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staswolf1234 – :
Why is not the coconut note listed?
Furze is lovely. I wear it in winter and in summer as well. It smells like Curly Wurly by Lush. Very coconuty. But I don’t smell any floral notes in it. Just fresh coconut. BUT! It’s not a strong one, it stays on my skin for 3 hours. And the sillage is not great, but when I wear it, it’s definitely noticable. But not as strong as other scents. I WISH this was stronger, but that’s probably it’s a simple fragrance. 4/5
kaljadinandrej – :
Furze is an Old English word for gorse (derived from another OE word from an Indo-European root, meaning “rough or prickly” which refers to its sharp thorns). Furze is commonly found on uncultivated land in Britain and is similar in appearance to broom, which often grows nearby and also bears bright yellow, sweet-smelling flowers, but has no spines or thorns (and which I can testify hurts a lot less when you fall into it. And no, I wasn’t drunk).
I wish I had £100 for every comment/review I have read on Fragrantica regarding the names of perfumes and their unfortunate meanings or connotations in different languages. Seriously, I would have a lot of money in my bank by now.
It really is something we should all get over – come on Fragranticans – we are all adults and we should be better than this!
That aside, I bought a small bottle of the EDP today and am wearing it now. I dabbed it on initially, but just decanted some into an atomiser and sprayed it, which causes the sillage to increase exponentially.
This is lemony-coconutty heaven, but somehow stays out of gourmand territory. I completely understand the description (above) of “narcotic” (although I’d be hard-pressed to explain exactly WHY?).
I love it.
ChiMaoDun – :
Exactly like coconutty sunlotion.
gibba – :
I don’t understand why the coconut note is not listed anymore? Anyway, I bought Furze when it was sold in stores a couple of years ago and wore it happily for a week or two in the summer (very coconutty!) until I found it too strong smelling for me. I am not one who douse herself in perfume but Furze is the only one that got me the look. You know the outraged look that say : You put too much perfume!! LOL. I swear I was only dabbing a little but that stuff is so strong. Pure essential oils. But the smell was divine. I miss it.
schraik – :
I hate mimosa, but it’s just baaaaarely detectable here. It really does smell a bit like Snowcake with coconut added. Kind of a shampoo-y smell in a way. Sorta pleasant, but coconut isn’t really my thing. I’m not a sunbather.
EDIT: Ah man, if this had smelled like the “Big Calm” shower jelly I’d be all over it. Now THAT is how coconut should be handled.
tag575 – :
I can’t decide if I love this or strongly dislike it. It’s coconutty, which I somewhat dislike, but has vanilla and furze notes that I crave more of, and then an after effect of soapiness from the neroli. I hate neroli. I had it, used it, almost tossed it out, finished it off, and now have to decide whether or not to get more.
Longevity was moderately low, sillage was moderately high.
myshushara – :
I blind bought this on ebay to try as I love all things Lush.
It reminds me a bit of play doh but in a good way, or maybe a bit like the smell you get in your kitchen when you’re baking. Sweet, almondy, marzipanny, coconutty (are those even words?) but I don’t find it too sickly.
I really like it though. It’s very unique and I can still smell it on my skin a good few hours later which is nice!
maratmurka – :
Mimosa. A tricky note for me, because if applied in large enough quantities it can make me feel queasy. This can still cloy. But I think the trick is not to sniff close to your skin. It is incredibly sweet. Very high pitched after a more green opening, but I think this is fresh enough for summer. It is light, simple, girly and fun. Floral and coconut milk-y. It is the top part of Eden without the patchouli, fruit and other layers to deepen it. And it reminds me of L’Occitane’s Mimosa. Also sprayed instead of dabbed, the top notes smell peppery and not as sweet. It sweetens as it dries. Way to go Lush on a lighter, more transluscent perfume.
valera2557 – :
The name means Gorse (Tojo), which is a natural plant of Europe (ulex europaeus). Furze hit the market in 2013, as part of the line of fragrances called “Volume 2” (released in 2012) and was inspired by the shrub that grows in the gardens of Simon Constantine’s house, who is the perfumer of the brand.
