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allexssiik – :
Among all gardenia perfume that I’ve ever smelled, I think Bond No. 9 Central Park West is the reigning queen. It’s really pretty, and I think it’s more than an eau de perfume, I think, based on it’s beasty silage and lasting power, this is an extrait.
A must for gardenia lover, the jasmine is there, the linden blossom is there, it’s so white compared to the bottle.
I initially hesitated to wear this, I bought this because at some sites, this one is listed as unisex… but heck, I don’t care anymore about perfume gender… I wear what I like.
A warning though, it’s sweet, for sweet perfume lover, it’s a safe blind buy. For Central Park West, the potential of the juice justify the price.
soafeacexia – :
This is a nice youthful light floral feminine scent for warm weather, daytime.
Central Park West is all about white florals (gardenia/jasmine) with strong ylang ylang, mild linden blossom, strong narcissus and mild musk/pepper. The rest notes are very mild.
Performance is very good. It’s long lasting with strong sillage for the first 1-2 hours.
PodgornyAlexey – :
After trying it’s sample I couldn’t forget about this beauty and finally I bought it.it’s 60mil left in it’s bottle but I know this would last me a long time because it’s very potent
I believed this is a white floral bomb.Wrong!Central Park West is not just a white floral.yes gardenia is the strongest note,also jasmine is there all through it’s life but there’s enough ylang-ylang and lemon blossom to make it a combination of yellow and white florals(I can’t detect narcissus and I don’t miss it)
Sweet,peppery heady flowers which have non-descript fruity naunces,blend with a lovely musk,not too clean and not too dirty.this creamy sweet gorgeous,is grounded by woods which deepen it and just a slight touch of soft powder which assures it stays feminine in spite of it’s woody notes which don’t really show up on me.I love it more than my expectations and it goes directly in my top shelf
I love it when floral scents are potent and delicious and this is definitely yummy and sexy as hell and at the same time it has luscious feminine richness of florals.
I can’t even describe how much it feels good wearing it
But if you don’t like sweet and strong fragrances it’s not safe for you
I applied just one spray ten hours ago on my hand.I washed my hand more than ten times in this eight hours and it’s still there.even sleeve of my blouse smells of it
I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but for me,this is pure perfection
I have tester bottle of this which doesn’t have it’s pink cap and flower.among three perfumes of this brand that I own(this one,Manhattan and perfumo)this one is definitely my favorite
Now I have Chinatown,I love NYC for her and central park south in my wishlist
❤❤❤❤❤
Edit:this is a comment magnet.whoever sees me asks my perfume’s name
It’s longevity and projection are unbelievably amazing!
از بهترین عطرهای گلی ک ب زندگیم دیدم و بلافاصله رفت جزو محبوب ترین عطرهام
قبلا فک می کردم یه بمب وایت فلوراله،اما ن،درسته که گاردنیا قویترین نت این عطره و یاس پررنگی هم داره،اما یلانگ یلانگ و شکوفه لیمو هم درحدی حضور دارن،ک به ذات گلی این عطر،علاوه بر رنگ سفید،رنگ گلهای زرد رو هم اضافه کنن(خوشبختانه نرگس حس نمیکنم)این گلهای قوی و جوندار و روشن و فلفلی که ته مایه های میوه ای هم دارن(شاید بخاطر ذات هلوییه گاردنیا)،با حضور تو بستری چوبی رایحه عمیقتر و جدی تری پیدا کردن اما به لطف پودر خیلی سبکی ک رو نت ها نشسته حالت کاملا زنانه عطر حفظ میشه…مشک تو سنترال پارک وست حضور برجسته ای داره و مشک بسیار زیبایی هست.نه بسیار تمیز و ن بسیار کثیف.
