Boudoir (for women)

sjanira

I'm really trying to get used to this one. It's so different and far from what I'm used to. There's just one note there that I can't get used to, the tobacco leaves. I think her new fragrance Boudoir Jouy is more my taste.

glitteralex

Sweet cherry syrup of Lou Lou by Cacharel melded with soft vanilla rose of Tocade by Rochas! Actually, I tried mixing the two, and they did approximate Boudoir to a degree. Boudoir is a very compelling scent with great longevity. I have to admit really enjoying it despite its obvious sluttiness. The character is the same as Rose Cardin by Cardin.

Miss Bloom

What a naughty little vixen this is! Not for the faint hearted I tell you. She is sexy, sultry and she knows what she wants.
There is a sweet bubblegum like top note that does a good job of masking the dirty, gritty underbelly of this frag, but not enough to drown it out completely. she is a devil wearing angel wings.
There is something strange yet compelling about her, something odd and if you sniff too hard you may not like what you find but the sillage is decadent and divine.
Warning ~ Extremely tenacious and long-lasting!

Eau de moi

Before I decided to try Boudoir I was pretty sure that it was not for me. It seemed too old-fashioned and sounded too floral and powdery for me. Anyway, since I like to try everything before judging too fast, I bought a sample.

I can say now that this perfume is the most intriguing one that I have ever tried. And a complete delightful discovery...

First, it was like opening the door of the said Boudoir. The smell of rice powder, lipstick, feminine sweat, and even sex came to my nose. I was feeling like a voyeur and my thought was: “How can I really take possession of this perfume if first I feel like entering someone else’s very intimate world?” I should have guessed then that Boudoir just takes possession of you if it likes you...

After such a beginning, I was quite surprised with the following... the smell of Bazooka chewing-gum! Wow! It was like having entered into the Boudoir and talking directly to the woman who’s sitting there. She’s chewing gum and looking at a nice bouquet of flowers standing on her coffee table. These delicate flowers that I can smell trying to fight for first place with the chewing-gum scent.

Then the drydown is quite like the beginning plus the chewing-gum and flowers. It is where Boudoir really stands out with the mix of all its intimate and delicious smells. This is when Boudoir decides if it likes you or not, if it wants to be intimate or not with you. I was lucky enough to be chosen by Boudoir...

Moyra

As a wanna-be perfume groupie, I sometimes feel guilty about not being able to really LIKE any of Vivienne Westwood's fragrances.
I buy them and stubbornly wear them because even my unsophisticated nose knows that there is some magic in there, but in the end, I am thrilled the day has ended and I can bathe and move on to a more comfortable and accessible scent.
Boudoir was my first, I really bought it from a habitual sense of rebellion - if its naughty, I felt I had to have it, additionally the "notes" seem wonderful.
I do not get the naughtiness and unwashed bits that others seem to get from Boudoir, however, if I focus on it, there's a definite feminine deodorant note that can slowly take over, so I try not to focus on it.
There's some monstrously generous sillage (I love monstrous sillage, by the way), but there's also a cloyingly annoying something sweet (and I love many sweet perfumes).
Its certainly an "interesting" scent but it isn't by any means likeable.
Men seem to love it, in my experience, it elicits tons of comments about how "good I smell".
In a way, I feel about Boudoir the way some women feel about other women whose horizontal mores are freer than their own: they don't like them and they feel uncomfortable around them, but deep down inside, they are curious and somewhat fascinated.
That's exactly what the uber-potent, oddly fascinating and yet vaguely repulsive fragrance that is Boudoir evokes in me: I find it hard to like, it makes me uncomfortable, and yet it also fascinates me.
I have the old amber colored juice, it has sillage for miles around even with a tiny spray and stays put overnight or even more.
Although it hasn't happened in 7 years, I am confident that one day my sense of smell will grow up and Boudoir and I will be friends.

riri

I have the amber Boudoir as a gift, at first I thought I would hate it, then I tried to spray it and give it a shoot in a party one night... I changed my mind, there's something that i really really like about this perfume. It glows and stand out gracefully in the crowd because the smell is so strong yet sexy in a good way. I think it's like a vintage sexy scents in a modern era. I love it! It lasts 24hrs on me.

