Madly Kenzo! Kenzo for women

It is kind of masculine but that is what makes it different to all those musky, candy perfumes...At first sniff I thought it was vanilla nothing special, then when I went to buy it after several paper strips were given to me, I loved the Cedar in it!! I fell in love and here I am! I use it to go out a lot..people compliment me all the time and my sister said that a night she could smell my perfume on her clothing Ha! Maybe I put on too much! I highly recommend it!!! Thumbs up!!!!

very masculine for my taste

I like this. It's somehow soft and peppery, creamy and floral at the same time. Plus even though it has heliotrope, it doesn't turn to play doh on me like Kenzo Amour does. It's very unique, but I'd still call it an oriental... Just really different from most. A good day time scent. Clean and cozy.

finally something innovative on the perfume market. love at first spritz, bought it right away. the pink pepper blast with the sultry sweet aroma of orangeflower is tempting the nose like some sort of cinnamon and sweet chai tea. it stays peppery sweet from top to bottom, but not at all cloying heavy sweet, because the intense incense with just a hint of vanilla aroma and a velvety rose gives it that very oriental edge while it smells well grounded with that creamy heliotrope and woods at the base. a really solid construction of a perfume for strong and confident woman. love it... people who don t get that amazing scent maybe have the wrong skinchemiszry. on me it lasts for hours with a close sillage.
to me this is a darker version of marc jacobs lola perfume.

Interesting, but not for me.

I tried it on from a sample spray vial and regretted it immediately. Not that it is not nice, but it is not me. Too strong, too heady, and it feels like I'm trying too hard.

At first sniff, it's floral and musky, but towards the drydown it becomes more powdery and smoky. Reminds me of having cigarette smoke stuck on my clothes, only more pleasant.

I see a agressive sort of woman wearing this. Someone sporty and not afraid to fight back. Someone bold and outspoken. A person like me, laid-back and whom prefers to observe rather than put myself out there, would not feel very comfortable wearing this, I feel. It's like wearing someone else's skin.

It's lasting (sadly, for me) and everytime I get a whiff of it, it knocks me off my feet. So in terms of strength, it's pretty good. But otherwise, not for me.

It smells like spring.
A fruity floral fragrance for women with happy young spirit.
Bold, sweet, cheerful, feminine and alluring.
For me the best perfume Kenzo.
It is a remarkable fragrance that lasts all day. Your smell is totally different than all the perfumes I ever had, to me that makes him a very special fragrance.
Perfect for all occasions.
I am eager to have it in my collection.

Unique, oriental, original.. Love at first sniff. Happy to meet such an original creation (so surprising recently!!) Balmy, smoky, smoke mixed with vanilla tones (gives a similar impression of Amour Le Parfum) African orange flower is felt at the beginning very strong, and all those oriental notes are blended with citrusy tones so well and it prevents this creation to become a choking smoky oriental.
Spice I felt most is cinnamon in this. Maybe heliotrope&incense&vanilla combo give this impression. This definitely has Kenzo signature, incense&powder.
Review is for EDP, I found EDT less impressive, but it deserves one more proper try..

I agree with you, @istateistate. That's pure PROPOLIS. How would I like it? I can't. I really detest this scent. The bottle is terrible to keep on the hands.


Scent:

0/ 5*


Bottle:

1*/5*

A gorgeous scent! Very balmy and oriental, it is also mysterious and quite spicy. I can smell pink pepper and incense. i love it on my skin, i feel quite nice wearing it!
It is a lovely fragrance! :)

gorgeous unusual scent

the impression i´ve had of madly edp on my skin was: Colors of Benetton!

The very first time I smelled it I couldn't understand it and it didn't impress me much. It seems to be fragrance with what You have to get used to or You have to "get to know it better". Overall quite interesting fragrance.
On me it's delicate but has this something, what makes You and others around You excited. Flirtatious.
After an hour reminds me of Juicy Fruit and I loved Juicy Fruit chewing gum in childhood.

