Ivory Cashmere

On me this is a beautiful your skin but better scent. I get a crisp refreshing fruit note in the beginning, like the skin of a pear but not it’s flesh or juices, and it’s lightly sweet but quite delicious and makes me want to take a deeper sniff. Then I get the aquatic atmospheric scent. I thought with a name like Ivory Cashmere it would smell warm and musky and not dissimilar to Donna Karan Cashmere Mist. What I get instead is a cooling sensation like the mist from a river that’s winding along a mountain hiking trail. This scent is one of those “barely” type of fragrances but not in the sense of it being barely there. I mean that it’s barely fruity, barely aquatic, barely atmospheric or ozonic. And yet all of these things combined all at once that really seem to lift off of the skin and float around you create this ethereal vibe that smells like what I would imagine the garden of Eden to smell like. This is a rare gem of a find from Bath & Body Works. While I find that 90% of their fragrance all smell the same or have some annoying underlying base, it thrills me that there’s still some hidden masterpieces lurking in those shelves, and this is one of them.

left a review for this on the 2023 version, but ig fragrantica deleted that one. either way, i have the newest version, and it's so, so good. i generally don't love clean scents (more of a warm/gourmand lover) but this is objectively beautiful and well-blended. definitely doesn't smell like a bath and body works scent. it's sweet and warm but not gourmand or cloying, clean but not in a powdery/laundry way, and it's got that ozonic note that's so popular nowadays. on the skin, i get some soft, sweet florals (reminds me of the summer's eve delicate blossoms wash, but rounder and softer) as well, though they're not listed in the notes. i could see this being an everyday, all-year-round scent for so many people, but for me, this is more of a special occasion fragrance--just classy, a bit unisex, but still feminine. the projection and longevity on this are also surprisingly good for a clean scented body mist, although some people are anosmic to these kinds of ozonic frags, so keep that in mind!

Bought this because it was supposedly a very close dupe to 11:11 by Lake & Skye. I love that perfume but I have to hold myself back fom spraying too much because I don't want to run out of it. So I was in need of something similar to douse myself with it. At first I thought it was similar but not quite. There's a note in the opening that is jammy sweet that makes it a tad different. Similar to the fig note in Indigo by Nest just way toned down. However, once it dries down, that note disappears and it develops basically into the same perfume. I can definitely smell the amber in this. I've also tried a lot of musks but Ethylene brassylate is my favorite kind. It's soft, sparkly and lightly sweet. Unlike other musks that smell more like powdered laundry. I'll be layering this fragrance mist with my 11:11 perfume oil and perfume spray for a stronger sillage and longevity. I think I might purchase the body wash as well as the lotion too.

This scent feels very familiar to me though im not sure why. It’s definitely strong for a b&bw spray, way more complex than I expected, and lasts a decent amount of time. I can still smell traces of it 4-5 hours after applying which I think is impressive for a spray. It starts off very musky and almost cologne like... then dries down to feel more cozy warm (but still fresh.) I’m excited to wear this on colder snowy days. Definitely a unisex one!

This is such a pretty smell. It’s warm but crisp. It’s clean but not laundry detergent clean. You can tell it’s there but it’s not overpowering. I really like this. I’ve seen multiple places it’s a dupe for 11:11 but I’ve never smelled that before actually. I wish this lasted longer but it is a bath and body works spray after all. I really like it. Truly reminds me of clean,cool, autumn air.