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vvvvvvvvvv – :
Yes, the smell is divine, but ephemeral like a summer affair. I’m thinking of cocktails and long drinks, but the euphoria lasts only 3 hours, like the number of summer months in my country.
I’m very sad, because is a perfect beachy scent! So yummy…and it smells exactly like an expensive coconut oil poured on sunkissed skin!
alevalza – :
God knows what’s in this…i don’t even care…I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!
This was my Summer scent as it suited my skin and the weather perfectly, but as this is one of my top favourites …..i couldn’t resist an Autumn spray so i’ve decided this is now my ALL ROUNDER and i’m gonna use this all through the year whenever i want.
This is something different, i get the white florals, creamy, musky, slight ambery scents and i don’t think it’s TOO sweet either.
I get 6 hours max but towards the end it fades to a skinscent. BG isn’t cheap and i love the bottle but i prefer transparent bottles to stop panic mode setting in.
It’s not offensive or cloying, the silage isn’t THAT great but I’ll have to buy backups just incase.
Lovely perfume, i just wish it was stronger! each to their own, it’s just Gorgeous 🙂 xx
proningv – :
I like this one over the EDT version. It has much much less coconut and does smell more like a “perfume” than the synthetic suntan/body lotion vibe in the EDT. But I do wish that it has more frangipani than jasmine. Overall, I like it but I would not pay full price for it.
fAR – :
I’m on my third bottle of the skinscent. I don’t love it, but I appreciate and enjoy wearing it. I should’ve read reviews here before buying the EDP. As others have said, the EDP is nothing like the skinscent. There’s no lemon cake topped with coconut, there’s no nutty cherry-almond/pistachio biscotti, no creamy coconut rum drink. No beachy evocations, no tropics..
Instead it’s a ubiquitous fruit-chouli clone that smells quite similar to my Jimmy Choo and Coco Mad bottles. Vanilla fruit-chouli. Slightly amber-y.
I’m not feeling it.
entaike – :
This one was a pleasant surprise. It was warm, sweet and spicy. I was expecting something salty and beachy/suncream, but it was not like that. It was much better! This is my kind of sweet…! ♥
ifbb – :
To my nose this version of Goddess smells great and i am having a lot of compliments when i am wearing it. Sadly, when the juice marinate long enough, there is that synthetical smell that comes out and it turns out bad ! Yess Its bad because it starts soo nice but ends up pretty nasty. If you have the chance, try to compare this one to TF Soleil Blanc on a paper or on your skin since they are similar (not eau de soleil blanc..the original Soleil Blanc by Tom ford). After a whole day or 24h later you’ll see what i am talking about. BG edp is a less expensive and good alternative but please, if you can afford..TOM Ford is sooo soo much better and the price tag sometimes can be justify but you have to judge for yourself and smell it in all its phases (Top,Middle and base) Its also a question of taste and chemistry and some pretty expensive perfume are not worth the price tag. TF tag is justify for me because it is pure and fresh cococut scent and does not change over time and does not have that synthetic weird smell. But if TF has no longevity or sillage on you..then don’t buy it. Its just funny because when i decide to wear my Bronze Edp, i make sure to take a shower after a couple of hours at the end of the day to make sure that the base notes won’t come saying hi to me.
Disant-007 – :
This was highly confusing to me when I smelled it yesterday. It’s about 95% Black Opium and 5% Bronze Goddess. What was the point of this? Why would they name this Bronze Goddess EDP? It has so little of the original DNA. They should have released this fragrance as some sort of flanker of Bronze Goddess, not as the EDP version which everyone would assume is a stronger concentration of the original fragrance.
Don’t bother with this EDP if you’re looking for the original coconutty-beachy fragrance in a longer-lasting, higher concentration. It is bound to disappoint you.
cyp808speagoessenda – :
Yes I agree it has similarities to black opium. This should be called black sand beach opium
renatbrd02 – :
This smells so much like YSL Black Opium on my skin. I still purchased it event though I own BO, because I felt like it is longer lasting and smells just a bit better on my skin! I couldn’t help myself. It smells nothing like the skin scent version of Bronze Goddess in my opinion, but I do wonder if layering would give a pretty result? Overall I really enjoy the scent. But I agree with other comments, if you already own BO, you really don’t NEED this.
