Courtesan Worth for women

Courtesan its a great surprise, very gourmand, spicy, warm but in a mature way.
Like so many said here, this is a perfume for a woman, not girl. The scent itself is very interesting, for some reason I get a note that reminds me of carnation, mixed with the sandalwood and the cinnamon. Its a very dusty perfume, that perfectly portrays a courtesan dressed in velvet, it somewhat reminds me of the drydown of Femme Rochas.
This is a serious perfume I believe, but not serious enough to be considerated old. I think Courtesan is at that perfect line where so much more perfumes should be nowadays, its not to modern, to classic, to mainstreem or to "different", it doenst smell old like your Femme Rochas (really hard to wear I believe), and it doesnt smell to vulgar like your typical mainstreem sexy-chic perfume (you name it, there are a 100 of them). Well you know what I mean, this scent its very good, with the right amout of sweet and spicy.
Great job!

8.5/10

Creamy, velvety scent. Cozy, comforting, close to your skin. Wear it with a cashmire pullover on a crisp winter day or for that important tete-a-tete...
It leaves a dirty, almost skunky note... extremely seductive, definitely not a teenager fragrance, you need a woman to pull it off...

Going by the notes and the name, I was expecting something skanky and seductive. Instead, on me, it's just mild and pleasant, with little lasting power. Big disappointment.

So sad I didn't get a single whiff of chocolate in this. It's fruity, musky, and sharp. Not my style. For my chemistry at least. I was expecting so much more warmth. It just left behind a cold trail. My husband said, "It smells like Zest soap."

Not sure if I agree with that... LOL

For me it starts out with some great bunch of fruits. - not surprisingly reading the notes. Not too sweet. Not too heavy. Not too interesting. On me it is like a nice fruity body butter. That is all.

This is not what i expected with all those gourmand notes- very soft and pretty on my skin, really not spicy. It's slightly sweet and not very strong- nice but not really striking or offensive in any way.

At first I really enjoyed it, because if you the notes you expect yet another sweet vanilla scent, but Courtesan does not open like that. Courtesan starts sour, cold and bitter. Cardamom and cinnamon all over the place. Somehow masculine and very, very addictive. I truly enjoyed the first 20 minutes of this fragrance, deeply inhaling it from my wrist, but then...what happened? Something from the notes hit in and I started to feel something metallic, almost blood like, which I did not enjoy at all. Too bad that it lasts for an hour. The drydown is still little bit metallic, but it's not so bad. I don't feel any vanilla and sweetness at all.

Eh. Pitty, it could be such a lovely fume, bet the hour with "blood" on my wrist - no, no.

I have a bottle of this not very well known Worth fragrance, but I have to say it's a very weak vanilla scent. Shy and sublime. A pleasant, not too sweet vanilla skin-scent I would say. I love sumptuous and strong fragrances with great staying power. I will not buy Courtesan again. I can't say WOW when I smell it. The dry down is a soft vanilla/musk/amber-concoction. Really nothing special or remarkable.

Oooo this courtesan has a cold, cold heart - it's true!

In some ways, Courtesan is Roma's odd little sister - they share a note that reminds me of cold, dry, grey slate & baked earth.

Where they differ is in their warmth & level of spice. Roma embraces you with a truly cosy & comely beauty, full of voluptuous curves & womanly charms. Courtesan knows her magnetic attraction & holds it like a steely gun to your head, keeping you at arm’s length with her chilly reserve & firey nature.

I adore spices & here they are all on show, not heavily & daringly as in Jungle, but in a refined way. I also find a distinct white pepper note that remains in the foreground throughout. Looking at the notes you may wonder where all the fruits, caramel & chocolate are: on my skin Courtesan isn’t candied, “frooty” or juicy in any way. It showcases the natural sweetness of cinnamon with its calm, dusty & dryness, echoed again in the cacao, & offers the wearer a grown up bitter-sweet berry tartness.

The base is very sensual…she knows how to please……soft musk, creamy woodsy sandalwood & a gentle amber. Yet, throughout the life of Courtesan a cold, grey blood pulses through her veins: the whole fragrance is built upon these great, grey foundations!

The longevity is good & the trail is obvious but modest, it is one if the most mysterious fragrances I own. This perfume is very unusual & well worth a try if you like distinct, dry fragrances with a cold, white heat. If you have ever read Memoirs of a Geisha I am reminded of Sayuri, the beautiful, tough Geisha with cold, blue eyes.

Such beauty held in such a cold embrace.

This scent is amazing IMO. It might be slightly cloying but I don't care. lol...it's not an everyday scent for me. I wear it at special events.

Courtesan is for me a perfume filled with expectancy... It is a stunnig, redheaded woman preparing herself for the amazing party she´s going to later that evening. She´s smiling to herself in the mirror while brushing her hair, she toroughly put on make-up and having troubble chosing the most striking outfit... She feels like her stomach is filled with butterflies, she look at the watch, drinking a glass of wine... Taking a last look in the mirror and then she´s off to the longed for party.

Really pretty, amazingly soft considering the notes, some gourmand feeling without being gourmand. I dont know why, but for me Courtesan is a before the party-perfume... It always manage to make me feel like I am looking forward to some funny and adventorous happening! But in my opinion a little to nice for the actual party.

Really great tough, don´t miss it!

I like Courtesan although it has a bit of a grey dull shade in her core, and i do'nt find her very seductive as the name implies.Still it's warm like a cashmere blanket and that's enough. It sarts with red berries and cloves, and little by little the floral heart of jasmine comes in the picture.In the drydown it becames woodier, but with a strange juicy feeling that is very pleasurable. I don't detect the myriad foody notes of the note's pyramid, and i kind of like it cause i wouldn't like a lot of chocolate and caramel there.

One of my all time favorites. It has foody notes, but it isn't gourmand. Rather, it suggests a beautifully made-up face, with rice powder and cream, scented lipstick and a faint perfume rising from a warm decolletage. There's definitely the suggestion of food in the vanilla/chocolate, but it is more of a perfume that ends with a scented musk. Simply delicious.