از اونجا ک سنترال پارک وست عطر خیلی قوی هست برام قابل درکه ک هرکسی نمونه باهاش کنار بیاد…رایحه شیرین و فلفلی و خامه ای گلها میتونه برای افراد ملایم پسند خیلی باشه اما برای من،درست به اندازه ست..سنترال پارک وست ضمن اینکه شیطنت پرسروصدا و محرکی داره،ذات زنانه و اشراف مآبانه گلها رو هم با خودش داره.خیلی خیلی دوسش دارم
توجه کنید ک زیاد از حد اسپریش نکنید.واقعا خیلی قویه وحتی با تعداد اسپری های کم هم میتونه توجه زیادی ب خودش جلب کنه..مثل اکثر عطرهای فلورال جون میده برای بهار و عید،اما تمام سال قابل استفاده ست.هرچند آب و هوای معتدل رو پیشنهاد میکنم
shmaluga – :
My friend gave me a set of bond 9 samples for my birthday and it was the first time I try this brand.I don’t like very flowery perfumes especially white flowers.I buy a very expensive 10mil of carnal flower last year they said it’s best whiteflower bomb and I don’t like it.when I was try this central park I didn’t know it’s a white flower perfume and I love it from first.I didn’t know gardenia and narsis can smell this much great in a perfume.flowers are strong and sweet and little peppery.they are delicious and loud.creamy but not very much creamy.and without green or soapy that I hate in flowery perfumes.there is some woody notes but not green or manly woody notes.I love it and I need it.all people that think this days they don’t make strong and good perfume or great flowery perfumes test this.it’s not for shy people.very very strong and if you use this all the people can smell you before they see you.it’s really sweet but beautiful and I feel there is a fruit in it too.it’s good for four season and all age.if someone buy it it can be her best perfume even if you have more than hundred perfume.and it looks very interesting and beautiful in picture too.I must find it and buy it
10/10
حتی اگر مثل من عطرهای گلی مخصوصا گلهای سفید دوست ندارید حتما باند ناین سنترال پارک وست را امتحان کنید.قبلا ده میل کارنال فلاور گرفته بودم که میگفتن بمب گلهای سفید هست و اصلا خوشم نیامده بود.بمب واقعی و زیبای گلهای سفید این هست.هیچ وقت فکر نمیکردم یاسمن و نرگس در عطری انقدر زیبا باشن.گلها قوی و شیرین و کمی فلفلی هستن.اصلا سبز یا صابونی نیستن.خامه ای هستن اما نه زیاد.نت های چوبی هم کمی داره ولی نه نت های چوبی سبز یا مردانه.یک چیز میوه ای هم حس می کنم.بوی بی نظیری داره و آدم واقعا لذت می بره.کسلنی که فکر می کنن عطرهای قوی و خوب و عطرهای گلی بزرگ این روزها ساخته نمیشن باند ناین سنترال پارک را امتحان کنن.پخش و ماندگاری این عطر مثل بمب هست.بیشتر از هرعطری و همه می تونن قبل از اینکه شما را ببیندن این عطر را بو کنن.برای چهارفصل مناسب هست و تمام سنین.شاهکار واقعی هست و اگر کسی این عطر را بگیره و بیشتر از صدتا عطر هم داشته باشه این میتونه بهترینش باشه.ظاهرش هم توی عکس خیلی جالب و قشنگ هست.حتما باید این شاهکار را پیدا کنم و بخرم
۱۰/۱۰
ZmeY – :
CPW is my very first bottle from Bond No 9.
White floral bomb!”BANG!!” right in front of your nose!
Very loud and strong but not in an awful way.
Normally such a a strong white floral scent makes me sick, but this one is very well blended!
Projection and longevity are very good, two sprays last me all day.
KennyLetty96 – :
Central park west is amazing! Just like others have said it is a sillage beast! I wore my sample yesterday and it projected and lasted more than 14 hours. I did not have to re apply like i have to mid day with most of my other perfumes. Imo it does not smell like Michael kors. Michael kors is a creamy,tropical, banana nuanced tuberose. Central park west is a thick,heady, opulent, gardenia and ylang ylang. They are both amazing perfumes but different. Central Park West is really peppery, so if pepper is not your thing than you probably won’t like this perfume. For the first 15 minutes i smelled alot of pepper and it tickled my nose and lots of fresh gardenia. Soon the ylang ylang came out and gave the gardenia the buttery edible quality:) Im very in love with this and plan on buying a bottle asap. Im so impressed with the longevity and sillage because most perfumes now claim to be sillage beasts and long lasting and there not. This stays pretty linear after the ylang ylang enters the scene but that’s ok with me. It’s not boring at all.