Black MoHaPx – :
Black Opium minus the coffee and a slight floral scent that adds lightness to it. Its nice but wouldnt bother if you already have BO.
wollf – :
This smells almost identical as Victoria’s Secret body mist “unapologetic”.Gorgeous scent, men love it.It has it’s own character, memorable.
hunter435 – :
I kept hearing about “beachy” scents and thought I would hate this because I dislike aquatics and beaches. LOL. I love it. This reminds me of a richer, creamy, ambery Shalimar. It is citrus in the top with florals, vanilla and coconut. It is creamy and bordering on edibly gourmand. As it dries down, there is some amber and musk that wrap around the sweet frangipani, coconut, rum and citrus. This adds a little woodiness. I have a cold and can’t wait to sample this when my nose is normal again. I can smell it through the congestion.
привет_всем_я_Женек – :
I will give it this: the drydown—long, long after it’s first sprayed, since this lasts forever and is very strong—smells like super high end skin cream, makeup, and possibly after-sun oil.
But when you first spray it, it’s definitely *perfume*… The “cashmeran” is the strongest note, for sure.
If you like Sensual Amber BBW, Flowerbomb, or Euphoria, you’ll love this.
And if you like the smell of high end post-sun skin care/makeup, you’ll love the drydown.
kharkov14 – :
So, I’ve read the comments and let me pose a question for you all. – each of you I’m safe in assuming come from a family. Mother, father, siblings ect. You each have the same name, same genetics (siblings and cousins) all similar and represent a lineage. Yet, not every single one of you is exactly the same. All different qualities and personalities that make you unique.
Well, this is the same with fragrance. I know this is long winded just for a perfume but it’s distracting when there is a fuss that this shouldn’t be in the BG family. Yes it absolutely should. It has the fine makeup on the BG family but beautifully individual as well.
I like it. I like all of them.
I simply sniffed with my pure coconut perfume and molecule for a bit of an extra kick and it’s great.
No need to freak out, make it work for you. This is nothing new fron a Lauder
Greis0018 – :
A sweet, summery, relaxing fragrance. Unfortunately with bad sillage and longevity. It smells elegant but it is a bit too shy, and, honestly, there are other perfumes with the same vibe that are cheaper and more interesting.
Don’t get me wrong, it smells good but it is unimpressive.
pav – :
I prefer the EDT/Skin Fraiche…as this is not as tropical coconut beachy as the EDT.
Cashmerewood is fairly strong, and really stands out on me…..adds a woody spice (‘spice’ for lack of better descriptive word). almost yields like a very mild patchouli on my skin.
ArrElikeree – :
I prefer the EDP to the EDT – smoother, creamier, the archetypal ‘expensive sun tan lotion’ fragrance. And that’s the only time I wear it – on beach holidays. It’s bang on the money for that setting. Wouldn’t wear it elsewhere as the coconut/vanilla combo pisses me off day to day unless it’s done exceptionally well, better than with BG.
The EDT isn’t for me at all. It has a salty and slightly metallic edge that I find unpleasant.
Xeroxmbyxa – :
This smells very much like black opium to me minus the coffee.
It’s super strong and think vanilla.
Very creamy too, not as tropical as it looks.
friDrel – :
It is a well blended perfume with the ginger note pronounced a bit more than the rest.
Overall, a light, non generic, non sugary sweet perfume with a character of its own, that wears very pleasantly during Spring and Summer months.
messmusty – :
I just wish this perfume was the stronger version of a BG skinscent and not a completely different fragrance. Black Opium and other sweet scents sell well nowadays so this is what Estée Lauder came up with. Sigh. The bottle is lovely though.
nikitamil – :
It’s nice but my recently purchased Bath and Body Works At The Beach smells just as nice and fits my current budget better…caught it at a one day sale for $6!
ziser – :
Wow, I am completely asnomic to this one! I smell the faintest white floral and that’s it. After spraying like crazy. Can’t imagine what the skin scent versions are like :O
irina20 – :
it is not long lasting, but it is perfume i mean you can smell the difference between this one and the EDT, while the EDt is more fresh and more airy, this one is deeper more vanilla complex with a beautiful creaminess like you are wearing a rich body lotion with vanilla and white flowers… i wish this could last more on my skin, but ok, i can always spray more. Great bottle too, beautiful Metallic pink. (take the 100ml, because you will love it and you will want to take a bath on it :D)
OnedTield – :
To me BG eau de perfume (2017) evokes ambivalent feeling.
