Gardenia Elizabeth Taylor for women

Reminds me of Diamonds and Emeralds, but this is better for day wear, slightly more fresher,clean scent

Is it at all possible to rate this as super loved? I absolutely love it. It has a busty fruity bosom even tough there arent any fruity notes listed. Its clean and white smelling, fresh and addictive. This 3+ ounces wont last me very long, i think it may be my new taylor favorite!

I bought this untested as it was so cheap, and the fact that my boyfriend proclaims to love the scent of gardenia. (He has an amazing nose, and should probably write these instead of me). The fragrance for me starts out rather green and sharp, but then settles down nicely into a rather pure gardenia scent.

In short, I don't really care for it. It feels too singular a scent, and I crave to mix it with something else that has more going on scent-wise. Suggestions?

My boyfriend, however, likes it. He thinks I am a girly girl when I wear it, and it endears me to him. So, I save it for fall/spring weekends.

This works very well on my skin and I love it. My favourite gardenia is Chanel Gardenia but it's outrageously expensive. This one is a good runner up and can be found dirt cheap! It's greener and crisper than the Chanel, but still a lovely scent. Sweetness is about the same but this one is definitely greener. The initial opening can be a bit sharp but it mellows quickly.

So disappointing! I love gardenia and perfumes that contain it. I don't know what happened with this one, I think it's gone bad?! I bought it on sale and maybe that's why it was so cheap. I gave it away.

GIRLY, GIRLY, GIRLY,
Synthetically sweet,
and oh so GREEN too!

the bottle looks like avril lavignes forbidden and wild rose!

I wore Gardenia by Elizabeth Taylor yesterday for the first time in years.

My body chemistry blends sweet ripe pear puree and sun burnt brown edged gardenia blooms together creating an uplifting carefree aroma capturing perfectly the smell of a late warm Spring's blooming gardenia shrub planted in the sunniest spot in a sub-tropical garden.

This is not the shade loving intoxicating gardenia I worship in my favourite gardenia perfumes. It is simply another interpretation of a most universally loved (or loathed) flower.

I quite like its sunny disposition. A great choice for a Friday!

It's sweet and green, too sweet for me. The smell is kind of boring. For teenagers, it's fine, I think. Adults might want deeper and more interesting sents.

This one actually smells better in the bottle than on my skin. I like it a lot on my skin, but I wish it smelled more like the bottle.
It is very light and beautiful but definitely has a presence. Lasting power is 3-4 hours- which is not bad on my skin.
I really can get the Gardenia and Lilly of the valley. The dry down is musky and soft and stays close to the skin. It is a beautiful day perfume and will be great for work.

This beautiful flower looks heavenly innocent and fragile, but the smell is very powerfull and kind of heavy and choky. The parfume smells a little bit old fashioned, in a good way, very classy and nobly, and almost identical as the real flower! Good thing is, that there is no sweet note added to ruin the clean composition. As with most (good) scents, you have to have a style to wear them. Dishevelled hair and saggy T-shirt wont suit this perfume. Gardenia is a synonym of good look and care (as well as Elizabeth Taylor:)
It`s not for everyone, but if it suits you (wish it did to me), you will be a star! And diamonds + satin is not required...
I love the bottle too.

IT was just horrible for me. It smelled like air freshener.

It's a very nice perfume for someone who likes gardenia scent. When used in perfumes on its own, gardenia usually gives out too thick and moist a scent. This one is the best gardenia I've ever smelled in a perfume, because it is well balanced-not very thick and not very weak. It is somewhat influenced by the lily and white flowers that are especially present in the dry out.
It is a rather mature scent, not for girls.
It's a lasting perfume (to me at least) with a light, very flowery and soap(babble bath)-like fragrance.
One positive thing: my husband who never comments on my perfumes, adores this scent.

This is one that had to grow on me. At first I was disappointed, ironically because of the bottle (thought it was corny and cheap looking). Maybe it was a subliminal expectation, as it was priced $9.99 at a discount store. It smells really green/herbal on me when first sprayed, but lightens up after about 10 minutes, letting the softer florals in. The musk dry-down is barely noticeable. I considered it to be very mediocre until my daughter raved about how wonderful it smelled on me. I grew weary of it- as memories become attached to fragrances- and passed the bottle on to her. Some years went by, and this spring I started searching for a new gardenia fragrance. I tried Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Tocca Florence, Pacifica, Island Gardenia, and some others suggested on this site. They are all a bit too sweet, tangy and/or spicy. Today I stumbled across a huge bottle of E Taylor Gardenia for only $14.99. You can't beat that price, so I bought it. Wow! This is THE gardenia perfume, expressed by at least one other reviewer! It's the rare occasion of reuniting with an old lover, and realizing you should have stayed. There is no need to look further...Time to start creating new memories.

