White Shoulders Evyan for women

When I was younger, people would "gift" me this scent constantly. Unfortunately, I have never liked it much. Too sweet-jasmine-powder smelly. The box looks soft, but this perfume is so strong! I'm a southern gal and usually like scents that remind me of home (jasmine) but not in this case. I also tend to smell it on old people, so probably associate it with being geriatric.

My grandma got this for me for Christmas and I'm 13 & I don't exactly like the strongness of it. Two or more sprays are WAY TOO MUCH and make you choke on your breath. I got the 4.5 FL oz. and I haven't even made a dent in it. Secretly, it's the only fragrance I would not wear regularly. To please my grandma, I put it on at night and I've found it gives me pleasant dreams.

My grandmother wore this her whole life until she died at age 93. It brings back a lot of memories. Not a perfume I'd ever wear, but one that I love to smell on other people.

I also once asked for White Linen and was given this instead. I tried to like it but it just gave me a headache. It was way too strong and sickly sweet on me. I gave it away.

I was really disappointed with the smell of this one. It is the second bottle shown among the two pictures of white shoulders...the one with pink liquid and broad golden cap.
It smells awful...more like chameli ka tel(jasmine oil), and it has got an oily feel, and a very strong smell which I was just not able to handle.
It reminds me of a girl from school who used to apply the chameli ka tel....and I felt nauseated after smelling it.
A very bad buy for me...not my kind.

I love this classic floral scent. Not too heavy for me and blends well with my body chemistry. Funny how I love more of the fragrances that "old ladies" are supposed to be wearing. I prefer to call them classic scents and I like wearing the classics more than the non classic scents. I hate to see people saying some of these fragrances are "grandma scents."

Just as good as I remember. Soft, floral, feminine. Youthful, yet classic. This is my new signature scent.

I have the eau de cologne formulation and it's much lighter and mellower than the perfume. Sweet but never cloying, balanced and charming. Women seem to perceive it differently than men do. Women tend to think it's a nice-girl, tame scent and men think it's so feminine that it's devastating. White Shoulders is the most beautiful economical cologne that I know of. It's never off-putting but it can be quite linear. It layers well with other scents, however. I like to wear it with Coconut oil perfume from The Body Shop. I wouldn't know about it smelling like grandmothers, though. My grandmothers wore Opium and Paloma Picasso!

This review is for the EDP: White Shoulders is one of the most direct floral perfumes I have ever sniffed - the first and most enduring accord conveyed here is of white flowers, and only white flowers. There is no postmodern flourish, no antisocial contrast, no synthetic bombast. Just tuberose, gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, and lilac, with emphasis on the jasmine. And man, is it beautiful. The quality is stunning, considering the price of White Shoulders. There are none of the screechy synthetic notes that one sniffs in other drugstore floral perfumes. The jasmine is especially delicate, elegant, and naturally sweet-smelling. The interesting thing about White Shoulders is that its modest composition and naturalistic character make it alluringly feminine, and also brazenly unisex. There's also a hint of antiquity here. I'm reminded of Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, and can't help but feel that something extremely close to White Shoulders was diluted in her bath water. Sniff-sniff's point regarding the raw sexual potency in this sort of floral magic is well taken, and I would only add that on a warm spring evening in the French countryside, this fragrance would also add significantly to whatever sexual charisma I might possess. Truly timeless, an underrated gem. If only all floral perfumes smelled this good!

I love smelling this scent on women. An old flame wore it as her signature scent, and it always smelled great on her. I buy it for my wife, even though it's not her "cup of tea", she wears it for me when we're out together.

It can be a bit fierce when first put on, but it settles down into a glorious scent that (pardon me, ladies) makes me rock-hard every time...

floral, sweet, powdery and vintage. it also, has something too strong for my taste; slight cloying factor is present.
maybe I'll give it another try, since there are many wonderfully combined floral notes in here.

Very floral, sweet, soft, very powdery at first but a lot less so as the day goes on
Ladylike & pleasant scent.

EDIT: when over-applied the tuberose gets sickly sweet. I like it, but I really have to be careful not to spill on myself because then I get tired of it.

Thanks Dear Kittycat63 about good swap. I do like this one huge much. Soft, and floral, lightfull and loud at the same time. Multifaced scent indeed. And dispite of being colonge this have already been on my skin 3 hours and still is. So.. thinking to be long lasting as well.Dry enough for winter days. And light enough for summer days. Can be used in any period of the year.
Ty Sweet Heart ***<3<3<3***

I have a full 4.5oz (130ml) bottle of White Shoulders available for swap if anyone's interested!

