sweet flowery concoction. It’s neither!
My first time experiencing the opening moment of this perfume was quite the roller coaster ride. At first I despaired, “Oh no! It’s too powdery and flowery! I don’t dress nearly nice enough for this perfume!”
But that moment passed fairly quickly. The note that had me worried is that touch of retro glamour that would suit a retired celebrated movie star perfectly. But the deep, sweet base underneath actually doesn’t care if you rolled out of bed and into a worn pair of jeans and a flannel shirt at 2 in the afternoon. It likes you all the same.
My next worry was a split second of perceived musk or civet or what have you. Not that I mind musk. I just worry about it, both for obvious don’t-want-to-smell-like-something-peed-on-me reasons, and due to more nebulous concerns about whether it suits me, my personality and the image I project.
The animalic panic, too, faded away about a minute into the experience, when I realized that whatever that musky note in the opening was, had decided to play nice with the spicy, warm vanilla base, too.
And that’s ultimately what I get from this perfume. A fascinating warm, sweet, kooky, unpredictable thing that would be totally down if I decided to do a 180 and go full fashionista from now on, but is perfectly fine just hanging with me and my low effort semi-tomboy hipster habits too.
To me, Boudoir is an older but no less exciting and eccentric socialite friend. If you catch her when she’s in town, she’ll coral you and her eclectic band of associates into bars of some disrepute and order bottles of champagne for the table. She’s wise and kind, but she’s most supportive of your more impulsive decisions.
On a less anthropomorphic note: Projection and longevity weren’t as intense as I expected from reading the reviews here. I’ve actually worn this to the office a few times now, with no complaints. It’s no Alien or Opium in that regard.
firei – :
After all these reviews, I was expecting some skanky sex smell in this bottle! Now I don’t know what to think. I get no skank; this is a tame, floral, powdery scent! I can see why it’s called “Boudoir”…it smells like my bedroom: skin and fabric and floral, but a savory floral, and powder from my cosmetics. It kind of reminds me of the Nina Ricci L’Extase drydown. I guess this equals sexy to some people. To my nose, it just smells good, but it doesn’t make me yearn for anything sexual. Only one scent has ever given me that response.
vyga – :
My real love..Shared Boudoir with my mommy and it’s really the only one like no others..soo distinctive and original,unique and powerful.Let me say from the start, clear and loud and final that there’s absolutely no reformulation issue, it has never been, don’t know how the hype was invented but I have 2 75 ml bottles of the old brown juice and several new items, kept purchasing Boudoir constantly in time and must say it’s the same identical strong animal floral indolic beast from the start.It’s well known that the only thing that has been changed after a short time from the launch was the tipe of natural vanille used in the beginning just because the oxidation provoked the change of color, but it’s well written even on the box that this caused no change in the quality of the perfume formulation..
Anyway..This fume started something on it’s own..the animalic floral even the most macho man can wear, nonetheless remains the epytome of femininity..it’s sexiness transcends the gender rules and the effect is the same on a man as on a woman..just like Vivienne fashion..imagine boudoir as the most feminine dirty underwear item, so apparent the skank factor on my skin, that can be worn by the most masculine of the male testimonial ,as often in Vivienne campains, and the effect is not a travesty party but a sort of efforting arousal response given by the “don’t know why but it works so well” of the situation.
Such a rich mix of flowers, where the Marigold is the queen, with the rose and every pink thing comes to your mind, so apt the color of the juice and the box actually.But the base of Boudoir is deep honey Marigold Yellow, urine like indolic but no way repulsive, can’t deny the skank element is there anyway.Something pungent and effervescent is present for a long long time in the mix, like Champagne bubbles and the aldehydes keep kicking strong forever.It never rests really and in the final part after about 8 hours of beautiful strong and powerful delight the composition settles in the most velvety musky scent of the hot skin after a deep workout, aftersweat effect, soo sexy because some flower petal is always there, wet and raunchy ,and this phase on my skin stays like this until the morning after..Definetely Boudoir is my real love and will Always be, even if my signature is another perfume..Boudoir is the real me that Always reach the surface of every shelter..I’am a man by the way;.
