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zoom_zoom555 – :
Smell of banana? Maybe, but only if dried banana of the pack, slippery and sticky dried banana on a background with mix of nail polish hint sweet candy’s. Give odds to many of niche creations. As for me, so it’s for a cool sunny autumn days! Projection is very good. My black bottle from 2011 spill at the bottom of the sticker [Made by Tracy 23/05/11] became acquainted with other flavors series, but nothing so impressed how this fragrance – LadyBoy. Limit edition, removed or in stock now? Give a sing if they bring it back! It’s a huge shame to discontinued it! Hey Mark, please, bring it back! There is so many people who appreciate this perfume.
maaaikl – :
Someone on another board mentioned that LUSH is discontinuing several of their fragrances, so I rullshed to their site, and the Lady Boy liquid (is it an EDT? EDP?) is sold out. The solid perfume was available so I got that. I learned my lesson; don’t wait forever to buy something you love, and I do love this one. The opening has a sense of humor with the strong banana note, but the dry down is wearable, lovely, and surprisingly sophisticated. But I really wanted it in the largest size.
ddd007 – :
***** THIS FRAGRANCE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED – STOCK UP NOW!****
kagren – :
This perfume is both more and less weird than sniffing the bottle lead me to think it would be.
Just sniffing the bottle-or a tester strip-what you get is holy-crap banana. At the co-op where I buy most of our groceries they have a little hot food section, and one of the things they serve for breakfast is French toast made with a reduction of bananas and walnuts. I always scrape off the lumps of banana, but I like eating it, and Ladyboy smells powerfully of something you should serve on an egg- washed piece of sauteed baguette.
Unless and until you put it on your skin. Then it’s an entirely different perfume. It’s amazing, really. The banana evaporated from my skin immediately and left behind a sugar-caramelizing smell (breakfast!), which almost immediately yielded to a powerful scent of oakmoss. An hour later it smelled like leathery oakmoss-which is fine with me, since I love both leather and oakmoss-and then an hour or so later it also revealed a lovely green powdery smell.
But the crowning glory was what it did after about four or five hours: it gave me a breath of Camay soap. How weird is that? I loved my grandmother’s Camay when I was a kid. Do they still even make it?
This is one of the most interesting perfumes I’ve ever tried. It was a real journey, and I liked every bit of it. I got all this from trying a 1 ml tester! I will probably buy an actual bottle and add it to my stable of daily wear perfumes.
guff290590 – :
What a fun fragrance!
I get banana, chocolate, violet & oak moss on my skin. This is a great scent for men as well as women. For those who like something earthy-sweet. Great for summer.
Gusqufzn – :
I have been sniffing my empty decant of this for about a year and am on the fence about it. Yes, it has an initial, rather cheeky, banana note at the beginning and then dries down to something, IMO, very sophisticated. I love violet and violet leaf is one of the notes; I must like oakmoss too. I’ll update this review if I get it.
Cybernetick – :
Banana’s all the way. I don’t like it.
rolik33 – :
Ladyboy hasn’t grown on me as much as other fragrances from Lush have. I’m not surprised that this is a men’s scent. The dark, somewhat thick oakmoss drydown is very masculine on me.
Just when I thought Lush Cocktail smelt a bit like bananas, Ladyboy comes along to show me what Lush’s spin on banana really smells like. I can’t say that I like the powdery, candied banana scent in Ladyboy, but I do welcome the violet and chamomile accords.
This fragrance overall is fairly musky and herbal. On a man’s skin Ladyboy would smell very unique, like a breath of fresh air. The name of this fragrance may be a deterrent to some, but believe me when I say that all men, regardless of their sexuality would enjoy wearing Lush Ladyboy.
The oakmoss in the base lends a real chypre quality to this composition. I really enjoy this somewhat dry, earthy component. Ladyboy’s sillage decreases towards the base, softening considerably before fading away altogether.
Ladyboy’s longevity is fairly impressive, at least five hours. I’d be interested to smell this fragrance on other people’s skin. I don’t like the way it smells on me, but I think it has some real potential.
avasiletov – :
Someone gave me a sample of this and I’m getting simply a patchouli/vetiver mix – huh? No bananas or anything else listed above. No longevity.
jurij070181 – :
Happy and colourful flamboyance!
As everyone else has said, this is definitely a unisex scent.
Personally I loved it, and after seeing another reviewer compare it with banana sweets, that is my opinion too, but in the best possible way.
I was hounded by a Lush rep when trying this in the store (as is standard in Lush…), and basically all she kept repeating was what a ‘fun’ fragrance it was… Maybe she got it exactly right, or her words have just mingled with the smell memory engraved on my brain, but that’s exactly what I think of now when I think of LadyBoy… ‘Fun’.
gans0403 – :
I don’t think this is a fragrance just for men at all. It is more of a green unisex scent, not a superficial/fresh green either, but a rather deep one. The banana stays mainly in the opening, where it is overwhelming a little – and it is more like banana syrup really. But this lasts only for about a half hour, then it evolves with the rest of the notes creating this kind of “greenness” which is very sophisticated. For a Lush creation, the violet is not very noticeable, it is much better blended and balanced than what they usually tend to do with it. This is a favorite.
igor bereg2011 – :
I know Lush are big on saving the environment… but come on! This could have benefited from a much better bottle. The plain black pot just doesn’t do it any justice. Even just putting the original ‘Ladyboy’ logo with the banana on the front would be preferable.