Application of this evokes a feeling of being outside during a hot summer evening when the air is filled with the most wonderful scents of that season; jasmine, gardenia, warm grass, melds very pleasantly with a hint of something warm (sandalwood?) I even get a hint of suntan lotion. Fresh and sultry at the same time, easy and versatile to wear. One of the longest lasting perfumes(12 hours layered with the lotion!) I have ever encountered and one of the only florals my husband is crazy about. Thank you

This is one of the few scents that I remember hating when I was a teenager. My aunt wore it but she was a chain-smoker and bathed infrequently so that's probably why it smelled so terrible. I should probably give it another chance.

Another classic fragrance that is unbearable to my nose. Heavy.

My Aunt used to get a bottle of this every Christmas back in the 60's. She would let me try it on and when I got old enough to wear perfume, this is the first one I got - the smell still takes me back to great times in my life!

Sigh. Love this on other people, but it turns weird on me - kind of sour.

MOM perfume is a theme here :) mine also wore this & hawaiian white ginger anyway its apretty ultra feminine white floral.....white flowers is what it always immediatly brought 2 my mind and for all who say old lady perfume & grandma perfume both of my grandma's in there youth were beautiful enough 2 be movie stars in my opinion & if it's WS. or channel No5 or youthdew by Estee Lauder ....these beautiful woman choose these fragrances & this is why they have REMAINED they are classics for a reason ;) so go pull out pics of your moms & grandma's etc . . when they were 16-30 & remember they was not always a grandma ! also that someday if we are lucky we will be someone's grandma & smellgood doing it LOL

White Shoulders is a honeyed tuberose,lilac and lily of the valley to my nose.I don't get any spice and I know the honey scent is coming from the amber.I can see why it has been around so long-it's gorgeous.It's one of the most feminine perfumes I have ever smelled-I just feel so pretty and romantic when I wear it.I adore the bottle-it has such a lovely vintage look:)

@miahreis
What a beautiful story-my condolences for your loss*hug*

I really like this scent,never smelled this before I've seen the bottle just never smelled it until my mother came home with a big bottle of the splash cologne from a garage sale..It's a plain bottle with a profile of a woman(reminds me of a cameo)But has a beautiful soft floral scent, similar to Tatiana.The look of a bottle can be deceiving,I have smelled horrible scents in very pretty expensive bottles.And some of the nicest scents have been in plain inexpensive bottles.

I first smelled this perfume on my favorite resident at a nursing home I used to work. She quickly became my adopted great grandmother and every time I hugged her I got a whiff of a sweet, powdery, floral perfume that smelled amazing. I have always been able to tell her my troubles and about life. She always told me, "whatever you say is between you, me and God; and God and I don't tattle!" She's the only one who's ever held my hand, which I'll never forget. I have a bottle on my dressing table usually for nostalgia purposes. She passed away last night, and of course I'm devastated, so I sprayed this on my wrist and have been smelling this while wiping my eyes every three seconds LOL. I love and miss you, Uva! Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful perfume! I'm going to wear this to work tomorrow with the pink sweater you gave me :)

My Grandmother's signature scent and still loved by me! I wear it when I want to have her energy around me. A very girly vibe indeed!!

Lovely. My mother let me use hers when I was 11. It still smells the same. I like that it's never sharp and never turns powdery or soapy all the way to the last delicately wafting breath of it. I got samples of Poup'ee today and out of the vial I immediately recognized WS- I put it on and it was like a fraternal twin sister of WS- maybe not identical twin but not just any sister- one who's either a twin or trying really hard to be just like her big sister White Shoulders!

It was another bargain from TJ Maxx, only $9.99 for 4.5 oz. cologne. I bought it based on the reviews and tried it today before going to work. The first impression, "oh, no, I don't have time to jump back in the shower and wash it off. How can all of these people be so wrong? That will be my first perfume disappointment." So, I decided to brave it, and go to work "as is". Sorry my co-workers, you will have to deal with my experiments. While driving I noticed a beautiful flowery powdery smell and suddenly understood WS. It is not an "old lady" smell. It is a "proper lady" smell. A picture of a warm spring/summer day in a country site from 19th century comes up. Imagine a small wooden house full of kids with a kind lady teacher. She is wearing a modest but very clean dress. WS is her smell. It is not sexy, spicy or demanding attention. It is a smell of a church going lady, mother or teacher. After you brave the first "plastic doll" notes (probably aldehydes) you will be pleasantly surprised by beautiful flowers. The longevity and silage of the perfume are good. I would be wearing it to the doctor's appointments, kids' soccer games or teacher-parent conferences.

