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dfg619 – :
A clean pink floral, inoffensive, sweet, powdery. Useful for doctor’s appointments when you want to convey a feeling of cleanliness. My mother wore this (she’d be 91 now if she was alive). Good for church, weddings, that kind of thing – surprisingly well blended and long-lasting, considering the price and far better than all the fruity floral rubbish on the market.
orectechabbag – :
I bought White Satin and Lace on Ebay; this is a blend lily of the valley and peach, powdery, clean. Its also typical of Yardleys surprisingly high quality for the price tag.
Biggest surprise was that it layers well with Suddenly Woman 1. I’m also going to try it with FCUK Connect Her which is woody.
vdf598speagoessenda – :
Fragrance Review For White Satin
Yardley
I wish they would have identified the notes in this fragrance. I had to guess the whole time. I found this in the bathroom of my girlfriend’s row house in London during Fashion Week. By then, it was already very old fashioned. She said it was selling in the 80’s along with skin care products. Yardley was basically the Avon of British perfumery. This is a household product. It’s toilet water, skin freshner.
The scent seems to have no top middle or base notes but it’s a mélange of scents that are coming to you all at once. I detected aldehydes, neroli, a peach and white florals. It turns slightly powdery and reminds me of both Arpege by Lanvin and L’air du Temps by Nina Ricci. Also getting a White Shoulders by Evyan vibe. If you like those perfumes, this is going to be your bag.
The fragrance is clean, white floral, and simple. It’s womanly, and feels therapeutic like it’s actually good for your skin. The gardenia matches up with the peach. There could be a vanilla bean note in the base. There’s musk. It’s mainly a white colored scent of aldehydes and white flowers of which gardenia is prominent. There’s jasmine in there as well and lilies. Soapy, clean, virginal. The scent feels like it would make a fine body lotion or body cream as well especially because of the vanilla cream.
A very lovely scent.
ramiro21 – :
This is a wonderful trip down memory lane. It doesn’t seem too dated or old to me. Feminine, elegant, perfumey, floral would be the words I use for White Satin. I find I enjoy it to calm down after a hectic day or if I feel like a break from heavy perfume. It is more a scent that I wear at home than going out, sort of a relaxing “time off”.
I have recently started experimenting with layering perfumes as I have a number that I enjoy but which do become overbearing after a while. One of these is Taylor Swift’s Incredible Things. I love it for introducing me to some notes I had never considered before (passion fruit and leather), however it just becomes too much for me and towards the end of a day of wearing it I can start to feel sick, it is also not a perfume I would consider wearing to work or other more formal functions as I think it may affect people around me.
I recently layered it over White Satin and the result was delightful! It calmed down the overpowering sweetness and created such a delicious, warm, creamy, ambery smell with the vanilla, I honestly couldn’t believe my luck. It then started moving to a creamy passion fruit and suede.
Some other perfumes I have found to work well for layering are Adam Levine’s For Women; Chopard’s Cascade; Kenzo’s Jeu d’Amour; Elie Saab’s Le Parfum EDT and EDP. It all depends on the notes in the different perfumes.
Sometimes a meek perfume is boosted and other times an overpowering one is tamed.
soss – :
I prefer Lace to this one as I feel it has a more definate identity somehow – White Satin has a kind of generic ‘perfumey soap’ smell, but for £4 I do actually find it quite comforting in a nostalgic way. I DEFINATELY prefer it’s brand of cleanliness to modern ‘clean’ scents which are pretty repellant in general as its more romantic and complex
ErapWaire – :
This one beats the expensive perfumes by just bringing memories. It is a feeling not a sense of smell you get when around it. I will deffinately buy it.