Having said that, this fragrance is very powerful on first spray – in fact, I had trouble picking any individual scents out at all! (I since found out that it was supposed to be banana.) It also lasts a very long time on me; I’ve even smelled it a good 15 hours after applying it, even with handwashing, etc.
In fact, the longer it’s on, the better it becomes. This is definitely something that smells its best after about two or three hours. It matures into a deliciously warm, slightly spicy scent with a tiny hint of mint. After that, only the violets are detectable, but they do last ages! This definitely lives up to its moniker of ‘quirky,’ but it’s just not unisex to me. Again, I think it might be the violets; I can barely smell the oakmoss.
DiMann – :
I’ve now worn Lush LADYBOY several times, a testament to the potency of this house’s potions. My sample vial contained 2 ml, but it seemed as though I’d never reach the bottom! Of course, that’s great news, if you happen to like the rough-hewn, home-grown “perfumes” of this house. The largest size they come in is a 1 ounce bottle–and with good reason!
My problem with Lush in general is that I find the compositions harsh, not lush. Even the ones which are less harsh are still so much more harsh than most niche perfumes. Have I become a snob?
LADYBOY opens evocatively with a blast of artificial banana which instantly calls to my mind my walks home from junior high school. Why? Because there was a Tenneco along the route, and I often stopped there to buy candy, with Beich’s Bananas at the top of the list. I have no idea why I liked that candy. If I saw it today, I’m sure that I’d read the ingredient list and veto it immediately. It’s bound to be filled with a laundry list of non-food items. What was great about this candy was that it came shaped in these huge rectangular pieces that filled your whole mouth, and the texture was totally awesome (and I have chosen those words deliberatively!). I’m sure that Beich’s Bananas are (or were–not sure if they still exist…) every dentist’s dream come true. How many fillings have need to be fixed because of Beich’s Bananas? I ask most sincerely. On the dental-work destruction front, they are rivaled only by JuJuBes and Milk Duds.
Anyway, the very same artificial banana flavor appears to have been used to create Simon’s little joke about a lady boy’s anatomy. Ha ha. Good thing he didn’t go into the entertainment business. Once the banana fumes clear out (and they are very fumey–like most of the loud scents of this house, always toeing the paint-thinner line), then judging by the ingredient list on the vial, I should love LADYBOY. Anthemis nobilis (chamomile), Cistus ladaniferus (could be a type-o–it’s supposed to be labdanum resinoid), Viola odorata (no explanation needed!), and the sacred evernia prunastri (oakmoss), which everyone knows has been pulled from the vast majority of perfumes, resulting in sometimes tragic reformulations.
I do think that this particular Lush concoction ends up smelling pretty decent by the end, and it is not destroyed by Simon’s apparent near anosmia to citrus oil (I can imagine him in the “kitchen”, adding more and more lemongrass oil to his creations, never reaching the point of detection, all the while unaware that he’s actually hyposmic to the stuff!) No, grâce à Dieu–or reasonable facsimile–there is no lemongrass or any other citrus whatsoever in this perfume! It’s a miracle! But in place of the caustic citrus oil, there are banana fumes.
I think that LADYBOY is okay. For me, it’s a sure trip down memory lane, every time I wear it. But how many more times do I need to reflect upon my junior high school days, walking to Tenneco to fill my mouth with Beich’s bananas? Not on my wish list, in the end.
Карлуша – :
Had no idea what the notes of this was before I sprayed it – yes it hits you like a smack in the face, synthetic banana. However I’ve been searching my whole life for an artificial banana scent so this was a welcome smack in the face….
Reminds me of that banana medicine they give for kids with ear infections, (again I love that smell lol).
On the spray card about an hour and a half later sadly the banana has pretty much gone, got a very natural minty aquatic smell left, it reminds me a bit of Lush Dirty.
Wish the banana lasted a bit longer, but overall it’s an interesting ‘aquatic’ , going to save up for the 30ml bottle.
Spock – :
The previous reviewer must be kidding. “Unwashed human”? C’mon… Are you serious?
Well, after testing it, I decided to buy the solid version (just because I haven’t got any solid perfume), that is supposed to be “in honour of Brazilian beaches” but, I assure you, there are no ladyboys in Brazil. Ladyboys are part of Thai culture. Anyway, I like the scent but I think Lush fragrances are a bit pricey and the product design (black plastic with a sticker) is boring and cheap.
The opening to me smells like some kind of “banana candy” (NO “unwashed human”, at all).
Zoormigma – :
I had a visceral reaction to this when I smelled it. It reeked of unwashed human to me. Something about the banana and seaweed together I think was horrifying.
That said, I was impressed it gave me such a reaction.
Zer083 – :
Ladyboy is a unisex perfume and it smells wonderful. First violets and then a sweet amber smell with violtets in the background.
It’s a very special perfume and I agree with Lush, it is sexy.