White Shoulders is surely one of the great classic fragrances of all time. Its is neither dated or old lady.I wore this in my early 20,s and it made me feel beautiful, feminine, and perhaps grownup but never like an old lady. I find White Shoulders to be one of the most divinely natural smelling florals ever created. This is what I loved the most about it. If I closed my eyes and inhaled, I would swear I was standing in the middle of the most pristine and heavenly flower garden on earth and oooh those aldehydes. (this is also a wonderfuly clean fragrance)
The sent of heavenly flowers and cleanliness. It is highly unlikely that this lovely classic will ever become obsolete.

This lasts and lasts on me. The sweet, soft florals take on a spicy, carnation note over time, and finally fade to a sweet powder. White Shoulders is a timeless, romantic scent that I love more and more as time goes by.

This is a lovely floral scent, it smells like lillies of the valley and jasmin. One sniff and I was in love. This fragrance reminds me of a super-light version of Joy or Diorissimo, it's sweet and comforting.

White Shoulders is the perfect proof of that something doesn't have to be expensive to be good.

I have a vintage and the new formulation, love them both, The new version is very similar to the old, so I can't understand why people hate so much elizabeth arden version. I know that the original fragrance seems to be more complex but, both version smell great.

White Shoulders 'Arden' cologne stay extremely close to the skin.

I'm in my mid 20s and just purchased this, and I have to say I love it! It is a very creamy, dewy, green, sharp spring time floral. Goes on quite strong, so use sparingly, but has great lasting power. Such a clasic, beautiful scent. It makes me think of watering a flower garden in late may.

White Shoulders conjours long lost memories and love
long forgotten like a message in a bottle from years
ago collects our treasured feelings and nostalgic
wistfulness; Rose petals lies gently on a alabaster
windowsill basking in the early summer sun glowing
in hues of pale pink and blood red blowing from a
rose garden giving a scent of intoxicating spender
A summer breeze blows though delicate white lace
curtains gives the sweet scent of French lilacs
floats in the air and adds an aura of peace and
tranquility, and Relaxes your Grandmother's white
Persian Kitten after playing with her Antique
pearl necklace.

My favorite aunt wore this when I was litte. She could wash her clothes and you could still smell it and it smelled great on her. Every time I see it I think about her.

my first love gave me this perfume one year. i loved the jasmine scent,the hint of lily of the valley and amber, the soft blush of warm fragrance as it dried onto my skin. i loved the bottle, putting it on, just everything about this perfume. one of my all time favorite romance scents. a classical winner.

This is a very sweet floral. Sweet, sweet, sweet and very nice. I really like this scent, I can tolorate some of the really sweet ones and this is one of them, another that I really like is Jessica Mclintocks original perfume too but it has to be summer for me to ware the sweet ones like this.

The first wear White Shoulders was my older sister way back in the 1960s. Then my other older sister in the 70s until today. The fragrance never changed. It remained the White Shoulders then and now! So sweet, so flowery -- strong,yet so elegant!

This frag still rocks!! For those saying it's "old lady" style umm ok a girl in her tweens bought a bottle right in front of me FOR HER SELF ok. On me this a very strong jasmine fume. Just long lasting and gorgeous. i will be purchasing a couple of bottles of this stuff very soon. It's my next fume goal. I luv lusting after a frag till I aquire it, especially one as beautiful as this. Why oh why do I have this addiction?

When I was a girl, I remember smelling White Shoulders on the women who wore it, and I always wanted to someday be able wear it as well as they did. Now that I'm around the same age as those women were, I have sampled the current White Shoulders in the store and was so sorely disappointed, because what I smell from the bottles of today is NOT the same. To me the reformulation smells, well, funky..... a bit like cat wee-wee. I was so sure that this offending scent was not what I remembered from the 70's. So lucky, me I found a vintage bottle. Oh, glorious White Shoulders, THAT is what I remember!!! Like a reviewer before me said, creamy, beautiful white floral. There is something very special about the original version that I just can't explain, it's beautiful, elegant, sweet & creamy, so lady-like.

I have never smelled the vintage version and only have the modern one. So I have no comparison point but can only review the modern version. I do like it -but since its strong for my taste, I use it very sparingly - just a couple of sprays. I also use it in a rotation with other fragrances since I don't think I could use it continuously, my nose tires of scents easily, particularly the more potent ones. However, within these parameters, White Shoulders is a perfume that I do actually enjoy quite a bit. There is something in it that draws me, not sure which note it is. I do not associate it with grandma since she never wore this particular scent.