Siseimmeria – :
Impulse bought this beauty during a department store anniversary sale. No regrets! On my skin CPW is a dreamy, super creamy well blended white floral bomb. Bond describes this as a “beckoning white petal melange”/”spring time wake up call” and I 100% agree. For me, the white floral aspect is most prominent in this scent, and the ylang ylang and narcissus blend into the background. The pepper, vetiver, moss, and oak are team players and don’t detract from creaminess or “femininity” of the scent. This is elegant and assertive, yet playful. CPW can be loud, but not screechy. Like the others have said, this is boss level strong. Spray with caution! I spritz just once on my upper abdomen and quickly dab each wrist over the freshly spritzed spot. One spray lasts the whole night/day and then some. Excellent longevity & projection. Without a doubt, one of the strongest performers in my collection. Range of wear is great as well – can be worn day/night, casual/formal. I like to wear this scent most when am wearing floral prints for extra flower power or with outfits that are masculine/androgynous, just to mix things up.
Улькиорра – :
I can’t get all this dislikes,central park west is a modern floral,I mean a floral scent even suitable for young females,it’s pretty,very strong but not sharp or in your face,I love it!after couple of hours and just one little spray,there is a gorgeous gardenia,ylang-ylang,jasmine,narcissus scent radiating from my wrist…just one spray and lots of lovely comments from strangers after some good hours,this is a winner
This floral bouquet is bright and delicately sweet,almost linear with a soft Musky undertone,it has the white creaminess of white florals but not in a boring old way..I can feel something synthetic,I often feel this in gardenia dominant fragrances but not in a bad way..all in all it smells pretty,feminine,strong and youthful
Highly recommend
❤❤❤❤
ils660Unlogrere – :
Fragrance Review For Central Park West
By Bond No 9
Top Notes
Pepper Ylang Ylang Narcissus
Middle Notes
Jasmine Gardenia Lime Blossom Orris Root
Base Notes
Vetiver Oak Musk Oak Moss
Central Park’s never smelled better. This is a classy white floral chypre to wear with your prettiest Sunday clothes in New York City/Manhattan. I feel that it totally matches up with the moniker. I wore this to my birthday celebration dinner in Central Park West’s most iconic restaurant Tavern on the Green. This is a glamorous and very formal fragrance. As it opens it’s already floral with yellow ylang ylang flower and narcissus not to mention a linden or lime blossom. Smells like flowers in a park and that’s what I was hoping it would smell like.
Now the white florals begin to kick in after the citrusy scent of lime blossom fades away, and the other flowers take a backseat. The white flowers are in bloom: gardenia and jasmine. They are assisted by a spice note of pepper and some powdery root of iris. This is very mature and yet sweet. The sweetness comes from the hybridization of white florals and yellow flowers plus that lime. This part of the fragrance doesn’t last too long. It becomes woody.
The bottom composed of woods really provide this scent with that outdoor park smell. It’s a gorgeous oak and oak moss combination. Smells like walking under oak trees while a breeze carries their scent into the air. This is really a fitting perfumed tribute to Central Park one of the most if not the most famous park in the entire world. As a little girl I thought there was nothing greater in the whole world. I’ve been to so many different parts of the world and I still think the way I did as a kid: Central Park is the best by far. I’m so proud of my hometown and it’s parks. I was wondering if such a name and place association would live up to the expectations I had/standards I had for it. And it did.
This is also a very pretty bottle. The packaging/design of the fragrance is very cute and girly and looks good on a dresser table but it’s not at all a girly sweet candy scent, not a gourmand by any means, nor a raspberry-fruity floral type of scent. This is strictly for women, women who love their white flowers and their walks through Central Park.
max654321 – :
Central Park West is another fragrance of many of Bond where the brains of the firm have spent years devise it, it cost them sweat and hard work of research.
Well, if they had set at Piguet Fracas of 47 they had just before, because they remained almost identical !!!
So far, everything is pure irony is almost black humor !!
Now seriously:
The only good thing about this fragrance is that yields and hard of wonder and packaging that although the packaging is not very chic is at least original, cheerful and different.
Gardenia or too hidden or be too synthetic because rather I smell a kind of scented tuberose somewhat a cold and trompetudo with a very squeaky jasmine and unbalanced especially from the beginning to the middle notes, then improves somewhat and with that background note syrupy peach and velvety as copied from the mythical Fracas.
Rating: 1
SaraPejak – :
EDITED:
I dabbed this with a cotton ball, and it’s made *all* the difference. I get the orris root in the base and the ylang ylang the very most, and it’s just beautiful. It’s sweet, almost grape-y if you close your eyes (think 80s), and beautifully grounded.
This is one of the strongest Bonds I’ve smelled, to date.
