Gardenia Penhaligon`s for women

A true gardenia lover's gardenia fragrance. I just went back to this sample after ignoring it for a couple of months and now I can honestly say, I will consider this scent for the summer. It's very femme, very alluring with lasting silage and underneath the rose and magnolia come through after that initial wave of gardenia tickles you. But make no mistake,this is a "romantic" evening scent, if you wear this to your office you'll be irritating someone's allergies for sure.

It is a beautiful Gardenia, smells like a breeze of natural flowers. you get more the top and the beginning of the heart notes of the flower. Without the animal and mushroom notes. Fresh and full of life and beauty.

this s a vanilla tuberose with some freshness, but this is not an original scent, or maybe it is the original first good gardenia scent, cause this one is a renewed version of the one of 70's i think, but there is a lot of gardenia scents there which smells the same of near, the one from Goutal is very near from this one.

this scent is beautiful and fresh very spring flowery tuberose vanille, but it is not really stunning scent, very classy and pure, but i prefer lily notes for pureness

Golly this scent has alot of notes in it!! I smell tuberose the most, which I'm not a huge fan of, but in this it is light and subtle and I quite like the overall effect. Don't think I'd reach for this often though so wouldn't buy a fb but so far I'm really liking this line's offerings. Especially considering im not a huge floral fan, ESP soliflores, but these are nicely done.

Penhaligon GARDENIA is a somewhat sweet gardenia fragrance, with a significant dose of tuberose. In fact, a better name for this composition might be GARDENIA TUBEROSE. Or better still, since the opening is tuberose-heavy, and the drydown far more gardenia-like, perhaps this should be named TUBEROSE GARDENIA.

Comparing Penhaligon's GARDENIA side-by-side with Chanel's, the former is quite a bit sweeter and smoother. The Chanel presentation is greenish, sharp, and bitter to my nose. When I reviewed it a while back, I mentioned that I preferred MARC JACOBS, and comparing the three (believe it or not, I sprayed MJ on one of my ankles and had to contort myself in a pretzel shape in order to conduct this scientific study (-:), I still prefer MJ to both Penhaligon and Chanel. Plus MJ has much better longevity.

My understanding is that all gardenia in perfume is either a composite creation of other flowers or else an entirely synthetic rendition. MJ's superior longevity suggests that it may be more synthetic than the other two. But I prefer it nonetheless: the nose knows best!