first,yea this was my moms perfume;
she wore it amazingly thru her all to short life, she was a white shoulders girl, in the fifties as a teen this was the fragrance she chose as her first and remained true to it! like a modern pink sugar girl she came with all the accoutrement's W/S soap, bath oils parfum, perfume, cologne, powder gosh you name it she had it lol, when she took a bath our house literally smelled like W/S.. that's not a bad thing,people say it smells old ladyish my mom never got to be an old lady so i never tied the two together threw her life she was reminiscent of the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor and the perfume fit her well...that said ,my wife loves florals and this is one of the best from the beautifully delicate pink boxes with the cameos to the elegant bottles filled with this wonderful juice its just so feminine the scent opens big and fresh with very sweet flowers and keeps growing! to us the gardenia scent, i think, is the predominant smell, big flowers hard to tell maybe its the jasmine or lilac? it's so pretty very strong and real long lasting unfortunately being my mothers smell i don't find it ,say,attractive on my wife's neck but i still think its awesome and spray a little around here and there just to reminisce and enjoy, left on moms dresser was a bottle of 'most precious' close to the same bottle and label as white shoulders obviously a sister a little ? sweeter any body remember or know anything about this one? thanks :)

I had never tried this because I thought it was something that grandmothers wore. I heard people say they didn't like it and their mother wore it ect. Well, one day I found a vintage bottle and put a little on my wrist. I then understood why it still sells after 60 years on the market. It is a very nice white floral perfume. It's not for me but White Shoulders is a lovely vintage fragrance. If your grandmother does wear this then buy her some more of it.

I do like the smell but I wouldn't wear it! I think its definitely something my grandmother would be wearing, so maybe when I'm older : )

I did get the .25 ounce size, what attracted me to it was the bottle I just think its so cute and pretty! I am using the bottle that I filled with my sig scent to keep in my purse, since they don't make a mini for it : )

The modern version smells like a scented sanitary napkin or something, but the vintage....ohhh baby, the vintage that was made by Evyan smells gorgeous! Sweet and oh so creamy jasmine and tuberose that always gets me compliments whenever I've dipped into my vintage bottle. Takes a few minutes to develop after applying but after it's dried down for a moment it is truly stunning. The original White Shoulders by Evyan is definitely in my top white florals of all time, right alongside Fracas and Michael Kors.

I wore this for a while in high school and have a small bottle on my dresser even now. My mother never wore perfume but did like White Shoulders. It's very sweet but fresh and clean, and I smell the lily of the valley and lilac the strongest. It keeps a green, soft, damp flowers smell on my skin which I love...reminds of lilacs with dew clinging to them. I used to wear Most Precious in college which is similar, but sharper and less sweet. I can't find that fragrance anymore though...

Sassy1, thank you! I hate the "that smells old!" remarks... just not polite. Also, your review is exactly what I was thinking... STRONG white floral with TONS of a nostalgic feel. Whenever I take a dabbling of White Shoulders from my mother's dresser (I need to break down and get my own bottle already lol), I feel so classic and feminine. I am instantly transported to thinking about one of my favorite 1940s classic movies. If strong, "dated" florals are your thing, then you will certainly appreciate White Shoulders. Gives me a good feeling whenever I wear it.

Reminds me of my Grandma. Not saying that's a bad thing, it just brings back memories of her. Not something I would wear, but when I smell it I remember her.

I just love this.I have found that I do like aldehydes.Mostly i am an oriential flower girl butt,I keep going back to this when i am bored with others.Its another great one for powdering the sheets.Lasts for days in bed and always makes me smile when i bury my head in the pillow.Not a grandma smell either.

Profound White Floral. Not for everyone but from time to time I love to reach for this garden floral. I can pick out each floral it seems: gardenia, jasmine, tuberose, lily-of-the-valley, lilac, lily and orris. White Shoulders is quite strong and definitely not for the weak! It's classic sharp beauty shines thru yet it doesn't weigh you down as the "old granny" smell. A timeless evocative beauty still holding her own.

Nice oldie but goodie fragrance!

A classic - was given to me by a relative as a teenager (in the 1990's) when I asked for "White Linen" which reminds me of my mom - so I was surprised when I got this... hahaha... at least they got the "White" part right It took me awhile to get used to it, but I actually began to like it - surprise surprise. I have noticed I tend to like aldehydes and this one is no different. A beautiful floral and if you are an aldehyde fan you will like it.

It's a loud and proud floral loaded with lily and gardenia. Not a bad thing, but probably too strong for most. My grandma wore this one and yours probably did too. This may make it too dated (not "old" girls!! I hate that connotation!) for current frag wearers but personally, that doesn't bother me. I love strong florals and this one is a permanent fixture on my dresser. Great to wear in winter when you want to bring back the sun. It's been around since the 40's, so it's a classic worth trying.

This was my very first perfume. It was given to me as a birthday gift in the early 1960's. I loved it then and I love it now. It starts out with a beautiful sweet floral and powdery fragrance but as the dry down begins, the spices take center-stage. White Shoulders is a true classic that has stood the test of time.