White Musk Libertine The Body Shop for women

I really like it, it is quite different ,I get a soft sweet fuzzy scent, not synthetic at all, it has a certain quality that I didnt think BS scents could have! it smells like an exotic dessert, and the honey note is real nice. in my top 5. I advise though that EDP is superior to EDT. The smell is not common either.
For the price it is a steal. smells better than some expensive niche IMO

I spray-tested this scent in EDP formulation on my wrist today. I got nothing but a sweet musky-rose scent for the first hour, the musk note even smelled somewhat sharp/synthetic and distracted from the other gourmand notes...*yawn* boring!! But then, the dry-down made my mouth seriously water and I almost couldn't believe it was the same scent...I was pleasantly surprised. The musky-rose softens, and I'm left with a very soft and delicious, ultra-gourmand aroma of silky honey, vanilla cream, rose water, and freshly spun sugar! Yum! It even reminded me of Pink Sugar, just so much smoother, graceful and delicate with the addition of musk...just imagine a Fraiche and florale version of PS, where the raspberry and licorice are replaced by roses and honey, still smelling pink, innocent, and candy-like, that's what White Musk Libertine is (the dry-down atleast). Would I purchase it? Sadly no, and even though it does have good longevity, the scent unfortunately stays very, very close to the skin...and the opening is just too dull and generic.

Another love-hate fragrance for me. At first I thought it was horrid, but I was so surprised at how much it reminded me of my grandfather's shaving lotion, that I find myself putting it on now and then just to be transported back to that time when he was still around.
Perfumes are play-things for me, to step back in time, or to some forgotten episode of my life, or even to some dream world. I can't get enough of them... Each perfume has a story to tell.

Sweet creamy musky floral loveliness!

And inexpensive too!! Its a winner.

I applied White Musk Libertine at 9am, its now 5pm and its still there. Just an hour ago my friend told me I smell lovely, so it's not just me :-)

Reading the previous reviews it seems I'm rather lucky to be enjoying this so much.

Despite reviews, I enjoy this fragrance, OCCASIONALLY, not an everyday scent, more of a sporadic once-in-a-while fragrance.

I got a sample of this. It's a bright, floral white musk; very sweet, but also with an air of freshness. i would try a tester before buying a bottle. all i read is bad reviews on this but i quite like it.

I thought I would love this based on the notes. While I didn't think it was a complete scrubber, I would never wear this. I wonder if my nose can't smell certain notes or something because what I smelled bears no resemblance to the perfume reviewers raving about. Rose, almond, honey, whipped cream?! Where are all these wondeful notes? Perhaps I am especially sensetive to musk because that's all I could smell-musk with a hint of rose, which ended up smelling sort of very musty floral. I sprayed it on a paperstrip so I know its not my skin chemistry but I can't imagine how it smells so different from the notes listed. I actually liked the regular White Musk well enough but this I would never wear. I would try before you buy it blindly because you may end up being dissappointed.

All I can smell is heavy sugared turkish delight (rahat lokum). Instantly brings toothache to me. Unless you want to smell like some kind of heavy sirupy almond just stay away....

If you're the kind of person who likes powdery and light smelling fragrances, you'll really like this. I initially bought this because there was a really good deal for the EDP, body spray, and body lotion and I couldn't resist. I've worn it a couple of times and I've been complimented almost every time I've worn it. I really prefer this to the original White Musk because this one simply smells prettier and more sophisticated. I'd recommend this for people who like softer and more subtle fragrances but still want to be noticed. I'd recommend the EDP though, as the body spray has zero lasting power.

In my opinion,most of these sort of scent retailers, the Body Shop, Bath and Body Works or Victoria Secret, offer scents which are a "my first perfume" variety or nice generics. I was really surprised this is such a great scent!

Confectioners sugar, honey, pistachio-almond, rose, cold heavy cream, clean laundry. Almost smells like it should be a new addition to the Philosophy Grace line and called Loukhoum Grace.

Since this perfume lacks the weight of vanilla, or tonka-benzoin-amber, it stays light, fresh. The cream is a fresh, cold, heavy cream right out the carton and whipped, not a Redi-Whip or custard sweet dairy smell.

If you dislike the acrid dated smell of some white musk dominant perfumes, like I do, you might still really enjoy this. The white musk in this is soft without the dusty plastic smell of a 70ties era white musk.

This is not a sillage perfume; it is a skin scent so you smell great and not overwhelming to someone giving you a hug or sitting next to you at dinner.

This is a great scent for under $25 and one of the few loukhoum scents you can buy cheaply. It doesn't have the complexity of a $250 Serge Luten but is light, easy to wear and very likeable.