It’s part Carolina Herrera (the original), part Jardins de Bagatelle (pre-reform), part Fracas, and part 80s drug store gardenia eau de toilette (which is not a put-down ~ I love those).
It lasts for an entire day on my skin, even in this heat in Atlanta, and it didn’t actually fully wash out of my t-shirt.
It’s a 1-spray scent, for sure, but if you love a heady floral with a strong orris base (and what almost seems like civet, but isn’t) and an 80s floral powerhouse feel, this is your lover.
Xeroxsnicr – :
Love this one. Smells like a better, refined Carolina Herrera (original). ONE or two sprays really does work best… And I love mixing it with a “buttery sweet lotion” like coco mango or a creamy gardenia to give it that creamy vibe. For more fresh, I mix it with Jo Malone French Lime Blossom cream. I think (on me at least) the perfume alone is fresh and a bit sharp. Does warm to the skin though I’m noticing. The sweetness to it smells like grape (think that’s a note listed). It would be perfect and my signature if it automatically had the creamy butter undertone but for now I’ll keep adding my yummy lotions. It’s expensive but also SMELLS expensive. 🙂 not sure about compliments yet because I’ve been mostly home with baby haha. Anyone have input on compliments?
FDFKJD – :
the opening is beautiful when you keep it to a 2 spray maximum anything over that and its just way to heady and sweet
projection is good over the first 4 hours i kept getting whiffs of myself but after that it was just gone
overall its worth a try but may not be for everyone
on to the next
superkan1987 – :
Oh, my! Having a love/hate relationship with tuberose, I find this to have gone the ugly direction of synthetics trying to capture the un-capturable gardenia: in my case that means a very rubbery tuberose, heavily intoxicating in the headachey, assured-hangover from too much debauchery way.
Unless you LOVE the thick, tire-rubber kind of tuberose, try it 1st!
cjy071Bessinepome – :
I recently received this as a gift for Xmas & I have to say that it is extremely strong of Gardenia. It smells EXACTLY like a garden of gardenias on my skin. I actually wanted Central Park South & my honey got me the wrong one. The Gardenia is so strong that it messes with my allergies. At least on my skin. For those who love the Gardenia scent, this would be perfect for you but it doesn’t work for me.
The dry down is much less potent & is leans towards a light sweet scent. I actually like the dry down but unfortunately, I can’t get past the top note & it blows out my allergies every single time I try to wear it.
Sergeykin – :
I was at a Target store this evening and walked past a woman wearing this. I thought it was strong, but also classy smelling. When she was near me in the produce department I asked her what it was. “Bonds number 9 CPW”, she replied, and I told her it was lovely. She said she receives a lot of complements on it. I’m surprised at two things, 1) the notes list, because I don’t usually like white and yellow florals, and 2) how many of you dislike this one. I will have to test it on myself though, just to make sure I really like it. It’s very “perfume-y” if that makes sense… like maybe in an 80’s kind of way? I hope it smells as good on me.
vlw833elipseskism – :
How this could be described as a gardenia scent is beyond me. I don’t detect anything of the creamy, indolic, mushroomy and green aspects of the gardenia in this one. It smells more like peach blossom, although it’s not in the list of notes. If you are a gardenia lover, this is not for you.
митя – :
So many here have said CPW is strong. Well, yeah, if you spray more than once. But if you can restrain yourself to ONLY one spray, it’s a gorgeous white floral that spends the entire day with you. I knew the minute I sampled this that I had to own a full bottle. It reminds me of La Chasse, which I also love. La Chasse doesn’t have nearly the longevity or sillage of CPW, tho. Try it with a light hand and you’ll probably love it, if you already love white florals.
homa87 – :
This girl is one of those women with big bosoms, huge cleavage and that high-pitched voice. One of the most interesting bonds, but not for me. I get a weird metallic note, witch makes me think of ELDO’s Secretions Magnifiques. Very active, very loud and cloying, for a seductress I am not.