It opens with a subdued, dense cloud of sweet, coconut- vanilla with some citrus and spiciness. I get impression “Hey BG you smell nice, I want to keep you on my skin”.
That initial impression of coco-vanilla sweetness keeps projecting, while the scent, after couple of hours blooms into a creamy coco-vanilla-ambary musk. At this stage I like it too, as it gives impression I am sniffing to a thick white tropical flower (of course, created in my mind to counteract chilly gray day here in CPH -:). However, as the scent in some moments projects vanillin-plastic (or perhaps Indol) vibe, I get a bit put-off.
Eau Fraiche (version 2016, haven’t tasted 2017 yet) seems more multi-dimensional and fresh (surprise -:). After all, it contains vetiver and few other notes (absent in eau de perfume) that balance sweetness.
Overall, I think Eau Perfume is worth trying. It may be an answer in search of a coconut-vanilla -tropical vibe scent.
I purchased 50 ml, as I am sure I’ll rich for it again.
gej356speagoessenda – :
This sh*t stinks.
As a fan of the classic Bronze Goddess scent, I was excited to hear they were launching the classic “cult fragrance” (as they call it) in a more intense eau de parfum. I have since been informed by snooty salespeople that often “eau de parfums won’t smell like their lighter counterparts” and I understand this – I’ve experienced it before – but as I tried to explain to the great gash of a salesman at Nordstrom:
This bottle of overpriced, cheap smelling stink isn’t even a distant snaggle-toothed cousin of the classic Bronze Goddess fragrance.
If you like vanilla musk (and I actually do) I think there are far better (and far cheaper) options to consider – because that’s basically all this crap is. If you were hoping for something even slightly resembling Bronze Goddess (i.e.: if you too believed what Estée Lauder had written on their website when it launched to be accurate and true) then you will be disgusted, disappointed and disillusioned… in that order. In fact that’s what they would list for the notes on this fart in a bottle:
“It bursts with top notes of disgust, warming to the skin to reveal a heart of disappointment and finally settling into a lingering wave of disillusionment – as you realize you just paid $100 for a bottle of cheap stink.”
Still, if you’ve always hated “classic” Bronze Goddess (and I know people who do) then you might find this a welcome change. I just think it’s generic, underwhelming and everything I hate about perfume in a bottle.
Hard pass.
puss123eo09 – :
I have two different versions of bronze goddess from 2015 and 2016 previous years. They are both wonderful yet slightly different. I put this new 2017 version on today and it smells terrible! Gone is the tropical light fragrance that mesmerized me with the others. I had to come home and scrub it off. I would’ve liked previous years to be done in perfume instead of their skinscents but I will gladly go back to them and never try this perfume again. It smells slightly like the old original Victoria of Victoria’s Secret, which always gave me a headache.
ALEX16 – :
I love this! I blind bought, because of the references to Black Opium, which in my opinion are 100% accurate. I notice the ginger in this, which is nice to make it a bit fresh for hot weather, but the jasmine and probably somewhat the vanilla are definitely reminiscent of Black Opium. It’s almost a bit like a fusion of Black Opium and Olympea. I think it’s versatile for most any season.
This is my first experience with any BG products, and I think the new EDP is a total winner. It’s NOTHING like the 2017 Skinscent, however – I had thought it might be, only in different concentration, but I don’t like this year’s Skinscent at all. The lavender in it is huge to my nose, and I can’t tolerate lavender, personally. So this formula is my total fave of the two this year.
Edit: re the Skinscent version- I have come to enjoy lavender, so I’ll be eager to revisit the BG Skinscent this summer.
Avatar4pro – :
I hate every bronze goddess fragrance except this one. It doesn’t have that weird salty skin smell that comes off as dill pickle juice. I get the frangipani, coconut, and vanilla the most. I adore it.
sashok642010 – :
Drydown is a soft, sweet, coconuty vanilla with some ambery warmth. If I was not presented with the notes, I would just say that it’s some generic vanilla perfume. Imagine an Orchid Soleil Tom Ford, without the medicinal facet, very very watered down and more vanillic.
The frangipani is not enough pronunced. Neither is jasmine.
Fluffy, sunny, linear and cute. Relax, you’re not missing out.