Aleks 1973 – :
Boudoir is spicy, spicy; the opening blast is heavy on the cinnamon and powder and mellows out as time goes on into something softer but still sexy and come hither. In the dry down there is no particular note that stands out to me- it smells like a box of body powder and a bit of smokiness; less like a boudoir and more like a dressing room in a night club.
Even my powder hating husband thinks this is delicious.
I bought Putain Des Palaces thinking it would smell like this but it didn’t (and I made the mistake of reading down the reviews and am convinced that all the “it smells like sweaty groin” influenced me) which led me to my first experience scrubbing off a scent.
It turns out that Boudoir is my softly slutty go to instead of something that bills itself as The Palace Whore but smells like The Jester’s Jock Strap.
baimak-a – :
Wow. Add me to the Boudoir-lovers list. I can’t believe it took twenty years for me to smell this gorgeous fragrance! I have acquired a used vintage bottle (gold cap) and am five hours into the journey. I experienced the skank aspect in the opening for sure, but the opening also seemed to open for quite a long time. Interesting. At this point it is still going strong – I don’t have to sniff my wrist to smell it, although that doesn’t stop me from doing so frequently. 🙂 It gets even more beautiful the longer it wears, in my opinion. It is absolutely heavenly right now. Sweet but dark and mischievous, sultry and yet somehow still a bit innocent? I like it on my skin more than on clothes, although the clothes do smell more like the opening. I think it worked both outside in the warmth and inside in the cool. I’ll be curious to get some feedback from others but for me it is a LOVE.
79114604552 – :
This is what Morticia Addams wears while pruning her rose heads, preferring the thorny stems.
A vampy and subtly erotic scent.
Rok – :
Absolutely love this juice. One to two spritz of this would do and it will last the whole day! Just don’t use too much of it because it will suffocate you. The scent is that of carnations, which makes it soft spicy, then it feels warmer with more flowers coming in, it lasts and I can smell it enveloping me which makes for a great perfume! Wishing I can find a full bottle of it coz I am so close to running out.
Wind44 – :
At first spray…this ATTACKS you !! LOL.
OMG….heavy strong/sweet boom hits your nose…and you think…omg….what have I done..??!!!…???.
I get ALL the notes thrown at me all at once…then it settles down (somewhat) and the notes start to “even out”…but….the “cloying-ness” stays a long time..(maybe too long)…..But…again, something brings you back….and pulls you in again…???….and you think…”I should go and scrub this off,asap”….then you get transfixed yet again…lol…omg.
If you can make it thru to the very “late” drydown…that is when this scent finally surrenders it’s madness…and becomes calmer and you can more appreciate the top/middle/base notes of this scent.
A difficult task…letting this stuff stay on your skin,but this is a unique/different frangrance experience for sure…and…I must add…NOT a safe blind-buy IMHO…Caution required when wearing this stuff….it can take you down many roads…creating different feelings…ect…you have two choices here…1-surrender to the scent or 2-Run like hell away!
cti949Diobtetty – :
My bottle version- a 2001 parfum with amber juice, not pink but possibly just oxidized. Unfortunately there’s none of the depth that I was hoping for, or the sophisticated skank referenced in other reviews. In fact, woefully for a Westwood perfume, this is almost polite. Boudoir opens with soapy orange aldehydes that develop into a softly spiced floral heart. The cinnamon is gently sweetened by vanilla notes, reminiscent of cola, and the whole thing is very pleasant. Is it a bad perfume? Far from it, just not what comes to mind at all when I think of the word ‘boudoir’. The bottle is of course beautiful though and I will treasure it since it was a gift.
7garik7 – :
I know that fragrance and gender is a much-discussed topic in the community. I personally don’t believe that any fragrance can only be worn by men OR women, in the end it’s always a matter of personal style and taste. But I do believe that just like some scents feel warm, cold, dark, pink, sunny, airy etc. some feel very masculine or feminine. At least to me.
And Boudoir feels very, very feminine.
It smells like sweet flowers, vanilla, bubblegum and girly plastic toys from the 80s or 90s, and it has a surprising spicy note that, like some other reviewers mentioned, smells a bit like female body parts. But not in a bad or dirty way, it just gives the other notes a grown-up, seductive twist.
Also, it doesn’t become stronger in the drydown, which I appreciate. Boudoir gets more floral and vanillic as it dries down, it becomes quite sweet. The tobacco note is noticeable to me, but light and soft.
