Boudoir Vivienne Westwood for women

There is something in this fragrance that makes me physically naucious, its very sweet and cloying. A hard pass.

Truly something else. In the worst and best ways possible. At first, it smells like: You are in bed... just after sex and the guy goes to pee and washes his dick, but not 100 percent, though it's 80-90 percent clean where there's a slight scent of pee mixed with the lingering smell of cum on it. Smells just like that, I promise... I never knew you could replicate these kinds of smells. Truly, it smells like my young days when all I wanted to do was lay in bed and have sex. When it dries down, the smell is more timid, though it's strong. The pee smell is gone. But it is quite narcotic, I actually imagined Narcotic V by Nasomatto to smell like this. It's nice, though for me, it's definitely a date night or going out in the evening perfume.

That one comment about a sex worker, girlie nobody wants to smell like a sex worker

I have a bottle I bought maybe 2007ish, and it has a clear plastic bubble in the cap, surrounded by metal (like the photo). BUT it says "Dist. Lancaster Group US LLC" on the box. It's not Coty.
My thinking is, that the cap doesn't tell the whole story. They probably switched the cap style before they switched companies.

This is the best perfume ever to me, as far as quality and personable enjoyment goes, it's an invigorating life-giving, iridescent journey of nature's best notes, inhaled and truly relaxing when first sprayed.This is panic attack medicine 4 me
The biggest bouquet of flowers to start out with
Beautiful and perfect and the widest array of flowers in just about any other perfume in existence surely.with none sticking out too much for what it is.
After most of the other notes settle down you get the best iris I have ever smelled, definitely blows designers out of the water because it blends in a way that makes it stick out all.on its own in a fresh way , which is so unique
beginning the dry down a slight undertone of the opening flowers remain but 85% of the smell is just that bright full iris with also even a tiny bit of the amber peaking through as well. Such a great smell, this smell WILL last on clothes for multiple days and it will go strong for two whole days easily
The late dry down begins around maybe 7-9 hour range and then most of the remnants of the top notes and all other fresh flowers have gone and the amber will have started to amp.uo now with vanilla having been introduced and during this period they.will become alot stronger with most of the remaining freshness being subdued.
The vanilla is a medium but super natural vanilla that provides a rich base along with a top quality dense deeper amber to go along with it.
This is the most mature phase of boudoir with the base having Come out
This will last form that roughly 7 hour mark all the way until it's gone
It will also strongly smell of this lovely comforting sweet but fresh strong iris and flowers for the rest of the day and the day after
The days after it the amber just becomes better and better with the vanilla slightly fading and the iris as well
Amazing best favorite iris scent to ever exist, maybe the best amber vanilla as well come to think of it
And you certainly can't beat that picture of a 90s English town home with a garden of flowers and that flow through your mind at first sniff
Then your host opens the green house of pure iris overpowering the whole back yard. eventually, you two go from the garden into the kitchen where the window is still open to the garden area and are about to make a cake when you accidentally tip over a giant jug of pure vanilla extract without noticing, that slowly spills out and then the kitchen smells like this for days

This is addicting no matter who you are,
This is a feminine smelling perfume
This does have a toilette smelling powder smell but I got used to it and don't even smell it anymore hardly , it dies down significantly throughout the drydown to nothing after late drydown
I now know that this doesn't have the lipstick vibe as much as the other maybe from lack of Choco,.type of iris and freshness of this, which is also would make the other smell more like a heavier product filled makeup bag smell rather that the light toilette powder smell here, much better here having compared the two.

This is
an invigorating rush of nature's beauty
Comfort
Joy
Love
Romance
Gourmand
it's a warm mature full bodied fragrance
Truly eternal strength
10/10 for its category

You are a high class sex worker in Paris at the turn of the century. Your boudoir is elaborated decorated with red jacquard walls, low lighting, and pink silk sheets and velvet cushions atop your canopy bed. Your patron anxiously awaits your arrival, and finally you enter the room in a sensuously sheer pink feather dressing gown and nothing else. Your patron is transported to a realm of desire and romance, entranced by your beauty, the sumptuous interior, and the sweet yet carnal bubble-gum-and-sex aroma of your perfume filling the room.
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And as for describing the actual scent, to me it exactly like big red cinnamon gum mixed with gumball machine bubble gum. Spicy and sweet but divinely melded together.

So, after hearing so much about it I finally got myself a bottle of Boudoir from a second hand shop. It was a half full 30 ml bottle with a price good enough to justify a blind buy. I ripped open the package and at last I was holding that beautiful bottle in my hands. It was worth every penny and I kinda felt like I'd won the lottery.
And it was love at first sniff too.
Lost for words, I just went "wooow!"
It is such a unique but yet familiar scent and we connected right then and there. Yes, I can sense the 90s vibe attached to this fragrance but it feels so niche, so modern and sensual and dark.
There is a depth to this one, seductive and voluptuous, carnal, but there is a bubblegum twist to it too.
Boudoir is everything I want in a perfume, dark and twisted but yummy and sweet at the same time.
Unfortunately as much as I love it I have to wear it sparingly since I only have about 15 ml left of the juice.
I guess I have to start to look for a bigger bottle...

This is one of a kind fragrance! A large collection of notes floral/ spicy/ earthy and green. I find this so sensual,sexy, kinda dirty naughty. I had back in 2013 Mon Boudoir which was more lighter,subtle version of this. But I must say I loveeeee this a lot, found me a half 50ml bottle and I'll treasure it ❤️ Art in a bottle!

It smells like a very "dirty" floral scent rather than vintage-smelling. It is a bit retro, but it is still comparable to some niche modern florals.

I smell the carnation mostly, with the blend of other flowers. The base and drydown smells a bit earthy, woody and ambery but the mix of florals is still there.

The packaging is absolutely gorgeous!

The bottle with the Vivienne Westwood logo cross on the saturn planet thing as the top/stopper attracted me to this perfume. I bought it off Amazon as a blind buy but was anticipating a modern Oriental. I was absolutely enchanted. This is like a 1990s version of Dana's Tabu. This is only for us vintage fans. As it opens, I smell cinnamon and vanilla. This is a very early gourmand scent that has spices on the forefront. Make no mistake. This is a sexy spicy sultry scent. The cinnamon, the dark vanilla, the patchouli, the tobacco, the incense, the sandalwood. If you like notes like this throw into one perfume you'll love it. This is supposed to have aldehyde top notes but I don't smell them and after a couple of years of experiencing aldehydes I am not getting any. This has a spicy top with a vague soft floral heart. There is a yellow floral in this in the heart and white floral. I can't really specify any distinct stand out flowers. There is spiced up carnation, maybe a white soft jasmine, something yellow which I guess is the marigold. But this is not a sweet little sexy pretty or demure womanly floral. This is a sex bomb. The spices and the dry down of woods, smoke, vanilla and tobacco give it a peppery root beer kind of seductive va va va voom flair. This does smell like root beer but it's also got other stuff going on. There is something that feels like skin like flesh like unwashed but sexy skin. It's a fuck me perfume. Smells like having had sex. This is a boudoir alright, the boudoir of a French courtesan who has a lot of clients that give her everything she wants because she has a rockin hot body and sex skills. This is a fragrance for Satine from Moulin Rouge, or goes with the Manet painting Olympia. Goes with the Lady Marmalade oldie song. "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" "Would you like to sleep with me?". The aroma is intoxicating. Just in heaven smelling it. One spray is enough but two in the right spots even better - the neck the breasts. It's got very good sillage and lasting power. I love all the notes in this even the ones I can't smell. The ones I smell are just giving me nosegasms. I love the cinnamon, the vanilla, the tobacco, the sandalwood. This is a warm spicy scent and sexy as fuck. The bottles selling on Amazon are very good quality although they are reformulations. The original has a darker brownish liquid and not pink. This is a very good fall and winter scent but it's not really something to wear out in public. It's like for seducing your man indoors. Fabulous fragrance.

Boudoir is one of the most carnal perfumes I own, but it doesn't reveal this immediately. It develops and slowly slinks in like a thief in the night, initially giving the impression that this is a proper, vintage-inspired aldehydic floral, with the arresting tension of hyacinth and marigold, these big personalities commanding, and I am willing to surrender to them as they escort me to a bedchamber. On the way, we walk through a courtyard, lush with overgrowth, steamy and growing more profane as we get closer. It's gradual, not quite apparent until we approach the entrance and flowers appear to have dew drops but it's really perspiration. Sweaty rose, hot carnation, a few naughty paperwhites, a panoply of inflorescences more than happy to bear their unmentionables.

Inside the quarters, it slowly feels like sex—and before I know it, before I can prepare myself, it is. It is sex. Would it be depraved to expose this to the outside world? Would it be a crime of passion? I thought this would be more innocent, but it clearly has ulterior motives, and I am here for it. So as time passes, I surrender to it. A fresh-pack-o-cigs tobacco and a peculiar, tantalizing musk overcomes me. I don't think it would be appropriate for me to expound upon what it stirs in me. As usual, read between the lines, or you can message me privately (I might as well say, "for a good time call..."). In this boudoir, this horizontal refreshment is spicy, this funny business isn't the usual "animalic", it is almost as if it's just human hormonal, tingly and visceral. However I look at it, it feels like good ole bumpin' biscuits and just stops short of being obscene.

And for that, it's abso-fucking-lutely brilliant. Mind you, this is the Lancaster version, solid metal cap.

Fantastic spicy bubble gum, not the trendy one, this bubble gum was having fun in a dark club in foggy London in the 90s :)
Unfortunately only my mind loves it, the idea of this scent is intriguing but my body and my senses just can not stand it.

<3
Vintage queen.

Definitely Retro to me ... and unique. The opening burst of flowers tames down to something powdery , the cinnamon with traces of vanilla , sweet soft roses . My advice - so as not to overwhelm yourself and others is ONE , max. two sprays ..... and away from face and neck . Perhaps wrist . chest , even lower body ?

Day or Night , best in the cooler part of the year . More Feminine than Unisex
but as a Man and Im nevertheless giving this one a try and waiting to see how it develops and transforms on my skin .

Did Vivienne Westwood really discontinue all their fragrances? 🥲

I first heard about Vivienne Westwood from the ‘Harajuku Girls’ song by Gwen Stefani (I was a big fan of hers!). I googled Vivienne’s name and was awed by her designs and accomplishments! I couldn’t wait to become an adult and save up for some of her stuff. Fast forward some years I was able to get a 2016 1oz bottle of this. It was the first Vivienne Westwood item I bought. I really wanted a vintage bottle, but it was sadly out of my budget.

This perfume is divine from beginning to end. Its opening is soapy, lightly citrusy, and a lovely blend of sweet florals and patchouli. In the dry down, the soapiness and patchouli simmer down and the florals become femininely powdery.

So after reading all the reviews here a couple of months ago, I was intrigued. I decided to scour the web to try and find a mini at a reasonable price. It took me until this week to find one at a price point that I was looking for, because NO WAY was I going to blind buy something for $100-$200 (which is the price range for the handful of mini’s currently listed for sale). I just happened to find an odd listing for a full mini still in its box for a mere $55 and I went for it.

My Mini arrived today and I didn’t waste any time sampling it. I put just a couple of small dabs on one wrist and waited for it to dry. My initial reaction was WHOA…I did not think I liked this AT ALL. I immediately popped a couple of Excedrin because of the potential migraine threat I was considering. I could not for the life of me figure out the mélange of notes that blasted my nose. Very sharp and very sweet, teetering on the brink of making me nauseous.

Cut to a little over an hour later, it has definitely changed into a different scent COMPLETELY. Now what I’m getting is a sophisticated pink bubblegum with a dash of cinnamon tobacco. Very pleasant! No buyers remorse here…

Edit 11/1/23- yeah, after a couple of occasions of trying to wear this I’ve decided that I can’t. There is just something about it that just bugs me. I’m currently debating on whether to keep it or not and probably would only keep it because the little bottle is purdy…LOL.

Last week I sampled a vial of Le Labo Rose 31 that a good friend sent me and I swear, on my skin it was VERY similar to Boudoir, just a much tamer and less loud version. So if anyone is hankering for Boudoir, you may want to give Rose 31 a try.

I have never perceived Boudoir as a "dirty" perfume. I would have liked to smell animalic notes, but… I smell many flowers, aldehydes, persistent but never intrusive. Adorable and versatile. My husband's last gift, forever.

I bought my bottle in 1998 when it was launched and the juice was not pink at all. It was an Amber colour. I cherish my bottle. It still smells great and a little goes a long way. Nothing in the market compares. Sophisticated and naughty and sexy. A special fragrance indeed.

Vivienne Westwood Boudoir Edp:

🗣A Real Real Shame That Such A Unique And Classy Beauty Is Just Allowed To Die In This Way!! This Really Was Pure Sex Appeal In A Bottle!! It Turned Men's Heads For All The Right Reasons, My Husband Absolutely Adored This Perfume Everytime I Wore It, And Actually Always Asked Me To Wear It, When Going Out With Him To Dinner/Meeting His Boss/Work Colleagues!! I Even Took It Away With Me On Holiday, To Especially Wear For Him At Dinner, He Enjoyed It So Much!! Im Happy To Say That I Stock Piled Three 50ml Bottles Of This To Keep Me Going For Awhile Yet!! But One Things For Sure.........THIS PERFUME WILL LIVE IN MY HEART, FOR A VERY LONG TIME TO COME!! 😍😘💕💖💖💖💓💓💓💓

I have a 75% full 50ml edp. PM if interested. Based in EU.

Update: This is now rehomed to a very happy lady!

Can anyone recommend a good boudoir dupe
I am dismayed that I no longer have that smell in my life
Thanks

My number one since 2000 the first time I got and I am devastated this has been discontinued
This was sex appeal in a bottle and was the only perfume my husband ever commented on and if he liked it you know it was special
Can’t forget you, gutted

Oh, how I wish they would bring this back. The word "intoxicating" gets thrown around a lot when talking about fragrances, but I feel that Boudoir truly lives up to this descriptor. It's luscious & ample with a deep, honeyed (with a hint of bubblegum?) kind of sweetness...yet tempered by the warm spice, tobacco, aldehyde, and glorious musk. Heavenly drydown. I want nuzzle into my own neck.

The first time I tested Boudoir I think it was the Lancaster gold orb cap version. I remember it being in the best way a rather over the top vintage inspired floral oriental with a richly animalic base and heavy carnation. Pure femme fatale glamor. Reminded me of the vintage L'Interdit Parfum. I currently own the Coty clear orb cap version (didn't intend to) and for a while struggled to reach for or desire to wear it. I almost gave it away. However I've come to like my bottle. The 2nd version the jasmine is more noticeable, and the base is more sweetly vanillic, overall has a bubblegum and dry floral with clean-dry-sheet-lightly-spicy top note . It's an interesting contrast but overall is much more sanitized version of the scent. Even so for a while I thought it was pretty difficult to find an occasion for it. Seemed like it was only appropriate for dates. It's just so unmistakenably a PERFUME not just some vague pleasant scent. The more I'm wearing it if lightly applied it's not so difficult, but although a part of me wants to dare to, I still wouldn't wear it to work. It's too retro & sexy.

Cousins to this scent include even the new L'Interdit & PHI Une Rose de Kandahar. They're not the same but have a similar heavy opulent vibe.

I will miss this fragrance forever. I went through about 3 bottles in my youth. It is elegant and stunning. If they ever bring it back I will absolutely buy it again!

This is the fragrance for which I have left multiple comments on here. Now I seriously ponder the possibility that this perfume may never be released again, which is sad. My personal bottles of Boudoir were from Lancaster Group, rather than Coty, so I'd like to think I enjoyed it as it was first envisioned. It was definitely my signature when I was a young adult: I loved the scent and I loved the bottle, still do. I wish they would bring it back.