This has the EXACT SMELL of propolis, and I really mean the EXACT smell. Pleasent honey based fragrance.

This scent is really close to UFO, but UFO has a warmness to it that madly doesn't have. I smell no bubblegum or fruitiness in this scent! I'm guessing people are mixing this one up with edt, because the edt is fruity, nothing like the perfume version. Remember if your trying to tell the difference between the two, edp is in the purple bottle & the edt is in the pink bottle! Anyways, this is a very nice scent! If u can't afford the UFO, give this a try @ a quarter of the price!

Fruity bubblegum, sour boredom in the bottle.

First I have to say that I LOVE this fragrance. My mum got my bottle in France, when it was still limited to Swiss and France. So of course I was so delighted when Kenzo announced that it would be available in Germany, too.

But a few days ago I sprayed the german version on my wrist and was shocked. It smelled completly different, there was a weird note of bubblegum in the beginning which I didn't like at all. After a while, the Madly kenzo that I know and love came through, but still, it wasn't the same scent. I tried it a few times now, in different stores, but still. The fragrance is way weaker and has this strange smell of bubblegum.
So does anyone now if they changed the recipe or anything for the european launch, because I'm a bit devasted...?

I really like this one. The rare thing was that I didn't notice any change since the first spray until the drydown. Maybe my nose it's too "amateur" yet, only thing I detect it's spices, but i'm fine with that! (Sorry if I wrote something wrong, english it's not my first language)

This is an interesting release in that at least, it attempts to meet the niche-mainstream gap by going with the niche eastern trend at a mainstream price. Unfortunately, I find it a fairly weak incense lacking character which should and could have been much punchier from this house.

Why in some countries you can't buy EDP?? I don't want EDT and I can't buy EDP? >;-(

Pourquoi je ne peut pas acheter EDP? Chez moi dans Sephora il y a EDT seulement! C'est injuste!

Great floral/oriental/woody scent, I definitely love it. However its bottle design is so ordinary.

Madly Kenzo is typically Kenzo; an unusual fragrance that, on first sniff, is not immediately agreeable.
I tested it three times before I made up my mind about it.

The first impression I get is that I do not like the mix of rose, blanched almonds and soap.
But the fragrance settles quickly and I can smell warm, sunny, and slightly bitter aromas of orange flower and sweet heliotrop.
As the fragrance develops the initial strange accord of almond and soap returns but, like a whisper, it remains in the background.
The drydown is not much different, the musky notes are just more prominent.

Madly Kenzo EDP lasts for around 5 hours on my skin; the sillage is average and does not annoy the people around me.

All in all, I would describe Madly Kenzo EDP as a floriental for starters; it is flowery and sweet, warm and powdery.
At the same time it is quite modern but does not fall into the 'agreeable mainstream' category.
It is for sure a fragrance that is consciously chosen!

But because of that special accord I strongly recommend you test the fragrance before you buy it.

I find this fragrance very comforting and nostalgic.It has a 1970s feel about it.
The overriding notes are pepper,pine and heliotrope.I smell no incense at all.It has a soapiness to it which made me think I would find aldehydes in the list of notes,but no.I think it must be the combination of pine and floral notes that creates that effect.However,if you like aldehydes such as Chanel no19 or Rive Gauche ( to name but two) you will probably like this too.
Pretty good sillage and longevity.
A winner for me.

This was a very dry incense scent, almost entirely incense on my skin. There's a bit of woody cedar in the background and a very slight dusting of heliotrope which gives a hint of powderiness with none of the sweetness.
Too pure an incense scent for my tastes, but I think this would be an amazing scent for incense lovers in hot weather. My boyfriend thought it would be great for the beach and I actually have to agree. Quite persistent too, with nice sillage, which I wasn't expecting. A good scent, but I thought there would be more to it from the pyramid.