The developement is not too complex, but the general scent is multifaceted, if that makes any sense to you. It lasts very long on my skin.
aleks261979 – :
I have a miniature of this and will most likely be buying this when my financial situations improve. I’d been dying to try this and a good friend, knowing this, sent me her mini in a ‘Fragrance Care Package’ as we call our little swaps.
Now, I must say, it’s definitely what I was expecting. Having not read any reviews, or even looked at the fragrantica page for this, I had no idea what to expect. I wore this while meeting a friend who has very little knowledge of perfume and she said that it reminded her a little of Red Door. At first, I didn’t agree. I still hadn’t looked at the fragrantica entry, but I did detect carnation. Slowly, with more time and more wearings, I did begin to notice the similarities. It wasn’t just the carnation, but it was a large contributor.
The scent itself, as I know it has a sort of cult following, is just as traditional and unusual as I expected. I’m a very big fan of Vivienne Westwood, her style and her activism and you can sort of feel rebellion in this. It feels powerful, feminine, innocent but also a little dominating. The bottle itself is perfectly matched as well, much like one of her brooches.
Smells a bit like the room of a person (man or woman) who likes to indulge, powder themselves up and go out for drinks with a cigar or two and come home and just put on a silk nightgown and dance to an upbeat number. I see, of all people, Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction wearing this. Tragically beautiful, very messed up, but still making it. I’m not entirely sure why I see this, but that’s what a perfume is for… right? I’ve never quite had such a powerful response from a scent and I must commend the parfumeur for creating such a scent. It’s not overly strong, but it does bring attention to those close to you.
Strange, this one.
bizon78 – :
Her mood changes. First time I sprayed it I got a shy girl saluting me with a cheek kiss.
The second time, about 3 hours in, she is sweaty and horny. Loud and moaning.
Then I learned that as the time progresses, she shares her journal with me. I’m the paper she writes on.
Deroxjucsu – :
the signature bottle design, collectible item. Is pretty concentrated, but wear out very nicely. each layer of tones smell so good.
Very floral. feel expensive, unlike other typical floral, this one you won’t get bored of.
wcman – :
Lush, warm, elegant. That’s how it starts on my skin. It then swiftly progressed to absolutely wonderful, rather unusual bitterness yesterday morning. A fresh, herby bitterness that reminded me more of a herb garden (complemented by tons of hyacinth) rather than a “Boudoir”, but that was yesterday and today, something has changed and instead of herbaceous, the fragrance suddenly feels purely sensual.
After a few hours of wearing it yesterday, while still being strong, the fragrance developed really rather unpleasant, somewhat organic, stale odour. I certainly wouldn’t see it as sexy and if I had to frame this experience to a specific condition, then it would be the unpleasant smell of clothes the day after a party: smoke and sweaty remnants of a perfume…than again maybe that’s what it’s supposed to be! 😀
My SLIGHT yesterday afternoon disappointment with this fragrance was replaced THIS morning as I woke up, by the surprising revelation that I couldn’t stop smelling my wrist. The scent has evolved, many, many hours after application (although I did re-apply throughout the day, so I am not referring to the initial morning application of course) into touchingly beautiful, warm, soothing, golden softness.
All in all, Boudoir seems to be a masterpiece with chameleonic qualities. Changeable and unexpected. I think my bottle (pink) still has the potential for many olfactory adventures. Oh, and talk about longevity!
bogdanious – :
it’s very rich, and so beautifuly layered. it takes a few hours for it to completely bloom. the carnations are there and quite true, and it takes a several hours to feel the hiacynth – i walked into a store today and walked around the shelves wondering where that soft and fresh hiacynth scent is coming from. it took me a while to realise it was me lol
fabrikant – :
I got this as a blind buy, mainly for that gorgeous bottle. It was a love – hate at first. It smelled like carnation and something old, but afterwards I got a gorgeous “different” scent. It makes you think about dirty alluring French princesses, a sweet smell of used silk bed sheets, flowers and a slight leather smell, gorgeous nevertheless. Not a favourite, but definitely got compliments on this one
polinkin – :
I am all about Boudoir. Boudoir is a spicy floral with a little bit of stank behind it. There’s something a bit raw mixed with the lady-like florals. It’s not a timid scent and I’d never recommend buying without trying.
rapito – :
Very very strong – prickly and over whelming ..just too harsh ,
I get ja stale urine smell too – think this is the carnation note .