I managed to get a bottle of this. The one I have is the 1997 original formulation by Lancaster with the full metal cap. I have tested it on paper and on my skin. I’m a smidge disappointed but not entirely surprised. I grew up in the 90’s and my mom always wore perfume by Jovan. This smells like a more expensive version one of them, either Island Gardenia, Wild Honeysuckle, or White Musk. Probably White Musk since they both have jasmine. Maybe I’m just too immature to appreciate it.

On a positive note, this perfume still smells high quality. It doesn’t smell cheap or synthetic to me like some 90’s perfumes do. The notes that really stick out to me are the orange blossom, jasmine, and the spicy note (really can’t tell if it’s the cinnamon or cardamom because there’s a lot going on here). If you want someone that smells vintage and you don’t want to smell like anyone else, I would say give this a try.

It pains me to say that I never got to own a bottle of this, even though I'm familiar enough with the smell. Still clinging on to the hope that it'll be brought back some day because there's absolutely no way I'm paying the outrageous prices on eBay.

Reminds me of organza but better quality. Don’t think it deserves all the hype it gets. Wouldn’t pay the silly prices it now goes for. RIP Viv..true pioneer

I always thought I smell this somewhere before and I finally figured it out today! This smell like dior addict to me. I don’t know how but they are very similar. Someone please back me up on this.

Boudoir really reminds me of Givenchy's Ysatis, which I owned a decant of. Ysatis is a bit greener in the opening and a little less spicy but it is very similar. I didn't pull the trigger on a full bottle because my husband disliked it, but I might go ahead and buy one now. It is a shame Boudoir was discontinued but if you want something that comes close to mimicking the smell of Boudoir check out Ysatis. Boudoir is a swirling and spinning cloud of spices, animalic florals and powder. Sensual, womanly, very vintage. Smells like the 80's. Worn by a woman of a certain age who looks great, has a lot of style, self-confidence and doesn't give a crap about trends.

Edit: This also give me ET Passion vibes as well. Boy I wish they made Passion in eau de parfum now. I have the toilette version, which is all you can buy today, but Boudoir is for me like if Ysatis and Passion had a baby. I think I have a layering experiment to try.

I never understood or appreciated Boudoir. It had a metallic note that truly disturbed my nose. I also didn't recognize the similarity of Al Rehab's Nebras to Boudoir.... at first. Finally I realized that Nebras has similar base notes, while lacking the exact top notes. Nebras veers in a more floral, bubblegum direction and then has an animalic/Oriental base. Another base to which it is a little similar is Organza. I LOVE Organza and appreciate all things classic and Oriental in undertone. For that reason I sometimes wish my more experienced nose could smell Boudoir again. But at these prices, I'm glad I just naturally preferred Nebras!

I gave a lot of bottles of Boudoir to my girlfriend. It was her favourite perfume and we were sad that it was discontinued. It smelled so beautiful on her. An amazing thick lively aldehydic flowery smell with spices and sweetness. Very lush en sexy. A somewhat naughty take on Chanel No. 5. The dry down was a bit smokey and balsamic. The performance was very good, it lasted more than 12 hours. Vivienne Westwood was offcourse a great fashion designer with a legendary status. It's a pity she passed away. We will keep that marvelous and sadly empty bottle with that wonderfull crown cap for memory sake.

RIP Vivienne Westwood I am devastated...you were an icon

Does it actually smell like sex? Well, yes and no. It smells like the idea of crazy hot sex from another era. Perhaps an 18th century French courtesan's bedroom. The sheets are unwashed and the air is thick with powder. There is a plate of cookies next to the bed and underneath it all, the lingering aroma of tobacco. It is a very seductive perfume. I tend to wear it, as the name suggests, when I am lounging at my own home. One time I ventured out in public wearing a spritz and I did feel conspicuous. There is this dirty note somewhere in it, and while not at all unpleasant, many modern age noses have been trained to eschew their own natural body smells and cover themselves with antiseptic soap. Anything earthy or real skin scented seems unclean.

I found a bottle with the cap missing at a thrift store today and I can smell the perfume from several shelves away. I totally get the hype, It's sensual warm and spicy. A perfume with depth ,projection and longitivity. Something that has been missing in today fragrances. I will tresure my bottle until the very last drop.

Boudoir is wild sex. It's the smell of wild sex. Sweat, heat, excitement.
In that small time slot that ended up being the Memento Mori of perfumery (1998/2005) McQueen and Vivienne Westwood gave us two masterpieces, they travelled to the past and brought back the scent of a turn-of-the-century french brothel. They said to hell with what's in style now (those were the days of Cool Water, Eternity, cK One and many more), gave the world the middle finger and said “let’s teach them what it is to be a trendsetter”. And they really were.

Good old Kingdom I haven't smelled in ages; very out of reach now, but Boudoir still stands out today like a fly in a glass of milk. And it continues to be groundbreaking, it goes against trends and it doesn’t give a fuck. And some of that sexy sweaty smell stays on skin for hours and hours after applying it.

Boudoir is spicy and powdery carnations at the start; the good Madame from the brothel mentioned above bathed with Maja soap. After an application of body powder, some cheap perfume full of daffodils, roses, jasmine, civet, orange blossom... underwear is redundant.
After a joint to get in the mood, lying on the bed, naked with her exuberant curves visible, her lover arrives. A muscular, little rough stud. He wears an oil with the essence of herbs; lavender, rosemary, thyme, lemon and some animal notes. Their sex session will last as long as their bodies can handle. The sweat of both is mixed with their perfume and the smoke from the joint that they share at the end.

The Kama sutra has just inaugurated a new chapter.

I love it, in case there is any doubt. It makes you blush if you start to think and fantasize while wearing it. But if you know how to tame it, then there’s no need to fantasize; you are going to live your wildest dreams.
Like very few recent perfumes, Boudoir fits like a glove with who Vivienne is as a person, as a designer, and as a personality. While the rest of her perfumes, almost all of them actually, are now forgotten, her firstborn Boudoir is her manifesto and she could shout it louder (difficult; it lasts forever with tremendous sillage) but not clearer.
I just need to meet again with my long gone Kingdom. The two are twins with the same overwhelming personality.

(And then they sell us today's releases as groundbreaking, transgressive...Boudoir eats them up while painting her nails)

Review based on an edp from 1999.

The body products in this scent are divine, but watch out with the perfume. It fills a room fast and not all are appreciative of its scent trail. The carnation and spices take over on me unfortunately, and the aldehydes go soapy, as they are wont to do. A big '90's powerhouse, probably one of the last. If I were buying this today, it wouldn't be worth the crazy prices it's commanding but it is worth a sniff because you don't get this type of skill in designer perfumes anymore.

Nice scent in it's own way. Please know enough not to wear to work. I have a 50 ml bottle, apparently a lifetime supply. It is not an everyday scent and yes does evoke the perfumed tampon, which maybe you can't even buy anymore.

Powder kind of a soapy interesting vintage smell..very rare now and super expensive...a pink rosy bar of dove soap, yes a rosy dove soap bar, if it could ever exist in this form.. this is boudoir by Westwood...punk rock baroque extravaganza... I would search for it only if I used to wear it...

i love this perfume though I agree with others- this one is not for everyone. Powdery, rose-y, smells a little like rootbeer and well.. dirty! A very sexy perfume which I think really appeals to men. Probably best worn in the evening and of course in the boudoir!

this is a very powdery, boudoir scent, true to its name
the coriander definitely gives it a little bit of what some people call an "old woman" scent, but i like it :)
boudoir gives me the vision of walking backstage at a burlesque club, seeing all of the girls in silk dresses and white pearls taking out their rollers and putting on a spritz of this fragrance as they prepare to step onto the stage <3
in some ways i do see how people think of it as a shampoo scent but i think it definitely has a "boudoir" vibe, not as much a "dirty" scent but still sexy :)

Just a little review to share that it reminds me a bit of the perfume by Ashanti called PRECIOUS JEWEL. According to perfume.net, the fragrance notes for PRECIOUS JEWEL are: "Jasmine, Crushed, Oakmoss, Marigold Buds, Bergamot, Lily of the Valley, Sandalwood, Orchid, Raspberry, Apple, Peach, Ylang-Ylang, Rose, Musk, Plum." So perhaps it's the marigold and jasmine that make it smell similar to BOUDOIR. The main difference to my nose is that BOUDOIR is more musky, powdery, animalic jasmine marigold billowing cloud.... whereas PRECIOUS JEWEL is more of a sweet fruity hairspray jasmine marigold scent. That said, if you miss BOUDOIR, and are looking for something a bit lighter and fruity, you might enjoy PRECIOUS JEWEL.

Visited my old bottle today looking for what everyone els has found.. still feel the same way.
This is very nice but overrated. A shampoo bubblegum floral. No skank, not even powder.
Get organza or Nebras for damn near the same thing and save some money. Trust me I have all three.

The very first perfume I bought for myself, and I've had the same juice for about a decade now. I can't wax poetic about it as so many others have done, because it is rather linear on me and is essentially a powder bomb, but truly a powder like no other, I honestly find it way too evocative for everyday wear, which is just as well since it's discontinued and I'm saving every last drop. I absolutely love it. The longest lasting of any perfume I own, on skin but especially on clothes - I still smell this days later.

This perfume is EVERYTHING. Literally. I am kicking myself for never wanting to give it a chance in the past. I am kicking myself for spending a fortune on 500+perfumes that have now lost all purpose and meaning. Boudoir puts them all to shame. Single handedly.
Few days ago i scored a mini for only 30 bucks. Received it yesterday, popped the cap and sighed in disappointment. Smelling it in the bottle gave me nothing but that old school aldehyde smell that we can find in so many classics from 60 years ago.I thought seller duped me and loaded the bottle with something cheap. But i decided to dab a bit on my forearm, and as i am walking away, within 30 seconds, magic starts to unfold.
I spent the rest of the afternoon being enveloped in this magical, dirty, sex/powder bomb of a perfume, wondering how i could have possibly missed this. Decided to go and purchase full bottle of it, while it can still be found. Made a decision that good 90% of my collection has now become obsolete. Realized that i never actually smelled a REAL WOMAN's perfume until that moment. I missed out, big time.
I, however, want to elaborate on two things. First, this perfume is SEX- bottled. I would say Boudoir is to be applied prior to the most intimate moments with your partner, regardless of gender. As much as it is good, it is also dirty and smells kind of sinful. This is not for a stroll at the mall, walk thru the park, picking up your kids from school...Only for dates and sexy-times.
Second, i take the offense at previous two reviews stating Boudoir would not appeal to your average straight man. I have been married to my ticking time bomb of a man since 1991. I honestly never knew manliest, straighter and more aggressive man in my entire life..My husband would pluck stars from the heavens for me, but he is not really fond of public display of affection, heck, we never even held hands when we met, as teens. Last night we went to the store and i still smelled of Boudoir, and he started grabbing me all over, and at one point he grabbed my butt in front of at leat 30 people. I was stunned. In the car i shoved my arm under his nose and asked what he thought my new perfume smelled like? He said: It smells like having sex! So, yes, i thought things will happen when we come home, but in the end, the steak and beer won.😌
Boudoir will appeal to any REAL man. Period. And i bet woman wearing it can get any man she wants!
UPDATE 2 days later:
So i wore this for 3 days straight and tonight, as i am writing this, i sit here, perplexed. This is very temperamental. I used my mini yet again, since i really don't want to unwrap my brand new full bottle, but i am not getting any of the sexy, dirty, powdery beast. All i can smell are aldehydes, very similar to Arpege. I am wearing unscented lotion on my arms, but nothing under my shirt, and smell is the same on lotioned and unlotioned skin. I am so confused. It's almost as if my mini turned in 2 days, which is impossible. I am not sure what is up here, so my only word of advice would be that if you've tried this once and it did not work on your skin, try again at the later date. It seems that Boudoir has some serious attitude!
Fickle bitch, that one!

On me, Boudoir isn't exactly sexy but more comfortable and warm. It's all about that carnation, vanilla, and tobacco on me, with a powdery outer-body. It's got some vintage appeal which makes it "hot" in my book. Ash.sabol mentions it not being sexy in a way that will appeal to a straight man and I have to say... that pretty much sums it up. This isn't the standard "come hither" fragrance, although it will reward those who stick around. This is a confident, bold scent and the majority of the appeal will be directed at the wearer. When I wear this I think of people like Vivienne Westwood; her style, her attitude. Just a brilliant fragrance that's being sold online for exorbitant prices. If you find this for a good price, snatch it up (for yourself, or for someone you know who enjoys this... they'll be extremely grateful)

After having a sample of this like 6 years ago I still can't forget about this perfume. I agree with Sexbot - I love it but I'm also afraid of it. Sometime after my sample was used up I smelled this on one of my friends in fashion school. I knew what she was wearing immediately, and was kinda envious she had made it her signature scent. Bold move.
Basically this is sexy babydoll but NOT in a way that's meant to be appealing to your average straight man. Which I love it for. It's honestly kind of off-putting but I think I still need to track down a full bottle one day....

Ok I love this but I’m also afraid of it…i love powder I love baby powder..Chanel no.5…Coty l’amaint..killian voulez vous coucher avec moi…I can the take powder like a baby’s ass but this one is dark and weird it’s like the name a says boudoir when I wear this I feel like an 18th century prostitute in a brothel in France or New Orleans..you need to be that very strange bitch to wear it.. Vivienne Westwood definitely made this one for herself…

So, this was an unexpected find. It was lying in dust on the bottom shelf of the cheap perfume section of my local drugstore, but I noticed it anyway because bottle. On initial spray I was surprised to smell a 100-year-old dusty sagebrush (you know, used to be very bitter but now too old to show any teeth kind of vibe) attacking me instead of alcohol. It settled down
after some minutes and exploded into a strong projection of complex bitter white florals with honey, which singlehandedly murdered the perfumes like la vie est belle, hypnose, poeme, pretty much all chanel perfumes, JPG scandal and classique in my eyes forever (although I never really liked any of that bunch much for the exception of scandal). They are all dead now. It was only first minutes and it was already brutal. I walked away bewildered and just decided to live my life for a bit. After several hours it developed into Mukhallat by Montale, but if that one was smelling natural rather than synthetic. If anyone met those, it also resembles a lot Indian oily perfumed stones which are used to refresh wardrobes - sweet good quality musk. After several hour more it became a bit dirty and started resembling saliva. I am sitting at home, it is already night, confused, sniffing my hand not understanding why the heck a baby of this caliber sits on the bottom shelf of the cheap section of a drugstore, costing 40 euros for 50ml. I come here and see that it is one of the goners, so probably the drugstore just found some long forgotten stock which they didn't know what to do with. So I check the time (still had one hour left until closing), put on my pants and run back to the store. And now I have it. It is a truly vintage, complex, interesting, very good quality and very individualistic smell. I disagree that it is just a "sweet girly scent" (I mean holy smokes, if this is a sweet girly girl, then how the hell mature crazy women are looking like on your side). I don't think such raw and strong compositions are made anymore. I am not sure where and how I am going to wear it, because it seems to me appropriate and inappropriate for any occasion at the same time, but I guess I can figure it out later. Oh and by the way, I woke up next day and it was still on my wrist going pretty noticeable, as a true beast.

supine across silken frills of a fainting couch in a 20th century opium den. satin nightgown torn at the seams. garage rock fuzz humming through smog. old hollywood vanity mirror caked in setting powder, remnants of doe-eyed glamor strewn about. hand in hand led to carnal downfall. moyoco anno's memoirs of amorous gentlemen.

boudoir opens with olfactory glitter: aldehydes sparkle and shine through puffs of eastern spices. the opening is but a façade of cleanliness, so dishonest! unsustainable, the sudsy polish is stripped away. a piquant, citrus sourness reveals itself, coming and going, quickly fading into a blushing carnation caressed by smoke. cigarettes and wedlock bouquets fill a hazy room with their scent, bespeckled in stripes of red and white. powdered candies pop between teeth, supported by orange blossom, hair thrown back leaving a bubblegum trail. the pale pink softness of gentle flowers is taken under tobacco's wing—a freshly-opened pack of lucky strikes lie in a purse, soon to be shared and stained with lipstick. sugared poppies sprinkled in soil spring from the cracks of a dark window as a boudoir melodrama unfolds, allowing for heavy breathing and foggy windows to make their mark. a lactonic texture couples with erotic filth and powder at the base, milky-sweet narcissus blossoming against bare skin aneled with rose oil and stained with sweat. dirty and crowned in flowers. legs crossed, eyes wide. or is it the other way around?
"every evening the mud fills up her bridal gown."

anaïs nin's signature scent may have been mitsouko, but i can't help but think of her when i wear boudoir. and while i love the bottle design, it's the one fragrance that's made me wish it had a puff atomizer.

songs for boudoir: volcano by swans, your mistress by htrk, money by in aeternam vale, come down easy by spacemen 3.