It's a happy scent. It makes me smile, when I'm sniffing it... :) Though the lasting power is very poor, even the EDP's (maybe 3-4 hours, the EDT lasts about only half an hour on me).

The honey and rose were very prominent in the top notes, making it a very sweet (almost juicy) scent to start. It became muskier as it dried down, and the whipped cream became more evident, which was nice! I had been trying to place the very subtle note hiding behind the whipped cream and musk, and now I realize it was almond.

What a nice scent!

I can certainly smell the honey behind the musk. Not bad. This scent reminds me a little of L de Lolita-Coral Flower but less woody.

This is a creamy musk sweetened with honey with a hint of rose & almond.

It is almost as if the honey bees had collected the pollen from a field full of roses, the rose is understated and soft.

This makes me think of curling up with my cat and a cup of warm almond milk toped with cream and rose scented honey. Very comforting...

This is a very polite famine sent, not overbearing, loud or overtly sexual. Great for the spring.

I tried it in the shop and I could smell honey and musk, rose and something woody in the heart. I just loved it, I bought it straight away.
Today I think it smells like scented sanitary towels. The musk would have worked better in combination with something fresh, like fresh cut roses. This is just that tiny bit too sweet for my liking, I sprayed a bit too much earlier and it made me feel sick.

Smelt it in shop today and bought it straight away! This is lovely fragrance, not too over powering but I must say EDT has great lasting power on my skin. I wore the original White Musk in my teens but that is too strong for me now. Soft, fresh, a little bit sweet and very wearable, this is a nice update at a great price. Love it!

The bottle is pretty just like the scent. It is fresh and still a feminine. I like this a lot. I only wish the bottle was bigger. The price is also very decent. Nice fragrance.

I bought it because I thought the bottle was cute. At first I smelled nothing more than a fresh cologne, but now I'm surprised by how obsessed I am with it. It is fresh, but also mildly sweet. There is enough floral to make sure it is not too sweet. It stays well on your skin.

I have to buy more before they discontinue it.

Sweet, buttery creamy, simple. Extremely Feminine. Creamy Rose, like a lotion. faint honey. After dryDown the Almond becomes more obvious..... faintly reminding me of Thierry Mugler's Angel. Smells more like a soft femmy Lotion than a Musk scent. I prefer Jovan's white musk, which is far more crisp and pungent.

I am not a big fan of musks and never got on well with The Body Shop's White Musk, so when I was in one of their shops and this was just out and on special offer I didn't really want to bother. However, I had, rather unusually for me, not put perfume on that morning, so allowed the assistant to spray me. I was pleasantly surprised.

I think that this is a musk for those of use who don't really go for musky perfumes. I also don't like honey in a scent and have to say, I can't make out the note in WML at all, which is good. It is a sweet floral to me, but soft, like a blanket, rather than sharp or cloying. On my skin it isn't too sweet either, I think that the sweetness is tempered by the musk.

I actually think that this is a very sexy perfume. One downside for me is that it doesn't last very long. I tend to find this with a lot of TBS perfumes, an hour and its gone.

I also hate alotting a perfume to an age group, however, there is a sexy seductive feel to this perfume that makes it rather grown up. I feel it is best worn for an intimate dinner when an overpowering scent would be distracting. Libertine is a good name for it.

All in all, lovely scent, a bit linear, not very long lasting, but very sexy. If you're just looking for a skin scent for a sexy night, this might be it. I won't buy it again when its gone, but its nice to have at the moment.

my mum has this and it has a very mature scent and would be good for e.g work and dates. i cant imagine teens wearing this it is more for adults.

I tried the EDT on paper strap not on my skin. It's very similar to chanel no.5, very warm. The bottle is very pretty & big.

Wow, this is really not my thing at all, but it would be pretty on someone else. It is warm, sweet and soft, and the almond note is distinct, but it is very baby-powdery kind of musk, which is not a positive for me, I was looking for something a little more creamy and gourmand, from the whipped cream and honey notes it looked like it might be. (I tried the EDT version, not sure how different the EDP is.)

I came to The Body Shop WHITE MUSK LIBERTINE with compoundedly low expectations. First, it's the Body Shop. Second, I retain less than halcyon memories of Vivienne Westwood LIBERTINE, which manifested the dreaded hairspray effect on my skin.

What a pleasant surprise it was to find that TBS WHITE MUSK LIBERTINE is a sort of low-brow (supremely inexpensive) version of a loukhoum perfume! Honestly this does not smell bad at all to me, and the drydown is actually quite nice.

One perhaps unexpected virtue of this less expensive loukhoum (relative to Keiko Mecheri or Montale), is that WHITE MUSK LIBERTINE is significantly less sweet than the niche perfumes of this type. That's surely good news for those whose criticism of niche loukhoum offerings focuses primarily on their intolerable sweetness.