Not for me – total dislike
Keep it in the boudoir !
20102010 – :
I find Boudoir to be an exemplary representation of the Vivienne Westwood fashion aesthetic; that is, pretty and glammed up but with a punk edge and absolutely dirty (both racy and “dirt”y). I wouldn’t call the scent sexy; I’d call it sex-ish. There’s a note running through it of post coital skin, but not musk exactly. It’s also creamy and spicy and powdery; but not too much of any one thing and I have trouble picking out the individual floral notes. The scent is definitely strong and eyebrow raising; but the eyebrows are then lowered by a knowing smile. This lady is absolutely sure of herself and already out the door and just because you call it a “walk of shame” doesn’t make her feel ashamed. She doesn’t need a shower, she smells fantastic. Her dress is still eye-catchingly gorgeous and she will always be pretty because that’s who she is.
Vitysi4ka – :
My fiance wore this in the late 90’s. As soon as I smelled it, I sensed glamour, elegance, and grace. The scent was irresistible to me. Absolute knockout scent. I miss that.
Al-Rehab Nebras is very good, but not quite the same.
Andreyflacceboolice – :
I bought the current eau de parfum (amber in color, not pink) hoping specifically for the skank that most people mention in their review. What I got was a heady, drippy, heavy floral perfume whose flowers lie on a bed of orris root and gentle spice, not sensual musk and tobacco leaf. Boudoir is nonetheless gorgeous, and I will reach for the bottle often, mostly in the evening. Sadly, the ‘boudoir’ of Boudoir must have been obliterated in the reformulation. I’m still searching for an elusive skank that separates the women from the girls.
Sillage is a good few inches and longevity is six hours and counting..
I’m in full pursuit of a vintage bottle…
kesha2011 – :
There is one note in this that ruins it for me and my heart is broken.
It’s the hyacinth.
Now, I love the smell of hyacinth when it’s wafting from a potted plant or a patch of damp soil in someone’s yard…but I can’t stand it in most perfumes. It calls to mind every single fragrance my grandmothers and great aunts were doused in at family holidays when I was young. My nose is more developed now and I’m no longer a child, so I can appreciate perfumes that in the past I would have despised outright, and there are many classic arrangements that I have tiny vials of and swoon over on quiet nights like this one. But the one note I can almost never accommodate is hyacinth, and I knew from the moment I removed the heavy weighted cap from my long awaited bottle of Boudoir that I wasn’t going to be able to wear the fragrance.
Everything else about the perfume is what I’d hoped for. Rose, carnation, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla, tobacco, jasmine. Gimme gimme gimme. I just can’t shake the scent memory attached to that one top note.
I must say, though, it doesn’t evoke the “boudoir” in the sexy way I had hoped from reading reviews. It was more a reminder of a more utilitarian boudoir, a space just for the woman to dress and adorn herself, or perhaps take a moment of privacy. It does have an intimate scent to it, something warm and waxy, a little bit spicy and unclean, but it also smells of powdery face makeup and classic, heady floral elixirs. It smells like sitting at my dressing table *feels*…but it doesn’t smell quite like I want to smell while sitting at my dressing table.
vintorezzzzzz – :
Once that aldehyde-heavy/vintage/huge hit of warm spices opening calms down, you start to smell the individual spices and more understated florals. I don’t get rose at all, which is a shame because it’s one of my favourite notes. I get the spicy carnation coming through quite strongly though.
The base is sweeter, though it is a hard-fought sweetness that doesn’t overpower – this must be the vanilla, and it’s my favourite part of the scent.
I ended up mixing this one with a spray of another sample I bought which was too sweet and together they make a rather nice match, but on its own I imagine it would eventually make me want to wash it off.
It’s a lovely perfume for those who like warm spicy or vintage smelling scents, but those perfumes never work on my body nor do they suit my age.
On the plus side – I don’t get any of these ‘skanky’ notes that people have mentioned. It dries down to warm, understated spicy and cosy, for me at least.