I have Loved Boudoir since its launch in 1998, I cannot believe it was discontinued. Why oh why ?. I have now run out & find that if you want it, the prices are So Overrated it is daylight Robbery..
Please Vivienne Westwood, Please bring it back...its fragrance just Cannot be found again, to me it was Unique.

I’ve been wearing this for 10+ years. I was lamenting to my daughter about it being discontinued. She said, “you can have mine” What?? I’d forgotten that I had given her a bottle years ago. I used to buy it in bulk and give as gifts. She shipped it to me and I’ve secured 2 minis online. There is nothing like Boudoir. To me, it’s heavenly; powdery+musky+smoky+sexy+sultry and yet clean and fresh too. It’s a one slight spray behind the neck only.

This perfume is just everything! I’m so sad it’s been discontinued. It was all I wore for yearssss! I have one bottle left that I’m saving for my wedding day, it’s that special to me! I have a lot of memories attached to this smell. If anyone finds anything that smells the same please LMK! 💕

The Tramp is a Lady
This is my signature scent and has been since I first clocked it at Harrods in the late 90s.
Boudoir has a very clear and individual personality to me.

The "secret ingredient", at the launch of Boudoir was said to be VIBURNUM. This was the 1st scent to ever have it. Now, viburnum smells like bad breath and old boots, BUT, Korean spice viburnum and the English Burkwood Viburnum are dreeaaammmy! The scent is a combination of spicy and sweet that is pure rapture. Like heliotrope with nutmeg, but sexy nutmeg...I think that's what is in it. It was "secretly" removed from the scent profile ages ago...so, I guess it is a secret ingredient now???
But I digress...
It is SO beautiful, strong and confidant yet girly. A baby powdered and bubblegum chewing feminine woman. She has a thinly veiled, hot and unashamed sexuality, a deep intelligence, a proper education and a touch of city tough.
Both English country home and Knightsbridge, London. She is successful, self-possessed, upmarket and brave.
She doesn't wear Birkenstocks and she is neither mousy nor apologetic.
People who don't like it say it's too "girly". I agree. So am I. I am not a unisex kind of lady. If you are, don't mess with Boudoir.

Vivienne,

Can you bring this back?

I don't want to wear Nebras and I don't want to buy an old bottle. Please.

Thanks.

This juice starts off sharp and jumbled on my skin and I'm mostly getting marigold and aldehydes. Then all the other flowers start to open- their wafts are so bright and colorful that I feel like I'm walking around in a fuchsia cloud- like Pigpen from Peanuts, but without the dust, lol. About a few hours later flowers start to dry off and become powdery, but still rich. This part lasts forever, as a syrupy, musky scent slowly emerges from beneath- so slowly that you can smell it's gradual arrival and mingling with the heart notes. Then you have a sweet, soft skin scent that last for hours. I don't get any tobacco- mind you, many modern fragrances really amp up that up, so it might be harder to detect/appreciate here. I really like this!! But I'd have to be intentional about where I use the fuschia cloud, haha.
Edit: I wasn't getting a skanky pee note until I got some on my clothing- it doesn't do that on my skin, thankfully.

I am just here reading the reviews because I read Al Rehab's Nebra's smells just like this. Some of you are wondering where the " just after sex skank" smell comes from in this scent. Its the cinnamon. Cinnamon is the queen of SKANK and I will avoid it at all costs. That's all I wanted to say.

The bottle is more interesting than the fragrance, but the fragrance is lovely none the less. It's a white floral powdery bomb, sure, but it mellows out quickly and is more reminiscent of the smooth amber of Shalimar but with powder and white flowers. I got it for a good price, but I wouldn't have spent more than I did for sure. There are better and more interesting white flowers out there and powders. I wish it took it further with the carnation and the tobacco, which you get the idea of but it never really takes off. 7/10

A no for me.
It reminds me of a feminine personal hygene product I used to have as a teenager and that is why I am not a fan.
Leaving aside my personal experience, the scent is neither bad, nor to die for. I understand the hunt for discontinued fragrances, but this one is not that good to be worth paying double-as it sometimes go for double on ebay, in my opinion.

Heavy, sickly sweet, overpowering and girlish rather than womanly. A definite no from me.

I acquired Boudoir when it came out (1998). then still not, nut now I resemble this heavy, classic, bewitching perfume with Coco, Flowerbomb, Guerlain's Mahora and Nahéma and Creed's Fleur de Bulgarie. (also the old Cartier's Panthère and Musk.) can you imagine I felt HAPPY with these perfumes (at separate moments) in my bag ? these are exactly the perfumes I love. actually the code 4 chemical but also raw material saturated 80s bombs Giorgio-Poison-Obsession-Knowing and in 1990 Beverly Hills by Gale Hayman I like even better. but BOUDOIR was perfect. I even bought the perfume. all named perfumes are explosions of flowers, with the classic ones: rose, jasmine, gardenia, tuberose, carnation, iris, orange blossom, narcissus, hyacinth et al. I remember I was so early with achieving it there was this tiny and deft booklet inside with an explanation of the construction of the perfume. Vivienne was punk and royal. (is) I never liked her fashion much. I like punk but then in the hands of Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler (then), Montana, Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel. but her perfume was and is to die for. perfume lends just such pleasure to life. it makes it fuller, more dense, sticky, flowery, opaque, etc.

I tried Boudoir about 10 years ago and couldn’t wait to get home from work to shower it off. On that day it smelled strongly of civet (aka that “sex” note).

This year I gave it another go and it’s not that bad. I think I over-applied the first time and since this stuff is potent, I implore you to only use 1-2 sprays maximum.

Basically Boudoir is a very powdery sweet floriental. It is bubble-gummy with spicy powder. The Aldehydic powder quality makes it project and cloud around you, so again, I implore, only 1-2 sprays! It has a strongly vintage-retro vibe and I don’t think I’ve smelled anyone wearing anything like this for over 20 years. I enjoy it when I’m at home. This is probably a bit of an insult but it reminds me of my mother in law who wore Giorgio in the 80-90s. I like it a ton more than Giorgio; because I don’t think the notes are similar, but it’s that kind of fragrance.

Tbh if it’s discontinued I wouldn’t seek it out. Let it go, it’s a sweet, powdery bomb you really don’t want to wear in public. When I’m in the mood for a vintage-retro scent I’d much rather wear Guerlain L’Heure Blue which has powdery violets but manages classy-beauty instead of, well, a little trashy.

The bottle is really unique though. Seems like something Madonna would like. Actually Boudoir reminds me of Madonna; retro 80-90s and she supposedly loves Fracas which is a tuberose bomb. Kind of fits.

This is the most beautiful perfume I have ever come across and I am absolutely bereft that it is no loner available. Please bring it back

It is like smokey honey, slightly reminds me of zoologist Bee but with more flowers, more wearable

I just received a vintage mini

This is one of the most beautiful perfumes I have ever smelled

It is familiar and comforting but completely different from anything I have smelled

This is a magical talisman, this is an unknown pleasure

I am blown away

I am so thankful to have found this absolute unit of a fragrance

SPECIFICS: Boudoir smells like powerful sexual glamour spells, yellow and pink flowers, fairy queen dust and freshly dirtied panties thrown in. I kind of get the skeleton of Mon Guerlain in the dry down too. IT IS UTTER PERFECTION.

Thanks for the swap MoreScentsThanDollars! What a complex fragrance it is! On me, at first it's a very pretty floral, then morphs into tobacco albeit with some softness and the dry down is something I can't put my finger on (carnation perhaps?). Whatever it is, it has me sniffing my wrist and sighing. The sillage and staying power are second to none. I really love this one.

ioanaszmeu, thank you for helping me find this unicorn. I cannot speak about it now, I only smell my wrist. It is fantastic.
Thank you, Vivienne Westwood and Martin Gras.
Sounds as if I have an Oscar moment.. but this perfume does make one feel like a thousand bucks.

I don't understand why everybody is talking about this being discontinued. You can find this in every Müller store in Germany.

I've written my review a while back but I cannot believe this is discontinued. I will never forget this complex, dirty vixen. Bring her back!

Just one Drops smell everywhere This scent is old and modern mixed together. This is a queen B smell don't mess with this fragrance just one drop will Make you Feel like you a in Heaven. Two drop People May looking at you.
I love this smell so much is like caramel mixed honey and candy It's delicious Fragrance love it.

I have the Coty bottle, almost 10 years old by batch code. I’m getting none of the skank others are talking about and I was hoping I would.. it does smell just like the Al Rehab Nebras I have ..I love it, sweet, bubblegumy, now I know that If I want to smell like this Nebras is the same for 10$ compared to the 80$ I just spent on a bottle of this!

♥ Fragrance is a time machine ♥

I was only 7 years old when Boudoir was released so I was never really aware of it until recently when I started collecting perfume. Any fragrance in the lipstick / cosmetic / powder / boudoir categories seriously call my name - so I became obsessed with hunting this discontinued gem down.

I received it this morning and have been wearing it all day. What a nostalgic time machine!! I don't know if I remember smelling it on anybody I used to know or if it perfectly captures late 90's / early 2000's pop culture but WOW.

I feel like a pre-teen in my bedroom watching MTV and dreaming of being like the older cool girls. This is definitely from the Juicy Couture velvet tracksuit era - it brings images of early 00s Kylie Minogue, The Cardigans, and Goldfrapp.

But if I could choose a song that sounds like what this perfume makes me feel, it would be CHERRY LIPS by Garbage.


"With your cherry lips and golden curls

You could make grown men gasp

When you'd go walking past them

In your hot pants and high heels

They could not believe

That such a body was for real

It seemed like rainbows would appear

Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear"


♥

Try this, if you can. It is delightful on the right person. Sorry to say I am not the right person myself.

I am very impressed how our brain interprets scents with time. While 6 months ago Boudour smelled me a dirty drug using girl's undies, now it smells me sparkling autumn deep wine. If you hate it, put it aside for a while and try again. OMG

This is my all time favourite scent and i am HEARTBROKEN that it is becoming impossible to find! If anyone wants to sell their bottle, please let me know! it lasts for hours and smells like HEAVEN !

Strong floral oriental. Love the fragrance. Mature and seductive at the same time.
Identical to Femme Noblesse LR for women.

I was bought this years ago as a gift but it is one I can still remember to this day. What a bizarre smelling perfume but it’s oddly really nice! It definitely lasts all day! Definitely an older smell but very pretty!

I'm writing this review as i'm feeling nostalgic because i can't find this perfume anymore at an onest price online, and i miss it a lot.
There is no other like Boudoir, it felt so close to the skin but others always compliment it, if my own skin could have it's own perfume i would love it to be Boudoir.
Musky, natural, floral in an old fashion way but with a modern sweetness and timeless femininity. Decadent like an old baroque theater but cuddly and flirty like a pink organza negligé.
It lasted forever and became only more personal with time.

A pinkish sweet rose.

I get that carnation mingles with marigold and mixed with bursts of aldehyde, orris, bergamot, coriander, and cardamom. I don't really get the tobacco but it's quite alderyde roses and floral.

I'm not that much into 90s blends but I've read about "Boudoir" recently on fragrantica, an article about it being bad or some comments and bad reviews that gave me a push to dig it and see the hype behind it! and it was ok! i mean not bad tho, as it begins with pink floral aldehyde and settles into some candy powder floral and roses.

This fragance for me has a continuous allure that makes me just want to sniff it again and again. I am a twenties males and for me Vivienne Westwood Boudoir is the height of androgyny. This iis one of those scents you either hate or love as all the previous reviews make clear. My opinion on this is that this fragrance is one that truly plays with and notches up your own skin chemistry and the result is either displeasing or absolutely loving yourself and wanting everyone around you to feel it too.

This fragance on my skin literally pulses with life. When I do wear it out I have to be completely in the mood and satisfied that it might garner attention.

On initial spray I get warm rushes and the image of being wrapped in a red velvet curtain. The first notes I get are Rose, Tuberose and a kind of fresh wood that I cannot place my finger on. I cannot entirely place my finger on anything with this fragrance at all and that is why I love it. It only allows me to pick out what it wants me to know.

As it develops I get Jasmine, Patchouli and what I think might be Ylang Ylang. In this stage there seems to be a bubbly Champagne like undertone in there. It is so faint like it is being passed around on a tray at the other side of the room.

For me this fragrance stays in what I call this middle zone, after developing with the notes above, for hours. Overall this can last almost two days on me and I smell it still on clothes long after washing.

The final period for me at the end of a day after about 8 hours is like warm fire, sweat and naked skin. This for me is where that post nooky, erogenous smell is and in my opinion is where it is best suited. I think in others this aspect comes out a lot sooner and is what may be scaring people away. Again it comes down to your chemistry.

Overall this is one of the most enduring fragrances for me. I use it very sparingly, and only out maybe once a month when I feel the stars are aligned or something like that.

Sillage and longevity are huge.

To anyone on the fence, don't be. With this one you have to try it directly on the skin and let it go to work. Then decide after how it was and if you want to see it again. Maybe next time there will be dinner.

Aldehydes is a difficult note for me, because I hardly can endure it. But there are some exceptions. Boudoir is one of them. Aldehydes here are soft, cuddly and portable. If you are looking for aldehydic scent with balsamic, slightly sweet spices and powdery accents, take a look at this masterpiece. Very original, bright and unforgettable, like Vivienne Westwood herself. The duet of vanilla-ish scent of lipstick and face compact powder is very dense, thick and bold. Pretentious carnation flower and a specific bubble-gummy note is beautiful.... I do not use it often, but I like everything about the Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood.

This perfume is definitely all fur coat and no knickers, in that it smells like a woman who had a forbidden romp then sprayed a sweet yet sharp perfume sprayed over the sheets.

Strong, mature and strangely sexy. I don't reach for this often....

However, I was dressed in a long black coat with pointed heels for a funeral and I wanted something a little more "grown up" than my usual fruity/gourmand scents and my boyfriend said it smelled like an old lady....

Overall, I wouldn't buy this again. Perhaps my skin chemistry just really hates this scent... I really admire the pretty bottle though.

Boudoir is a beautiful, womanly floral. The opening is soapy, with something curious, which I cannot place. The dry down is a slightly-spicy, clean floral that grows brighter as it wears. It reminds me a little of Coty L'effleur.

I was leaving a review for the Agent Provocateur flagman fragrance, saying as it smells like old and very expensive brothel.

This one smells like a bit more modern and a bit less expensive one with more diverse services and girls allegedly on drugs :-) Definitely smells a bad girl who does not care.It is outstanding and sort of decadence perfume.

The interesting fact: if you sniff inside the box, it smells very positive bright innocent something. Unbelievable.

As an addendum to my review, I just want to ask - what note is responsible for the dirty skanky smell? To me, it's smells vaguely of cumin, but it's not listed. I can't figure out which note gives Boudoir it's "naughty bits" smell!

I read almost every single review posted here last night, every love, every hate, and every warning not to buy without testing. I then immediately went on Ebay and purchased a 1 oz amber vintage. The comparisons to Nebras convinced me it was worth the gamble, and the price was reasonable compared to what others were asking for the same. I am now waiting for it to arrive, and I am so excited! I know this is not a review, but I plan on writing one once I get to know her. Given the love she has received, I figured that in the worst case scenario I can swap with a fan. Wish me luck... review pending!