4 of 10
jckeuiahf – :
ADORE this. I knew I had a tough day ahead of me today, but choosing CPW was absolutely the right starting move and helped me to take it on with confidence. I was a little intimidated by reviews saying that this is a loud fragrance, and in some senses, they’re right; I thought it calmed down considerably about an hour in, but you’ll be able to smell yourself all day with this one, and a couple sprays will do just fine. In my case, I personally like this aspect of CPW, and I give it big thumbs up for all-day enjoyment. I also give this fragrance major points for longevity; I’ve been wearing it for over 12 hours now, and even though it’s practically a skin scent at this point, I can still catch whiffs. It’s true that it’s not the most complex scent; bubblegum gardenia all the way. Again, though, if gardenias are your bag, then you will probably love this. Creamy, buttery, and sweet, I hope to have a full bottle of this beauty some day!
kiriss – :
Again, as always “sherapop” hits the nail on the head! This one’s LOUD! You may even get Tinnitus just by wearing or being just in the same room with it!
But then again, NYC is not exactly a quiet town, is it?
Think about Manhattan, with their notoriously loud mouths, awakening with equally loud spring colours, perhaps mismatching and sometimes clashing ensembles?
Where is Joan River’s “Fashion Police” when you need her?
In fact, I think Joan Rivers could smell like this (on a good day).
Now jokes aside, I cannot imagine a man ever to smell of this (and I am usually VERY daring) but I can imagine gently spraying this on the back of your knee, to highlight a white floral in your main perfume, that you use on your upper body and neck pulse points. That could be fun!
I can also see this working well with fabric; as a matter of fact this literally sticks to any fabric like a BIG NEON SIGN!!!
Nothing says: “F*** OFF WINTER and let the SPRING BEGIN!” like this little dog-toothed number.
It is a WHITE FLORAL MONSTER MODERN ART MASTERPIECE!
…and of course a modern shameless copy of FRACAS by Robert Piguet…but you knew that already.
10/10
NAIL4IK9 – :
This is a beautiful heady white floral. The gardenia is sweet and strong, augmented by the ylang and jasmine. The florals stay strong all the way through the dry down. Lovely scent for white floral lovers.
001NaTySiA – :
The beautiful fragrance of Central Park West, CPW is very similar in all qualities to Estee Lauder’s fabulous Tuberose Gardenia collection and some far-less expensive gardenia perfumes. Although I adore CPW, I need to watch my spending. If you want to save, then buy a lotion-fragrance combo of ELTG offered as a special or a high-quality bargain gardenia. Some people love Liz Taylor’s gardenia perfume. Some online sellers sell the Bond lines for much less than the standard $200 for 1.7 oz. Therefore, I plan to return my CPW for a better deal. Otherwise, CPW is great perfume, mostly gardenia just like from the garden; and I did not notice any soapiness or synthetic dry down, even after several hours. Don’t spray on too much; a little goes a long way and lasts all day.
Joker3101 – :
Thanx smellME for the sample.
Strongsmelling, sweet but wonderful. Lots of Narcissus and Gardenia in a creamy way with some pale pepper and Ylang-Ylang. In base the Musk dance around alot on my skin. gorgeous! But use with care – or else it will become thick and overwhelming in an awful way. … and it reminds me of another scent.. and it took me a few hours to figure it out.. Carolina Herrera, Carolina Herrera EdP, white box with golden dots.. same heavysweet Narcissus-note.. they are really similar on my skin, but Bond costs about 3 times more.
Tack smellME för provet.
Starkdoftande! Söt men underbar. Massor av Narcisser och Gardenia på ett krämigt mjukt sätt med en aning av peppar och Ylang-Ylang. I basen dansar Musken runt på min hud. Ljuvlig! Spreja försiktigt- annars blir den tjock och kvalmig på ett obehagligt sätt.
.. och den påminner om..det tog mig några timmar att lura ut det.. Carolina Herrera, Carolina Herrera EdP, vit box med guldduttar på. Samma tunga Narcissus-not. De är riktigt lika på min hud, men Bond kostar ungefär 3 gånger så mycket…
RosyGoago – :
Too sweet candy smell…
Too strong…
Too linear…
Bottle is cute though !
awaslenly – :
Waaayyy too sweet, for my tastes. A very sweet gardenia-led floral. Not cheap-smelling, but very much does not work for me. Cute bottle, of course.
vlodimir7 – :
Gardenia all the way!
Opens with a blast of STRONG white florals with gardenia standing in front. It has the a very light peppery note –just faintly there almost undetectable.
20 min later its very gardenia with a hint of jasmine. As it wears it becomes more creamy gardenia and sweetens up more and more. There is a somewhat tropical vibe similar to a monoi scent.