If you want the pure scent of Gardenia then this Bottle and Gardenia by Crabtree and Evelyn will give you that.
Warning: This is unapologetically Gardenia. While both fragrances may smell like a 100% Gardenia they are still different from one distinct from one another as if they came from different species of the same family.

Agree with gel, its nice, not for everyone and I cannot wear it either. It smells so great on my neighbor its her signature and I tell her all the time. Its hard to find, but I was able to surprise her with a bottle at xmas.

One for gardenia gals out there, not too rich or heady on me just delicate and light when it settles on my skin, the bottle is pretty too

I love gardenia and bought this blindly based on some of the reviews here. I have to say I am disappointed. At first spray this perfume is extremely sweet (which is good if you love sweet, but definitely not for me). Later on some "bitter" notes come through as the sweetness fades a little. But it doesn't get any better even as it develops into a less sweet flowery mixture. It sort of remains artificial all the way through. It is not a creamy gardenia (which I expected), it is quite a loud perfume. I much prefer Estee Lauder Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia.

...And this is very similar to Charriol's Tourmaline to my nose,; almost identical!...

i love the bottle, but unfortunately couldn't love the perfume. too strong and too gardenia for me. i can only take gardenia in small doses. i figured since this was mixed with some other notes i might like it, but no.

I'm sorry, maybe it's my chemistry, but I really didn't like this one. It smells like air freshener and is headache-inducing. Beautiful bottle though!

It is horrible and i mean HORRIBLE. if you want to get something obtrusive, old-fashioned and headache-inducing - this is the best choice!
i thought i like gardenia and i read all those rave reviews here and bought it. it is too whiffy even for air freshner :(
and yes, it is worth its price - u will smell really cheap

looks exactly like the bottle of forbidden rose, the diffrence only is the color, forbidden rose has black flower cap and lavender bottle....

I picked up my bottle of this 2nite at Marshalls and was very pleased w/ my purchase... It opens w/ a pure burst of bright sparkling gardenia which never ends up really playing 2nd fiddle 2 any of the other notes... It is later supported in the heart w/ peony and lily-of-the-valley... By the time this dries down, a clean musk sets in, softening the gardenia only slightly. I love this because I love pure gardenia. I actually was gonna buy a pure gardenia essential oil, but when I returned a few days later to make my purchase, it was sold out... They never got it back in stock but this one definitely made a good replacement...I like this worn alone sparingly but I absolutely love it mixed w/ a fragrance that already has gardenia in it like M, Obsession Night. Amarige, or Kim Kardashian as a kicker...

Extremely sweet floral scent. It opens like a sweet bomb. I cannot recognise any florals yet as I'm only begginer :(, but after the first burst I might now see what "gardenia" is and I'm loving it. And woohoo look at the price of this scent - is this a joke? It smells extremely beautiful and definetely worth a blind buy if white flowers is your thing. Try this out.

For me altough it won't be a "must have" as the scent is tiny, tiny bit too sweet and cloying.

The initial scent was of "Gardenias" which fulfilled exactly what anticipated in it's name. Other floral can be too exteme in sickenly sweet fruity way as it overpowers my sinuses leaving me with such a headache. This wonderful, classy ET creation makes me feel so sexy even after wearing all day the scent few hours, it still leaves me feeling feminine; even hours later. It layers down into a delicious

This fragrance takes me back to my 20's ... a long time ago. I used to wear "Jungle Gardenia" by Tuvache. No longer available. It has the power to take me to summertime, a resort, warm nights on the beach with my husband. Ahh, the power of aromas. If you like gardenia and it works w/your chemistry, it is a yes!

I have a horrible (and I do mean horrible) track record with Elizabeth Taylor perfumes, so I was extremely hesitant to try this, thinking it would be a sticky, headache-inducing sugar shock.

I couldn't be more wrong: Gardenia is amazing, especially for the price! It's a totally linear scent; gardenias and peonies explode playfully off the skin and suddenly make me forget my longing for more expensive tuberose gardenias. Really simple, beautiful stuff.

i really love this perfume,when i put some drops in my neck i feel a gardenia garden in me is really beauty.