Piter Pen – :
This was a blind buy, I am a fan of bronze goddess whipped creams so I just bought this last week from esteelauder.com. Very nice and sweet smell, I kept smelling myself when I first sprayed it. But it stays only 2 hours, similar as any other Estee perfumes. It must be an EDT. The bottle itself is gorgeous.
P.S to Estee Lauder: Dear Estee Lauder Company, you have to work so much about your perfumes very low longevity’s. Work hard!
maradona66 – :
I wasn’t a fan of the other versions, I just don’t care much for the sun tan / coconut vibe, this one on the other hand I really like!! I might buy a bottle soon…it is more floral, it still has a summery vibe, it has a citrusy/ coconut beginning, but it isn’t too much, then the florals take over, and turn it into a voluptuous floral scent, in truth I don’t disagree it has in truth a little something of Black Opium, the Bronze Goddess is more floral..just takes a different direction, but they have similarities .
It made me think also of Tom Ford orchid soleil, in the base.
All in whole, for me, the nicest flanker there is…more grown up, more floral, interesting and feminine…my husband thinks it smells great too.!!
Now if you didnt like Black Opium, not sure you would like this one!?
Update: not getting it, just feel it is missing something !?
tbu313speagoessenda – :
Just got this one and WOW,I am amazed at just how much I dislike it!!So disappointing!!! Where’s the citrus, and where is the beautiful coconut???? Nowhere to be found! Just an overload of white florals. Smells absolutely nothing like the eau fraiche, which is a gorgeous summer in a bottle scent. This one went right on ebay
vaxushtii – :
I tested this opposite Bronze Goddess eau fraiche. From reading the previous reviews, I knew it would be different and gourmand. I just wanted to see how different.
The EDP is sweet like a coconut cream pie, which tastes like a creme brûlée with toasted coconut undertones. I get some florals after the initial cream pie, mostly jasmine and very little fragrapani. The drydown is a lovely, lightly tropical vanilla. I do not usually enjoy fragrances this sweet but I can see owning this.
Now, for the downside. This is not a summer fragrance to me. This evokes summer but will probably work best in cooler weather. I did not notice the longetivity greatly increased from the BG EF. I also, for the life of me, cannot understand why they marketed this as Bronze Goddess when it smells so distinctly different.
I like it, I do, and I certainly will get a FB eventually (even if it’s just to have), it just is not what I think of when I think Bronze Goddess.
ccc1980 – :
It was a warm, humid, and salty night on the verge of thunderstorm in the coastal city where I was traveling for business when I pulled into the muggy mall parking garage and slipped into a brightly-lit Nordstrom. Despite a long day of travel and work, I’d dedicated this night to driving to a nearby town to experience the new Bronze Goddess, and I was exhausted but so excited! Quickly slipping past the rose gold sequined dresses, iced latte in hand, I beelined towards the fragrance department. I recognized the Bronze Goddess EDP bottle immediately and gleefully gave my forearm two generous sprays.
I’d reached the pinnacle of my excitement as I waited for its familiar notes to bloom. Yes, there was the fleeting citrus top note, yes, there was the white flower emerging… and then… well…! Where was the woodsy vanilla, the radiating heat, the dry sandalwood? Where was that feeling of basking on the shore in the low, golden afternoon sun?! I quickly realized – not without some initial bewilderment – that this was no amped-up rerelease of my familiar Bronze Goddess EDT. I even sprayed it again to ensure I hadn’t just tested on a tainted patch of skin! (Sometimes I get a little too excited and forget where I’ve sprayed already…) After coming to terms with this not being simply a stronger take on the EDTs of the past, here is what I learned: much like the previous reviewer related, Bronze Goddess EDP is no freewheeling bleach-blonde, frolicking on the shore, coated in Coppertone, dancing in the late afternoon sun. No – she’s decidedly calmer, gracefully reclining in a long cover-up, elegant, sophisticatedly sweet, with silver-tone jewelry, white flowering bushes, and a warm cocoa glow.
