Arden Beauty

The sky is clear, with little clouds. I'm sitting on my deck. Indian Summer is here. The air is fresh and crisp. Watching the breezes blow the long grasses at the edge of the lake, I see Mallards in the distance frolicking. The grill is on and I can smell the gingered rice simmering. I'm relaxed and life is simple. That's what Arden Beauty brings to mind. I picked this up for a mere few bucks today so I figured I'd give it a try. A very comforting, comfortable scent that I'd like to wear on week-ends relaxing when I'm not rushed. Or out to a quaint lunch or antique shopping. Arden Beauty is a mature scent, no sweet notes here, no fruity nuances either. Gentle wood scents come into play eventually but the true beauty of this perfume is the ginger and the rice. It's absolutely delicious. There is an earthiness that I enjoy in this fragrance, a sense that makes me feel at home with myself. I don't have to be anyone else. I'm not worrying about how sexy this perfume is, or how sultry, or if it is too sweet for anyone's taste. It brings me in to my own personal space, allowing me to reflect and enjoy my own scent mingling with this perfume. When I smell new-mown grass and walk in it, it's a delightful experience for the soul. It's exhilarating. You inhale the fresh aromas of the cut grass around you as you walk in it and your mind cleanses your soul. Arden Beauty has that green freshness ability to exhilarate you and make you at peace with yourself to be you and no one else but you. For those of you that are confident and ensconced in your maturity level to accept yourself for who you are, this is a fragrance to wear when you just want to kick back, laugh and relax and be who you are. Simple, elongated, rectangle bottle says it all. Good longevity with a beautiful radiance.

Isn't it a universal truth that as we evolve and mature, so do our olfactory bulbs 😊 I remember trying this BEAUTY over a decade ago. I purchased it blindly hoping for a miracle and to my bitter disappointment, I could not stand the fragrance on my skin 😳 I was only at the beginning of the fragrance adventure which turned out to be a long lasting one. I tested Arden Beauty on numerous occasions and each time felt like gagging, rushing to the bathroom to scrub it off my wrist. I happily gave it away to someone who was somehow a little bit fonder of it than myself. Last year I accidentally ended up with a miniature. I decided to reminisce the old times when as a Rookie perfumista I used to blindly buy perfumes to establish my own taste and fragrant identity. I'm glad I did as I instantly felt the connection and couldn't help but indulged in catching whiffs of it as I was out for a walk. All of a sudden I felt drawn to the crisp of green notes combined with delicate, yet clearly detectable floral notes and a hint of musk. It lasted on my skin some 6-7 hours and my scarf remained beautifully fragrant for next couple of weeks. I was absolutely gobsmacked: the fragrance I once detested with my heart, now, became my obsession and since that day I haven't been able to part with it. I feel that as I grew and matured, my taste evolved from vanilla/gourmand towards floral and green fragrances. I'm under spell of crispy notes, fresh, floral, feminine, classy and I'd like to think that this is the perfect way to describe Arden Beauty. A beautiful quality classy fragrance at a ridiculously low price. Not for the faint hearted or sweet notes lovers. From hate to love, my relationship with Arden Beauty resulted in the fragrance becoming my signature. It's a definite keeper ❤

Arden Beauty is really beautiful. The rice flower note, the rhubarb, the lotus, the ginger; these are the things that strike me about this scent. I adore its warm/cool quality: cool, aquatic lotus, green, vegetal rhubarb, warm ginger, and soft, clean rice flower. I've worn it in the heat and I've worn it when it's cool, and it's simply beautiful each time. But I think I may like it most of all during the transitional seasons of spring and fall, when it's still cool out; something about the 55-70 degree Fahrenheit temperature amplifies its assets. It's clean, green and a little vegetal (the rhubarb!), lovely and substantive. It could be someone's signature scent who still does that sort of thing -- as I used to before I got crazy about perfume and started collecting hundreds of bottles! It's in the same genre as Alfred Sung Shi, although it doesn't really smell like that one, aside from sharing a rice flower note, clean and light, but still strong, with presence. Its longevity is good, maybe 5 hours before it goes into skin scent territory, and its projection is well-mannered without being non-existent. It's refined and divine. And it's a tremendous bargain these days, at just $15 for a 3.3 oz.! <3

Enough with old lady !!!!!!! If you don't like, you don't like, say my thing is not florals I like to smell like a pudding and that is nothing wrong with that!!!! But don't denigrate a scent that others may love (as is my case) and label it with the death knell "old lady tag" !!!!! If you are unimaginative try other tags (like smells like an elephant in heat on MY skin) and understand that it is on YOUR SKIN and not in everyone else's. And remember that barring an overestimated early death you will also become old and someone will belittle you with that same tag. There is no amount of cosmetic surgery that prevents you from aging. That said Beauty on MY skin is a long lasting delightful spicy floral with lotus as main note and rhuibarb and ginger as secondary notes with a green undertone. On me it has moderate sillage and lasts for 7/8 hours suitable for all seasons, as it is not too sweet (which is the death knell on over 100F temps).

I've blind bought it because it was really affordable and the notes seemed interesting. At first I liked it, but wasn't very excited, it felt nice and inoffensive, but kind of forgettable. Since it's 100ml, I've been using it generously every time I wasn`t sure of what I wanted, and slowly it grew on me to one of my favourites. From the reviews I expected it to be more green and less sweet - it is quite sweet, but not cloying or nauseating at all. It is indeed linear, can't catch any specific drydown, but it lasts longer than could be expected for the money - not all day long certainly, but fair 3 hours or even more. And it definitely has an individuality. While being sweet, fresh and feminine like many other everyday scents, it distinguishes by a sour vegetal note, probably from rhubarb and ginger, which makes it more unique, not straight flowery. Definitely more than worth its price.