My Queen

Purchased: Around 2008–2009 There are perfumes you wear, and then there are perfumes that wear you—that become part of your essence, lingering in the air like a signature written in scent. My Queen by Alexander McQueen was exactly that for me. I first bought it around 2008 or 2009, and even now, I can still recall its luxurious, hypnotic presence. From the very first spray, it hit me with a richness that felt almost regal. It was heavy in the best way possible—not cloying or overpowering, but bold, unapologetically lush. My Queen was the kind of fragrance that enveloped you in a soft yet dramatic cloud, announcing your presence before you even stepped into the room. It felt like velvet at midnight—dark, mysterious, and sensual. The scent itself was beautifully oriental. It opened with a unique combination of sweet and spicy top notes—something slightly floral but grounded with a peppery warmth. The heart was creamy and deep, a blend of florals, almonds, and patchouli that gave it a velvety smoothness. But it was the base that truly lingered on my skin: woody, musky, almost incense-like. It felt sacred, as if made for a modern-day empress. Wearing it made me feel confident, powerful, and a little dangerous. It was perfect for cold nights, intimate dinners, or anytime I wanted to feel like the most intriguing person in the room. It had incredible staying power, too. I’d spray it in the morning, and it would cling to my scarves, coats, and even my pillows long after the day ended. Sadly, My Queen has been discontinued, which only makes the memory of it more precious. No other perfume since has matched that specific combination of oriental warmth, depth, and drama. I’ve tried to find similar scents, but nothing quite compares. It was a masterpiece—underrated, unique, and unforgettable. If I could get my hands on another bottle today, I’d treasure it like a relic from a different era—a reminder of who I was when I wore it, and how it made me feel: like royalty. **If you find it at a good price, like around the $100 mark, get it!!**

MY QUEEN is like a beautiful young lady at the high society ball. First she enters it as pretty and innocent, then she turns sweet and seductive, all of a sudden she pulls away and becomes distant and dreamy and finally she just decides to be herself and quietly dances for the rest of the night with the man she loves. I enjoy so much how this beautiful fragrance reflects different moods and emotions with multistage notes development approach. MY QUEEN starts with gentle violets. They are beautiful and fresh. There is an innocent feeling I get in the opening that I just love. The sweet notes start surfacing pretty quickly. The heliotrope and white musk are prominent in the heart notes and very gourmand to me. The combo is rather strong and sweet but beautiful at the same time. The heliotrope cools off after a while and at that time I get more white flowers and so gorgeous white musk. The patchouli appears next and it is quite noticeable with its earthy woody scent. The vetiver and woods add almost foggy and mysterious feeling at that stage. At this point the sweetness only lingers in the background and the perfume turns very ethereal and dreamy. The iris and vanilla are the final stages. The finale gets a bit powdery but it is not a baby powder to me. It is more sophisticated iris scent with a bit of layered vanilla. It is very close to the skin and light but very nice and comforting. This is absolutely my type of a scent. It works beautiful with my skin. I love all four stages. Its slight floral gourmand quality is delicious in the middle. The dreamy part with patchouli and vetiver is an awesome twist. The transformation into vanilla woody scent on the dry down is gorgeous. I do agree with other reviewers that sillage is not strong but the longevity is quite great (8 hours). I would definitely recommend this scent if you enjoy sweet almost gourmand florals that do not become sugar coated but retain their nice floral quality.

Yesterday I decided I will wear this fragrance which has already been hiding in my closet for 3 weeks now. Based on other people's reviews I bought it and I liked it from the first spray on my wrist. But I never actually wore it anywhere. So yesterday it was time to show the world this wonderful perfume. My first mistake was that I was overreacting with spraying. I sprayed it like 10 times on me, just because I really liked it and was having a feeling that it won't last or that the sillage won't be that powerful. Oh, boy it was powerful. It filled the whole bus that I was on, and I begin to wonder if the people there were offended by it. I felt a little sick because it was just too strong and the whole experience was not what I expected. But it was my fault, so. So today I tried it again. This time I sprayed it one me 2-3 times and what a joy that was! I got compliments (yeah!!!) and it looked like I wasn't offending anyone. My queen is one of my favourites now. It's a little bit peppery in the beginning but it settles into a delicious sweet violet. It's powdery and sweet and violet, all at the same time, but it creates magic. And the lasting is amazing. Don't get me started about the sillage. If it can fill the whole bus, then you know how strong is. Now I'm looking forward to get my hands on My queen light mist. I'm in love.