allexa27

This is one of the most interesting and complex frags,.To my nose is retro and modern at the same time,fresh and heavy together.I deffinatelly smell lots of carnations and cinnamon(which i like a lot in perfumes)Sometimes i like wearing it ,sometimes not,.But u Must try it before buing it because it is not for everyone...

hollivomitsyou

this is one that got me very curious. i did not find any bo or other off putting scents. honestly, it was very soapy to me. i would also call it rich, powdery and almost chalky. it does have a little bit of a dry, musty smell to it, but in a nice way. if you like boudoir, bal a versailles is one to try as well. both are nice, classic and different.

CaraMia

Magical! Boudoir feels like a throwback to the 40s or 50s or even earlier. You can imagine Katharine Hepburn wearing Boudoir or at least that her boudoir would have smelled like this: stage door roses from one man, a stunning mixed bouquet from Spence and something to nibble on between acts...a little spicy vanilla bite to eat. And all the time her tobacco wafting from the silver cigarette box.

A classic.

solocha

I have to speak again on this perfume: it is as original as Vivienne's mind. I pour ashes on my head and retract what I said - this perfume is beautiful. Or can be. I tried it after some time and it blossomed. The flowers are so alluring here. I'm not good at indicating particular components - all I can say is : this is highly sexy. The perfume lasts very long and in the end (cca 12-13 hours) it had that sweaty/toilet undernote, but it is worth it. I wasn't even wearing it in the public but I can imagine it must make male heads turn. This time I didn't find it vulgar. My association would be me dressed in slightly, but not overdone, gothic/victorian dress - corset, lacy skirt, victorian shoes. Would also go with Venetian carnival outfit.

tessture

Very much like Tabu, but with more of a sweat smell. Now add strawberries and chocolate and hit yourself in the face. It's very very strong, very aggressive. I tried the smallest touch possible with this and it still got me negative comments. Wearing this to the office might get you fired, it's that aggressive.
Not going to be one for me.

Makk

Like intimate eveningd of pin-up girl in old club. When the lights out and music is off, she going to wardrobe, when HE is waiting. One big rose stay proudly next to big mirror in gold sculptured frames, many skirts, velvet corsets, lacy garters are hanging in old wooden wardrobe.
Girl kiss the man with her red lips, long curly hairs falling on white back and he take her in one's arms. In room is sultry and hot, in air is rising smell of Boudoir, like mist rising over the lake.

Bottle is richly ornamented, beautiful! Frangrance... I love it! Floral, sweet but very sophisticated, one of its kind! Indescribably permanent!

ravenrose

at first i liked it very much.. but after using a bit too much it will give you a headache haha

VioletLily

My feeling when I first smelt Boudoir was that of a little disappointment. I wanted something that felt vintage, but this seemed a wee bit too old fashioned. And yet, there was something intriguing about it, Boudoir wasn't like anything I'd smelt before. I tried it a second time the very next day, and mmmm, that something intriguing (possibly the special note of white viburnum) was quickly getting to me. I have trouble describing and picking the notes in this, but it's a sweet, husky floral, only a touch powdery with a velvety, slight animalistic feel. Feels perfectly 50's vintage in a slinky, sexy way. It's what I wanted Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose to be for me – which sort of is, but it turns out I don't do the sweet waxy lipstick smell of Lipstick Rose too well. As a matter of fact, what Boudoir does remind me of, is Boucheron, which I also adore. There's a similarity in the smoothness and with the bergamot/mandarin/orange blossom notes they have in common. But that's where the similarity ends, the other notes and overall smell and feel are very different. Albeit, they are in the same family for me...Boucheron is the elegant sister with Egyptian cotton sheets, satin pyjamas and velvet slippers. Boudoir is the tarty sister with rumpled satin sheets, flimsy negligee and pink marabou kitten heel slippers. Both scents are up there in my absolute favourites, and perfect for those different moods.

