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dyasya_kisa – :
Update: I am a Philistine, a perfume savage, because I have taken to using my Yardley Iris as a body spray and I spray Hermes Hiris at the traditional perfume points. I love this combo, the pencil shavings of Hiris (Iso E Super) amplify the woody iris of the Yardley and they just play nicely together. I find both fragrances very calming, especially for those days when you don’t want to wear high octane
ViamTaftapaft – :
What others have said: shoots out cold & metallic and you catch a tad of Iris–then =pooft= ! Gone.
Disappointment from Yardley (a company I like very much!)
Stick with there Lavender and especially their Violet!!
Sorry.
irina levina – :
First whiff is lavender rather than iris. Then comes the iris, deep and quite sweet. The whole experience lasts for minutes only and longer on hair. Sillage and longevity are close to zero after just a few minutes. It costs pennies so might as well be a bedtime scent as it’s soft enough and not annoying.
There is some resemblance to Hermes Hiris but the Hiris is much more complex with much better longevity
Mikalas – :
Sadly, I believe that Yardley may well have discontinued their Iris after the recent IFRA purge…. I do so hope NOT!
As for the review:
I smell a gorgeous, fleeting LAVENDER in the opening, leading me to wonder if my bottle isn’t Yardley Lavender. But not for long! This opening is charming indeed, a nod to the most classic Yardley scent of all time. And then it vanishes, while the orris root and clean powdered musk emerge. Wow. This is the kind of orris that reminds one vaguely of carrots…. Faintly vegetal and fuzzy, cool and comforting.
As others have remarked, perhaps less a soliflore of Iris Flowers and more an overall impression of the Iris growing in the damp earth, stems and all. 😀
A perfect Hot Summer Day fragrance, and equally excellent for bath or bedtime. Though sillage and longevity are limited, my pleasure is in no way lessened. The quality of Yardley’s scent truly does hold up to any of the more expensive Irises. It’s merely a matter of which ‘aura of Iris’ you prefer. I’ve enjoyed my Yardley Iris enormously every time I remove it from it’s treasured box and spritz happily away, recalling the generosity of a Dear Fragrantica Friend. 😀
Here’s to Friendship and Yardley Iris! <3 <3 <3
FOMA333 – :
I get a snap of lavender that disappers soon enough and then I get the Hiris comparison.
To me, they both smell of Buddleja: green/aromatic and sweet dusty floral. Great at the price and it lasted long enough on me and light enough to reapply time and again.
dtm390speagoessenda – :
I get a prominent lavender in the opening of Yardley Iris, and it does have a sort of disinfectant clean vibe while retaining its herbal aspect.
After about 15 minutes, the lavender fades away and reveals a cool iris. I’m able to make out some rooty, anise and hay-like nuances from time to time, but the fragrance remains very gentle throughout. It also gets slightly warmer and more cozy with vanilla, but overall it remains rather cool and clean.
The comparaison with Hiris is understandable, as the drydown of both gives out a similar delicate sweetness. However, I wouldn’t recommend it as an exact dupe, as the iris in Hiris is much more substaintial, and there’s no lavender in Hiris.
The sillage of Yardley Iris is soft, and the longevity is around 4 hours. The performance being not that great, Yardley Iris is still a very lovely floral musk fragrance, especially when considering the price. It’s relatively natural and has a laidback elegance. An iris friendly in smell and budget-wise.
meetyu – :
Very soft and musky scent. A sleep-time perfume.
Сантос – :
Not a floral smell to me at all, and I can’t smell lavender either although some reviewers can (do they mean the one combined with Iris??) Musky, woody and too masculine for me. Won’t be buying any more.
dert799 – :
I also was impressed by the Perfume Shrine review comparing this favourably to Hiris, which I’ve tried on and liked. I bought it blind online (a huge 125ml bottle – I thought, well, in for a penny, in for a pound!), because I just could not find it to try anywhere here in Melbourne (although other Yardley perfumes are stocked in pharmacies).
My much-anticipated package just arrived in the post this morning and I immediately sprayed it on, still in pyjamas! Now, perhaps I am just too used to the warm, powdery, creamy style of iris (eg Van Cleef & Arpels Bois d’Iris, Prada Infusion d’Iris) but my immediate impression was of lavender, and I was very disappointed.
But given time, a cool, complex and spicy scent emerges. To me it still doesn’t smell of iris (perhaps I need to go back and compare to Hiris) but it’s a very subtle and sophisticated scent – more so than you’d expect from Yardley, and from a perfume billed as a soliflore. I still haven’t really got to the drydown.