Oh, this is so beautiful, I'm literally wallowing in this gorgeous scent ever since my precious bottle of My Queen arrived. How could I not love a perfume with violets, iris and white florals? This was a love at first sniff for me, violets at the onset, but with an edge. I don't smell the traditional "almondy" sweet scent that many perfumes have. My Queen has a woody almost bitter almond edge to the topnotes that I really love. It has a peppery scent although there is no pepper in the notes. It's probably ISO-E-Super, which I generally smell as pepper. It is used very well here to give just a bit of edginess to the scent that is really wonderful. It also adds a bit of oomph to the vetiver in the topnotes. This is not a linear scent; it truly develops. I can smell some of the basenotes from the beginning, like the woods and vetiver. The development to me comes more in bringing in the softer white florals, that are a bit powdery, but not overly so to my nose. And finally, the piece de resistance, the iris! The iris is gorgeous in the final drydown so if you are an iris lover I would give this a try. But it's not a rooty bitter iris, just perfect in my estimation. This is truly a perfume fit for a queen. I've already bought a back-up bottle I loved it so much.

If you're like me and the top 3 or 5 notes voted up on here appeal to you, you really need to get this! I smell all the notes in here, this is case of what you see is what you get. I get violets & iris galore in a fountain of powder. There are green little tips in the flower notes, sounds Dr. Suess-y but that's how I can only explain it. There is a silky almond and dry vanilla combo that makes the fragrance smells just a little bit like cookies. I know queen anne's lace isn't in here but it's a quiet little phantom note for me. There is that little bit of a rough, masculine element but it's so subtle. I'm talking about the patch, cedar, and vetiver combo. Mainly in this perfume you get the powdery flowers with a touch of almond/vanilla cookies. With a hint of something deeper and sexier. This fragrance is not overrated in the least! I actually think this smells like what I had hoped something by lolita lempicka would smell like, but I'm not a very big fan of the original lolita or the spin offs of the original. Not to say this smells like licorice, it just has a similar feeling.

(Thank you asilverfire614 for this tester :) ) My Queen in amazing. There is something here that reminds me about my childhood. Yes My Queen is defnatly purple, is fresh but deep, inocent but mysterious, sweet but cold. I like it a lot, this perfume reminds me about a garden when I used to play that was full of heliotropes and orris flowers. I'm delightes with it and I belive I'm going to buy a full size bottle. I think I can pull this out on every time, its perfect for summer and winter, night and way. I wouldnt say that is the smell of a queen (at least a queen as we imagine) but this could be perfectly the smell of a fairy queen or perhaps the perfume of morgana le fay. There is something magical about My Queen, something that make you think about Avalon, castles surronded by fog.. I think it can be sexy in a very mysterious, medieval way. I love it and I think everybody who likes fairy tales should try this one, its great. Sillage: Gorgeaus Lasting Power: Very good, last all day 8/10

This is my second experience with this line and I can say I absolutely love it. First Kingdom and now My Queen and what similarity I find in them both is the bitter note that echoes from the floral accord of notes and this makes it smell great on the skin. I find My queen milky and creamy after an hour when the heart settles down. Here the accord of floral notes smells wonderful and I detect a bit bitter note here which makes the heart so bright, maybe this echo of this bitter note comes from almonds. The dry down is very classy and opulent and becomes a little powdery from creamy. After a fragrance is sprayed on, I always wait for the base notes to settle down as this is where the tip and the heart joins in and you can give your verdict about a fragrance. Fragrance on the whole: Classy and opulent Silage: Very good Longevity: Excellent , but it's winter time around here so would like to see its longevity in the summer as well. System_d: thank you so much for the decant of this beauty:)

