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DexFan – :
It smells perfectly pink. That’s the best way I know how to describe this.
Spielman – :
My signature scent in the eighties. I loved it. Bright and bold. Smelled great on me.
malishh9 – :
In the year 1990, oddly enough I first took notice of this fragrance in the opening scene of the 1989 comedy SHE DEVIL starring Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep. It was not to be found anywhere near me at the time so I had to talk to a girlfriend in California and get it through her by postal delivery in a package. It was a Eau de Toilette spray bottle exactly as pictured on this page. When I first inhaled the scent, I was enchanted. Smells youthful but mature at the same time, not dense nor a heavy hitter, not complex, simply a sweet fruity floral with musk. The California association was the gimmick. Everyone would love to at least smell like you’ve lived in a Malibu beach house and your skin is tan and you look better than Pamela Anderson. This was a very innocent fragrance and quite heady, like a bouquet of orange blossoms and roses. It can almost pass for a June wedding fragrance. By the way if you are interested in purchasing this fragrance you might only find it in rummage sales or eBay which is itself the biggest online rummage sale of all. I found a new bottle on eBay. I was happy to re-live this fragrance.
Opens with orange flower/blossom and bergamot orange, citrusy and quite opulent, like a California summer breeze blowing through orange groves. The ylang ylang is noticeable as is the white floral heart which is made up of tuberose/gardenia and a lily of the valley. For what was supposed to be a young hip California girl’s perfume it was supremely floral. Tuberose and gardenia smell alike and in this scent they are as prominent as the lily of the valley. So this is a big floral perfume, a floral toilet water, with that orangey aroma permeating everything. Citrus floral in the style of Calvin Klein Obsession, at the same time as if it were a hybrid of Obsession and Giorgio Beverly Hills. The dry down is musk, amber and sandalwood. There is a woodsy note that is almost reminiscent of eucalyptus and it’s the sandalwood but it’s a tad spicy and musky at the same time with the musk turning into a warm skin like sun tan lotion. The amber and musk are warm and feel like sunshine on my skin.
Even in 2017 this fragrance is still a wearable modern fruity floral summer time fragrance. It’s feminine and captivating and has incredible sillage and longevity. I would say it lasts all day so one spritz is probably all you need otherwise it would induce headaches, provoke nose twitches and get people to stare at you in an unpleasant way. This is a very big perfume one of the go big or go home perfumes of the 1980s but it’s terribly underrated because it was a ‘junior miss’ compared to the big diva ladies like Dior Poison Chanel Coco Eau de Parfum Diva Ungaro and Giorgio Beverly Hills. This is really at the same level as it is quite potent for perfume but it’s quite lovely. I love the florals and the sandalwood-amber dry down. Beautiful.
65438572 – :
Camp Beverly Hills
Nose
Givaudan
Year
1986
This perfume matches up with the 80’s comedy BEVERLY HILLS TROOP starring Shelley Long about a spoiled red-haired Beverly Hills socialite divorcee who trains a group of Beverly Hills rich girls as wilderness camp survivors! The girls in that movie would have been wearing Camp Beverly Hills. Smells like going to an expensive California summer camp where the scent of orange trees are redolent. As other reviewers have beautifully written, this is California summer in a bottle. And smells like the 80’s and 80’s youth. It’s Molly Ringwald perfume she wore to look grown up and smart in PRETTY IN PINK and or BREAKFAST CLUB, This is a fragrance for Shannon Doherty and Wynona Ryder in HEATHERS. A perfume that matches up with John Hughes movies and an 80’s pop soundtrack like Cyndi Lauper’s GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN.
CAMP BEVERLY HILLS is another blast from my past. Although marketed for younger girls in junior high or high school, this was basically Calvin Klein Obsession before it was even launched, and a more enjoyable youthful Giorgio Beverly Hills. This is a summer fruit fragrance of pure citrus and orange blossoms, like a Southern California orange grove. Totally a California summer. It has a feminine air made up of white flowers, namely the tuberose – but this time G rated compared to the X rated tuberose in Giorgio Beverly Hills, rose, ylang ylang (banana leaf) and green floral lily of the valley. This is not a green chypre by any means, as it is mainly floral or rather citrus-floral. In the base I get a lot of amber and sandalwood. Usually these type of perfumes sold to adults but in the 80’s all the kids wanted to wear their parent’s clothes and I guess even their fragrances. Today this is an ‘old lady’ perfume because of it’s classic ingredients of citrus and white flowers but it’s really such a great scent.
Opens with fresh citruses, white citrus, neroli, orange blossoms and the air is heady with it. It takes a while before it transitions into the white flowers of which the lily of the valley bulbs and the tuberose is prominent. Elegant and refined, but subtle. The thing about this fragrance, like so many 1980’s perfumes, it is vulgar and offensive if you spray liberally. In the 80’s perfume was just an extension of hair spray and there was no such thing as light body sprays or mists. So women doused themselves in perfume, including myself. But just a spritz is enough to satisfy me now. The dry down is a tad musky, a tad powdery, a tad woodsy, all the notes are even. The warmth of an amber tree is the final stage. So if you like the sound of the notes of citrus, white florals and amber/sandalwood this will really knock your socks off. I wear this even now as dated as it is and if you like CK Obsession and wear it you should also check this out. The spray bottle and splash sell on eBay. So I know where to go when I want more.
fraultatt – :
It was fabulous growing up in the 80s. Everything was fun, big , bright and bold. Everyone was friendly to each other. I wore Camp Beverly Hills when I was a teenager.