Hattie

I have tried this a couple of times now, and I'm understanding where the remarks about dirty bodies and a "fishy" smell come from.
This perfume smells exactly as if one just had sex! :)
Nevertheless, I'm going to wear it just because I like it. I like the spicy notes, and the hint of tobacco.
This plays like Rachmaninoff; it's a complicated perfume.

woogyjones50

I am one of the folks who swears that the amber colored Boudoir is different than the pink. To me, the amber Boudoir was deeper, sexier somehow and I did not at all pick up on the dirty body smell others have mentioned. The pink version seems more floral to my nose and a lot less interesting than the deep, unusual scent of the amber juice. The amber version lasted on the skin and became sexier and somehow deeper the longer you wore it. If you can find the darker colored juice, I would highly recommend it. As for the pink version, you may find it as underwhelming as I did. However, I would like to add that on my skin I cannot pick up any of the body odor scent in the pink juice and for that reason I am able to wear it. It just isn't that interesting to wear, unfortunately.

rebella

I have waiting so long to have the perfume Boudoir and when it finally arrive I was so excited. The bottle is gorgeus, and I sprayed the juice on and waited for the magical moment with Boudoir. But no, there wasn´t any magic. It was a lot of pretty flowers, interesting oriental notes and above all an unmistakable smell of dirty body. And a very dirty body indeed, dirtier than I want to know of actually but I worked for a while at a psycitric ward and at the morgue, I know how bad a body can smell at worse. Just like that Boudoir smelled mixed with flowers and pretty spices... I was brave enough to wear it without washing it off, I guess I wanted so bad that the magic will happen sometime, maybe after an hour or two or three or five or seven, for this is a longlasting and potent kind of perfume. Really, really strong and dirty and uniqe and awful and bad and ooooh, why? They say the Boudoir with the orange juice is better, I have no idea, but I´m not sure if I have the courage to try Boudoir another time, no matter what colour it is.

Lucky you that can wear it. I can only look at the pretty bottle and having nightmares about how it will break in my boudoir and it will smell like Boudoir forever in there.

solocha

I believe in certain environments this can be an interesting and alluring perfume, but it is more likely that it will only go with some people and some skins. I hoped it would be nice on me, but it wasn't. It is a long-lasting scent, description of which had been expressed partly already, of an unwashed woman, or more, to me it smelled like that generic aroma on toilets, not the clean ones, but on the public, train station toilets. It isn't that bad or straightforwadly disgusting, just rather unpleasant. But I can understand that someone may appreciate it.

sfsassy

I had this one, but I had to swap it off. There was a strange note in it that just did not work for me. But on others it works perfectly.

A little soapy....and very different.

azil

There is no doubt in my mind that Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood is indeed the finest of its kind. Just the beauty of the bottle is exquisite. It reminded me of something Queen Victoria would have sitting in her armoire. The richness of this scent and the bold undetones but understated is truly a rare breed in many fragrances today. I have a tester of it and I cannot stop sniffing it and passing it around to my friends. Boudoir is a rare jewel of art work sitting in a glass case that is meant to behold and appreciated.

0_o

Very soapy... Good soap though, but still... soap. After a while (an hour or longer) it becomes softer and brighter, more flowery. I don't smell any spices, I do smell a little bit of vanilla, but I can't detect the other base notes. It's a nice scent but not what I expected, I do keep sniffing my wrists though ;) It has a great staying power.

Helene

This perfume is extravagant in every way. It's name is special, bottle is specific and the fragrance is the same! Very interesting proposition.
I've tried it once and I WANT IT!

Jeanette

In the beginning, i was not impressed.
But i've been wearing it for days now! I think we became friends after all :)

fruttella

An absolute must-have and a great purchase! Great aroma, great bottle! Seductive feminity, lucious and sexy floral composition ! I bought it without even smelling it but it is one of my most faves together with Angel, Thierry Mugler.