This is olfactory loveliness, another elegant, superbly blended creation in which one of my favorite all-time "noses", Dominique Ropion, had a lot to say. Take a look at what Dominique Ropion concocted, and you will see that My Queen has quite the pedigree, which in this case, truly made for amazing, ultra feminine violets and heliotrope magic. Note on other reviews I have enjoyed reading here re My Queen: There's no aldehydic overload, if its in there, its exceptionally well-blended so as to be an intrinsic part pf the olfactory symphony (rare in aldehydes!) Additionally, I don't know why one would apply the word "powdery" to My Queen, but then Iris can turn to powder on some chemistries. I am definitely un-fond of the "powdery" note in perfumes, and cannot detect it at all on my skin. This was truly love at first sniff, definitely full bottle worthy and emphatically an 8.5 out of 10.

So I realised today posting on a thread that I am the only fragrantican with My Queen set as their signature. I feel a review is in order. I asked my Mother-in-law to buy me My Queen when it first came out, i own it now and I hope I'll stock pile enough to own it until I am no more. If I could have asked Lee McQueen to make me a fragrance I don't think he could have chosen more perfect notes, nor arranged them any better. Violet Almond Iris Heliotrope Cedar Vanilla and Orange blossom. I am not worthy. With clever blending, dark yet bright, smooth yet peppery. Not too sweet, not too heavy, for me just right, ever changing. When people talk about England, they think, for some unknown reason, of some trad rose soliflore...but this is England. Child of a teacher and a taxi driver that grew up in a council flat and got an O-Level in Art. All I can say is thank you Lee.

Is My Queen wonderful, mysterious and seductive as they say in the description above? YES, she is! The scent is womanly, deliciously sweet, powdery, lovely floral with underlying earthiness and just a touch of darkness (I fully understand the references to "medieval" here). Frivolous, yet sultry, My Queen is also dignified...and... oh, it is so very purple! :-) I love the colour, love the mix of those purple flowers, the overall impression - indeed - is that of a beautiful, little self-centred lady. Impulsive, a little spoiled and maybe rather moody, even a bit maligned, I would say, but really, she is giving, she is kind and she is good at heart. This is certainly a fragrance for a queen, not for a little princess. (And no, it has nothing to do with age!).:-) No other fragrance has ever granted me so many compliments by women and men!

An unexpected beauty that came my way! I don't normally seek powdery perfumes but I found this at a very tempting price and just went ahead. This is lady-like, soft and feminine in a very nice way. It gives out a very 'English' and 'From Another Era' vibe (it's not outdated at all) as if this is the perfume worn by the lead female characters in classic English literature novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice,... Edit: I have grown very fond of this and now I figured out why I love some floral fragrances, while in general I don't fancy them much anymore.. It's the Violet! Apparently I've been a sucker for Violets all my life without realizing it! And this is one of the best Violets out there. Would buy a back up if I spot it anywhere in sight. It's sad that it's discontinued.

Oh My!!! Yet another fragrance in my collection thanks to my Sister :-) I totally got crazy from sniffing the bottle and now that it sat on my skin like a little kitten on fluffy rug opposite fireplace - I can feel it melting :-) I love my Queen, it is standing out from the crowd perfume, quite powerful and with a nice sillage :-) I cannot detect any notes on their own, it is elegant and daring juice :-) The dry down smells to me a bit like JPG Le Male which, despite being a masculine fume, does not bother me at all :-) I consider it better than Kingdom. The colour of the bottle pretty much expresses the taste of the ting to come once you spray it :-) My Queen is charming, it is a sex-appeal, it is love and lust manifest hidden in that beautiful bottle :-) Worth trying!!!