EDIT - My bottle came yesterday. Definitely vintage - amber juice. I sprayed it on my hand, and it wasn't long before the skanky notes came out. It was a bit much, but they toned down very quickly and a gorgeous sweet vanilla floral emerged, with the animalic notes hovering in the background, just enough to make this an interesting perfume. I sprayed more, and smelled it clearly evolving on my skin. I love this juice - sweet but not cloying, floral without feeling like you were hit in the face with a bouquet, and sexy without being too skanky. Plus, the bottle is nice - though I already knew that!! I can see myself reaching for this frequently this fall as an alternative to the florientals I tend to wear when the weather gets cold. I am quite pleased that this works well with my chemistry, as I can easily see this going horribly wrong if it didn't. I'm thrilled that I took a chance on the blind buy at a good price, it definitely smells more niche than designer.
PS - after several hours of wear, I can smell the dry down and it's a dream! Cinnamon and spice, with that sweet vanilla primarily, though the florals are still present.

this perfume can work better on skin ..
try to wear it on your body all over not your clothes and let the scent goes out within the fabric to the freedom.
there are many ingredients in perfumes which can’t work clothes, this perfume been made for love occasions only, made with love, made in a perfect harmony, made to be immortal.
too shame to be discontinued!
as always every beauty will disappear one day.
rose musc amber fruits and vanilla
am sorry fragrantica there is no carnations and aldehydes in here and this is my nose opinion..
this realy heavy juice of seduction and attraction.. kind of rotten roses and very wet
this is a charming woman skin sweet sweat ..
yea this is the the sweetest sweat.

Dear LORD this perfume does NOT work with my skin chemistry!! I was so curious to test this fragrance out & one day, there she was, in all her glory, sitting out ready to be sprayed ;)

Immediately my skin chemistry was like “no bitch, this is not gonna work for ya!”
Warm urine stained frilly-underwear, sweaty underarms and a puff of powder. You know I was desperately sad by this point, 1. Because my skin chemistry sucks. 2. Because I had to run errands in town wearing this stuff.

Eventually, once this fragrance calmed down a bit, I could imagine someone like Mae West wearing it. Someone glamorous but also has a real naughty side. Maybe a bit scandalous.
Definitely get vintage vibes. Very long lasting & powerful fragrance.

If I was to become a dominatrix, this would be my choice of perfume.

Pure filth.

the lovely user CopperBlue saw my postings about Vivienne Westwood scents on the forums over the summer, and quite generously offered to gift me their half-full bottle of Boudoir! off the bat, i was instantly enamored by the intricate bottle. i didn't really think that i could ever find it in me to be a fan of any perfumes described as spicy-sweet, or powdery-as i usually gravitate towards refreshing, green floral scents. while boudoir is undeniably both of those things-- and a heavy musky scent-- i just can't get enough. the scent is sexy, confident, and smart, with a bit of sweetness, and the musk is less overpowering and more like a thick honeyed scent. it's easy for me to go overboard with this perfume, and spray until i fumigate my friends when taking the elevator together, but at the end of the day, they always ask me what perfume i'm wearing. i could absolutely see myself restocking in the future.

This is one of those fragrances that I am forever haunted by. It smells so bad or at least my bottle did. It smelt really dirty and stinky. I'm not judging the people that wear this fragrance because to each is own, but this fragrance really didn't do it for me. To be quite honest it smelt like someone who just passed gas and it lingers around the room. The main reason I got it in the first place was because Dita Von Teese wears this as one of her many fragrances, and I thought being the goddess that she is it would have to smell amazing. When I first got into perfume I never read the reviews of the different fragrances I was trying. At times that is really great because its great to get a fragrance without having other peoples opinions as your own, but this was the last time I didn't read reviews because it made me learn a valuable lesson. Sometimes you can't go off of reviews and have to just get it yourself and see how it wears on you, but in this moment it wasn't overly popular and I decided to just blind buy. Never blind buy unless the review doesn't help you enough to buy the fragrance.

I don't think I'll ever get a full bottle of Boudoir, because I know my own taste well enough by now to realize I never reach for this kind of fragrance, however much I like it when I test it. And I liked this one really very much, which is surprising because it's really not my genre at all. It's the kind of scent I usually admire on others more than I enjoy wearing it myself: rich and opulent and warm, quite old-fashioned and very feminine, with a complex list of notes and a heavy dose of spices. Nice, but so not me, and that goes double for the "skanky"/sexy elements that most reviewers mention: I wish I would feel more at home in those, but I never do.

In short, everything indicated that I shouldn't like this - but I really do! I think it's the hyacinth note that makes the difference. It's the most dominant for me, and it's very well-done, very realistic, which provides such a nice contrast to the heavier accords. The opening is my favourite part: that lovely hyacinth is at its best and most prominent then, and the background notes translate as borderline gourmand on my skin, they're so soft and smooth, with a little waxiness to them. As the scent dries down the richer notes turn spicier and heavier, while the floral accords fade away, and yes, it gets pretty sexy too. Still nice, but not as special anymore, and at this point it starts to match my expectations that it wouldn't be for me.

All in all this was a very nice surprise, and against my expectations I think I would like to get a little decant - even though I know it'll probably remain largely unused, I'd treasure the chance to experience that wonderful opening from time to time.

Sweet and categorical for the night because for the day, especially in the summer you can choke someone with it. But stil have some lady like vibe maybe not businesswoman type more like aristocratic one. It's the kind of perfume that a baroness could wear successfully.

I am stocking up on scents that are 'skanky' and this is my first purchase.

Wow! I love it. I adore the underarm sweaty smell that appears a few minutes in.

I thought I had purchased this a few years ago and realised I had actually bought Mon Boudoir (it had a disgusting phlegmy undertone and it put me off.)

There are so few proper skanky,sexy scents but I'm in love with Boudoir,so much so I bought a second bottle immediately!

I can't wait for my others to arrive but they have a hard act to follow.

Thank you for all the helpful reviews.

absolutely gorgeous,full of contradictions.classy.dirty.sexy,innocent.one of my favourites

Boudoir is like Vivienne Westwood’s couture, provocative, voluptuous. It is animalic, sweaty, kind of like a heated yoga class, at the same time luxurious with yellow florals dipped in honey and powdery like a drink mix. Spices add a fizzy touch. It’s a heavy hitter and lasts all day or all night. You either wear this to embarrass yourself in front of male colleagues (not recommended) or wake up smelling very scandalous.

I only tested this perfume once and it was about a decade ago, but it definitely left a lasting impression on me. After a while I always intended to but a bottle but somehow it just never happened. I was going to buy another perfume today that was on sale but I saw Boudoir staring at me in the corner of the shop and I just felt compelled to buy her today.
Certainly not a disappointment. It flicked me back to that moment when I first smelled her, the clove element, the spice and sweetness, it’s very sexy. And here I am, on my bed at 9:15pm, ready to take a shower and wash away my day, yet there she still is lingering on my wrist, 10 hours after the first spritz. Still sexy but with a sweet soft touch to it.

I think I’ve found a new favorite...

Woooow !!!
I admit that The opening is a bit harsh and “skanky”..
But the rest of the journey is just plain dreamy, seductive and nothing less than fantastic.
What a little gem... smells like a million, but the price is very low.
Sexy, stunning and very intriguing.
I fell in love at once.
Longevity and silage is amazing !

I remember my first encounter with Boudoir. It was around the winter of 2001 and I was meeting a couple of friends on a saturday night to go out to a club. They were picking me up and as soon as they arrived and I got into the car, the most delicious, spicy, floral, bubblegum, powdery aroma wafted to my nose and made me close my eyes and inhale deeply in pleasure. I immediately asked my friend what this amazing perfume was, and she told me. I sought it out days later at Sephora and fell in love all over again, after spraying it on myself. I couldn't afford it at the time, but I never forgot it and a few years later, I sought it out. This was during its hiatus, when it was temporarily discontinued and I couldn't find it in stores. So I scoured eBay and was lucky to find a bottle at a decent price. I was so happy to find out that it was brought back into production later on. It's truly a wonderful and unique scent and very much reminiscent of a vintage boudoir, with lipstick and powder, a vase of flowers, faint tobacco from a case of cigarettes, and a bottle of perfume on the vanity. I have never gotten any "skank" from this scent at all. To me it smells intoxicating and addictively delicious! Count me in as one of its devoted and enchanted fans.
Update 2022: Unfortunately, Boudoir is once again a unicorn and extremely hard to find, unless you wish to pay exorbitant prices on auction sites. I'm fortunate to have two bottles that I use conservatively.

The first hour of this is disgusting. Blast of vomit acid and wild animal piss or something organically vile, blanketed in talcum powder, face-sitting on top of a barely noticeable boozy sweetness. Very prominent hyacinth, the distinct smell of thick petal flowers reminiscent of unripe bananas. And freshly manufactured plastic? Absolute chaos. Loud too.What the hell is going on inside this little bottle. The image I get in my head is a woman with heavy makeup throwing up after a night of partying.

Eventually all that simmers down. I think this is the part everyone is raving about? It's the skankwhore hangover. I really like it. Like a dark velvet and gold boudoir room at 4am, pantyhose lying around, rum stains on the carpet, and dead flowers on the vanity table. Very powdery on me from beginning to end. I looove powdery. The spicy/floral-ness is traditional, there's not much to comment on. Without the above mentioned chaos fuzzing between it, it would be a traditional ordinary perfume. What's unique is the sweetness in the core feels rather boozy than vanillary as advertised. Lasts about 12 hours on me. The bottle looks beautiful, the signature Vivienne orb cap, the tinted juice, the thick base, the gold label, all of it looks simply darling.

The development really paints a picture, and it really sings to me, and it's a beautiful one, believe me, but I can't tolerate an hour of the piercing vomit smell to get to the good stuff. It was a wild experience.

Boudoir By Vivienne Westwood:

Having had this Perfume some fifteen year's ago & it being a rather hit & miss affair with me, I decided that it was deffo time to bite the bullet & try it out again, & I'm really so glad that I did, as now it smells absolutely stunning on my skin!! On First Spray I still get that blast of what I call "THAT JUST AFTER SEX SMELL" lol'lol'lol'lol That makes me really blush & flush!! & can be kind of off putting to say the least!! Then After around ten minutes it starts to settle into the most beautiful aroma I've ever smelt!! Spicy,Soft,Powdery,Warm with this really beautiful Carnation flower aroma which seems to linger around on my skin till the very end dry down!! Wore This Absolute Stunning Beauty yesterday for the very first time,& no joke I received six compliments in the Supermarket from complete stranger's gosh!! & the lady behind me compliment me on my beautiful Perfume aroma I was wearing saying you smell gorgeous!! Then while at home in the Kitchen busy & forgetting all about what Perfume I had on me that day, my husband as soon as he walked in from work said O heck Paulie your smelling stunning what perfume is that your wearing love!! Indeed the power of Perfume!!

This morning when I got up to see my husband out to work as usual I could still smell it on my skin!! So deffo Boudoir has real good staying & lasting power!! That was sprayed on me at 10am & the next morning at 8am I could still smell it on my arm!! Wow'Wow'Wow!! This Stunning Beauty is deffo from my all time favourite Perfume group "Chypre Family"!! & I can honestly say that it's an absolutely AMAZING Perfume & one I'll now never be without ever!!

I love a risky blind buy. From the reviews, I surmised that I was to receive either a) a bordello in a bottle, or b) a sweet flowery concoction. It's neither!

My first time experiencing the opening moment of this perfume was quite the roller coaster ride. At first I despaired, "Oh no! It's too powdery and flowery! I don't dress nearly nice enough for this perfume!"

But that moment passed fairly quickly. The note that had me worried is that touch of retro glamour that would suit a retired celebrated movie star perfectly. But the deep, sweet base underneath actually doesn't care if you rolled out of bed and into a worn pair of jeans and a flannel shirt at 2 in the afternoon. It likes you all the same.

My next worry was a split second of perceived musk or civet or what have you. Not that I mind musk. I just worry about it, both for obvious don't-want-to-smell-like-something-peed-on-me reasons, and due to more nebulous concerns about whether it suits me, my personality and the image I project.

The animalic panic, too, faded away about a minute into the experience, when I realized that whatever that musky note in the opening was, had decided to play nice with the spicy, warm vanilla base, too.

And that's ultimately what I get from this perfume. A fascinating warm, sweet, kooky, unpredictable thing that would be totally down if I decided to do a 180 and go full fashionista from now on, but is perfectly fine just hanging with me and my low effort semi-tomboy hipster habits too.

To me, Boudoir is an older but no less exciting and eccentric socialite friend. If you catch her when she's in town, she'll coral you and her eclectic band of associates into bars of some disrepute and order bottles of champagne for the table. She's wise and kind, but she's most supportive of your more impulsive decisions.

On a less anthropomorphic note: Projection and longevity weren't as intense as I expected from reading the reviews here. I've actually worn this to the office a few times now, with no complaints. It's no Alien or Opium in that regard.

After all these reviews, I was expecting some skanky sex smell in this bottle! Now I don’t know what to think. I get no skank; this is a tame, floral, powdery scent! I can see why it’s called “Boudoir”...it smells like my bedroom: skin and fabric and floral, but a savory floral, and powder from my cosmetics. It kind of reminds me of the Nina Ricci L’Extase drydown. I guess this equals sexy to some people. To my nose, it just smells good, but it doesn’t make me yearn for anything sexual. Only one scent has ever given me that response.

My real love..Shared Boudoir with my mommy and it's really the only one like no others..soo distinctive and original,unique and powerful.Let me say from the start, clear and loud and final that there's absolutely no reformulation issue, it has never been, don't know how the hype was invented but I have 2 75 ml bottles of the old brown juice and several new items, kept purchasing Boudoir constantly in time and must say it's the same identical strong animal floral indolic beast from the start.It's well known that the only thing that has been changed after a short time from the launch was the tipe of natural vanille used in the beginning just because the oxidation provoked the change of color, but it's well written even on the box that this caused no change in the quality of the perfume formulation..
Anyway..This fume started something on it's own..the animalic floral even the most macho man can wear, nonetheless remains the epytome of femininity..it's sexiness transcends the gender rules and the effect is the same on a man as on a woman..just like Vivienne fashion..imagine boudoir as the most feminine dirty underwear item, so apparent the skank factor on my skin, that can be worn by the most masculine of the male testimonial ,as often in Vivienne campains, and the effect is not a travesty party but a sort of efforting arousal response given by the "don't know why but it works so well" of the situation.
Such a rich mix of flowers, where the Marigold is the queen, with the rose and every pink thing comes to your mind, so apt the color of the juice and the box actually.But the base of Boudoir is deep honey Marigold Yellow, urine like indolic but no way repulsive, can't deny the skank element is there anyway.Something pungent and effervescent is present for a long long time in the mix, like Champagne bubbles and the aldehydes keep kicking strong forever.It never rests really and in the final part after about 8 hours of beautiful strong and powerful delight the composition settles in the most velvety musky scent of the hot skin after a deep workout, aftersweat effect, soo sexy because some flower petal is always there, wet and raunchy ,and this phase on my skin stays like this until the morning after..Definetely Boudoir is my real love and will Always be, even if my signature is another perfume..Boudoir is the real me that Always reach the surface of every shelter..I'am a man by the way;.

Wow. Add me to the Boudoir-lovers list. I can't believe it took twenty years for me to smell this gorgeous fragrance! I have acquired a used vintage bottle (gold cap) and am five hours into the journey. I experienced the skank aspect in the opening for sure, but the opening also seemed to open for quite a long time. Interesting. At this point it is still going strong - I don't have to sniff my wrist to smell it, although that doesn't stop me from doing so frequently. :) It gets even more beautiful the longer it wears, in my opinion. It is absolutely heavenly right now. Sweet but dark and mischievous, sultry and yet somehow still a bit innocent? I like it on my skin more than on clothes, although the clothes do smell more like the opening. I think it worked both outside in the warmth and inside in the cool. I'll be curious to get some feedback from others but for me it is a LOVE.