Jeanette

In Sweden, this is not for sale in any store i've visited. I fell in love with the bottle when i saw it here on this site, and all of you spoke so well about it so i bought it!
First of all, it doesn't have that pink colour i loved...
The perfume is not bad, but in the beginning it really smells like the soap "Dove", and i find the dry down very similar to "Anïs Anïs" by Cacharel, but this one is softer.
I like it, but maybee my hopes were to high? Maybee it's a "developer"?
Longlasting.

klonk

I find this pure feminity in a bottle...! Really love it! A very special, warm and soft floral. But I have to say, it really had to grow on me. The first time I ever smelled it I could not really stand it as it seemed too strong for me to wear. Kept trying my sample for some weeks (I could not forget about it). Each time I have it on my wrist I cannot stop sniffing. Now I'm sort of 'hooked' on it. Staying power is extraordinary; I can still smell it on my skin after 24 hours! Will certently ask for a bottle for Christmas....!

my

Really good purchase. Very warm and seductive fragrance. It stays with you all day long and changes all the time.

dolita

gorgeous and attractive you feel warm it you only smell it but its not here in egypt i don't know why my cousin live in usa brought me one when she came last year

andruska

Wild, with strong personality, fascinating, captivating, enigmatic, it's the smell of passionately love itself.

F_A

I absolutely love this fragrance!I can smell dried plums, vanilla and cinnamon on my skin, mixed with some oriental spices. My boyfriend says, it smells like hairdresser's, and a friend of mine says that the smell of Boudoir reminds her of the food market in Kairo:) Whatever it is, the fragrance is exceptional:)

ljubica

The fragrance may 'sound and look appealing', but the smell is appalling.
When you first spray it, yes, there are some heavy flowers and aldehydes, but nothing alarming.
Then you innocently walk away (it's taking place in the mall), minding your own business, unaware of the yuckiness which is about to begin.
And after a while, you start noticing 'the smell'.
It smells of a lady who hasn't washed in a while, but who has used a lot of cheap drugstore perfume instead, and the 'fishy' note is very prominent too.
When you finally realize it's coming from YOU, you wrap your wrist in a plastic bag and run to the nearest bathroom to wash it off. But it never comes off. The staying power is definitely its greatest asset.

Passionflower

I'm getting used to this one. I love it, but it's also quite heavy. Maybe it's the patchouli I smell. It does make me think of wild west brothels as shown in western movies :D

Aiona

Like Chanel No. 5, this one has aldehydes. Figures. The opening really makes me nauseous, much as Chanel No. 5 does. The strange thing is, being too lazy to wash it off, I let it sit, and about 4 1/2 hours later, it softened. It lost that "fish sauce" smell (viburnum?) as long as I wasn't sniffing my wrist too closely. Much like Tabu, it gives off a soft powdery sillage, which I can understand would make someone want to follow you to get a better whiff. But again, as with Tabu, I can't stand that "fish sauce" smell that one gets up close. Boudoir is a Rules girl, like Tabu. Keeping your distance is the best way to appreciate her, until you've been with her longer.

It appears that there are two colors of juice -- pink and dark orange. I saw a review on MakeUpAlley.com that someone bought a new bottle pink, and as it aged, it darkened to dark orange. So the color of the juice may not reflect different formulations, but simply oxidation with time.

takemyhusbandplz

My review is for the Original formula (the amber colored juice, not the pink): The tobacco flower is prominient at first. Then it turns out that actually the longer you wear it the better it is. I've received many compliments. Even my male Doctor said that he thought it was sexy! Hubbie likes it too. The original formula is getting harder and harder to find.

noor_jehan

mmmmmmmm, just perfect feminine, seductive fragrance. it is like pink satin. i just smelled on blotter this time, and i was surprised how, somehow, soft it seemed to me. but next time, i shall try it on skin. but, i think i would love to have it in my collection.

noor_jehan

thanks caribou55313 :)

i was just about to ask you to give some comment on this fragrance. there are some other that you have in your wardrobe that I would love to hear about, like mitsouko, for example, and shalimar.

caribou55313

Gorgeous floriental, very sexy in a Marilyn Monroe kind of way. Love the marigold and viburnum notes!

noor_jehan

this fragrance sounds and looks appealing. i have not had a chance to try it out, but i would love to. has anyone tried it?

i want it! :)