This goes on strongly floral, mostly violets. It's a bit bitter, almost with a tinge of gasoline in the back of your throat. I am not in love with this at first, the bitterness is a little too much for me, but it sweetens up as time goes on. The vanilla comes out with the other florals, and you get a lovely, pretty, purple almond musk. It smells very fall/winter, but I have a hunch this scent would do very well in the summer - sweet musk fragrances usually do for me, if sprayed copiously. I wonder what makes me describe this scent as purple, other than the bottle - earlier today when I had it on and was walking through the green trees, it smelled like the color of the air around me...green, brown, blue, gray...I'm probably not making sense now! haha!

I like the smell, at first it seemed to be like Chanel Allure with a violet accent. It did seem so at first, but on second wearing there was something so baby powderish, so delicate under a spell of violets, that I had to re-classify my experience. Sooooo cute, so deep sniff worthy, and the base, so creamy with vanilla, powdery tonka and heliotrope. I have never lived a perfume with my guts before. I keep sniffing and the smells fills me down to my stomach and that's when I am left wanting for more. Really no perfume did that to me before. Actually, I feel like I'm in front of a big white chocolate bar exuding its quintessence. I love it, I want it, now! It is addictive, beware!

I think that the name 'My Queen' is not suitable for this perfume; more like 'Concubine', or maybe even 'Geisha'. For Queen, I expect more distance and bit colder smell. But this is so warm,oriental,sexy, powdery with fresh purple flowers. There is vanilla but in sooo sophisticated way. It is sweet but reasonably, not heavy and fuggy like many perfumes which have sweet note. Reminds me bit on 'Surreal' from Avon, just in opening. Also, there is some elegancy which have Armani and some YSL perfumes. Anyway, I want it :) Edit: i'm so sad because the lasting power is so poor..maybe about hour and half. That is a reason I will not buy this perfume :(

I must admit I have had to retract my previous review about this one. This is a violet masquerading as a harlot. It is deep and rich, spicy and powdery at the same time. I don't know where the peppery note comes from, but I love it...I only wish there was more of it. I have really grown to love this one. This is a magnificent combination of rich, velvety deep purple florals with calming creamy almond that keeps it from being to sharp or overpowering. Very gorgeous purple oriental floral, addicting. You have stolen my heart, little masquerading violet queen, I love you! Stay little valentine stay Each day is valentines day;)

Well, well...In my first review for this perfume, I said that a lasting power is weak. I tried this beautiful perfume once more, now when it is almost winter, and it is strange but this time I could smell this elixir on me all day. So I bought it., and I can say this is almost my signature:) Such a beautiful powder, with soft violet and creamy almond...not to sweet; actually, it is sweet just enough to lift a bit the deepness of this frag. On the end of story, there is a soft and elegant smell around you, wrapped into majestic patchouli... Now I can say, this is a Winter Queen !

I liked this when it came out and I still enjoy. It's a modern fragrance that features at least some real note i.e. floral. It smells sweet without being sickening, girlish but elegant, sensual intense but not projecting 5 meters. For me it was one of the most wearable and pleasant scents of those years. I can wear it now without a problem. Not one of my big loves, but surely a strong like. I like it because it smells like violets but not candied violets. I like it because the drydown is soft and warm woody but not harsh synthetical woody. The bottle is also very beautiful.

Not too powdery and a little bit sharp charming floral fragrance. The leading note in the fragrance is the violet note, which make this fragrance more mysterious. Maybe I would say that the violet note in this fragrance is the best violet note in perfumes for me. The iris note is also noticeable and makes the violet note more deep and velvet. The heliotrope and the vanilla notes make this fragrance sweet enough, but not too sweet. And luckily the musk note doesn't make this fragrance too powdery. I like this fragrance. It's interesting and unusual enough.

Powdery clean with earthy spice! It's all about violets, iris and heliotrope. Pretty much all other notes are quite involved here as well, esp. vanilla, pepper, patchouli and cedar. Appealing for powdery floral lovers like myself. Clean, powdery, spicy, earthy, fresh floral with wear it anytime: day and night no preference. Kind of serious formal scent, it means business. Comfortably dries down to violet-vanilla, and it retains its quality composition. Worthwhile investment! It really does have the meaning behind the name. Well done!