I’m glad I have this in my perfume wardrobe, because it fills a gap. I can see myself wearing it in hot weather because it isn’t blowsy or powerful, but fresh and crisp. It’d also be good for wearing to work: it’s subdued and on me there’s very little sillage. I’m going to be applying it quite liberally. Thank goodness I recently bought Esprit d’Oscar and that I have a hunch Santa is going to bring me Infusion d’Iris, because I think I really do prefer those warmer styles of iris to the cooler styles.
enchantrees – :
I have the body spray and the EDT, the talcum would be nice too. I bought it because the line from Perfume Shrine said “if you like Hiris type Iris, run,don’t walk, to the nearest Yardley outlet” It was a good steer; it’s very wearable, a new classic. I love that it isn’t sweet and the woody light musk is perfect for a long walk with the pooch; it wafts up pleasantly as I get a glow on and I feel quite refined (even though photographic evidence would disabuse one of that notion) It’s inexpensive, not cheap; it’s inoffensive, understated, a little different and memorable. I find myself reaching for it and using it liberally. Sometimes I put a puff of Pierre de Lune on top and they play nicely together. IMHO this is the best of the Yardley solliflores. I am won over.
Updated: Incrediblemelt nailed it, it really shouldn’t be sold as a soliflore, but it is versatile and a bit addictive.
Daveffd3yqw – :
Where is the iris?!
All I can smell is sharp lavender.
Very herbal, minty, and as mentioned – medicinal.
Was hoping for a fluffy makeup-smell – got Earl Grey.
Elvise – :
plutôt déçue par iris de yardley je le trouve froid informel et très quelconque, moi qui adore l’iris là pas de coup de cœur,rien nada j’utilise l’eau de Cologne iris de claude galien que je trouve excellente et ou l’iris est bien présent effet vieille dame comme disent certains(lol)mais une belle présence de l’iris .
l’iris de yardley lui n’a aucune présence aucune profondeur j’ai même crue m’être trompée et avoir pris de la lavande,c’est dire.
inyinpddvh – :
Thanks to a swap with lovely Truffles (see her review underneath) I just got my hands on this. Think I am going through an “iris” phase in my perfume addiction…. OK so my first impression was “nice but where in this flower bunch is the iris”? It seemed like a happy clean and well behaved flowery scent. I didn’t get a medicinal scent that other reviewers mentioned at all. I am not good at describing notes but the iris is well embedded in a harmonious composition here. I would call this a happy scent, ideal for spring. I am so intrigued that I put it on today despite the weather being still quite wintery. Will update my review but for now this is a great value daytime spring/summer scent – total thumbs up!
Every time I wear this I keep thinking what a gorgeous fragrance, this is excellent value for money. Perhaps it’s me, but I prefer this interpretation of iris over other much more expensive fragrances. I suppose it’s all about the other notes that come into it as well. The drydown is delicious. I would have never thought I’d be raving about a Yardley’s scent but here we go 🙂
Oh and another observation: today when I was sniffing my skin halfways into the longevity I kept getting a nice bit of clean musk. It is not listed as a note but based on the categorization of this fragrance and what I noticed today I would say that musk lingers around into the drydown…nice
vladis1234 – :
Coolly clean. I don’t usually write reviews like this but it suggested itself strongly;
A young English woman stands at a huge garden party – her own.
In a quiet moment away from mingling, she smooths her pleated silk skirt with her hand and her steel-blue eyes gaze into the middle distance.
The weather is warm, the sun beats down, she’s had an active day but shows not a ruffle or bead of sweat.
Is this what CK Eternity was trying to achieve?
This frag is just so different for me, I can’t quite get my head round it.
The blue colour of the box/label is perfect and I love it!
Swapped with patxaran ^ for lovely Cashmere Mist :))
dimson15 – :
For me this is a straightforward Iris Scent. Pure undisguised Iris, earthy and woody. It´s very classic and elegant,a litle bit formal, as tourmali45 said. It´s a quality scent. I find it comparable to Hermes, Hiris, without being so expensive. So if you like Iris, don´t miss the chance of trying this.
serg-A – :
Musky dusty flowers. Not too green, not sugary sweet. For me the most prominent notes are violet and iris on musk and powder base. Very indoor, salon-palace scent, my mind pictures mademoiselles in crinolines and tall powdered wigs. So I wear this Iris to evening visits to opera, ballet, and rather formal outings. This scent requires formal clothes, the very thought of wearing this with jeans is foreign. If you work in a dressy-uppy office, you can wear it in the daytime too, the scent is not loud, stays quite close to the skin.
Alex_SEdygGA – :
A wonderful scent with great flowernotes. Not sugarsweet flowers, but more deep adult flowers with an airy sweetnes – maybe the violet – I think it timeless – for both younger and middleaged women to wear. I smell the Lily-of-the-valley and it blends well with other flowernotes, its not overpowering Lily-of-the-valley. Great every-day-scent, in my opinion.
en härlig doft med ljuvliga blomnoter. Inga sockersöta blommor, utan mer djupa, vuxna blommor men en luftig sötma – kanske är det Viol som gör den – Jag tycker att den är tidlös, både tjejen och kvinnan kan bära denna. Jag känner Liljakonvalj och den blandar sig härligt med övriga blommor, denna är inte tung Liljakonvalj-aktig. Härlig varje-dag-doft i mitt tycke.