This is what Morticia Addams wears while pruning her rose heads, preferring the thorny stems.
A vampy and subtly erotic scent.

Absolutely love this juice. One to two spritz of this would do and it will last the whole day! Just don't use too much of it because it will suffocate you. The scent is that of carnations, which makes it soft spicy, then it feels warmer with more flowers coming in, it lasts and I can smell it enveloping me which makes for a great perfume! Wishing I can find a full bottle of it coz I am so close to running out.

At first spray...this ATTACKS you !! LOL.
OMG....heavy strong/sweet boom hits your nose...and you think...omg....what have I done..??!!!...???.
I get ALL the notes thrown at me all at once...then it settles down (somewhat) and the notes start to "even out"...but....the "cloying-ness" stays a long time..(maybe too long).....But...again, something brings you back....and pulls you in again...???....and you think..."I should go and scrub this off,asap"....then you get transfixed yet again...lol...omg.
If you can make it thru to the very "late" drydown...that is when this scent finally surrenders it's madness...and becomes calmer and you can more appreciate the top/middle/base notes of this scent.
A difficult task...letting this stuff stay on your skin,but this is a unique/different frangrance experience for sure...and...I must add...NOT a safe blind-buy IMHO...Caution required when wearing this stuff....it can take you down many roads...creating different feelings...ect...you have two choices here...1-surrender to the scent or 2-Run like hell away!

My bottle version- a 2001 parfum with amber juice, not pink but possibly just oxidized. Unfortunately there's none of the depth that I was hoping for, or the sophisticated skank referenced in other reviews. In fact, woefully for a Westwood perfume, this is almost polite. Boudoir opens with soapy orange aldehydes that develop into a softly spiced floral heart. The cinnamon is gently sweetened by vanilla notes, reminiscent of cola, and the whole thing is very pleasant. Is it a bad perfume? Far from it, just not what comes to mind at all when I think of the word 'boudoir'. The bottle is of course beautiful though and I will treasure it since it was a gift.

I know that fragrance and gender is a much-discussed topic in the community. I personally don't believe that any fragrance can only be worn by men OR women, in the end it's always a matter of personal style and taste. But I do believe that just like some scents feel warm, cold, dark, pink, sunny, airy etc. some feel very masculine or feminine. At least to me.
And Boudoir feels very, very feminine.

It smells like sweet flowers, vanilla, bubblegum and girly plastic toys from the 80s or 90s, and it has a surprising spicy note that, like some other reviewers mentioned, smells a bit like female body parts. But not in a bad or dirty way, it just gives the other notes a grown-up, seductive twist.
Also, it doesn't become stronger in the drydown, which I appreciate. Boudoir gets more floral and vanillic as it dries down, it becomes quite sweet. The tobacco note is noticeable to me, but light and soft.
The developement is not too complex, but the general scent is multifaceted, if that makes any sense to you. It lasts very long on my skin.

I have a miniature of this and will most likely be buying this when my financial situations improve. I'd been dying to try this and a good friend, knowing this, sent me her mini in a 'Fragrance Care Package' as we call our little swaps.

Now, I must say, it's definitely what I was expecting. Having not read any reviews, or even looked at the fragrantica page for this, I had no idea what to expect. I wore this while meeting a friend who has very little knowledge of perfume and she said that it reminded her a little of Red Door. At first, I didn't agree. I still hadn't looked at the fragrantica entry, but I did detect carnation. Slowly, with more time and more wearings, I did begin to notice the similarities. It wasn't just the carnation, but it was a large contributor.

The scent itself, as I know it has a sort of cult following, is just as traditional and unusual as I expected. I'm a very big fan of Vivienne Westwood, her style and her activism and you can sort of feel rebellion in this. It feels powerful, feminine, innocent but also a little dominating. The bottle itself is perfectly matched as well, much like one of her brooches.

Smells a bit like the room of a person (man or woman) who likes to indulge, powder themselves up and go out for drinks with a cigar or two and come home and just put on a silk nightgown and dance to an upbeat number. I see, of all people, Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction wearing this. Tragically beautiful, very messed up, but still making it. I'm not entirely sure why I see this, but that's what a perfume is for... right? I've never quite had such a powerful response from a scent and I must commend the parfumeur for creating such a scent. It's not overly strong, but it does bring attention to those close to you.

Strange, this one.

Her mood changes. First time I sprayed it I got a shy girl saluting me with a cheek kiss.

The second time, about 3 hours in, she is sweaty and horny. Loud and moaning.

Then I learned that as the time progresses, she shares her journal with me. I'm the paper she writes on.

the signature bottle design, collectible item. Is pretty concentrated, but wear out very nicely. each layer of tones smell so good.

Very floral. feel expensive, unlike other typical floral, this one you won't get bored of.

Lush, warm, elegant. That's how it starts on my skin. It then swiftly progressed to absolutely wonderful, rather unusual bitterness yesterday morning. A fresh, herby bitterness that reminded me more of a herb garden (complemented by tons of hyacinth) rather than a "Boudoir", but that was yesterday and today, something has changed and instead of herbaceous, the fragrance suddenly feels purely sensual.

After a few hours of wearing it yesterday, while still being strong, the fragrance developed really rather unpleasant, somewhat organic, stale odour. I certainly wouldn't see it as sexy and if I had to frame this experience to a specific condition, then it would be the unpleasant smell of clothes the day after a party: smoke and sweaty remnants of a perfume...than again maybe that's what it's supposed to be! :-D

My SLIGHT yesterday afternoon disappointment with this fragrance was replaced THIS morning as I woke up, by the surprising revelation that I couldn't stop smelling my wrist. The scent has evolved, many, many hours after application (although I did re-apply throughout the day, so I am not referring to the initial morning application of course) into touchingly beautiful, warm, soothing, golden softness.

All in all, Boudoir seems to be a masterpiece with chameleonic qualities. Changeable and unexpected. I think my bottle (pink) still has the potential for many olfactory adventures. Oh, and talk about longevity!

it's very rich, and so beautifuly layered. it takes a few hours for it to completely bloom. the carnations are there and quite true, and it takes a several hours to feel the hiacynth - i walked into a store today and walked around the shelves wondering where that soft and fresh hiacynth scent is coming from. it took me a while to realise it was me lol

I got this as a blind buy, mainly for that gorgeous bottle. It was a love - hate at first. It smelled like carnation and something old, but afterwards I got a gorgeous "different" scent. It makes you think about dirty alluring French princesses, a sweet smell of used silk bed sheets, flowers and a slight leather smell, gorgeous nevertheless. Not a favourite, but definitely got compliments on this one

I am all about Boudoir. Boudoir is a spicy floral with a little bit of stank behind it. There's something a bit raw mixed with the lady-like florals. It's not a timid scent and I'd never recommend buying without trying.

Very very strong - prickly and over whelming ..just too harsh ,
I get ja stale urine smell too - think this is the carnation note .
Not for me - total dislike
Keep it in the boudoir !

I find Boudoir to be an exemplary representation of the Vivienne Westwood fashion aesthetic; that is, pretty and glammed up but with a punk edge and absolutely dirty (both racy and "dirt"y). I wouldn't call the scent sexy; I'd call it sex-ish. There's a note running through it of post coital skin, but not musk exactly. It's also creamy and spicy and powdery; but not too much of any one thing and I have trouble picking out the individual floral notes. The scent is definitely strong and eyebrow raising; but the eyebrows are then lowered by a knowing smile. This lady is absolutely sure of herself and already out the door and just because you call it a "walk of shame" doesn't make her feel ashamed. She doesn't need a shower, she smells fantastic. Her dress is still eye-catchingly gorgeous and she will always be pretty because that's who she is.

My fiance wore this in the late 90's. As soon as I smelled it, I sensed glamour, elegance, and grace. The scent was irresistible to me. Absolute knockout scent. I miss that.

Al-Rehab Nebras is very good, but not quite the same.

Always in search of skank perfection, I bought an older eau de parfum (amber, not pink.) I got equal parts heady, drippy, florals, equal parts chypre, and a healthy dose of aldehyde. The animalic note was elusive, and the one floral note that I really don't like is featured... yet...despite...even so....I'm hooked. It's because the dry down is so damn sublime: orris root, gentle spice, remnants of tobacco leaf, and just a whisper of the hyacinth. Sadly, the 'boudoir' of Boudoir must have been obliterated in a reformulation, so I'm still searching for that skank perfection. Sillage is a good few inches and longevity is six hours and counting..
I'm in full pursuit of a vintage bottle...

Edit: I got my hands on the original formulation. Still less animalic than I hoped for, but Boudoir remains one of the most alluring perfumes I have had the pleasure to wear. The base is as sexy as it gets, with or without a prominent animalic note.

There is one note in this that ruins it for me and my heart is broken.
It's the hyacinth.
Now, I love the smell of hyacinth when it's wafting from a potted plant or a patch of damp soil in someone's yard...but I can't stand it in most perfumes. It calls to mind every single fragrance my grandmothers and great aunts were doused in at family holidays when I was young. My nose is more developed now and I'm no longer a child, so I can appreciate perfumes that in the past I would have despised outright, and there are many classic arrangements that I have tiny vials of and swoon over on quiet nights like this one. But the one note I can almost never accommodate is hyacinth, and I knew from the moment I removed the heavy weighted cap from my long awaited bottle of Boudoir that I wasn't going to be able to wear the fragrance.

Everything else about the perfume is what I'd hoped for. Rose, carnation, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla, tobacco, jasmine. Gimme gimme gimme. I just can't shake the scent memory attached to that one top note.

I must say, though, it doesn't evoke the "boudoir" in the sexy way I had hoped from reading reviews. It was more a reminder of a more utilitarian boudoir, a space just for the woman to dress and adorn herself, or perhaps take a moment of privacy. It does have an intimate scent to it, something warm and waxy, a little bit spicy and unclean, but it also smells of powdery face makeup and classic, heady floral elixirs. It smells like sitting at my dressing table *feels*...but it doesn't smell quite like I want to smell while sitting at my dressing table.

Once that aldehyde-heavy/vintage/huge hit of warm spices opening calms down, you start to smell the individual spices and more understated florals. I don't get rose at all, which is a shame because it's one of my favourite notes. I get the spicy carnation coming through quite strongly though.

The base is sweeter, though it is a hard-fought sweetness that doesn't overpower - this must be the vanilla, and it's my favourite part of the scent.

I ended up mixing this one with a spray of another sample I bought which was too sweet and together they make a rather nice match, but on its own I imagine it would eventually make me want to wash it off.

It's a lovely perfume for those who like warm spicy or vintage smelling scents, but those perfumes never work on my body nor do they suit my age.

On the plus side - I don't get any of these 'skanky' notes that people have mentioned. It dries down to warm, understated spicy and cosy, for me at least.
Sillage and longevity are both fantastic. If you're a warm spicy or vintage fan then you will adore this for sure.

Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood is a 90's powerhouse best applied with a light hand. Carnation, narcissus, vanilla bean, benzoin and spices (e.g., cinnamon, clove, cardamom) are the main attraction. I have a vintage bottle of Boudoir and do not detect any cheap, offensive, or skanky notes. Boudoir is BOLD, charismatic, and sensual. Boudoir saves the best for last--the drydown is soft and gorgeous! Boudoir has killer sillage (radiates 6 feet!) and longevity (lingers on sweaters for days!). If Anais Anais and Chloe Narcisse had a love child, Boudoir would be the result. Boudoir is ideal for cozy winter evenings. Terrific fragrance for the price! This was a blind buy that I don't regret!

If you scroll down and read my first review of Boudoir, you will see that I wasn’t a fan. I will admit I have trouble with aldehydes but that’s really the only part of this scent I don’t like. I won a vintage late nineties bottle on eBay, the juice is a dark rosy amber. I think the age is why the aldehydic top notes are not as noticeable and this one ages like a fine wine. Now, I get spicy florals with a bit of bubblegum sweetness, a tad of powder and I definitly get the tobacco. Boudoir is a beauty. So glad I decided to give it another go. UPDATE: this was absolutely wonderful until it turned a little fishy on the drydown (a few others have mentioned this) several times so I had to swap it. Guess in the end it didn’t agree with my chemistry or something.

Oh my, its Flex shampoo from them 80's!

I wanted to try a sample of this because of its foretold alluring womanly skank.
I'm not a massive florals girl so this really isn't my cup of tea, but I shall persist with it nonetheless, as I want to understand this scent.

It's super powdery on me, and if I sniff too close to the skin, it is positively choking, and repels me. It smells like soap or perfumed talc from my childhood. A detect a small amount of skank, but it is mainly florals. There is a minty freshness hiding underneath it all too, which is really quite nice. I don't know what I'm smelling here!

I won't be adding this to my wardrobe one I've finished the sample, I'm a vanilla and spices girl and it doesn't sit well on my skin, however I'm glad I've had a chance to smell Boudoir. The more smells the better!

Marigold flowers and animalic, herbal coriander.

I feel extremely lucky to have a sample of Boudoir in my small collection and discover this unique scent. This juice is magical!! I had the curiosity to test this perfume because I have heard that it smells skank,sex,body odour,human body and so on. To me, it doesn't smell anything of these. It smells even better. Basically, rose note is amplified on my skin. The vanilla note and aldheydes/powder are very prominent. I do not smell spices,tobacco,carnation,cinnamon or other flowers. To me it's a rosy powdery sweet kind of lipstick and cosmetic powder scent. Very vintage and feminine smell. I am glad I don't smell cat pee,skank,sweat that many other mention.
It would be amazing almost in all seasons except hot summer days. But I would undoubtedly prefer to wear it in warm spring nights.
I want to buy a whole 50 ml bottle of this, as I also love the cute design of the bottle. I have to say that my sample is the pinkish colour,not the cognac coloured. I have also to mention a comment of a man about this scent: '' I would marry the woman who wears only this perfume forever''...

I just bought a little one ounce bottle after loving Al Rehabs Nebras so much. I said why not try the real thing. I’m a 90’s child and this perfume came out when I graduated High School. Never had an interest in this till I started exploring scents and I knew I wanted this no matter what. Well I love it! The colour of my juice is an orange pink and I adore my little bottle of this juice. I like to wear this whenever really I haven’t decided if it’s a day or night only scent. I don’t think this juice should be constrained. To me if it makes you feel and smell good, wear it. I also don’t think that this is old or dated either. I love 90’s fragrance and this one I just wish I had found sooner.

This is to me the epitome of a female scent. It’s sexy, alluring, inviting, and daring like I could do anything in this. But it makes me feel super feminine the most and that’s what I love. It truly makes me feel like a woman. I’m 38 and I find this fine for my age too though I’ve never limited a scent by age I dislike that. This makes me feel good and that is the joy of this perfume to me. Feeling unabashedly girlie and sexy. That to me is Boudoir a floral heaven that is so lovely on my skin. This is also my first scent with a tobacco note which I thought I would not like. Not so, in fact now I won’t shy away from them. I would love to find a75ml bottle of this.

I adore it! ;)

I used up my bottle years ago. I wore it everywhere and anywhere no daytime/night time divide for me. Anyway I just had a whiff from the bottle and it really does pack quite a punch. I'd kind of forgotten just how much,because after this bottle was finished I moved on to Mon Boudoir which is a different animal all together.
After sitting here for 20 minutes or so with the bottle under my nose I'm no further forward with the review. I thought for a moment would I wear this today and then Creed came to mind and the answer was Yes.

Not listed here...but the main note in Boudoir is Viburnum. When Boudoir launched, a big deal was made about it being the first fragrance to capture Viburnum's scent. "Boudoir unveils the scent of viburnum blossom, a fresh and sparkling note that has never been used in perfumery before, obtained with "Aura Scent" technology." (from Osmoz.com)

Huh...that sexy indiscernible note that gives this fragrance its skanky edge and has confounded some reviewers is what spandex, swimming suits, and stockings smelled like in the ‘60’s and ‘70s.