Yes, I had the big permed blonde hair, blue eyeliner and frosty pink lipstick, LA Gear shoes living in California. CBH was a big bright floral that I must have gone through a ton of bottles. (It was very cool back then to bathe in perfume)
CBH even had a clothing line (which I had the shirts) so it was a big brand for teens back in the day. All pink ..All over. It was grand….. 😉
A white floral, with LOV to keep it innocent. Perfect teen happy perfume to the max. Totally.
falia – :
Ever since I was little, my dream was a trip to Europe. Immediately after college, I saved my pennies, threw some CBH into my bag and was off. Now every time I spray that scent, I can still hear the Eurythmics as we arrived in Paris with the Arc de Triomphe lit up. It proves that if you want to have intense memories be sure to wear perfume.
kuzj80 – :
I blind bought a bottle for a song. I love the men’s version and wear it like water in the summer. I honestly never experienced this before. I gave a spray, nothing…had it gone “off”? I gave about six more sprays. Suddenly the entire house was filled with this California dream!
Impressions of Valley Girl and The Go Gos come to mind when I sniffed this for the first time. Sassy, pretty blond and tan California Girls dressed in those far out clothes with neon day glow ruffles and lace.
Its not quite the 1960s Beach Boy “surfer girl” fantasy or Sher in Clueless who is a little too serious with her 90s style. Its definitely not the current Kardashian Hollywood reality star.
This is pure 80s with white florals roaring. Its nothing like Giorgio that is simply unwearable today. This is more approachable and softer. The tuberose here is not as obvious. It can turn to rot on my skin.I detect a little honeysuckle and jasmine. I get more of a powdery rose with the neroli mixed with oakmoss and vetiver.
I find it pretty feminine and quite pink. Todays noses would cringe. Its not “old lady”, yet it doesn’t fit the current Fruity style. Its just retro in the best way. I am an “old man” so all is fare in love and perfume! Its a euphoriant! I love this stuff!!! Excuse me while I break out my Go Gos records and do the 80s dance.
teqwert – :
Back in the 80’s, one of my neighbor’s daughter used to wear this. I remember finding it in her cool bedroom where she had the AT&T Princess Pink telephone and her My Little Peony collection. I didn’t like this girl and I wondered if her perfume had anything to do with it. I had not begun wearing perfume myself and she was older than me I was 8 and she was 12. I thought she was wearing her mother’s perfume! I remember the bottle in her room. I didn’t ask her about it but I always smelled it on her. It was so strong! But now I’m probably the age her mother was in the 80’s and so it’s time for me to discover this 80’s classic. I bought it blindly on ebay. This is a weird perfume. It does not smell girly girl “pink” sweet fruity or floral at all. You can make the argument that it’s a citrus-floral as it begins. The bergamot and orange juice is very strong at the first spritz. The orange blossom is there and maybe some neroli anything to do with citrus is in here. Then the flowers that start to appear are ylang-ylang and tuberose. The tuberose is always a major fragrance. I can smell it. It’s creamy and white and a bit like the tuberose in such knock your socks off fragrances as Giorgio Beverly Hills. One can say that this scent is Giorgio Beverly Hills for teenagers. This has a softer and lighter texture than Giorgio Bev Hills. It’s ten times more wearable and sweeter. The base notes are responsible for it’s strength and “adult” feel. It’s got tons of sandalwood and amber. But o my God do I love this perfume now. I don’t overspray just one spritz and I’m good to go. It smells beautiful if you take the time to enjoy the scents. And what’s not to like? I love citrus and tuberose I love amber. It’s a delicious orange grove smell very much like Southern California, but to me its more Orange County than Beverly Hills. I always remember Beverly Hills of smelling more like a bouquet of flowers and some champagne. This is a lovely vintage perfume. I would call it unisex so guys can wear this too. If you want to smell very different from everyone out there wear this. And it’s not offensive at all. What we remember about this perfume is the fact that anyone who wore it doused themselves with it. That was how they wore perfume back then. The same with Giorgio Beverly Hills the original. It was the women who bathed in this thing that were responsible for giving it such a bad rap. And teens who wore perfume did the same thing. I love this scent and wouldn’t part with it. It reminds me of my childhood.
