Elixir Shakira for women

Nice oriental! First time too sweet and impersonal. After some hour this starts to be better. Very good balanced. Not very shrill amber and nice sweetness and so soft peach! Mmm! Nice, sensual and warm!

Lovely, my favorite these days :)

lovely smell, really peachy, but fresh. i think it is perfect for spring.

I tested this today. Of all her perfumes, this is the one I like the most. The opening is spicy, musky.. and then the heart of the fragrance comes up with peach, a lovely and delicious peach. The longevity is moderate (6 hours on my skin) and the sillage is soft to moderate. But would I buy it? no. Why? Elixir doesn't evolve, it stays the same and it smells generic, like hundred other fragrances out there. Very "Avon". Right now I'm looking for a complex and longlasting scent, something unique and a little bit stronger, that screams quality and that stands out. This isn't it.

I might be aging myself with this reference, but to me, this smells like a lighter version of Revlon's Unforgetable, which I wore in high school. I checked the notes, and they are very similar. Vindication!

I don't know if I will wear it very often, but I will keep it around for the nostalgic blast it brings me when I smell it. It's like Christmas 1992 all over again each time I sniff.

Ohhh boy, I can't say enough good things about this perfume. On me, it starts off fresh and powdery but soon changes to the sweet soft peppery somewhat powdery scent that lasts about 4 hours when layered on clothes and skin. I don't get amber whatsoever (which is okay with me).

I tried and bought this at Kohl's. They offer 1 and 1.7 oz bottles at 30-something and 40-something OR, you could be like me and get the 2.5oz for $27 and some change because it comes in a holiday box set with a big lotion and some dinky lipgloss.

I really have to say though that when I tested it, all day long it reminded me of a powdered donut! Now that I own it, it still smells like that or a regular plain donut-- And I LOVE it :D

This perfume brings me back to my grandmother's house when she made cobblers all the time.
I think it's the peach/brown sugar/amber combination.
I believe I'm partial to this perfume for the nostalgia it brings to me, but the scent is nothing extraordinary.

I can see why this must be so nice on many women. In spite of the lovely notes, it is nowhere near lovely on me!

My chemistry rarely allows me to wear newer scents. A reliance on freesia and the use of certain chemicals seems to be the cause.

On the card this smells quality - and even expensive - so I would encourage everyone to ignore opinions and just TRY some!

I am enjoying Elixer very much: bought myself a birthday bottle today.
With several spritz, I'm getting the full palette of orange, pepper, light flowers..even cedar...not too much amber. I'm not into super amber, so that's fine.

At first (with only one spritz) I wondered if Elixer compared to Chantilly, Quelques Fleurs or even Maja {I have all three original, so I tested it out}. It was clear that carnation & spice dominated Chantilly, floral notes ran Quelques Fleurs...warm roses, Maja.

Elixer is much lighter &, to me, unexpected. It is softer & integrates well with my own skin smell.

I found this to be true with Shakira's S (suggests mango, melons, peaches) & Eau Florale (suggests berries, maybe strawberries, cranberries)...this is why I wanted Elixer for my birthday...

Snagged a sample paper of this on a whim, and tried it this morning. The notes sounded right up my alley--I just wish there'd been a bit more perfume on the sample, as it's hard to get a sense of the true fragrance. From what I can tell, it is indeed a spicy amberic fragrance. It is reminiscent of a strong Chai tea--warm, spicy, slightly sweet. I do sense a very light fruity-floral-ness to this, but it definitely takes a backseat to the other notes.

Think I'll be heading to Walgreens for another sample and a full on spritz of this--and then, maybe add it to my Christmas list!

I have to say, I think the bottle is fun (anyone else reminded of the bottle from "I love Genie"?!) and wish I could find the skirt Shakira is wearing in the promo.

Edit: Tried one spritz of this at the store. It's pretty strong, got a blast of pepper that almost made me sneeze and drowned out the rest of the spices. It seems to be drying down to an amber, but it's still very strong and peppery.

Absolutely beautiful! Her best perfume yet.

I smelled this tonight and it was pretty spicy. A little too much so. From the notes this is listed as having it really sounds like one I'd love. I love Amber smells but I just found this to be too heavy and spicy...almost masculine. If I found it on a good sale maybe I'd try it. I smelled it on my daughter who spritzed it on herself and she hated it. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it lots. Maybe after it is worn a while it gets better? And to me this is not really like others have said how it smells like Hilary Duff's With Love. This is much darker and heavier.

By far the best from Shakira. It has a very nice sweet amber smell to it. I don't get any cedar however.

