Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman the fragrance is a beautiful tribute to a great song written by a well-loved husband. Pretty Woman is an absolutely wonderful scent! I've had PW sitting in my box of "to swap" scents for a while. For some reason, I decided to pull it out and wear it last night... "What do I see... Is she walking back to me? Yeah, she's walking back to me!" Oh yeah, Pretty Woman is staying in my life (and in my Keeper Cabinet). Oh, the sweet Incense, the gooey Amber, and spicy Carnation. What really makes this scent pop for me is the photo-realistic Stargazer Lily. It is just a group of notes that blend like magic into well... Pretty. Guys, don't try to wear this. After all, it is Pretty Woman!

I was given this by an amazing swap partner, and I haven't written a review because I'm not sure I can think of the words to sing its praises enough. It's warm. It's cool. It's pretty and modern and kitsch. The smokiness is my favorite part. if you come across it, snatch it up for sure. Additionally, I asked my husband his thoughts. He said it smells like roasting marshmallows on a bonfire made of flowers. He's right. I guess those might be the right words. He did not find it dated either. He doesn't use the word dated, but he has code words I pick up on. Hehe. It's beautiful beyond what I'd imagine for a pretty women.

Happy I bought this without knowing anything about it. A wonderful surprise because this is quality juice. Incense wrapping itself around vanilla and sweet amber. Just the right amount of sweetness. There is also a fruity note that is so lovely - I cant tell what it is but no resemblance to the fruity fragrances of today. This perfume goes up on my 10 Best list.

pretty woman starts off a bit sweet but spicy and woody as well. the florals mixed with patchouli, vanilla and incense seem most prominent and it's warm and sensual. after awhile it goes through an amber phase and back to a creamy, smoky floral phase. still so gorgeous. i do not detect much citrus in this.

I think this perfume is so good because really represents a love witness... I'd like to find it, but it seems quite impossible. What a pity. RIP Barbara.

Oriental-woody, yes, I totally agree with Mooniq. This is a thick, spicy and woody fragrance. It ́s sweet but not cloying. I get the same powdery feel like in Voile d ́Ambré from YR. The insence is obvious but not overwhelming. I don ́t get any musk. Overall it ́s a pleasant perfume and I think mrs Orbison did a good work with this. It ́s like a whiff of the perfumes from the late 90-ies in a good way.

I tried Pretty Woman Perfume today and loved it sooo much. I've been smelling it all day long and at one moment I thought I'd be tired of it soon, but I wasn't! The scent reminds me of Coco, but it's much prettier)) It starts sweet ant flowery, then I get insence, spice and lots of patchuli. Amazing staying power (over 9 hours). Sillage - OK

A wonderful spicy scent. I would like to call it a oriental woody/spicy scent. Opens with insence, spice and deep adult flowers, no sugersweet notes at all. A parfum for a grownup girl - like me. This will be a favourite! A lot similar to Florascent Umami - another wonderful scent! En härligt kryddig doft. Jag skulle vilja kalla den Oriental trä/kryddig. Öppnar med rökelse, kryddor och aningens tränoter, blomnoterna är djupa och vuxna. Inga sockersöta doftnoter alls. En doft för en vuxen tjej/kvinna. Den kommer att bli en favorit. Påminner mycket om Florascent Umami - en annan av mina favoritdofter!

