Boudoir Sin Garden by Vivienne Westwood

Kranik

There is nothing vicious in this Sin Garden as I expected...

lilith

You have just arrived at the country house. A classic English Tudor with beutifually designed fragrant gardens.
The journey was long and after refreshments you walk out into the garden with your beloved. The day is perfectly warm and there is a wooden bench where you both sit to admire the view of the gardens. In the air is the sweet scent of freesia, violet,heliotrope and iris. This bouquet mingles with the muskiness of his skin and the sandalwood of his cologne.It stirs in you a feeling of anticipated pleasure as you look into each others eyes......This is Vivienne Westwoods Sin Garden

Grrlscout

It does smell like an English country garden in summer. English gardens tend to be designed to seem natural, an effusion of nature. This perfume manages to mimic that effect. The garden in question is maybe a bit messy and overgrown, but lush and beautiful and gorgeously fresh and natural, though manicured and well-designed.

It's a year rounder for me, though it does require a lighter hand in warmer weather.

KellyChrisp

I got this for Christmas, it was cold and windy, this is definitely a winter/cold weather perfume, it smells too overpowering and unbalanced in summer with all that heat. The perfume dries down to a rich warm powdery smell it lasts long on me, stays to my clothes/ coat. I think this scent is too mature for younger women.

tuturab

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kittykati

i suggest changing the name to 'paradise garden', as there's nothing sinful to be found here. i expected a much heavier composition; this is nothing of the original boudoir. which is actually good. a warm, light scent, good for daywear, with a nice freesia opening, and in general very similar to bvlgari blv's dry-down. pleasant enought, but (what comes as a surprise considering it's an EDP) after two hours it's completely gone.

As Joy

I regret not buying this fragrance when I first smelled it in England in 2007. It was summer time, and for me this perfume is very English. Just like it was meant to, it reminds me of a cottage garden.

Women in different countries smell really different, and this is what I think English ladies often smell like. At least there is a resemblance.

However, this perfume is in no way unoriginal or dull. It is inventive and interesting, but not overpowering. Very much unlike the big floral sellers that almost everyone like because they are so safe to wear. Unique.

deeper_shallow

Very fresh and airy - definitely not what I would have expected from Vivienne Westwood. To me, this is a perfect spring/summer scent; light and floral, with a sophisticated, sweet (but not too sweet) powdery drydown.
I bought it untested simply because I love many of the notes, such as violet, pink pepper and heliotrope, and I have to say I was positively surprised.

mellybee

Boudoir Sin Garden is definitely green at the beginning, you can picture yourself in a garden as the name suggests. But it turns surprisingly into very sweet on my skin. Like the flowers on a hot summer afternoon, they give off an extraordinarily strong scent before the sun goes down and they slowly closing up their cups. The drydown is similar to Donna Karan Casmere Mist's drydown, I think the milky sandalwood note could cause it.

Althea

I remember trying it a while ago, without hearing about it, just sprayed it on my wrist, smelled and sprayed on another wrist. I love it, I love freesia, I love the gentle character of this fragrance, something that I would never expect from Vivienne. Unfortunately Sin Garden disappeared from my skin after an hour.. So I didnt buy it. It is a shame.

Marianne

I was surprised by the warm, powdery scent. Not too special, but definitely a good choice as a present if you don't know a woman's taste.

takemyhusbandplz

Boudoir Sin Garden was developed by perfumer Marie Salamagne. I've read that it was inspired by English country house gardens. The notes are listed as freesia, pink pepper, aldehydes, violet, heliotrope, Florentine sword lily, amber, sandalwood, oakmoss and musk. The advertising says it's supposed to be warm, aristocratic and magnetic.

On my skin the violet, lily and lightly musky oakmoss are the predominant notes. It really does make me think of an airy cottage garden. It really is a very feminine and airy fragrance. It's very light and nonoffensive (nothing like the the original Boudoir). The original Boudoir was magnetic & aristocratic. Boudoir Sin Garden isn't what I'd call warm, aristocratic or magnetic. I'd call it cool, white and innocent.

It isn't very long lasting on me at all. Perhaps 2 hours, tops. It doesn't have any sillage at all on me. I have to plaster my nose to the crook of my arm to smell it. How can a scent be magnetic when others cannot smell it at all? Perhaps if you wore it in the Spring or Summer when your skin was warmer it would rise a bit better. I'm wearing it on a frigid February day, so that could explain it.

Overall, Boudoir Sin Garden is not a bad scent, but it's not one that's not for me. I was hoping for a more heady floral that lasted longer. I'm sure many ladies might like it tho. It's definitely worth a try.