I am editing this, as the above was an impulsive comment upon first trying this fragrance, I spritzed it on my arm last night, and it’s a lovely soft powder this morning. Now I know I am showing my age here, but I wanted to explain my comment and try to give a more accurate description of this fragrance, particularly in terms of the mysterious note. I don’t know if anyone gets the same impression, but I think swimsuits had a distinctive smell many years ago when you bought them brand new, and so did shapewear, especially the items which had the little suspender tabs.
Maybe those items - which were elastic or spandex based - were permeated with a certain product which made them smell that way? In the same way rubber and plastic dolls had that certain smell, the material must have been flavoured with it. I am not saying Boudoir smells like a plastic doll, far from it.

So in creating Boudoir, I think its creator evoked the smell of a boudoir of many many years ago, a more romantic age, where these intimate items existed. I think it’s a lovely, evocative and sexy fragrance, I believe this could have a seductive effect on men of a certain age, assuming it reacts well on your person and you can carry it off. Amazing sillage and longevity, I am pleased to have bought this blind.

Caution - not an office fragrance unless you mercilessly wish to torment the poor guy you might have your eye on, and definitely a romantic date choice if seduction is your ultimate goal!

Vivienne Westwood Boudoir
Purchased on Amazon.com
Pink Liquid Small 3 Oz Spray Bottle
About this fragrance

For years I avoided it like the plague. I was not fond of Vivienne Westwood's fashion designs and only some of her fragrances were appealing (Sin Garden, Mon Boudoir Jouy) while others fell into the unisex and modern class (Anglomania). I'm an old fashioned gal and had to really come out of my comfort zone and tortoise shell to wear this scent. It has been said that Vivienne wears it and I do believe it. This is a mature fragrance for a confident, sophisticated, older woman whose live is not ahead of her but behind her. This is supposed to be a sexy fragrance of a woman's body aroma and of sex but before I go there let me start by saying this is sexy in the sense that she is a much older experienced lady, not some 'babe' or young 18 through 21 year old college girl. I wear this in the winter time and it's not a magnet for men on me but I do 'get it' that this is sexy. It is not anywhere near Tabu by Dana or Bal a Versailles but it seems to want to approach vintage sex bombs.

It opens with aldehydes that are quiet, subdued, and whispery. The scent cannot be described as cheerful or fresh. It has unisex tendencies and reveals a spicy musky allure. The floral composition of orange blossom, marigold, rose, hyacinth, narcissus and jasmine are not in the forefront. No one can truly call this a traditional floral. You want floral my darlings check out such perfumes as Fracas and YSL Paris, Quelques Fleurs. The flowers are faint in this perfume, they are abstract, like the furthest away blurred impression of flowers on a print tablecloth. I would say that I do detect a noticeable white floral mix of soft barely there jasmine and narcissus. The jasmine is exceedingly sexy in it's tameness. This is a flower vase that needs to be thrown out and changed.

The courtesan in her boudoir does not like flower bouquets and she is instead inviting her male clients with the seductive scents of her own body and her skin, clean, musky, and visible through a see-through diaphanous negligee or stockings, garter belt and bras. This is boudoir fashion and smells of lingerie. It smells of panties. The spices are delicious and they seem exotic - cardamom gingers, cinnamon, and perhaps some coriander. To me this is spicy not floral. It is a spicy scent for a spicy woman. This is no demure English lady (despite the note of English rose). She is French and a whore. She is brazen and smokes cigarettes (the tobacco leaf note). The tobacco and spice mélange is decidedly unisex. Not quite masculine but very wearable for men. The warmth of some amber and touches of incense give it a wintery air and wraps you in a gentle and powdery soothing scent.

I love this fragrance but it has been reformulated and suffers from lack of original complexity and sillage/longevity. It has a short life and can best be described as an intriguing exotic Oriental body spray. This can be worn in winter or fall, even Halloween at the end of this month, with a costume of sex appeal - a witch, a vampire, Marie Antoinette French maid with feather duster, so forth. Also as one reviewer points out it does have a lounge singer cabaret theme so it would match with fashions worn by Marlene Dietrich including even the male tuxedo and top hat. It is consciously sexy and meant to attract attention. In practical terms this frag is for women who frequent nightclubs and dance discotheques and want to impress with their exotic and attention grabbing perfume.

Why do I wear this? I find it very fascinating and quite different from any of my perfumes. This is thoroughly modern and quite unforgettable. It changes itself for every wearer and is never the same perfume twice. It is a transformation and a spicy exotic incense with musk. There is also a gourmand quality with honey and vanilla which can indeed be detected. It tends to get less gourmand as it ages and as the fragrance evaporates. Ultimately it turns into a musk that is akin to women's natural skin. It's very engaging and interesting this little perfume. I also love the artistry in the design of the bottle. The design is very British (Crown Jewels scepter) and it is VW signature logo. If you can, look for original vintage bottles in the reddish cognac color and not the reformulation in pink.

As a girl who loves Vivienne Westwood and vintagey perfumes I thought I'd give this a shot, but...aldehydes. Something about them just bothers me. This was the perfume that finally made me understand clearly what the note is. I got a solid headache and the reminder of what hairdressing salons smelt like when I was a girl.

Pass!

this smells like sex, fullstop. i'm now 30 and i wore this intermittently between 22 and 26. i would say it was a bit older than my age, but it worked so well with my body chemistry (then). i knew it smelled like sex, but on me it wasn't too animalic or musky. it was sweet and intense on me. i had several friends try it after asking what i was wearing. i must say, boudoir mostly smelled trashy on others. so i knew i had chemistry with this fragrance. after a while i tired of it and moved on. i recently visited my parents' home and found an old bottle. um, YUCK. it now smells on me how it did on my friends. i thought, maybe it's gone bad. so i tracked down a tester bottle and tried it. same smell. rather than sweet and sexy it's now trashy, musky, and too much pachouli. super gross. i've learned that body chemistry does, indeed, change. sometimes it changes temporarily (time of the month, seasonally) and sometimes permanently. so i recommend you try this for several days before purchase. also, stick to a small bottle. this is not an easy fragrance to wear and it could change on you.

Dark, sexy rose with hints of tobacco, vanilla and something a little dirty and narcotic, carnation maybe? Gourgeous and definatly only for nighttime!

Wow how interesting

I detect parts of other perfumes

Agent provocateur has the white floral part but seems dry, this seems wet.
Femme de mint Blanc has the spice and creamy notes but this is thicker and seems dense.
Guerlain has champ élysées which has a similar creamy floral aspect, not the same scent though

Aniseed ? Creamy, warms spices, sweet, floral.

Never tried this brand before, but I'll see how this goes

Parfum for Marlene Dietrich sexy mature confident woman like a showgirl or glamorous lounge singer. I did not like the parfum when I first wear her. It smelled like cigar smoking lady with spice tobacco and musk. But now I love her. Smell of carnation rose orange flower, cinnamon and vanilla. Sweet with vanilla but not too sweet strong and sexy. A good parfum for wearing at night is warm so wear during cold weather. Is for a romantic date but with someone who already know you and love you like husband.

Decided to buy this 'blind' after reading the many reviews on here about it having vanilla and musk notes...my absolute favourites, so you can imagine I was raring to try it when I received it this morning. The initial spray was a bit like standing behind an old lady who has doused herself in a perfume she'd had for ages as the first spray was quite a sour smell. I knew it reminded me of something but I couldn't put my finger on it. So I sprayed my neck and wrists and waited...I got my husband to keep smelling my neck and I kept smelling my wrist. That smell I remembered when first spraying this was the Viburnum tree we have in our garden and now that the smell is dulling down I'm afraid all I can smell is powdery cat wee! I don't get any of the other notes...no vanilla and certainly no musk. I was so looking forward to finding a perfume I could wear all the time but unfortunately, this isn't the one. I also wanted a perfume that not only others could smell but that I could smell on myself but I cannot unless I smell my wrist all the time. I shall just have to keep looking for my perfect fragrance.

I just tried it today and at this moment utterly in love with it! I do think this is a scent that turns heads - not like the ones that you note as `nice` when someone walks past you, but the one that`s like `hold on..who is she?`

The carnation is quite strong in the drydown - even reminds me of Boucheron`s Jaipur Bracelet - but it blends with all the other flowers and spices perfectly, although it kicks off with hyacinth, orris and sandalwood. It`s a perfect concoction of all notes and the drydown ends up in a pretty, powdery rose with honey-syrupy vanilla sprinkles. It`s like a crazy ride of all notes ending up in this, amazing. I never got any of the `skank` - or perhaps I just about like what turned enough to make me ignore the skankiness of it? I don`t know. But I need to have it in my collection as when it comes to the so-called `seductive` perfumes, this one leads the way by far. And I never said anything about the bottle yet..

This is what a real perfume smells like, just beautiful. I bought it blindly through department store website when it first came out and loved it from first sniff, bottle and everything, pink juice fits perfectly. To me smells like beautiful strong powder, I have the sparkling podwer which I never use because I enjoy just sniffin it and looking at it and I don't want to run out since they do not make it anymore:/

It absolutely blows my mind how many times "musk" has been mentioned in the reviews. I am very sensitive to the notes civet and musk. Such notes completely ruined Shalimar, Obsession and quite a few others for me. I am still trying to work with Youth Dew sprayed on things besides skin*sigh*... I don't see musk in the notes. If its there, it is well hidden. I get no musk at all. Just sweet soapy floral things.

I keep reading that people feel this perfume is "skanky" and "dirty". I do not get that in the slightest. To me, this is a super soapy clean scent. Thank God, this is a daring scent that might actually work on me. I expected something totally different when I blind bought it. I get no smoke, no musk, no skank... none of that, and I can say I've got a few skanks in my perfume collection.

I get the florals and whole imaginary fruit thing. I really get the tobacco, which is like a big wonderful gut punch for me... in the best possible way. Its not burnt tobacco. It is pure, sweet and fresh like it just came out of the field. I swear sometimes it reminds me of bubble gum. A review mentioned "Marilyn Monroe" and I can see that... a voluptuous bombshell is who I imagine wearing this and I am stoked that I get to be one of the ones wearing it too. It is not an everyday scent for me because it is so bold... nearly obnoxious clean sweet flowers. I need to switch up, but I love its silage and longevity. This is that loud, confident, curvy, ditzy blonde who has not a speck of dirt on her dress, is way more clever than she lets on... and is always a blast of a time.

I am none of those things, but this still works on me. I dig it!

I blind bought it based on the reviews and some notes.
On paper it smells kinda fresh and nice, but on my skin it smells like the "sweat" mentioned on the comments.
It smells indeed like the girl who worked the whole day in the garden and sprayed some vintage powdery deodorant on.
I wouldn't dare to spray it and go to work... well, I'm actually not sure if I would spray it again. Maybe on clothing so that it remains nice?

So, i blind bought this one ( yes, i really did that). I'm very happy to say that i don't smell like urine or body odor. It's so interesting to see that everyone has a different perception of what a perfume smells like. On me , this is Turkish delight mixed with lipstick. I smell a lot of jammy rose and i actually find that this one could work in warmer weather, too. I plan to wear it to a wedding in May, cause i think it somehow has a romantic vibe to it. I still can' t say whether it's a like or a love cause i just got it, but I'm pretty sure I'll use this one a lot.

Edit( 2021): Changed my mind about this. I have no idea why I wrote such a great review. I think I just wanted to like it, and justify spending money on it, lol. Got the comparison to BO, it smelled horrible and sweaty on me. One of the worst perfumes I 've ever had.

I think this is my third entry here but here we go: I'm sampling ELDO's Putain Des Palaces right now and riffing off a comment I read regarding Chloé Narcisse being everything Flowerbomb should have been/wanted to be, Boudoir is what Putain Des Palaces should have been. I have been enjoying Boudoir since 2004, going back to it one realizes how great it is. I can state with confidence that THIS MAY VERY WELL BE THE ONE TRUE GREAT ITEM UNDER VIVIENNE WESTWOODS'S NAME. I have an old bottle without the cap and I want to get myself a new one. If you have a good bottle, message me!

There is just something about Boudoir that captivates me. I'm currently on my third bottle. The first one I bought when it was released in the nineties, the second one in ca. 2008 and one now. It simply is a fragrance that holds my interest year after year, and at the same time it is the only aldehydic fragrance I've ever liked.

It is warm, sexy, rosy, spicy, and a bit soapy. Very unlike Everything I usually love (besides the roses) and it is young without being too teeny popper sweet. It is a bit sharper and aldehydic in the opening, but the drydown stays quite the same until it fades.

Very unique in my oppinion, and worth much more than the current price tag.

Longevity is very good on me, and sillage is moderate.

i wore this for years. years. which is why i have struggled to write about her. she was me.

Boudoir is pink when you buy it and after few months it becomes a dark juice.
i stored it in cool cupboards in its box, but it always went dark coloured.
i don't believe the formula has ever changed.
every time i opened a new one, it smelt fresher, newer, brighter (if Boudoir could ever be bright - not really). my day or night fragrance. i used to love the smell of a fresh bottle, then eventually it would change a little and be just like i remember the last one. perfume does that. it's called aging and maceration or something - i feel that way sometimes.

i can't imagine wearing this now, but i still love it and give it a sniff every now and again. i met a young girl in the foyer the other week and couldn't stop commenting - you smell nice, Boudoir? she was taken aback and said she chose it because no-one else wears it. oh but they do! she looked me up and down, a little disappointed.

yes it smells of of florally flowers, of orris, the night before, it is thick, luscious, sweet and knickers.

she reminds me of a life less ordinary, of London clubs, random journeys home, encounters, laughter, the dizziness of being young, free and stupid.
i will always love Boudoir.

Back when the internet was really ramping up with reviews of perfumes, I became fascinated with this fragrance before I ever smelled it. Dirty? Sex? Like not sexy but like real sex. So of course I had to try it. All my life I have really loved being an Uber feminine woman. I make no apologies. I like wearing pretty things to bed, love my high heels and dresses and I love bold intense fragrances but also light, fresh ones too. One thing that is very important to me is how both I and my significant other smell during intimate times. Fragrance can make or break a mood for me and can deeply influence my emotions . When o wear Boudoir, I feel like I'm wearing a silk dressing gown trimmed in maribou, wearing red lipstick as I sit at my dressing table dusting myself with an expensive powder getting ready for a night in with the right person. When I got my first whiff I hated it. Smelled like an old floral perfume that had sat undisturbed on a flea market shelf for years. It didn't smell like sex to me then but that's changed and so have my feelings about it. Boudoir is a perfect name for this fragrance. It's more of an experience than just a fragrance. It's a dirty floral to me. No innocence just leaves me feeling like a seductress weaving her spell

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one. I adore the bottle! It is sexy and intimate but I still wear it in the day, lol. It's very...private smelling. Not like private parts, but certainly gives off that feel of when you've been wearing perfume and lotion and then engage in "activities" and have some clean sweat going on. But that's only if you spray yourself to high heaven with it! Which I do -at night. For day, I've worn the parfum version, just a dab from the splash bottle, and it warms up to a nice fall scent. So like many intense scents, I find it's all about how you wear it. I do love this. I only have the vintage - peach colored juice - not the newer, pink version. When I run out, this is one I will buy again. I feel like it's been sort of forgotten, so not everybody wears it. It's really a beautiful floral musk, that is perfect for the person who does not really love florals.

He sat in her BOUDOIR while she freshened up

Boy drank all that magnolia wine

On the black satin sheets where he started to freak


Ok first of all I want to start my review by saying that this reviewer is a straight guy who loves women but I wear fragrances that are marketed for both men and women. I enjoy unisex fragrances even when they are not classified as unisex. This here is unisex stuff. If anyone hasn't picked up on that yet your nose is not doing enough work for you. This is totally a big old musky, dirty, sensual, sexual, sexy masculine fragrance with a complexity and maturity that betrays the cheap price. I was surprised that Vivienne Westwood's brand was on this. I was expecting a spicy floral but an English lady's take on sex. This is not a conservative and clean scent. It's French and filthy. Smells like the inside of a French whore's bordello chamber with panties sprawled on the carpet, bras hanging on top of chairs, and high heel shoes also scattered around the carpet. It does not have a sedate and lady like personality.