It is a sweet perfume of optimistic concept, since aims to lift the spirits during the harsh winter in Europe, by which time the plant blooms.
In its composition we can find notes of neroli, mimosa absolute, vanilla and coconut, as well as chemical compounds like Geraniol and Farnesol, which enhance the floral aspect, Linalool, which gives sweet-floral aroma and Amyl Cinnamal, with its nuances of jasmine.
As a result, Furze is a true floral-vanilla, which does not have many facets, remaining fairly linear from start to finish. When touches the skin, the mix of flowers + vanilla + coconut predominates, with an aroma that, often, remember the smell of caramel. Only after about an hour, jasmine nuances begin to appear with more power and continue until the fragrance disappear completely. Oddly enough, it’s possible to imagine the yellow flowers and its aroma, as if you were in a big field of Tojos.
According to the company, Furze is slightly sweet, but never cloying. And I agree! However, cannot be applied in excess, because the spell can turn against the wizard. During the testing period for this review, my sprays were contained and lasted long enough to show the power of this perfume, in EDP concentration, which exudes and lasts in a sensational manner.
About the target audience: within the concept of High Perfumery, the Gorilla Perfume brand fits well into the category of Natural Perfumery. And as usual, this type of product is made for use by both genders. However, it is worth saying that, in my opinion, Furze is the kind of perfume with more feminine appeal.
dimonnet – :
I’m not sure what this is (where are people getting coconut?), but I like it, it’s great for summer.
zoa123 – :
Ignore the listed notes. It starts with an utterly overwhelming burst of marzipan, and what is best described as a sour and sweet apple candy. Almost like cypress, that penetrating, very sweet and citrusy note, hurts your teeth just smelling it. Quite linear but becomes more powdery and more Play Doh-y and plasticy as it dries down.
Also, furze means fart in German. I have no words.
GokyTitty – :
I really disliked this and so did all the people I tried unsuccessfully to give it away to. It’s the only perfume that I ever threw in the bin before it was fully used up. I adore coconut and vanilla scents but you should NOT necessarily believe the notes claimed above. This smells of chemicals and rotting wet vegetation on my skin. Definitely try it before you buy it.
danceor – :
on me this came out as straight up Play-Doh, plain and simple. most others rave about how coconutty and tropical/vanilla it is but i unforuntately get nothing but that nostalgic salty powdery clay. not a bad smell, i just don’t want to pay money to smell like it. based on description alone, i was in for a shock at our initial perfume training session. it does smell a little better on others (used to work at Lush, so had the opportunity to experience it on many different bodies). might just be my nose. though not an offensive smell by any means, Furze is a sad miss for me.
TemeDeesk – :
After dabbing one drop on my wrist and rubbing it together Furze unravels itself like a warm coconut rice cake from its banana leaf. Soft, creamy, and decadently edible. I smell a dominant coconut rounded out with vanilla, in a gourmand genre which I find inspired by Lush Vanillary. As I already own and love the latter, I might not jump ahead with this offering, being in oil form and softer in sillage. I would recommend trying this, it has already inspired a craving for ethnic desserts for me, and I sure want to nibble on my wrist! 🙂
Storm999 – :
This is a powdery, marshamallow-y, coconut/vanilla scent with an undertone of what smells like the juice that comes out of weeds pulled from a garden.
On my skin it quickly turns to a fuzzy, mega-powder scent with hints of vanilla, coconut and sunscreen. Fragrances go powdery on me anyway and this eventually fades to a dusty, vaguely sweet powder.
It’s a bit too old lady on me.
superUFS – :
Ok so this is an interesting one!
Furze isn’t a perfume I initially liked, and even now I don’t feel all that easy with it. It’s a very heady, strong mix of Mimosa (strong floral) mixed with Neroli (soapy smell), and raw Coconut (sweet & sour smell), followed by Vanilla (buttery creamy smell), and if that isn’t enough to clash… I don’t know what is!
That being said, I have started to get used to this one. As others have said, it has a distinct “suntan lotion” smell (from the coconut + vanilla). To me, this scent is like a mix between citrus and milk, or butter and soap. It’s like it’s almost rich and creamy but at the same time green, sharp and floral with bitter citrus.