I really liked this perfume. it is a nice well sweetie. reminds me of the "Black XS for Her"
but I did not like fixing it. compared to other brand perfumes, is very weak. 2 to 3 hours at maximum.

This is the first Shakira fragrance I have tried, so I had no idea what to expect. I immediately saw the bottle as an imitation of Dior's J'Adore bottle-- and, I agree that imitation is the best form of flattery. (I love that bottle).

With the perfume, I was pleasantly surprised—eventually.

Upon first sniffing this on the tester paper and then from the mist I spritzed into the air, I smelled only Baby Powder. Perhaps some flowers lurked beneath the baby powder smell..?

After about 10 minutes on my skin, the fragrance was 80% baby powder with about 10% white floral and 10% amber & musk. It had a grandma- like smell, and it also had an intriguing and barely identifiable fragrance beneath of flowers and amber and many other scents. It was a mystery has to how this scent would progress—or, if it would progress.

Over the next hour, the scent slightly weakened and faded on me as I began to smell pine, pepper, musk, and lots of amber. The scent changed from synthetic, cheap and unpleasant to a little heavy with amber and baby powder and spices and orange blossom.

From Hour One until the scent died, I could sense strong notes of orange blossom, freesia and amber; medium intensity peaches, cedar and musk; and slight notes of baby powder (now not overpowering or sweet), pine, black pepper and leather.

I saw styrax was listed as a scent. I won't vote on it since styrax has always been a mystery for me: sometimes it smells floral, sometimes it smells like motor oil. Perhaps the leather I smelled was the styrax… perhaps it was a leather scent.

This fragrance was sultry—there was nothing clean or girly about it. I would recommend this for more mature woman, a woman who is confident and poised while also casual and seductive.

I feel this fragrance is wonderful for the fall, and possibly for the winter. With the right coolness of weather, this sultry fragrance will make a great scent for the right person. Just be sure to work that badass attitude, ladies!

It would work best as a night scent, and it is definitely a good boudoir scent.

The fragrance begins pretty strong. I didn’t do a sillage test, though I felt everyone within 5 feet of me could smell the perfume for the first 30 minutes. By Hour One, the sillage seemed quite week, and the perfume lasted decently long on me—about 4 hours.

I would recommend this perfume for the cool months ahead—perhaps the smell won’t take so long to regulate on other people.

Same old, same old. Sultry, warm scent.

Shakira's perfumes all have a different smell!
And unlike others she puts time in them and works with the team, not just sniffing some unreleased samples and going like, ''oh yeah this one is good, put my name on it and sell it''.

She makes them close to perfection, and i think she accomplished that with Elixir(and S by Shakira)♥

I also tried this at Kohls today, completely jumping at the excitement of something new to try (yay!!!). Sadly that excitement didn't last long. It is sooooo similar to Halle Berry Hale and Hilary Duff With Love with a wink and a nod to Burberry Brit Gold. It's not that it doesn't smell nice, it just made me want to yawn. I can't wear With Love or Hale even though I enjoy them so plop this into that category and there ya have it.
End of story = nothing new. But that's not uncommon with perfumes now is it?

Tried this at Kohl's today. Very nice I must say. On me the amber, brown sugar and balminess (is that even a word?-lol) come out to play. There is something about this that reminds me of her other perfume "S." I really like it and the lasting power is pretty good too. I would pick up a bottle of this if it was in sale but it is not something I would have to have and pay big bucks for.

Loved the artsy design on the box and bought it unsniffed figuring I would be supporting my beloved Shakira even if I hated it. "Hate" is a little strong, but it's not for me...this spicy, bold concoction is for a woman with sassy spirit and one who loves the spotlight. Nice scent, but I must admit I think more masculine nice than feminine nice...reminds me of one of those scented pine pillows. Lovely & charming but not as a perfume. Give me sweet stuff for my skin!
That said, I bet loads of people will enjoy this mysterious, sort of Egyptian-feeling fragrance. I'm heading to the sink to scrub it off and reapply my mild-mannered Vanilla Lace.

Tried this at Kohls today, sprayed it on around noon..it's 8:38pm now and I can still smell it. It's nice.

Tried this on randomly at Kohl's yesterday and was rather surprised at how intriguing this was, if someone gave me a bottle I wouldn't be mad. It does start off sweet but then dries down to a rather tropical clean floral that is tinged with a clean woody incense musk, it actually smelled decently unique.

Nice Notes, very exotic - I'd love to try this.
I also LOVE her skirt: Its beautiful. Its also a nice commercial: something refreshingly different from the usual sexed-up advertisements. Way to go Shakira! :)

the bottle reminds me to Dior - J'adore + Guerlain - Idylle