Worth a try for those who like sweet perfumes. I myself do not find WHITE MUSK LIBERTINE very musky at all. The name seems a bit misleading to me. This is all about sweetness and light, not shadows and skank.

Just lovely ! At first floral, then sparkling, and finally sweet, creamy and clean at the same time. According to me the best Body Shop EDP I've ever smelt. It was a blind purchase and I'm very happy to have it now. Perfect for all seasons, for young women. Lasting power is correct.

To me, the same as lily prune-cotton candy. Don't like it, to sweet, not long lasting and nothing special. I really like the first white musk range.

I got quite excited by the whipped cream note, but unfortunately on me this comes off as pure honey. There is a slight hint of softening musk and a bit of a creaminess as it gets to the dry down, but not enough for what I wanted of it. Pretty good cheapie though, something to keep in your bag just in case.

Sweet and musky scent, well balanced, but quite chemical. Smells like a scented candle.

I'm very dissapointed, I'm a lover of creamy perfumes and when I saw that this one had whipped cream in the notes I run to the shop to teste it.
The top notes are actually pleasent: fresh rose, creamy almond, a very faith cream note but...after five minutes a sytethic musk strikes down the composition and what I have in the back of my hand is a somewhat closer to toilet cleaner.
Musk Libertine is very arsh, syntethic, cold and overall the quality is very low.
The lasting power is good.

2.5/10

I tested it yesterday,it has a low longevit,but the other body care stuff of this line is so good,body wash,lotion etc.

i've just been to the body shop and smelled libertine.mmmmm quite nice,but i think you'll need to layer it with the body lotion so it will last longer.I think it's a great everyday day perfume.

This is definitely one of those scents you initially disregard, based on its cheapness and accessibility; maybe you aren't so careful with sparing it and you don't expect much.

Which usually ends-up being the best kind of testing experience and the road to keeping a scent around for a long time. This is what "White Musk Libertine" has become for me; something initially intended as a pleasant "background noise" kind of scent that begins to linger in my head and become something I routinely grab for as the main course. This scent is really interesting -- even peculiar -- for a "mainstream" brand to release.

It opens on a sheer, sugared kind of gel-oiliness, that gives it a pleasant kind of viscousness that does remind me of "Turkish Delight". Now, I need to disclose, here, that "Turkish Delight" is actually my favorite sweet. When I read "The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" as a kid, I really understood Edward's moral predicament; could you sell-out your siblings for a massive tray of "Turkish Delight"? It hit close to home. But anyway...back to the scent. It has that weird, contradictory mix of textures that TD does; the watery-sugar sweetness, suspended in gel form with floating hints of pistachio mixed with rosewater, all powdered over with a sheer dusting of sugar. That chewiness without too much richness; the mix of the sweet with the perfumey aromatic.

As WML develops, though, it gets deeper and richer and a sweet cream mixed with a nutty, coffee-type note emerges. However, all the while it retains its sheer freshness, always reminding of honeyed skin musk in some way. But this skin musk is a clean, ripe feminine kind of scent, that's vaguely retro in an "Oil of Olay" cream kind of way. It's a very deep, rich satsifying kind of sweet fleshiness, that could almost be offensive, if it weren't for the shower-clean wetness tempering all of it. And it radiates the sensation of heat. Of fresh-out-of-the-hot-shower, heat. So it never feels like a dessert mashed-up and turning into steamy goo on your arm, it just feels like a radiating, sweet, rosy nuttiness, covered in cream and castile soap.

It's very unusual and it takes a "second take" for a nose to process all of it, but I find it strangely addictive. I mentioned on "The Body Shop" website that it reminds me of a really clean version of "Vivienne Westwood's Boudoir" and it does. Throw the "dirty undies" of "Boudoir" into the laundry, take a shower and wait an hour for your roswater and hazelnut body cream to warm on the skin and you have "White Musk Libertine". I really like it and will probably be wearing it more than I initially intended to.

I love this, it is so delicate and sweet in a very elegant way. To me, it smells really parisienne-chic. Rosey, but also sweet and babypowder-ish. I feel old-school feminine wearing this :)

Not so great...It smells a bit like the original white musk plus a generous helping of sugary baby powder. There's something about it that makes it smell as if it's gone "off" already.

Not what I expected...What a disappointment!!! I adore musky and sweet fragrances, so I was very excited to try this one... But where's the honey? Where are the almond and whipped cream notes??? All I can smell it's a heavy floral note (I'm pretty sure it's a kind of tuberose smell!) + a dusty aldehyde note, in the kind of Chanel n.5...that is gone bad!!!