Furze is inspired by the plant alternatively known as “Grouse” or “Broom”, and the story goes that these plants (I have not smelled them myself) are essentially hillside bushes that have protective powers and value as ancient herbs etc. I also read that Simon Constantine wanted to create with this the English equivalent of the French “fougère” or “Fern” note (although this time inspired by an English shrub). It is said the flowers of this bush have a smell like that of sharp Coconut and Vanilla, and it would seem that is what he was going for here.
Either way the longevity and projection are amazing, this thing lasts on me over 20 hours and I can even smell it the next morning. I think all Lush scents come in Eau de Parfum if not pure Perfume concentration.
A bright, citric, creamy, buttery, milky, soapy floral. I can’t really describe it any better than that. Try it!
kolNYZ – :
delicious sweet smell reminds me of the dolls
UnderMiller – :
Okay edit, edit! Now that I’ve experienced Furze on my skin for the 2nd time I know exactly what it smells like. Suman! Yes, rice cakes topped with coco jam and dried coconut then wrapped in coconut leaves! Yes that’s it! This fragrance strongly reminds me of one of the most popular delicacies from where I’m at. This herbal gourmand is not as thought provoking and complex as the other gorilla scents but it’s unique nonetheless!
Чистый – :
One of the best scents from Lush’s Volume 2 collection!
Reminds me of the long 90’s summers, when i was a kid and my dad would smother himself in Hawiian Tropic bronzing oil – makes me smile every time i smell it 🙂
Furze is a legitimate name for Gorse, It shouldve been named ‘Gorse’ in Germany.
Buy this if you love coconut scents! Great in summer but also in the depth of winter, when the warmth of the sun is a distant memory… Wear this and smell of sunshine!
ka0s – :
Hmmm what shall I say. This is a vanillla coconut and I love the combinaton of these ingrediënt. I also tried vanillla coconut by E. Coudray and that one is more mature and sophisticated. Furze is a childish soapscent. Not special at all.
Eric – :
Silly name in German aside, it really smells like the flowers called like that in english…(and if they would have called it “gorse”, basically the same plant, they would have avoided the linguistic trap)
If you ever walked along the coast in summer, and ended up along a furze patch, mimosa flowers + coconut + honey and butter smell,is exactly the same.
Not something I would like to wear, as it reminds me of coconut scented air freshener, and of mimosa (that I don’t like at all) but well, it keeps the promise
Aladarius – :
Adorable 🙂 Smells like lush “figs and leaf” soap with coconut.
Deroxsihtn – :
“furze” means “farts” in german 😀
tit1313 – :
This is horrible. I don’t know what Lush is thinking, I haven’t liked any of the 2013 scents and this is terrible. It smells like vinyl and sickly coconut, with a kind of bitterness like cleaning fluid. Very bad indeed.
arorormouct – :
Very Weird. I get a strong mix of coconut and gasoline.10 minutes later it turns more creamy and christmasy. There`s something bitter too on the backgroung.Not that suitable for summer heat, more of a autumn like fume.
Santucio – :
at first spray i thought it smelt fresh and wonderful. 10 minuets later the scent on me was awful. my mum reckoned it smelt like what bikers used on their leather( whatever that means) i tried washing it off even masking it with other scents but it was there to stay.
sergktc2009 – :
Gorgeous creamy milky vanilla-coconut. Very Christmas-y, reminds me of their snowcake soap. Probably one of the more simple Lush perfumes, the others are really brilliant conceptual pieces which conjure up places, memories and art pieces, but this one is just simply sweet and delicious.
denisshved76 – :
This is a gorgeous mimosa scent. Furze is a very creamy and faintly powdery mimosa sprinkled with sweet coconut. Yes I know mimosa is not listed here nor is it the highlighted note on Lush’s website (I’m sure that will be corrected soon enough) but mimosa absolute is among the top ingredients of this gorgeous perfume! Furze is my new mimosa love outside of L’Occitane’s. I am so happy! This is MUCH better than Caron’s Farnesiana! Yes, I said it. And it has great longevity too.