Sillage and longevity are both fantastic. If you’re a warm spicy or vintage fan then you will adore this for sure.
sma213JeomiWogkig – :
Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood is a 90’s powerhouse best applied with a light hand. Carnation, narcissus, vanilla bean, benzoin and spices (e.g., cinnamon, clove, cardamom) are the main attraction. I have a vintage bottle of Boudoir and do not detect any cheap, offensive, or skanky notes. Boudoir is BOLD, charismatic, and sensual. Boudoir saves the best for last–the drydown is soft and gorgeous! Boudoir has killer sillage (radiates 6 feet!) and longevity (lingers on sweaters for days!). If Anais Anais and Chloe Narcisse had a love child, Boudoir would be the result. Boudoir is ideal for cozy winter evenings. Terrific fragrance for the price! This was a blind buy that I don’t regret!
karyeza – :
If you scroll down and read my first review of Boudoir, you will see that I wasn’t a fan. I will admit I have trouble with aldehydes but that’s really the only part of this scent I don’t like. I won a vintage late nineties bottle on eBay, the juice is a dark rosy amber. I think the age is why the aldehydic top notes are not as noticeable and this one ages like a fine wine. Now, I get spicy florals with a bit of bubblegum sweetness, a tad of powder and I definitly get the tobacco. Boudoir is a beauty. So glad I decided to give it another go. UPDATE: this was absolutely wonderful until it turned a little fishy on the drydown (a few others have mentioned this) several times so I had to swap it. Guess in the end it didn’t agree with my chemistry or something.
Евгений 1982 – :
Oh my, its Flex shampoo from them 80’s!
I wanted to try a sample of this because of its foretold alluring womanly skank.
I’m not a massive florals girl so this really isn’t my cup of tea, but I shall persist with it nonetheless, as I want to understand this scent.
It’s super powdery on me, and if I sniff too close to the skin, it is positively choking, and repels me. It smells like soap or perfumed talc from my childhood. A detect a small amount of skank, but it is mainly florals. There is a minty freshness hiding underneath it all too, which is really quite nice. I don’t know what I’m smelling here!
I won’t be adding this to my wardrobe one I’ve finished the sample, I’m a vanilla and spices girl and it doesn’t sit well on my skin, however I’m glad I’ve had a chance to smell Boudoir. The more smells the better!
Enotw – :
Marigold flowers and animalic, herbal coriander.
gosha66 – :
I feel extremely lucky to have a sample of Boudoir in my small collection and discover this unique scent. This juice is magical!! I had the curiosity to test this perfume because I have heard that it smells skank,sex,body odour,human body and so on. To me, it doesn’t smell anything of these. It smells even better. Basically, rose note is amplified on my skin. The vanilla note and aldheydes/powder are very prominent. I do not smell spices,tobacco,carnation,cinnamon or other flowers. To me it’s a rosy powdery sweet kind of lipstick and cosmetic powder scent. Very vintage and feminine smell. I am glad I don’t smell cat pee,skank,sweat that many other mention.
It would be amazing almost in all seasons except hot summer days. But I would undoubtedly prefer to wear it in warm spring nights.
I want to buy a whole 50 ml bottle of this, as I also love the cute design of the bottle. I have to say that my sample is the pinkish colour,not the cognac coloured. I have also to mention a comment of a man about this scent: ” I would marry the woman who wears only this perfume forever”…
andry19921109 – :
I just bought a little one ounce bottle after loving Al Rehabs Nebras so much. I said why not try the real thing. I’m a 90’s child and this perfume came out when I graduated High School. Never had an interest in this till I started exploring scents and I knew I wanted this no matter what. Well I love it! The colour of my juice is an orange pink and I adore my little bottle of this juice. I like to wear this whenever really I haven’t decided if it’s a day or night only scent. I don’t think this juice should be constrained. To me if it makes you feel and smell good, wear it. I also don’t think that this is old or dated either. I love 90’s fragrance and this one I just wish I had found sooner.
This is to me the epitome of a female scent. It’s sexy, alluring, inviting, and daring like I could do anything in this. But it makes me feel super feminine the most and that’s what I love. It truly makes me feel like a woman. I’m 38 and I find this fine for my age too though I’ve never limited a scent by age I dislike that. This makes me feel good and that is the joy of this perfume to me. Feeling unabashedly girlie and sexy. That to me is Boudoir a floral heaven that is so lovely on my skin. This is also my first scent with a tobacco note which I thought I would not like. Not so, in fact now I won’t shy away from them. I would love to find a75ml bottle of this.