There's a lot going on in this fragrance I don't know where to start. This smells at first of cinnamon and something like vanilla root beer. It has spices, cardamom, and honey. So the initial scent is like spices on a Caribbean island. Perhaps Martinique. There's booze in this as well. The aldehyde content is fresh but alcoholic. I detected very little citrus although there is a little bergamot or lime in there. It embraces the heady orange blossom which comes through loud and clear. For me this is the only floral note that stands out. I don't get any hyacinth, iris, or rose although I'm getting some marigold and narcissus. This is just not flowery enough to be stereotypically feminine. If you smell flowers in this cologne, then you're just looking for flowers. I don't ignore the fact that there are florals in this scent but on me maybe because I'm a man it turns spicy and musky and the florals are minimal. All I keep getting each time I wear it is orange blossom and narcissus. The florals are just not the key players or the stars of this fragrance.

The real star here is the patchouli, green, aromatic, bold and fragrant. It's not quite an Oriental nor a chypre as it lacks woods or incense. There is a tobacco which smells quite masculine. Reminds me of a tobacco plantation. I kept closing my eyes and letting the fragrance whisk me away in my imaginative mind. I envisioned a French Quarter bordello in New Orleans Louisiana where a beautiful prostitute serves the regiment military guys officers, sailors and generals who visit her. She smells of narcissus because the roses are not very common in the region. She also smells of orange blossom because there are a lot of orange groves nearby in the Creole plantations. The BOUDOOIR is her boudoir so it smells of all the smells we associate with sex, brothels and lasciviousness. It smells of the men's cigars, tobacco, musk, and honey/spices. There's a vanilla and it's like the dark vanilla in Shalimar. It also smells of nude skin on skin.

Sometimes this fragrance can be a mess. It throws up all the notes in a linear form without much of a slow progression. It's over in a matter of 2 to 3 hours like a quickie and not a prolonged session of lovemaking. This is hot, sultry and seductive, and because it does have so much going on at the same time it smells of a roll in the hay wild shameless and sinful. Sometimes you just want to smell like that. This is still very unisex because again it has notes that men will appreciate and enjoy like the musk, the spices, the patchouli the tobacco. When it starts with aldehydic orange blossom and florals it's a feminine scent but then it turns into a man's cologne with musky undertones and tobacco leaf and smoke. I really love this fragrance and wear it out on dates. If the girl recognizes it I'm not embarrassed. It's such a dynamic and attractive scent on anyone. It's a magnet for sex.

Pleasure awaits.

SOUNDTRACK

Lady Marmalade by Patti Labelle

Similar to Nebras by Al Rehab? That would never have crossed my mind. Nebras is clean, almost detergent-y, this is a skankfest (not Paloma Picasso level skankfest, but still). I think if you wore this to the office, a lot of people would get embarrassed. Either for you or because of you.

I have a hard time putting my finger on exactly what this smells like. It doesn't smell like 1998, that's for sure, smells more like 1978. There's this kind of... arrogance to it, like when you walk past someone while wearing this, it's almost like you're throwing a whiff of this in their face. It's dramatic, demanding, almost a bit theatrical, but not overdone. The more I smell it, the more I like it.

For me 'skanky' is never a case for this perfume. Boudoir is a playful girl with her youthful innocence that radiant sexiness unknowingly. I love the soft floral scent with a touch of delicate spiciness, but still with clean easygoing linen-like background.

GORGEOUS bottle!!! And lovely perfume. Sexy as all hell. Alluring. Beautiful.

This fragrance is happily overlooked because it stays inexpensive. All I can say is wow; this is all skanky musk civet sex, reminds me of a softer verision of Roja's Enslaved and lasts forever. I put on at 6 a.m. and still smell the musk on my chest at 5 p.m. This is NOT a chypre in any form for me.

BOUDOIR

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

Nose

Martin Gras

Year

1998

When wearing Boudoir, I can't help but laugh.

I love it but this is not that sexy of a scent to me at all. It's more like an old burlesque act, and one of the showgirls is actually a man (drag queen). This stuff's UNISEX so I don't know why they don't change the label from women's fragrance to unisex. In fact it turns rather masculine on me that I was almost sure I had bought a man's cologne disguised as a woman's perfume. I have met Mrs. Westwood myself at London Fashion Week but never asked her about this perfume or what she thought of it. I really like her Anglomania which appears to be more suggestive of her personality than this. No offense but I think this unisex cologne is suited to both men & women but every time I smell it I think of the backstage stripper scene in GYPSY when the veteran strippers are telling Gypsy Rose Lee she ought to have a "gimmick". This is the kind of perfume that would suit the persona of Dita Von Teese. I wouldn't be surprised if she wore this. The original bottle was a cognac color in a larger than 3 ounce glass bottle with the orb & cross Vivienne Westwood signature design. It changes colors from an amber or cognac to light carnation pink.

Boudoir is a spicy Oriental fragrance with powerful sillage. This stuff is a stinker if you spray liberally; and I do. I'm never quiet or subtle about how I wear my perfume the way I am about expressing my opinions. This perfume can be smelled a mile away. There are heavy hitters in the notes: aldehydes, spices, oily florals, patchouli, incense, tobacco, and honey. This fragrance seems to be inspired by some 1980's Oriental perfume - not quite a Coco Eau de Parfum; nor Opium; but more like Diva by Ungaro. It has a fresh aldehydic floral aura, but because those deep base notes are so strong, you can hardly call this a floral fragrance of sweetness. This lady means business & she is running her own adult film industry empire. The first time I wore her back in the year 2000 a friend of mine was sitting next to me at a dinner in Central Park West & said to me "You smell like a porn star". Ever since then I jokingly call this my porn star perfume.

This stuff's a decadent & shameless shower of spices. I detect plenty of spices, cinnamon, cardamom, and honey. The honey note acts like a warm musk and takes over the dry down, aided by vanilla. Can you imagine a gooey oil that smells like honey & vanilla? Sometimes this even smells almost exactly like root beer, like those A&W Root Beers. Because it has that tobacco note in it as well, the masculine aspects come through for me. It smells like a man drinking A&W root beer and smoking a tobacco pipe. I do like tobacco scents and the one in this fragrance is to die for! It's smoky, almost like incense.

A green note of patchouli is also very noticeable. Smells like patchouli oil which was used to mask the weed odor of marijuana in the 70's. Patchouli oil is actually quite a pleasant aroma. I find that the patchouli is keeping those flowers at bay. This is not very floral with only 7 notes of orange blossom, hyacinth, rose, carnation, jasmine, marigold and narcissus. The flowers I can easily identify are the carnation (the dominant note), the jasmine & orange blossom. But these are not dainty little sweet powdery floral things. They are spiced up, mature and slutty, "dirty" flowers that are like I said, ganged up by the resinous notes of the coriander, patchouli, spices, tobacco and a very distinct sandalwood. The sandalwood is the saving grace for me - and the unlisted honey.

This fragrance can put you in quite a mood. I love to use my imagination when it comes to wearing perfume. This fragrance is theatrical & I don't wear her with "normal" clothes. This is a Halloween or Goth costume, asking to be worn with black capes, cloaks, dresses or tuxedos a la Marlene Dietrich, raven wings, or lingerie with a decidedly seductive and bold eroticism; a dramatic nightgown with a cape, a see through bra & panty set, maybe something out of Agent Provocateur. Ok so I do like this perfume but it's totally unisex, dramatic, and spicy, naughty and vulgar.

If you over spray that is.

And I do.

They say a woman reaches the peak of attractiveness during ovulation. This is the feeling I get after smelling Boudoir: a healthy and fertile woman.
Wearing this fragrance I'm 18 years old again, blood boiling of desire, spreading pheromones. This fragrance is sensual and lusty, to understand it, simply imagine a naked woman covered with rose petals, smelling like desire.

I tested this today and now I wish I'd bought it!
Firstly, I'm not big on skank, so thankfully I'm not picking up on any sweaty armpits or after sex smells.
My interpretation of boudoir? A long satin nightgown, high heel fluffy slippers and a bedroom with pink feminine decor.
This would make a perfect bedtime scent.
Update: The skank decided to show up later :( It seems to be heat activated. Sorry Boudoir, you're off my want list (or I buy it for winter only).
I saw an interview with Vivienne Westwood recently where she said this was the only good perfume she's done and don't buy the others! Haha!

Guelder-rose + vanilla.

color: orange-yellow-salmon
music: Yesterday Was A Lie - Telepopmusic

The bottle is a piece of art and the woman herself is a piece of art but the perfume. Gurl. I was so convinced by the reviews that i wouldnt regret my blind buy of this but i really do. It genuinely smells like lipsticks and sweat. Which yes, represents sex but not something i'd wear during sex. Its got such a strong sour smell to it which makes me think too harshly about sweat to over look it when i smell the nice lipstick smell below. But of course, everyone is different and i have nothing against those who like this perfume. But i have a full 50ml bottle which is just there to look pretty now with the rest of my perfume collection. Wish i could like it.

So cute! The bottle is darling with its little churchy crown cap and gold lettering
It opens as a powdery, jammy rose that's very candied (there's no strawberry listed but that's part of the first impression for me)
Good longevity but all the sweetness is giving it a too-young feel. It's macerated orange blossom and rose petal, and yes it could be that the flower petals were trampled in a boudoir, but I'm more struck by how little girly it smells. There's no patchouli coming through or sandlewood, those would really help grow it up.
This would complement a slighty trampy, very flouncy floral Betsey Johnson dress.
Past the candied, jammy, floral opening it settles into powder and dissipates quite a bit. I have to put my nose right to my skin to smell it, and it's reminiscent of a white roll-on deodorant I used when I was a teenager.
Not my jam (pun intended) but fun all around.

I won a tiny decant of Boudoir from a fellow Fragrantican, and now I want a full bottle.
This perfume is one of the kind I like to describe as "obscenely sensual". It is incredibly long-lasting and has incredible projection---NOT OFFICE-FRIENDLY!!!
I was expecting too much carnation (that flower tends to make me sneeze), but I did not have a problem with that note, even though there is a noticeable carnation accord in the top notes.
This is a sweet scent in a way, but not like a gourmand. It is similar to what I get from Womanity, a sweetness like that of the female body, but balmier and more powdery almost like Tabu but with less incense and more flowers.
I can see where Boudoir is "controversial", because it does have that "hint of lady parts" aroma combined with just a touch of "manly parts".....yes, this smells like a bed, with satin sheets, just after two clean, perfumed, but sweaty people have made hot nasty love! I happen to love that sort of thing in a fragrance, as does my partner, who seems to be contemplating buying me a bottle for Christmas.

This is Boudoir, an homage to the classy woman’s sacred space- very intimate and private just like the lady herself.

Based on reviews I wasn’t expecting much, however on first spritz I was pleasantly surprised. I immediately sensed aldehydes and lots of it; there’s a waxy creamy scent that reminds me of vintage fragrances like the original Chanel No5 and Passion by Elizabeth Taylor. I’m very surprised that there is no musk here- the dry down has a particular starkness that could be attributed to the patchouli and tobacco leaf. I also do not sense any “rose” or “hyacinth”, only wafts of carnation and sandalwood which blends beautifully with the cardamom!

I will go out on a limb and say this is almost medicinal in texture, it’s “heavy” and overwhelming- but not obnoxious. I feel something a little maternal about this perfume, and I am not a fan of that. It doesn’t feel “sexy” to me, personally I get a little bored waiting for Boudoir to moonlight into something else a little more exciting or even mysterious. In its current state there’s no “stimulation” of the senses, no touch of sensuality or intrigue. Just a lady’s chamber with too much old make up and the stench of sweaty bodies; it really does smell like a bedroom after sex which makes this fragrance an interesting one to add to your collection. Boudoir is a great experience for me, I feel strangely self-aware when I have it on- like suddenly I am more intimate with myself in a purely philosophical way. Definitely one of a kind, but not something I would go out of my way to re-purchase.

Vienna.Pink

This frag could have been described in two words: animalic and dirty (but not in an unpleasant way).

My Coty version was manufactured in 2011 and it has developed into a light amber, not as deep as the original but definitely not pink. So the colour does change from pink to amber steeping over time, but the smell and the way it behaves on the skin is still very different to the original by Lancaster Group.

The new formula is lighter and fresher without any animal, while the oldie has a very obvious and suggestive animalic bite that sticks with you from start to finish.

They're both great so it really depends what you're looking for. Personally when I think of Boudoir, of course I want something dirty and seductive....

PS how interesting, I just noticed on the flap inside the Coty box that it says "Any change in colour will not affect the quality of the fragrance." No warnings on the box for the older formula.

I had this one years ago and sold it. I could not appreciate it. Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to repurchase, both the vintage and new formulation. Let's get down to brass tacks:

Ok so the old version has more depth and more animalic notes. I have the vintage (amber liquid) on the right wrist, the new formulation (light pink) on the left. The new formulation while weaker and slightly sweeter (like a coca cola note mixed in there), still has that nasty girl dirty sweat smell base note. I think that Westwood did a decent job in her reformulation. Now I have to say that honestly I love this one. You've got to be in the mood for it. I read reviews of dirty crotch and urine underwear I think that's quite a stretch. I do get a BO arm pit odor. Not that skunk body odor men get, but that smell that a very clean woman who has been running around all day in 100 degree temps in the hot summer sun. She's perspired and has some funk going on. Then she spritzed a lovely powdery scent on to try and cover it up.

This by no means is a mainstream scent and is like the oddball in the room. She does not fit in at all with all the other high school cheerleaders at the party. She's on the hunt for the perfect man that will carry her off to the closest bedroom and tear off her clothes going crazy for her natural scent. That's Boudoir. I believe the note that gives off the body aroma is the Cardamom.

I'm at my Grandma's house doing yard work and I forgot to wear deodorant. Before my stench becomes too unbearable I rush to her bathroom and apply the first antiperspirant I can find, the package is faded pink plastic. I get home a few hours later and before showering I smell my pits: Boudoir. Phenomenal.

I was ready for some serious skanky stank from the reviews. But this starts off very light and fresh, like a clean minty (cardamom) bubblegum floral. I dislike the smell of pure cardamom but this is surprisingly nice. Will report back and edit after the drydown... (Still waiting for some skank to show up). Just couldn't wait to post this as I was surprised by the scent. The juice I am sampling is light pink so likely a recent formulation.

Update: OK this essentially dries down to a nice spicy carnation much like the highly voted notes depict. People really consider this a sex bomb? I got bored and was essentially underwhelmed, this felt surprisingly safe to wear. Kind of generic and inoffensive. Maybe I am just a super freak or what I received is quite different from what many others have tested. Ultimately the scent is not as great as the bottle for me, at all. It is alright I guess, and a good deal, but just not my style. (And the opening smells kind of like toothpaste...)

This is sex in a bottle!
I am a guy, and whenever I wear it, I get loads of compliments telling me that I smell perfect without anybody knowing what it is. People also tell me that it must be a thousand dollars perfume.

It is insanely seductive, sexual, smells rich and luxurious.

Note: it's very sweet, so it wouldn't be very pleasant in super hot weather, but for the rest of the year - yummy!

A generic rose fragrance on first spritz but then dried urine. Knickers, someone said but these knickers are not Kate Moss's. These bloomers definitely belong to Vivienne Westwood!

When I first encountered this perfume I saw the pretty pink color/packaging/design of the bottle, the stopper with that unique orb planet and cross symbol, looks like a royal scepter or crown, and thought: hm. Princess Perfume. Maybe a beautiful floral or fruity floral. I'm a sucker for a pretty bottle so I bought it blindly, although I had read the reviews.

I thought there was no way this scent could be anything extraordinary. I don't know how to feel about this fragrance. I've worn it for 2 days now and can't figure it out. First of all everyone else reviewing this fragrance calling it sexy, a sex bomb, an aphrodisiac, a pheromone, a skank scent, or dirty honey, is out of their mind. I can't believe we're talking about the same perfume.

