Boudoir Sin Garden (for women)

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.