I adore it! 😉
er540 – :
I used up my bottle years ago. I wore it everywhere and anywhere no daytime/night time divide for me. Anyway I just had a whiff from the bottle and it really does pack quite a punch. I’d kind of forgotten just how much,because after this bottle was finished I moved on to Mon Boudoir which is a different animal all together.
After sitting here for 20 minutes or so with the bottle under my nose I’m no further forward with the review. I thought for a moment would I wear this today and then Creed came to mind and the answer was Yes.
Koval – :
Not listed here…but the main note in Boudoir is Viburnum. When Boudoir launched, a big deal was made about it being the first fragrance to capture Viburnum’s scent. “Boudoir unveils the scent of viburnum blossom, a fresh and sparkling note that has never been used in perfumery before, obtained with “Aura Scent” technology.” (from Osmoz.com)
dm_sh_off – :
Huh…that sexy indiscernible note that gives this fragrance its skanky edge and has confounded some reviewers is what spandex, swimming suits, and stockings smelled like in the ‘60’s and ‘70s.
I am editing this, as the above was an impulsive comment upon first trying this fragrance, I spritzed it on my arm last night, and it’s a lovely soft powder this morning. Now I know I am showing my age here, but I wanted to explain my comment and try to give a more accurate description of this fragrance, particularly in terms of the mysterious note. I don’t know if anyone gets the same impression, but I think swimsuits had a distinctive smell many years ago when you bought them brand new, and so did shapewear, especially the items which had the little suspender tabs.
Maybe those items – which were elastic or spandex based – were permeated with a certain product which made them smell that way? In the same way rubber and plastic dolls had that certain smell, the material must have been flavoured with it. I am not saying Boudoir smells like a plastic doll, far from it.
So in creating Boudoir, I think its creator evoked the smell of a boudoir of many many years ago, a more romantic age, where these intimate items existed. I think it’s a lovely, evocative and sexy fragrance, I believe this could have a seductive effect on men of a certain age, assuming it reacts well on your person and you can carry it off. Amazing sillage and longevity, I am pleased to have bought this blind.
Caution – not an office fragrance unless you mercilessly wish to torment the poor guy you might have your eye on, and definitely a romantic date choice if seduction is your ultimate goal!
faek – :
Vivienne Westwood Boudoir
Purchased on Amazon.com
Pink Liquid Small 3 Oz Spray Bottle
About this fragrance
For years I avoided it like the plague. I was not fond of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion designs and only some of her fragrances were appealing (Sin Garden, Mon Boudoir Jouy) while others fell into the unisex and modern class (Anglomania). I’m an old fashioned gal and had to really come out of my comfort zone and tortoise shell to wear this scent. It has been said that Vivienne wears it and I do believe it. This is a mature fragrance for a confident, sophisticated, older woman whose live is not ahead of her but behind her. This is supposed to be a sexy fragrance of a woman’s body aroma and of sex but before I go there let me start by saying this is sexy in the sense that she is a much older experienced lady, not some ‘babe’ or young 18 through 21 year old college girl. I wear this in the winter time and it’s not a magnet for men on me but I do ‘get it’ that this is sexy. It is not anywhere near Tabu by Dana or Bal a Versailles but it seems to want to approach vintage sex bombs.
It opens with aldehydes that are quiet, subdued, and whispery. The scent cannot be described as cheerful or fresh. It has unisex tendencies and reveals a spicy musky allure. The floral composition of orange blossom, marigold, rose, hyacinth, narcissus and jasmine are not in the forefront. No one can truly call this a traditional floral. You want floral my darlings check out such perfumes as Fracas and YSL Paris, Quelques Fleurs. The flowers are faint in this perfume, they are abstract, like the furthest away blurred impression of flowers on a print tablecloth. I would say that I do detect a noticeable white floral mix of soft barely there jasmine and narcissus. The jasmine is exceedingly sexy in it’s tameness. This is a flower vase that needs to be thrown out and changed.
The courtesan in her boudoir does not like flower bouquets and she is instead inviting her male clients with the seductive sc