Fragrance Review For Pretty Woman By Barbara Orbison Top Notes: Bergamot Middle Notes: Carnation Rose Lily Base Notes: Amber Patchouli Vanilla Cedar Incense "But wait what do I see ? She's coming back to me. Oh Pretty Woman!" The classic Roy Orbison song and the Julia Roberts Richard Gere movie - in a perfume! Mrs. Barbara Orbison wife of the late Roy Orbison has honored the classic romantic oldie with a fragrance for pretty women everywhere. This is a very simple scent but not linear in any way. It follows a progression and develops from citrus and floral to incense. The opening is a bergamot orange. The heart is rose carnation and lily. These flowers are mostly rose scented in this perfume so what I get most is pure rose, powdery feminine perfumy rose. The dry down takes a while and it's aromatic with patchouli cedar wood and incense. The incense is not too smoky but very detectable and warm. There is a vanilla creamy rich and gourmand that comes out as well. Beautiful, luxurious, elegant and like something out 1980's Saks Fifth Avenue. It smells like a woman that has taken hours at the beauty salon and then has gone shopping for fragrances and you know that fragrance of multiple perfumes on a counter as you walk into Macys or Nordstroms, that smell? Yeah this is like that, like the smell of entering a perfume department store. But it is very much it's own scent. I have never smelled anything like this out in the fragrance market today. It smells vintage, classic, floral and incense a bit like a Chanel from the 80's a bit of a youthful Coco Eau de Parfum. Very beautiful. I wear it and walk around feeling like Julia Roberts in the shopping scene.

PRETTY WOMAN THE PERFUME Mercy! For me this fragrance IS the Julia Roberts In Pretty Woman fragrance! It smells just as nice as a perfume that she would wear herself and a fragrance that matches up with the movie. It smells like a million bucks. It would have grace the perfume counters of fragrance boutiques in Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. If Vivien had been wearing this perfume when she walked into that boutique where the nasty sales ladies didn't attend to her, they would have totally let her shop in there! LOL This scent begins with aldehydes that are perfumy and very old fashioned like a Chanel fragrance. There's a fresh juicy bergamot the only fruit in this fragrance. It's mainly a floral. There's roses, lilies and carnations. The carnation stands out and it's one of those sexy carnation scents (think Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood). The other flowers rose and lily give it a very grown up womanly sexy and luxurious vibe. Classy. There's also plenty of woods and incense to give it a chypre feel not terribly old fashioned but wearable and warm. It's smoky, leathery, dark but not in a mysterious way just very formal. Patchouli, too, gives it a touch of formality and elegance. I love this perfume. I'm glad I was able to buy it here in Miami. Right now I am the only girl wearing this among my friends and that makes me so happy!!!

First, if you have a bottle and live in the USA but don't want it, I'd be very interested in swapping for it (and I've got plenty to swap!). For me this was mostly woody/incense with some vanilla, which becomes more noticeable as the woody/incense quality recedes a bit over time. It is just a little sweet and not very floral at all. Adam Levine's perfume, for example, is considerably more floral, sweeter, and not as woody. It felt just slightly animalic for a while, but eventually that seems to disappear. It's also quite strong, being that I used half a spray and it was stronger than most scents! This is yet another example of what I was thinking niche would be like when I was a newbie. It's not complex, but it's not too simple, it smells natural, and it focuses on the woody/incense quality, with some slightly sweet vanilla offering contrast. Also, I'd say it's entirely unisex!

Wow! What a surprise this was for me! I generally stay away from any fragrance that has a celebrity connotation to it but I read Sumo Tiger's review and it piqued my olfactory curiosity. I love spicy fragrances and naturally anything with that piquant flower, carnation, is a must on my list! Pretty Woman is an impressive fragrance that has all the characteristics of a well crafted perfume with sillage, longevity and originality. It may begin sweet but it dries down to a rich, warm and very feminine perfume that totally evokes the words by Roy Orbison. How lovely that his wife, Barbara, has memorialized this iconic song with such a beautiful bouquet of love.

This smells fantastic - and honestly pretty unisex to my nose. It reminds me a lot of one of Serge Lutens various amber-based offerings. Gooey, sweet amber with a very noticeable base of gently smokey incense and patchouli. I get very little floral and no citrus at all. I'll amend this to say my previous review mostly applies to smelling it in the air. Off skin you definitely get a bit of citrus up front, along with a lot more florals and less of the sweet amber. If you smell the sillage you get the base, if you stick your nose in it you get the top and mid.

Strong and heady mix - I can't say I smelled much of a bergamot really.