Wore this several times over a cple of weeks and I absolutely love it. It does have an "incense" quality to it but it's subtle and lasts forever on my skin.

very woody scent but smokey dry woody also very spicy herbal very oriental

sunny fragrance but radiant
like givenchy ange ou demon or the other kenzo amour fragrances

This one is quite weird scent, though still one of the best that I've smelled recently. Madly is a typical Kenzo - powdery, but now it is powdery in an unsweet and mature way. I can't describe the fragrance to the notes, but I feel a woody peppery musky dry down on a powdery background. Madly is done in Japanese style and, yes, it has something masculine inside. Good work, Aurelien!

15. august 2012

I have tested it sevral times on my skin and i must say that this is one of the few Kenzos that i really like. To me this is a strict and cold fragrance. A lot of incence and pepper. A lot of musk as well and woodsy notes. That keeps you calm but is very energetic at the same time. It is quite powerful, lasts for about 6 hours on my skin and has a good sillage at the beginning, later turns into softer scent. I can´t feel that it is changing over the time, but this is sometimes very good and that´s what i like in this particular fragrance. I have a fragrance in my collection that smells quite the same, but much softer and weaker: "Di Romeo Gigli" by Gigli. I swear, i can smell the same pepper note, the same cold fragrance, but "Madly" is much better for my taste. Usually i don´t like the notes of oranges in perfumes but here this is just in right composition so it doesn´t disturb me at all.
I would really love to have it in my collection.
A HUGE "LIKE" FROM ME!

Madly is really a cross between FlowerbyKenzo and KenzoAmour, you get the musk from the 1st and the vanilla-ish notes of the 2nd. Like most Kenzo fragrances it's very powdery. I really like it, but it lacks projection and longevity. It does do better on fabric than on my skin though.

I don't think it's doing very well sales-wise as it was overshadowed by FlowerTag which was launched just 3 months earlier (quite a hit with teens in France)... I think Tag was just intended to be a flanker but became rather a big launch after all, to Madly dismay. Kenzo is now quickly coming out with a new "pink" edt version of Madly to save the franchise.

I love Kenzo parfums. This is not of my favorites. But is not a bad fragrance. In fact, my husband goes insane every time i use it. I think that is a perfum for evening or night time. For cold season. I'm agree with people that says is wood and vanilla. One touch of incense. I don`t feel spices in it. Spices there are in Shiseido Feminite du Bois; maybe in Kenzo Vintage.

I don't think this perfume is horrible like other people. I can feel only cinnamon (probably a mixture of incense and vanilla) and cedar, nothing more.
This haven't a super strong smell (as Kenzo Jungle) is usable for many different occasions, but does not smell sophisticated.
It is a good perfume, but I'll not buy it. For the price, I expected something more elaborate and sophisticated, especially being a Kenzo.

Horrible. Like we usually say in Brazil: 'fedô'. Very sad to say that's really bad, cause it's a Kenzo, but it's true: don't waste your time with this fragrance. Keep your nose safe. It's an advice! :P

Esse perfume é maravilhoso... traz lembranças de uma primavera cheia de cor e ventos =)
O agradável cheiro de pimenta nos remete à sensualidade escondida atrás da meninice do resto da fragância!

This truly is an Amazing Unique Fragrance, You want something different...this is a big must!!!...When I first sprayed it on my skin it was like Wow!!...alittle too spicy...then once it settled I could smell the fresh orange.. pink pepper and a tinge of musk...I absolutely love it...to me it's fresh unique and amazing...and mark my word...you will get tons of compliaments...

Such a BIZARRE scent. I don't mean in the Hermes Jardins sur le Nil/Méditerranée kind of bizarre...I mean, it is really revolting to me. Not trying to be mean...we all smell things differently obviously but I was shocked that Kenzo was behind this scent...they tend to be subtle and unique yet appeal to the masses and this perfume does not give me any of that personally.

I really, really don't get the negative comments saying this is the worst release in 2011. Come on, that's not true. I really like it. It's a warm, spicy perfume. It lasts some hours and it smells amazing.

I get creamy vanilla with the heliotrope and pepper!

This one got me lifting my eyebrows. Did I put anything on? I can barely smell anything, and what I do smell leaves me totally unimpressed. Very common and uniteresting.