The musk comes out during the dry down and you notice the bite of vetiver and oakmoss. The orris root gives it a dryness that is faintly powdery and a very lightly soap vibe mixed with these notes. Don’t get me wrong I HATE soapy scents so when I say soapy — this is uber light.
10-12 hours later this fragrance is a GORGEOUS sweet gardenia that is still beautiful yet more subtle.
It is very similar to Bond No 9 Saks Fifth Ave for her – only it is minus the tuberose, and I think this one has not just gardenia but it smells like it has gardenia and tiare (a diff variety of gardenia) that gives Central Park West the tropical energy to it.
The reviews below are far too harsh. If you don’t like Gardenia you WON’T like this. It is not a scrubber if you know how to apply strong white florals.
If you spray it all over or you won’t like it. 2-3 sprays with a light hand is enough and it lasts all day — and into the next.
It is like the gardenia in Amarige minus the tuberose and not the oriental notes of Amarige – just the gardenia floral. It has that type of strength to it. A little goes a long way – massive and I mean massive longevity!
alex7219200 – :
Too much white flower!!! Too much ylang ylang ,and too much narcissus,,, just too much of a good thing. Too strong and too feminine in your face loud perfume. And too much bottle 😉 and probably too much money !
пипа – :
Yeah, this one is quite a scrubber. Headache material.
It doesn’t start out that way. It starts out kinda nice, soft, not white flower heavy (due to the yellow top notes) but whenever you put gardenia and jasmine together, at some point you may as well forget everything else, as it will completely disappear.–except for whatever is pungent green in there. Wow, is that powerful!
This is not as cloying as Saks Fifth Ave for Her, but I would suggest wearing this on the wrists ONLY and just the teeniest little bit. I like this perfume for about 5 minutes. Then I am ready to scrub it off!
Note: If you are a lover of white flowers (or if you don’t love them, but you would like to) try Louis Malle’s Carnal Flower. This is a tuberose that will highly impress you. Probably one of the highest quality perfumes I’ve ever had the honor to smell. I do not love white flowers, but Carnal Flower made me think again.
Wirys92 – :
I tested this one out and its a major scrubber for me…a screechy white floral..with a manly musk tone…totally hated this…love bryant park though!
LudaTegri – :
Stunning! I think Park Avenue princesses use it. Its elegant, floral, warm and classy. I wish, I could afford it (255 EUR). I luv it!
urok – :
this is just lovely and i am not a floral girl, but it is not cloying and overbearing. i wish it would last longer than an hour. glad i just got a sample. at least i can try them all!!!!!!!
braiccaky – :
i haven’t tested this one but i just adore the smell of gardenia and i loved the boottle of this perfume!that’s why i started looking at the reviews of this perfume.Next month i will come to New York for the first time in my life and i would like to buy a perfume that its name will remind me of this trip(like this one) and secondly it will contain my favorite gardenia.But as i can see this one is a little bit expensive.I would appreciate if someone could recommend me a perfume.thanks a lot…!!!!!
SavDaniil – :
I Love this Superfloral Power Frag Bond no 9…keep them coming…!
Great Longevity and sillage…!!!
Double Thumbs up !!!
Erkul – :
OMG!!! The best perfume ever. When I wear it people go crazy. I am sooo difficult to please with perfumes but this one is the most unique and amazing. I dont know of any perfumes that can even come close. Its romantic, it sexy, it sensuous. Just great. Definitely worth the price.
avasiletov – :
Bond no 9 CENTRAL PARK WEST is a *very* strong floral perfume. That’s right: perfume, not eau de toilette or eau de parfum. So that’s the first important point. I have worn this creation now about four times but have barely made any inroads at all into my purse spray. I’m not complaining, mind you. In an age of dilute juice with cologne longevity being fobbed of as eau de parfum, Bond no 9 is providing lots of big sillage and excellent longevity.
These are only welcome, however, in the case of CENTRAL PARK WEST, if you happen to appreciate Big Fat Floral Fragrances. This is not a joke. If you have any issue with white flowers or big sillage, you’ll want to stay very far away. You’d be much better off with your genteel Jo Malones and L’Artisan Parfumeurs, all traces of which evaporate within the course of two hours (at least on my skin…).
I initially did not like this perfume. It seemed like a product of Lego perfumery–perhaps a mixture of SAKS FOR HER and HARRODS ROSE. The flowers here are so strong individually: gardenia and narcissus loom very large, but there’s also jasmine and ylang. Not for the faint-hearted. This almost has a 1980s vibe, in fact.