This is not sexy to me at all. This smells like cheap chemically formulated notes of spices, patchouli, and a burnt vanilla, a tobacco and extinct flowers. I didn't get any of the floral notes. I don't detect a carnation or rose, marigold, hyacinth or any flower whatsoever. This fragrance is not sweet at all. There was something that smelled like honey but it appeared mysteriously at the dry down and when the fragrance was drying on my skin. It was pure honey like someone had used honey as oil on my skin. I will never forget the moment I experienced that. But that was the only really pleasant moment in the performance of this fragrance.

The rest of the time my nose was assaulted with aldehydes, cinnamon, coriander, cardamom and patchouli. The scent is more of a gourmand to me, with heavy spices, loads of cinnamon and a green and smoky patchouli. The patchouli is overpowering, not medicinal or like marijuana, but like a tobacco flavor. It smelled like smoke. The fragrance is so strong and it only kept getting bigger and more obscene. I only spritzed once on my arm and once on my chest. The scent became annoying and gross. It smelled like tobacco and very masculine like a guy's cologne.

I think this fragrance is complex and on a league of it's own. It's cheap and not floral, not fruity, definitely a gourmand and a unisex fragrance. Guys can totally rock this patchouli. There is very little for me to like about it but I will try to let it grow on me. It doesn't make me feel especially sexy or seductive. It's a cologne to wear on Halloween with a costume, a vampire, a witch, Morticia Addams. This is a perfume for a woman who is bold and who is not afraid to scare people with her perfume. It's powerful and in your face. After all it has such powerful notes as aldehydes and patchouli.

I have enjoyed the flankers for this frag like Mon Boudoir and Boudoir Jouy which are really sweet and pretty compared to this beast. I'm not knocking this perfume. It's one hell of a scent and it's just too much for me to handle right now. In the future perhaps I can better appreciate her. For now she'll just have to sit patiently in the back of my wardrobe.

A few tentative dabs of my sample onto my wrist and a blast of old fashioned, but still inviting, floral soap hits me. Powder, and something intangibly secretive follows, which immediately makes the name seem completely appropriate and perfectly literal. I do indeed feel as if I am in a bygone ladies boudoir. To me, it has the same transportive effect that Moulin Rouge does. I decide I would like to spend the night with the fragrance, to fully experience it, and to see if I can pick up the infamous skank note. I get into bed to relax, and go to apply a more generous amount to my neck and chest....then I accidentally let go of the vial and the sample upends into my bed. Fittingly, there is now a wet patch. Perhaps during the night it will seduce me into buying again.

For men also. Depravity in a bottle. If you can handle kouros now meet his motherfuckingsister

I wore this perfume in 1999 when I was 20 years old and it smelled so good back then, very seductive, heavy, sexy smell but clean in the same time due to the powder notes. I remember one of my besties back then said wow you smell so good like a baby!She wanted the name...it was a good perfume.
Would not buy it again though as I am now a fan of clear and green, fresh perfumes and this is exactly the opposite.

I made a big mistake with this one - an impulse buy based on reviews.

Beautiful packaging, gorgeous bottle, and then the stench....

It is urine-based, frankly, with a good dose of mothballs. I used it once to go shopping with my daughter, and in one shop, a woman actually COMPLAINED to the assistant about the smell coming off me and she left the shop.

I can't even use this to freshen curtains, it is truly awful.

I bought it and regretted. I have a full bottle, sprayed only once. Available for sale. Inbox me if interested

I have a sample of this I got through a swap and I've been afraid to wear it. I smelled it through the packaging and above every other scent it was packaged with. I knew I probably wouldn't like it and I should have trusted my gut. I am not afraid of perfumes that have a lot going on but this one has a lot going on that just does not work for me. It doesn't smell sexy or seductive. It smells skanky and confusing.

Love this fragrance! Very bold, sexy ! Beautiful night scent! Rose, marigold, viburnum, civet, clove , dusty is what I get most . I have the pure perfume of this and it is more beautiful , and there you can smell all the notes in it's glory( I prefer pure perfume more).

Wow! This is all skanky musk civet sex, reminds me of a softer verision of Roja's Enslaved. The vanilla is not prominent. The hyacinth floral is in the top notes.

I feel like this bottle should magically transform me into a Sailor Scout! O.o



Whywhywhy gawd...must there ALWAYS be vanilla...?!

This is a fragrance I used to wear and tried it again today because it smelled good on a girl friend of mine but it's still pretty strong. She walked into a store and the sales lady said "someone left behind all the perfume here" like she had dropped the bottle and spilled the contents on the floor. This is a perfume bomb. It smells like cinnamon, lots of cinnamon and honey. Now that's fine. We all love cinnamon and honey. But it has some weird notes that don't go together. First of all this scent is supposed to open with aldehydes and I don't get any aldehydes. When one thinks of aldehyde openings they think of Chanel No. 5 or First Van Cleef and Arpels or Arpege. The aldehydes here are pretty quiet. I don't think it's flowery enough for me either. Where are these flowers?? Hyacinth? Rose? Orange blossom? Where? I mostly smell a carnation or narcissus but it's not a big player. This scent also has a vanilla in there somewhere. It smells like delicious root beer as well. I found out that if you spray just a little bit it smells much better. It has a sweet honey that really does smell very good. So in the end I'm going to keep this perfume but wear it only a few times. It's not that great it does smell pretty cheap and I still can't understand why so many people are crazy about it. We all have different interpretations of the same perfume.

I've almost finished my first bottle of Boudoir which I purchased last August. Boy do I dig this scent.
At first I couldn't quite put my finger on what made it so special and I'm still deciding on that. On my skin it develops into an extremely feminine and powerful scent. It's quite powdery and has that sort of "odor" smell a few hours after applictation, but not a sweaty sort of smell. It merges quite nicely with my own "natural skin smell", so to speak.
Boudoir is really quite hard to describe as it smells vintage and modern at the same time. To me it's the most powerful powdery scent I've ever encountered and I love it all the way.
Also a very positive sidenote is that I own a 1oz bottle, which took me 9 months to finish! I've never ever in my life owned a perfume I love this much that took me such a long time to finish. It's very economical, on me just a few sprays will last all day.

Edit March 2018: I wrote this two years ago. Buying my third bottle, still in love.

After years of longing for more than the sample sent to me by a friend I've finally taken the leap of joy and purchased a new, full bottle of Boudoir.

It was with trepidation, however, that I opened the box because I'd heard of differences in the composition between the "old" formula and the "new" and so after fifteen years of the scent memory I didn't wish to be let down.

First, I saw that the contents were amber rather than pink. I saw that as a good sign because my sample had been amber. Then, I uncapped the weighty container and sprayed.

Smmm....ahhh! That vague nudge of...intimate female areas mixed with a man's afterglow sweat sinking in shortly after the initial blast of carnation, jasmine, and even bergamot rind made me feel fully...satisfied.

Boudoir's notes aren't especially unique. But I'll bet in my new little hometown of 19,000 or so I'm one of the only ones wearing this and that makes me feel just as naughty as the fragrance already is. ;)

Update 9/17: Boudoir might be my single longest-lasting scent that doesn't change with wearing. It stays strong and true without mutating and therefore is the only one I own like it. And as I wear it this month between summer and autumn I'm inundated with my favorite note: SANDALWOOD.

Ah, my beloved Boudoir.

This is a voluptuous, unadulterated, seductive concoction that exudes debauchery and unapologetic sex appeal. A bouquet of carnations and marigold smothered in cardamom, cinnamon and tobacco that somehow manages to emit an aroma reminiscent of bubblegum. Do not be mistaken, however, as this isn't juvenile in the slightest; it's bold, daring, sweet, powdery and incredibly alluring. This is one of the hardest fragrances to describe; a seamlessly beautiful composition with the most sumptuous, feminine ingredients. This is a man-eater and I foresee this beauty becoming my signature in the near future.

Thank you knight of wands, I didn't realise that could be done!

Shwets. Why don't you just copy and paste it into Google Translate?! Easier than asking someone else to do it!

This is the perfume i Wear, when i want that rococo feel. This is what i imagine a party at Versailles would have smelled like. Satin, silk, pearls and feathers. Powdered faces and weird body odor masked with perfume. Still i find this perfume classical and appropiat to Wear almost anywhere. As the rococo fantasi is in there, but not invasive to others..... i hope.

Very vintage, very old style perfume. I like it, it is so different from all the modern very safe girly fruity vanilla frags. Boudoir is for a woman who's not afraid of strong scents and oozes self-confidence and sex appeal. Though, to be honest, I wouldn't describe Boudoir as sex in the bottle. It is too weird and unusual for that!!:) The opening is very harsh, it actually made me sneeze a couple of times:)But an hour later it turns into a rich, bold, powdery scent that will get you noticed. VERY long-lasting and enormous sillage! I don't think I will repurchase it, but I am glad I bought it. Nice addition to my collection!

A lovely soft, old style perfume of florals and ambers with a body note, that ends up smelling just like a perfumed woman in her boudoir. Dry down produces some definitely dirty notes, but it also has makeup nuances that I like. Mostly an evening scent, in my opinion.

Please polly golightly could you translate? It sounds good from some of the words!

ah vivienne, che bel profumo questo boudoir! siamo dalle parti di tabu, quanto ad effetto cyphre, e ci avviciniamo al n.5 per l'allure aldeidica. l'accordo, adatto ad una donna aggressiva e iperfemminile, è floreale, speziato, concettualmente assai vicino ai complessi profumi vintage, ma con un tocco punk che lo rende decisamente fin du siecle e decadente. difficile rintracciare le singole note tranne la rosa, la cannella e il garofano; in verità si tratta di un bouquet bilanciatissimo e astratto, dapprima succoso poi polveroso nel senso "sporco", e infine resinoso su toni di patchouli. bello, misterioso, già un classico.

Put on your pink feather boa with matching marabou stilettos! Slide into your slinky satin gown! Add rhinestone hair combs, siren red lipstick and a touch of VW Boudoir! This is a power packed perfume, reminiscent of '50's glamour, a tribute to scandalous vamps. Boudoir is what "The Other Woman" wore, or naughty housewives signalling tonite's the nite to their weary, hard-working husbands.

A carnation/rose floral, it has an underlying heavy accord featuring marigold, hyacinth, and sandalwood. Kind of an oriental spice blend with voluminous sillage and serious longevity. An homage to our image of femme fatale sex appeal, perfect for your film noir marathon! A little too aging aunt any other time for me. Siskel & Ebert would give this a thumbs up for typecasting!

Harsh, chemical, and artificial smelling. With my chemistry this has to be in my top five of worst scrubbers I've ever tried. From all the great reviews I was really hoping for something much better, but I actually felt nauseaus. There is nothing subtle about this frag. IMHO if you want something that smells like sex in a bottle, but is much more complex, deeper and more beautiful, try Bal a Versailles.

Amazing perfume but quite old-fashioned type of fragrance. Not for a blind buy unless you really love vintage. In that case this is perfect for you. Yes, it is sexy and seductive and feminine, but only if you are burlesque type of woman dressed in black lace, corset and high heels. For modern girls this probably won't work. Unless you are modern girl that loves vintage!
Silage and longevity are great, overall quality, performance combination of notes...everything is just great. It is very difficult to compare it with any other fragrance because it doesn't smell like anything , but I could describe it I would say that this one is a bit more eccentric and colourful version of Chanel Allure. Which is also amazing and sensual perfume but, for my taste, vintage type.

Before the old version was discontinued I bought last 2 bottles and got 100ml tester for free, so I've been using it quite a lot. But after a while I gave it to my mother, think it suits her better and she enjoys it much more.

Strange how all of our noses work differently. To me this smells like a hybrid of Allure EDP and Classique! Very sensual with a pronounced vanilla and orange blossom. Fantastic sillage and longevity. Surprised that it took me so long to test it. It's been around for a while! :D

i'm a little surprised to see so many love's on this one. i blind bought it based on the reviews, and i was kind of expecting this ultra-feminine powder bomb, but i just tried it for the first time today and...i'm not loving it.
the first spray smells like sweet-tarts, the candy. the dry down is much more bearable, but i feel a little sick to my stomach every time i put my wrist to my nose! it's hard to even detect the notes because all I'm getting is sweet synthetic floral. it really smells much cheaper than i expected it to? boudoir is a bad name for this fragrance... i'm sorry, but this was a miss :/

I had a bottle of this about 8 years ago, but I sold it because it was just a little too strong and headache-inducing. Recently, I found myself missing it, so I bought a small decant...and I can't believe I ever gave up this perfume! Maybe it has changed, or maybe I have, but I love it now for its shameless, slightly dirty femininity. It's one of those confidence boosters in a bottle. The flowers no longer give me a headache and don't seem as screechy as I remember them being. As for the reviews I've read that say Boudoir smells of, um, an intimate odor, I have to admit I don't recognize any of that at all. Instead, I find this perfume melds very well with my skin and seems simultaneously natural and attention-grabbing. It dries down to a sweet honey. Aspects of it remind me of the original Agent Provocateur, especially the old-fashioned rose, so if you like that one, it's a safe bet you'll like Boudoir as well.

Wow, I really want to re-purchase Boudoir now. I bought a bottle many years ago when the perfume was the only thing I could afford from the Vivienne Westwood brand. I loved its sweet, flowery appeal.
Now, just reading some of these reviews recalls the scent spot-on. I agree with the 'naughty' and 'tart' descriptions wholeheartedly. The fact that it is pink helps, too. Boudoir could be the cheeky best friend of Agent Provocateur.
I remember the carnation note well; it raises the red velvet curtain into the lady's boudoir, the aldehydes carrying the floral top notes into the room atop a red velvet cushion.
The longevity and sillage can be attributed to the warm spices of cinnamon and vanilla base notes, both of which lend the fragrance its sweet powdery appeal.
Its very girly, not quite sexual as some would like, but rather naughty nonetheless.

Does this smell like root beer on anyone else? Because that is all I smell. No sex, no filthy slutty girl, no seduction, just a sweet foamy head of sarsaparilla. If I think about it really hard, I can detect caramel and vanilla too. It isn't a bad smell, but I think I would have liked it better as a child.

This is....

Unadulterated, filthy, sex in a bottle. This reminds me of those flirtatious, tarty 18th century ladies, drapsing and swooning themselves over the Cavalier types of men that are shown in the film. Interview with a Vampire (Cruise/Pitt) Gothic,theatrical,
Mysterious, superstitious, potions!

Think Queen of the Damned darlings!


Or even take this to the ideas of leathers, bikers, hot dirty, sexy and ready!

Your an ultimate bad girl that does not give a F***ck you walk into a bar on the route to nowhere, after hitching a ride from some Hells angels type of dude on his Harley Davidson, dark shades and warm,rustic tobacco-esque aroma. You are in your dark leathers, smokey eyes, tousled hair....You step inside, someone flicks a coin into the ole' juke box and Chrissy Hines/Janis Joplin/Suzi Quatro/Courtney Love music starts playing or Guns and Roses, Lenny Kravitz any sexy rock chic tunes and you have you killer heels on and have absolutely No inhibitions, you see a man you like, grab a man and lay him down and You are the boss!

This scent is raunchy, it's a punch of perfectly powdered sexy poison with a undetectable sweetness that makes this rock and roll all the g**damn way.

When I wore this I was wearing my biker jacket,midnight smokey eyes, hair shaken down and ruby woo on my lips rocking to ' I love rock an' roll'
Joan Jett & the Black hearts.

This should be called "tart's boudoir" and I love it! It's floral, smells like a bad girl scent to begin with then settles kind of powdery. Little is more with this one and if you can cope with the aldehyde blast in the beginning then you will be rewarded with the dry down. It just smells kind is dirty yet alluring in a way, wrong yet right? I have to be in a particular mood for this one and I can understand it not being everyone's cup of tea but in the right mood/ setting it is mine. Longevity is excellent as is sillage.