Permit me to begin by saying that I am not a musk lover. Of all the notes out there, this particular note bombs the worst on my skin. But I was so very intrigued by the Libertine idea of mixing honey, almonds, whipped cream, and rose into the musky composition, I HAD to get over my fears of musk and try it out.

The initial spray was a blast of white musk. It was SO very strong that I felt like it was burning my nose. After about 15 minutes into the dry down, the rose, honey, and the creaminess of the whipped cream note was evident whereas almond was curiously absent. However, these notes were drowned in the initial and hefty dose of the white musk and were barely perceptible. At this point, all my perfume friends who were exposed to this scent on my arm thought the smell turned into sweet but heavy sort of body sweat odor. The perfume took a very similar turn on all my friends' skin as well. Through the dry down to the base notes this fume retained its linear, musky quality. Not exactly pleasant for me.

Conclusion: This perfume lives up to its name. It may have "some" sweeter notes included in its composition for added/mild effect, however, make no mistake that this is a MUSK perfume. Not gourmand, not particularly sweet, and certainly not floral. For those of you "like me" who are looking for a more affordable replacement for Serge Lutens' Rahat Loukoum or Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum are better off looking elsewhere. This has too much musk and not enough quality ingredients to reach that level of complex creaminess, luxury, and lasting power. Oh well, the search continues... :o/

I treated myself to this on my birthday and i kinda impulsed bought it.Sprayed it on in the shop and straight away i thought"Uckk,old ladies perfume"(maybe its because i dont use perfume with honey aroma in it and im not used to that certain smell)But still i went ahead and purchased it thinking maybe it will change on me when it settles down.Still thought a few hours later smells odd to me but when it was evening the beautiful,light mellow muskiness was wafting off my warm skin and i changed my mind.I love this scent.Utterly beautiful.So glad i DID buy it and it changed my mind.

i went yesterday to my Body Shop store & smell this new fragrance 'cause i usually love rose & honey together so!...WOW!! i'm truly in love with this one :) it smell sensual & nicely lightly sweet scent at the end... but the only cons is that i'm not sure it last a long time. i've tried it on my wrist to make sure & went back to buy the EDT but... really DO LOVE THIS ONE SOFT, DELICATE & GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL ON ME.. Even the lady in the store said that i was one of the rare client that tried it & SHE LOVED THE WAY IT SMELL ON :) .... GOOD THING
I'D SAY GO TRY IT! AND WAIT A LITTLE 'cause its changing for setting down (well on me) as a floral little powdery sweet scent not CANDY SWEET more soft sweet like honey soft sweet :) if you know what i mean

I agree there! i love it,really do, but it is better on my clothes then on my skin ,and more long lasting!

A pseudo woody musk fragrance, WML manages to perform like something at least forty dollars above it's price-point. Ultimately impressive in a world of "blah", this scent tries very hard to be a light sweet floral fruity, but something about it's personality just simply will not allow it.
The scent starts out with conflicting accords of semi metallic/creamy almond and powdery sunny and joyful honey. A cloud of a whipped cream accord is seen floating above the two rivals. After a long and bitter battle between the honey and almond comes to the point of being a migraine a wet rose kills the happy whipped creme cloud brutally and swiftly, making way for a powerful rose thunderstorm. Almond and honey can't stand being soaked, so they decide to put their differences aside, go indoors and have a nice tall glass of jasmine tea with a sprig of lavender.

This is a positive surprise for me, because I do not like the original white musk (too strong and fresh). The Libertine version is quite nice, soft and more decent. It's a good everyday scent. I like honey scents and I think the whipped cream element comes out nicely too. I could imagine to buy it.

sweet,but still fresh.the musk is only noticeable,its not a muskscent in my opinion.the rose and the honey is there,but the edt,that i bought is more pastel,more just flowery i think.
fresh and not too heavy ,i like it.

This is actually the best Body Shop scent in a while, but then, since they were bought out, that's not saying much. It has sweet and pretty pastel floral top and heart notes which lead to a drydown of the original white musk, which is to me, the best fragrance they have done, so I'll stick to White Musk oil and foresake the others. I really do dislike most of their modern range - what ever happened to the idea of bringing your bottle back to be refilled? Anita Roddick would not agree with this current aesthetic, methinks.

I tried this perfume on in the store and liked it right away, so I bought the body lotion to start with. I should have waited to find out if it worked with my chemistry or not. After two days I gave it away to a friend. I like white musk, but in my opinion this was somehow too strong and powdery. when I use any white musk perfume, I prefer when it is very light and can't be smelled unless you are very close. The bottle is pretty, but I am not too impressed with the new scent. I'll stick to Body Shop's White Musk in the light purple bottle.

me & honey don't agree much. I think it's a powdry kind of scent,musky & creamy at its base due to wipped cream that gives sweetness along with honey.