CENTRAL PARK WEST is about as far from CENTRAL PARK as a composition could possibly be, but when I look at the bottle in which CENTRAL PARK WEST is housed, it all begins to make sense. Doesn’t that purple houndstooth smack of middle-aged women of leisure sporting St. John or Chanel suits? Think about it. And then there’s the pink hat, which goes perfectly as a topper to those boiled wool jackets.
Now that I’ve figured out how strong this perfume is, I am more favorably disposed toward it. But it is very floral and there is a kind of yellowish powdery feeling, imparted perhaps by the narcissus. I love narcissus, but here it is really ramped up by the gardenia to an almost megaphonic level.
This creation is a part of a recent cluster of überfloral perfumes launched by Bond no 9, and it fits in well with I LOVE NY FOR EARTH DAY, which, against my expectations, is a big powdery tuberose perfume (how many guys bought that one, thinking that it would be something along the lines of CENTRAL PARK? I wonder…). SAG HARBOR, too, is a part of this bunch, packing a mighty punch of peony.
At this stage, I think that it’s safe to say that I’m still somewhat ambivalent about CENTRAL PARK WEST. The more I think about it, there is almost a Giorgio-esque quality to this bouquet of superstrong flowers–although I do find that they smell natural here.
I’ll try CENTRAL PARK WEST again in the fall or wintertime…
andreyg82 – :
A horrendously sordid gardenia, dragged under by a gigantic narcissus and a rain of pepper. The first few minutes after a small test spray, I became intensely nauseous and prayed that my head wouldn’t begin throbbing. Definitely industrial strength, cloyingly sweet and over ripe.
The bottle, however, suits the fragrance – cutesy, loud, awkward and pre-adolescent.
After thirty minutes the dry-down was rather pleasant, but not pleasant enough to endure the first half hour.
preangevase – :
Interesting, as much as i dont like musk, i dont think this is bad. It feels like a scent for a powerful, successful woman. I’m imagining a lady in her 30’s or 40’s wearing a great Chanel suit or dress. It’s strong, musky, yet feminine, original enough for it not to bore or bother. 4 stars out of 5.
GUMOZNI – :
Out of all Bond fragrances I sampled this weekend, this was my favorite(which is really not saying much since I like it but don’t love it). As soon as I tried it, I realized it reminded me of something I have smelled before. Two scents come to mind-Gucci Rush or now discountinued St John. This definately smells of gardenia but not fresh, green flower. This is more of a sweet gardenia that is very creamy, probably from addition of ylang-ylang and jasmine. Its nice but not worth the insane price tag, in my opinion
hii652Negeltzex – :
i have never been able to try a Bond No 9 ($390 for a 3.3oz who do they think they are and what is this made out of?) i got a sample in a magazine of this one and couldn’t wait to try it on. First off everyone is saying if u hate gardenia u wont like it well it is one of my most hated flowers but i actually to really like this alot, is a lovely white floral wit a kinda powder in the mix, but not baby powder and some type of berry maybe like sweet blueberry (although not in the notes) this is very nice and i like it alot but the price of this fragrances are ridiculous so of course i will not be buying it.
zgd368bedyWelty – :
Very well made, woodsy white floral. Creamy and sophisticated with good sillage and lasting power. I do pick up the vetiver and oakmoss, which lends a nice tangy bite to the drydown. A beauty that will probably be most appreciated by those over 35. The bottle is tacky and doesn’t reflect the juice inside – disappointing.
виннипух – :
I love this fragrance, but I also love gardenia. If your not crazy about gardenia this scent is not for you.
krava-men – :
I seldom write a negative review, but this one is a scrubber. I could not wash it off fast enough. Of course, I am not a fan of white flowers unless they are creamy and in combination with a bouquet of something else, flowery or powdery.
Central Park West has some sort of an industrial smell to it, like glycerin. Cannot accept anything of it.
The design is rather tacky also. The Rose adornment was fitting with Madison Square Park and that was original, to pair it again with a purple hound stock pattern is an aberration of taste.
Not for me.
konchagin – :
First of all, I’m personally not a white flower fan, so I’m sorry if I offend anyone.
By looking at it and after smelling it, I’m still not sure what this scent have to do with Central Park West. Plus it shouldn’t be adorned with a pink flower because there is nothing to do with it.
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