vs5576 – :
A Youthful Summer in LA
I feel like I have California in one of my dresser tables with fragrances like Sunset Blvd by Gale Hayman Beverly Hills 90210 and So Pretty by Cartier. Camp Beverly Hills is another fragrance that takes me to Los Angeles in the summer. It’s warm, full of oranges and freshly youthful, wearable as an every day scent for casual wear in the day time. But I must stress that is youthful. The fruit shampoo quality in here (just like in Beverly Hills 90210) makes it feel more like something 80’s kids and 80’s teenagers put on right after they showered to match their shampoo and body lotion and then wore the fragrance to school. They have a men’s cologne version as well. Notes include: bergamot, orange blossom ylang-ylang tuberose, lily of the valley rose sandalwood, amber and musk. It sounds heavily layered but it’s rather simple. I mostly get oranges and tuberoses and quite a wallop of musk. The muskiness is unusual in a teen fragrance so this is why other people remember this fragrance as being too strong and overwhelming. Musk is very mature stuff for fragrances so kids wearing this were, in all honesty, wearing an adult fragrance. This scent to my knowledge was never reformualted and you can still find the original on ebay and niche fragrance stores. This is real perfume made when perfume was made up of real ingredients and smells nothing like the synthetics in perfume today. I absolutely loved it. I didn’t feel it was too strong, just musky, like animal musk. Because of this it’s also unisex and can be worn by guys. Tae me back to Los Angeles in the 1980’s, to Camp Beverly Hills where orange blossoms grow over the walls of big houses and kids are maxing out their rich parents’ credit cards LOL
bear72 – :
A youth scent with strong sillage and longevity? You bet! That’s how they made ’em back then. This is so “eighties”, it’s almost “seventies”. No, really. This was for the… powerhouse teen. Which I suppose we all thought we were. We were going to take on the world!
As for scents, I had this one and Benetton. You couldn’t tell me anything. I’ll be so glad when these fragrances come back around. So much fun!
Keny – :
CBH is very strong, but bright and cheerful. It is feminine, but with a clean, men’s cologne sort of vibe. I loved this perfume and actually went through the entire bottle. That is pretty rare for me. Unfortunately, I’ve become sensitive to scents in the last few years, and more and more of them are bothering me. CBH is one that I can no longer wear without getting a wicked headache.
sova111 – :
Tovah, thanks for your wonderful review, it was a trip down memory lane. I was there for the red lipstick, shoulder pads, & killer siliage from the other side of the building. All I can add is that it was my down market version of Samsara.
Kirishima Haruto – :
My teen-aged babysitter wore CBH when I was 4, 5, 6…
She wore it lightly, I could only smell it when she hugged me, and that’s what it will forever remind me of:
Warm hugs from the 80’s-stylish babysitter who introduced me to makeup and perfume.
8manuu – :
Tovah, thank you so much for the laugh! I never crossed paths with you, but it would have been interesting. I was given this when I was a young-ish adult and I really, really liked it. I always have a hard time remembering the name and when I do, it sounds so bubble gum! I was afraid that I would be disgusted by the description, but no. It sounds like something that I would still like. My scent tastes have broadened, but I seem to have the same favorite notes. I don’t remember much about it other than using the bottle up quicker than I usually do.
SILY – :
Aw, this might be my first perfume ever. Not exactly, but the first one I actually wore to school back in jr high.
This predates Obsession and Liz for me. And Poison.
Yes, this was the first full bottle ought just for me of real perfume…not Avon kid stuff. Ahhh, and I adored the ottle with the cute chain and even had a darling tin of dusting powder with a pretty little teal and white brush. It was so cute, so totally 80s, and I agree….I would just love to smell this again!
serj_1 – :
Oh, what a terrific review! Thank you for posting this. I was just a kid when I first discovered Camp Beverly Hills. Someone had given it to my mother and she gave it to me to “play” with, probably as in playing dress-up. Boy, I sprayed that thing endlessly too. A whiff instantly transports me back to awkward preteen childhood, crushes, heartaches, and getting in trouble.
Dughassauth – :
If you have a nightmarish scent memory of the late 1980s where you’re downwind of some redhead in whose wake flowers are wilting, animals are choking, and people are fainting, and the whole vision is permeated by the scent of Camp Beverly Hills, we’ve crossed paths. I apologize profusely for blowing up your nostrils; back then I didn’t know one becomes desensitized to fragrances the more they’re worn…and I wore Camp Beverly Hills a lot. (Sadly, I didn’t learn about the desensitization factor until after my years with Safari and Tresor, and, again, I apologize.) I loved Camp Beverly Hills with that kind of fragrance love that comes once in a lifetime. It made me feel so happy, and energized, and inspired. As I basked in its aroma, I felt I radiated sunshine and warmth all around me. (For miles, probably.) Before leaving for work, teaching High School English in a very cold, dark city, I would grab my Camp Beverly Hills and begin spraying at my ankles and end at the roots of my hair…I recall students saying they could smell my classroom from the school foyer; and I thought it was a compliment…Ahem. (Those same students were kind enough to let me know when I had Madonna-red lipstick on my teeth, a lace slip showing beneath my skirts, and, a velcro shoulder pad stuck to the end of a neck scarf I’d worn to look chic…drenched in CBH, of course.) I can barely remember the scent of Camp Beverly Hills and I would love to smell it again some day. It was spicy, and bold, and woody, but bright, and it made me feel like the world was my charmed oyster.