To bad most people don't like this fragrance. Maybe it's because the warmth of the perfume is not going with most people's skinscent. But on my skin..... wow!! It is warm, soft, sensual, powdery and even a little bit cool. I really love it especialy because I didn't expect anything from a perfume by Kenzo. Most of the perfumes are to sweet/green and that's not going well with my skin. So it's a sweet surprise!! Btw It's lasting for hours and hours :)

I tested this one on a paper. My life went on as if nothing had happened...

I can't imagine me wearing this perfume, it has a weird note in it. I think the incense is the one and it remembers me of walking into a church. The drydown is much better but not so that I want to purchase it.
For me a perfume has to smell nice from top , middle notes to the drydown. In the past I tried Feminite du Bois from Shiseido, there's some simularity I think.

This scent doesn't fit the butterflies and flowers on the package I think, they give you the impression of a much lighter, flowery scent.

Cool bottle, with a not so cool scent. This fragrance is quite possibly the worst release of 2011 in my opinion.

Synthetic is a word that springs to mind automatically after smelling Madly Kenzo. I find it to be a mish-mash of strange, unfriendly notes lacking the quality and ease that most Kenzo fragrances possess. Plasticky and odd sums up this composition perfectly for me.

I'm not usually the type of person to down a fragrance upon a first testing, but it's difficult to see how my opinions could possibly differ, let alone how I could possibly face wearing this fragrance again. I really find it hard to stomach.

The drydown was my only relief, being an airy blend of musky woods and heliotrope. Nothing to rave about of course, but certainly better than the top notes. The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am in Kenzo for having approved this.

Madly Kenzo thankfully doesn't project too well, nor lasts any more than a few short hours. I was quite glad to be free of the scent by the conclusion of my testing, and I can't say I'll be all too forgiving if this fragrance sells well this year.

recibí esta fragancia de regalo el sábado pasado. Ese día era muy caluroso aquí en Argentina,de modo que este perfume me pareció muy fuerte al principio. Luego de algunas horas lo fuí aceptando mejor...los días siguientes fueron más frescos(estamos en primavera y el tiempo es muy variable)...y continué usando Madly,realmente cada día me gusta más...es casi una adicción lo que me provoca esta fragancia,me encanta,es muy distinta a todas las que conozco...like it,nice,not boring,different,long lasting...

I thought this sounded interesting regarding the notes, but I found it very boring and even harsh when I tested it today. It reminded me of turpentine.

It is something different indeed, and I admire that, but it is not appealing to me. Not soft at all, instead quite pungent, strong.
It reminds me of a overwhelming perfume I had a long time ago, still can't remember which one. Although I love orange blossom and vanilla, I cannot recognize them. There is another overwhelming, balsamic ingrediënt, that is quite harsh here. Perhaps the pepper, but then it is not as soft as the pepper in Apparition from Ungaro. I guess it must be the incense in combination with the rest (because there are many perfumes with incense that I love).

Too weak and boring ! Staying power is bad , there is not much more to say , sorry ... :-/

I had a chance to test it, it was really soft. I could not smell much, it was sweet, i could not notice the incense. I was on my skin more of a skinscent. I was disappointed because i thought considering the notes it would be noticable. But no not on my skin.

The versatile fragrance with a little bit of everything - oriental / flora/ gourmand /powder.
Not too strong, not too weak.
It stands out in its own subtle way.

A peppery creamy fragrance. If you like spices, try it :) This is all I can say now, will need to try it again to make this review more detailled. The bottle is really nice by the way!

So very similar to Twilight (SJP) but better!

It starts invigorating, spicy (little bit) and gourmand due to the orange flower and pink pepper, then goes to a powdery (incense) floral bouquet and then stays gently warm, softly woody and a little bit sweet due to the combination cedar, musk and vanilla. A so, so good soft skin scent - the number of sprits also have something to say regarding “softness”...

I want it!!! where is it!!! I need it!!
I found it on ebay!!!! Yeah