This scent is defined by its chocolatey-coffee brownness enveloping a sweet, creamy white heart of almost-sharp frangipani and jasmine, wrapped up in gourmand vanilla – and something unexplained in its published notes lends a surefire likeness to patchouli. Its base is nicely blended, a clean softness, and the drydown eases into a sweet, slightly earthy-woodsy cocoa milkiness on my skin. It’s deep, sweet, subtly tropical, and just a little bit dusted – the image that comes to my mind over and over is that of a cocoa-dusted fine chocolate truffle, sweet and rich and dark inside with nuances of fruitiness. There is still an echo of beach here, too, a whisper of suntan lotion in its white flower and faintly coconut heart, but this is the Bronze Goddess come off the shore past the flowering bushes in sandy soil, sipping an iced coffee, relaxing in the cool shade.
To be fair, it’s a lovely scent of its own – just indeed expect BG EDP to be closer kin to the gourmand + white floral + patchouli Black Opium rather than the citrus + white floral + sandalwood Bronze Goddesses gone before. She’s bronze like ground coffee beans, like chocolate, not like the hazy golden sun. And while the cocoa sillage is beautiful, it’s arguably no more than the BG EDTs of the past; however, the longevity is certainly vastly improved. If I had endless money, sure, I’d purchase it myself, but for right now, I feel like I already have “hot summer sun” and “cool summer cafe” well covered. But, if gourmand white flower scents are your cup of tea (or, more accurately, coffee!) – Black Opium, Hypnotic Poison (I’ve heard Poison Girl, too, though haven’t tried it yet myself), Armani Code for Her, Hypnose, Rebelle, La Vie Est Belle – then this may be a great one for you.
trasssa – :
Definitely disappointed me. Was thrilled to see my all time favorite beachy scent was finally going to be in EDP form as so many have suggested. This is not my Bronze Goddess at all.Opens quite floral and synthetic, When It dries down reminds me of VS Dark Angel and a little of Black Opium. It’s slightly sweet but feels more like vanilla than coconut. Shouldn’t be in the BG family.
papuas111 – :
I bought this as soon as it was released because Bronze Goddess *should* have been my favorite perfume (given the notes) but instead it’s something I love/hate. The original skinscent has an accord or note that smells horrifically synthetic on me and when it kicks in my throat feels like I’m coming down with a cold. Scratchy and irritated and uncomfortable.
I bought the EDP to see if they solved that issue and initial tests say they have! Rejoice!
I’ve worn this for one day, it was delivered this morning. Our weather is currently cold and crappy so not ideal weather for BG. But I couldn’t wait. Sprayed immediately.
1. This is not a powerhouse fragrance. It is fairly light, and one could easily spritz away more than my usual 3 sprays and not be overpowering ot others (at least in the cold, heat may change that).
2. The horrific synthetic note is gone. (again in the cold. Will edit once summer comes).
3. Still isn’t as coconut dominant as I would like. Ah well.
4. On me, after wearing for 6 hours I can say this develops slowly, but surely. It’s not a huge change but it is there. First spray is a gentle blend of white florals and a creamy sweet milky/coconut vibe. (No suntan lotion, yay!)
Over a course of a few hours the flowers change a bit, until I was clearly smelling the frangipani and coconut milk (a very diffuse and abstract take on it). Layered over a bed of cashmere wood and musk. These last two are very well blended, neither stand out. But what I smell isn’t distinctly either so I’m calling it both.
I feel like this is a grown up version of Bronze Goddess. If the original was a 20 something slathered in sunscreen, drinking a sugary cocktail on the beech this is a woman of indeterminate age (but definitely a bit of experience). She’s grown up a bit, she is sitting sensibly in the shade of a beautiful flowering tropical tree and she’s got a far more grown up drink in her hand. 😉 I like it.
dionyx – :
I went to Nordstrom’s today and was so excited when I saw this on the counter. I ran up to it and gave it a long sniff. Smells beautiful! I then sprayed one spray on each wrist. As I was enjoying the perfume I kept thinking…this reminds me of something. Then it hit me. Black Opium! It doesn’t smell exactly like Black Opium but it’s very similar. Bronze Goddess has more of a coconut smell than coffee but it was too similar for me to buy a bottle. It’s much more sweet than the original EDT and if I didn’t have Black Opium I would have bought it. It also didn’t last that long on me. 3-4 hours tops (but my skin eats perfume). On a positive note the bottle is gorgeous…Metallic rose gold!’
Suipeasebuisy – :
Oh wow! I’m so looking forward to this! I’ve always wished Bronze Goddess had decent sillage!