Very nice...opens up with pure gardenia, then freshens up a bit so I can detect the peony and lily of the valley, then the orchid comes through with a candied sweetness. A few hours after I sprayed it on and I would say the predominant notes are gardenia, orchid, peony and lily of the valley. For some reason many florals tend to get fresher on me over time, almost with an aquatic note to them, which I like for this hot summer weather. This is worth the $7.99 I paid at A.J. Wright for it...a nice hot weather scent.

Way too flowery for me,I bought it online after purchasing two great fragrances from teh Elizabeth Taylor( which I am happy with)but this is very strong-first whiff and I didn't like it at all. Maybe it's because it's summer and it didn't work on my skin but the first impression wasn't positive!

LOVE IT badly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very fresh,delight but also complex and rich,I think it's the best gardenia scent .

A sweet floral.But...Does anyone smell any "peach" on this? I do smell really dominant peach note in this perfume and that makes it a"floral FRUİTY" i think...
It's ok, still pleasant even for a flower-lover but I wouldn't buy again...

I love this perfume. I wear it all the time. It is not strong like some posts here say. It has a feminine fresh floral powdery smell that is just perfect for day time. I find the Emeralds perfume very strong. But this one smells so clean yet spring time fresh....

I bought this because I love Gardenia's but this product was a disappointment. I do like the bottle so every now & again I go around the house & spray a little on the curtains just to get the bottle empty. Enjoy!!

I had to wait 2 months to recieve this fragrance,but it was worth.It is,indeed,a linear fragrance,but I guess it is the one that describes best the "white flowers smell".

The fragrance is pure gardenia,followed up by the delicate lilly-of-the-walley.By the way,if you're looking for a lilly-of-the walley fragrance,this one could match pretty well.
Gardenia is a very long lasting fragrance.It stays on the skin and especially on hair for hours.I could still feel the smell on my hair the next morning I woke up.

For me,this fragrance has 2 sides.The first one is sweet,innocent and elegant.But don't be fooled by that!I do think it has a hidden sexual appealing.To me,any femme fatale could wear this in summer and feel confident.

I am sorry that some of the reviewers here didn't like Gardenia,but,as always,tastes differ.Gardenia by Elizabeth Taylor is a fragrance you have to understand and appreciate.

To be honest I bought this for the pretty bottle but it stank so bad I had to return it. Too much gardenia and too sharp. I actually had trouble breathing by the time I got to the store and my face was all red and boy the headache I suffered for 3 days. I don't ever want to smell anything even similar to this.

I bought Gardenia by ET mainly for the pretty bottle(I collect perfume bottles)but the scent is really very nice. Gardenias and white flowers, but soft and very wearable, plus I got a really beautiful perfume bottle for very little money.

Imagine a wonderful cloud of gardenias` scent involving you...
The bottle is like an antique family recordation - something for to collect, and pass to the others generations..
Gardenia, ETaylor is more than that!
Gardenia is the true perfume of woman!

I also love the flower of gardenias or rather the so elusive 'Monoi' scent that's so expensive over here in Europe. Monoi is in fact tropical gardenia infused in coconut oil. I'm so happy to get almost exclusively this intoxiating, exotic white scent in this fragrance that in itself is quite linear but if you love the smell of gardenias, you'll probably like it. I'm also getting a nice drydown of orchid and musk.

A very sweet gardenia scent.I bought it last year and I still have it because I thought I liked it but it is too flowery and I can't even smell this without getting nauseated.But the bottle is very pretty and don't let me discourage you because you might like it!Worth a try and if you don't like it at least you have a pretty bottle to display!

Wow, I am so glad I "looked" before I "leaped." I almost bought a bottle of this online because the bottle was pretty, it had amazing reviews, and was inexpensive. However, one whiff of it in a store today and I couldn't drop this fast enough! It is STRONG, and it is Gardenia strong. "Intensely gardenia" could not be more right. Not my style at all, way too flowery. :(

I just got my bottle today and I LOVE it - it's like a huge bouquet of gardenias and white flowers on my wrist. The first shot is intensely gardenia, then as it dries it becomes more complex as the other scents kick in; but gardenia is still the main fragrance note. I adore the smell of gardenias, so this is bound to be a favorite!

Smells like pure gardenia but it is sweet.Don't wear this anymore.

I love this perfume.....very clean and fabulous but for some reason it does not work on my body chemistry. I love this on my cousin, I can't stop smelling her.