It is only available in 15 Lush stores in North America and I believe also on their website. If you love mimosa like I do, you owe it to yourself to try this beauty!
andriyolar00 – :
On my skin I get thick plastic note?? Weird. Maybe the coconut that makes that? very strong, thick and overwhelming. Not for me.
På min hud får jag en tjock plastig doftnot?? Kanske kokosnöten, tjock och lite obehaglig…Väldigt stark, tjock och överväldigande. Inte för mig.
scrsnseabrook78 – :
@bearbearina, Liked your review especially liked the playdoh top note comment :D, I’m happy to say that I haven’t had that tho, and at one point you could actually buy playdoh scent which is no more crazy than some of Lush’s scents I reckon.
This is my second foray into Lush scents I like that they steer away from traditional perfumes and go crazy. I bought Furze in the small bottle, and like my initial smell of ‘breath of god’ I get the single notes of Neroli and Coconut which isn’t two notes I’d mesh together but what do I know, unlike B of God, it didn’t end with the warm floral notes just stayed around for a good length of time. I didn’t get any other note. However I feel it’s a good coconut smell.
It smelled lovely on me according to my step daughter and she hates going in fragrance stores and holds her nose but perversely adores Lush shops!
I’ll be keeping it for spring/summer or a cold sunny day, I like it but need to wear it more to be friends with this perfume, if you blind buy, well it is Lush after all and it hasn’t the shock top notes of Breath of God (luckily).
wcc013JeomiWogkig – :
When you open the bottle, the first whiff you get is just darling. I found it hard to pin-point the notes but it just smelled so fresh and clean, light and airy – like freshly laundered sheets blowing on a clothesline in a garden in springtime with the sun shining down on it.
The shop I was in did not have a tester but I was so smitten that I purchased it anyway.
When I actually applied it onto my skin, I got a completely different scent; gone was the fresh, springtime laundry and instead I got a whiff of a freshly opened tub of PlayDoh.
It was such a peculiar scent that I had decided to return it to the store. Who wants to walk around smelling like PlayDoh?
But then I decided to layer it with Lush Sun and that is a winning combination right there.
I still get a whiff of PlayDoh as the top-note but after about 15 minutes, the orangey scent of Sun grabs Furze by the hand and they run off to the playground giggling together.
In short: Furze is not my cup of tea on its own but is lovely when layered with Sun.
Egorov600 – :
You got to be kidding me: “Furze”? For a fragrance? That’s an epic fail.
They actually sell it in Germany, poor German marketing crew, who had to come up with an explanation, why a fragrance would be named “Farts”. That’s what they write:
“Jaja, wir wissen, wonach das im ersten Moment aussieht! Aber pack die versauten Assoziationen wieder weg: “Furze” ist eine Pflanze, hierzulande als Färberginster oder Stechginster bekannt. […] Dieses Parfüm riecht auch wesentlich besser als…naja, du weißt schon, was wir meinen! Trag es auf, damit feine Vanille, vermengt mit exotischem Kokos, dich vor allem Bösen und anderem Mief bewahrt.”
Sometimes a furz is a furz and all the marketing of the world doesn’t save you from this association.
Oh Lush, you made my day….
злойгений – :
Haha wow, I hope they aren’t marketing this in Germany!! LOL. I like this scent because it’s got a nice sweetness, but hardly gourmand. It reminds me a little of almond. I see what you mean by popcorn butter note. This perfume is quite strange, but not in a bad way at all. I bought the small size because I found it so unusual and I don’t really have anything like it (although I do own a million vanilla perfumes, I find this to be completely in a different category). It’s at least worth checking out!
gpl964Unlogrere – :
This would be pretty if it were not for the popcorn-butter note I smell the whole way through. Bonus points for tenacity and longevity: when I wanted to get this off my arm, nothing I did worked!
nsh232JeomiWogkig – :
I tried this a few weeks ago. It’s insanely sweet, strong, and linear. It’s somewhere between Dior’s Hypnotic Poison and Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille — only cheaper. Think vanilla, almond, with a little coconut floating around in there.
andrejkos – :
I just googled “furze German” lol!
ulj487intitytek – :
If you are German, the name of this scent….sounds very strange to you (because of its meaning 🙂 ).