My Queen (for women)

shelpen

It is surprisingly light - surprisingly coming from McQueen!
On me My Queen is lightly peppered violets with hint of vanilla. No white flowers, heliotrope or cedar. Quite ordinary and, dare I say, boring.

BethAshley

I purchased this fragrance untested because I love many of the notes. It is a sweet, feminine, powdery scent - which was what I was expecting. The unfortunate surprise for me is that it is so light. I was hoping for something that had a little more drama coming from an edgy designer like Alexander McQueen. When I think of royalty I assume a little more presence.

Overall the Violet, Iris and Vanilla notes dominate. The cedar is undetectable and the almond stays quietly in the background. The dry down is a vanilla/baby powder scent.

For me the best word I can think of to describe this fragrance is "Pretty" Something pretty is very suitable for many occasions - I am sure I will use this fragrance up fairly quickly.

chocolat

Lovely, sweet violet-iris-vanilla scent.Starts a little flowery and bold, develops into warm, sweet-vanilla without being heavy.Wonderful for evening. Autumn and winter scent (i'll have to keep few drops to try during spring/summer).

Malegria

I tried it and I like it - not as much s Kingdom though. It reminded me of several different scents - particularly of Kenzo Flower - the same violets and smokey, sultry dry down.It goes well with it`s name - there is certain seriousness and royalty about it.At first, it`s coming on strong and flowery, irises and violets mostly - I don`t detect any fleur d`orange though it would`ve been nice, to spice up the violet domination. Later it dries down in a very womanly kind of way - vanilla and powder...The queen removes her crown and becomes a woman.

loveperfumes

It is one of the most complicated scents that entered my life, I would say, illegally...In 2005 I happened to witness the promotion campaign in the big mall and was given generously perfumed blotter. My first reaction was ‘not my type’ to the extent that I put it on ‘never ever try again’ list, so disturbing, hostile, scaring the scent seemed to me.

Then 2 years later I was walking after my colleague at the office and got really intrigued by her perfume, the sillage was very interesting. When she revealed MQ, I was more than surprised. Soon I bought it, but our relations were first at the distance.

Gothic flowers with thorns, obscure beauty, a reflection of a restless contradictory soul, disturbing dark grandeur, the medieval world...

In general I don’t fall for the scents like this and Addict CD seems gloomy to me. However, this scent is an exception of the kind, I was slowly and surely coming under its spell, as there is an extraordinary development in it.

At the beginning in the web of light and shadow, the shadow definitely prevails and scares away with the “thorns” – severe violet and almond which are dominating for quite a long time. Then, their dark passion starts calming down and it unexpectedly turns out that the Queen does have a warm heart. The orange blossom note with the Co. start running the show leaving the “thorns” behind as a subtle reminder of the previous long dark overture. The symphony dramaturgy is gradually changing. Finally, it develops into the triumph of warmth and light through a really slow but surprising transformation. This stage is worth waiting, it takes at least one hour on my skin. Then, I can’t stop smelling my wrist, so fascinating, warm and glamorous the scent becomes….

p.s. Sometimes I wear it in the office just to put on some distant glamour.

scarlett5stam

i love it ! it's very powdery and floral/oriental... Really sensual feminine fragrance ;)

SandraS

I tried it and to me smells a lot like Dune from CD.

maschin

as i first smelled it i found it beautiful because it combines many different ingredients in a harmonic way so i bought it at once..when using it though i found out that the sense of almonds and violets is overpowering and makes it too strong for my tastes, while i don't find the warm sense of vanilla which i thought it would have.. so i gave it to my mother who finds it very good and i realised that it suits better to older women.

guest_Marie J

Was Mariah Carey a fan of this perfume? I ask because the color scheme on this and the M bottle are so similar oh and the pattern too I wonder?!

wildflower

It´s true, this scent does have 4 notes instead of 3. It´s fun, you keep sniffing your arm, and it constantly changes. This is the kind of perfume, that you should not judge based on the first sniff (topnotes).

The violets are very dominant at the first, and it made me feel like I´m walking on a mysterious garden, with a tender state of mind.
Although I don´t normally care much of violets in fragrances, they were nice in this one.

About 1/2h later the scent became as it was described: pure scent of orange, white musk, heliotrope, and white flowers. I would say that there is also a pretty dominant vanilla accourd all the way trough.

It slowly changes in to a very sensual and feminine warm scent, that smelled like it was described: iris and vanilla.

If you don´t like violets and vanilla, this might not be the scent for you..but if you do I highly recommend this one!

Its a very unique fragrance, that will feed your imagination!

noor_jehan

nice to hear that you are happy with the fragrance aeternitas. i like the sound of 'aura of royalty and mystery'. i am intrigued now. :)

Aeternitas

Yes! My bottle finally came today :) It's so beautiful, both the bottle and the fragrance. Just like I remembered it from the sample and still much like in my previous review for it... I'm very satisfied. This perfume is absolutely gorgeous. Warm, full of vanilla, flowery, but dark. It wraps you up in an aura of royalty and mystery. The vanilla lingers for quite an amount of time. I am ordering Alexander McQueen's Kingdom today as well :)

Aeternitas

This one's gonna be my next buy, along with Diesel :) I've been dying for this fragrance because it's not sold in any stores around me that I know of. It's so warm, mysterious, and sensual; almost decadent. I find that the dark purple color of the bottle represents it well as a royal, gorgeous, feminine fragrance. For those looking for an enigmatic, mystical scent, this is it!

noor_jehan

i have not had an opportunity to smell and try out this fragrance. but i like the bottle very much and by description...it might be interesting.