Diamonds and Emeralds

MONOI Beauty... Opens with a burst of succulent & buttery gardenia with near-tiare nuances, and transitions to a creamy & powdery tuberose heart resting on a root-y & nutty vanilla base. Overall a white floral, there is a faint sunscreen nuance on the skin, but the scent remains versatile. This is a gorgeous white-floral bouquet that has buttery, fluffy, near-tropical, lush & creamy tones. Takes a few weeks after first sprays in the bottle to develop the true scent. Overall: Impressive performance and affordable, this stunner is FB worthy for fans of vintage white florals. Enjoy! Contrast to Monoi Vague D'ÉteYves Rocher: These are different, but there are similarities with gardenia & a fluffy, creamy white-floral. Monoi Vague D'Éte has a more coconut-y feel due to the Monoi oil (tahitian gardenia soaked in coconut. oil). Roughly equivalent performance. Contrast to Giorgio Giorgio Beverly Hills: These are different, but there are similarities with gardenia, tuberose, peach and a powdery, creamy white-floral. Giorgio is sharper with oakmoss and a more forward tuberose, but they get a bit more similar as they're drying down. Giorgio has a stronger performance. Contrast to Fracas Robert Piguet: Connoisseurs of white floral will find these very different. There are some similarities in the creamy & powdery tuberose heart. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to Red Door Elizabeth Arden: These have been compared but I find them different, but with some similarities in the creamy & powdery tuberose heart. Having gone through at least one bottle of Red Door back in the day as well as at least two of the red cubed body cream, it's more of a powdered sugar & perfume-y white floral from what I remember, and less about tiare or root-y vanilla. However, it's been awhile since I had my nose on it. Update 06/20/25: Sprayed this on today and wow! I forgot how good this was. I was looking for a fresh tuberose, but this is definitely more of a gardenia (although there's a bit of tuberose in there). Peach brings a nice sweetness, but it's really well blended. Fluffy, creamy, buttery, powdery, sweet gardenia goodness. Love it even more.

Dear readers, ♥ What can this emerald classy lady, she's a bewitching green enchantress that turns your aura into a gorgeous gold !. When I spritz this into the air, I was enchanted truly by the heavily green and sweet aroma embrace of this green lady cascading down upon my senses with kisses of sweet juicy tuberoses ,gardenias and all kinds of fabulous notes that just creates magic. Now the perfume on me, omg wow ! Well I must say that this is sure winner of the silver metal for the Elizabeth Taylor line, of course the gold winner will be forever White diamonds, but this Diamonds and Emerald sister, my chemistry and the perfume made a gorgeous marriage made in erotic heaven. I wont go into alot of details but lets say that this perfume of Diamond And Emeralds is Man caller and trap, (laughs). Without wanting it, this perfume green tuberose sweet enchantress called alot of men to me, flirting and throwing all sorts of game from the subtle to the down right pervy. So for me this perfume is definitely a lucky charm, because with this perfume I got cute stares, flirts, discount's guys all because I smell really good to them and they wanna meet up later even if i had a man already!?, this perfume is dangerous on me , so im definitely keeping this bewitching green lady in my collection. All I must say now that if you like and are compatible with sweet honey like florals and other mysterious musky ultra feminine scents and dont want to smell like a "little girl" or some cookie cutter basic woman scent, than try this elixir of botanical Hollywood magic , you be having all the hearts of mortals coming to you like hummingbirds to booming flower full of nectar . Beautiful gift and a lucky charm if the spirit of Diamonds and Emeralds blesses you with her powers !. Bravo to our diva Elizabeth Taylor and her crew for making this classic and gorgeous perfume that is sheer class !. P.S for those who have this perfume and dont want it but willing to donate , send me a kind message and I'll be delighted to accept donations♥

Stunningly friendly floral that leans on purply sweet tuberose. Diamonds and Emeralds is heavenly. It’s just gorgeous and classic all the way through. Diamonds and Emeralds smells niche in that the opening is close to Queens by Bond No. 9. Diamonds and Emeralds is floral from beginning to end in a way that Queens isn’t, as Queens stays more abstract and unisex throughout. Diamonds and Emeralds warms up and rounds itself out beautifully on the skin, but unlike Queens, it doesn’t send urgent tuberose telegrams to everyone who gets within 50 feet. After the first few minutes, Diamonds and Emeralds moves on from the purplish splendor that is redolent of Queens and settles beautifully into a tuberose range that resembles the former glory of Fracas by Piguet. Unsurprisingly, the discontinued Truth or Dare by Madonna does come to mind, but Diamonds and Emeralds succeeds in remaining a floral beauty instead of turning into a fuzzy tuberose sweater like Truth or Dare. I reference the former glory of Fracas because Fracas has been reformulated into something that is not the same. Diamonds and Emeralds isn’t exactly vintage Fracas, but it is beautifully similar and not as powerfully musky as Fracas. But oh, the musks are beautiful in Diamonds and Emeralds. The hint of vanilla in Diamonds and Emeralds keeps the composition inviting rather than turning it into a gourmand. The fruits are sweet. Indolic or animalic moments can likely be attributed to orange blossom. Carnation and jasmine keep Diamonds and Emeralds interesting. It’s all so well blended that the composition succeeds in transcending the combination of the individual notes. It’s refreshingly nonlinear, and the sillage is moderate but pervasive. It has beauty without being a sillage beast. Its beauty doesn’t have to scream to be heard. Diamonds and Emeralds reads friendly and gorgeous, and the quality for the price point is just astonishing. Marvelous.

If you want to know what the hype is all about with any vintage fragrance (any scent that came onto the market pre-IFRA, so about 2008), you're going to have to get a vintage bottle. This is especially true for any perfumes released before 2000. Those perfumes back then were made with big budgets, even those intended for the mass market. Along with those big budgets, they often had top noses and amazing ingredients. The reformulations in 2026 often pale in comparison because they had to remove oakmoss, the actual rose, civet, and ambergris, just to name a few of the headlining ingredients that formed the skeleton for many of those big perfumes. This is especially true for any of the fragrances that carried the name of Elizabeth Taylor. A lot of money went into the formulation of her perfumes, and she had enough star power to command the best in terms of perfume noses. Original Passions is the most amazing dark purple incense brew. The modern reformulation of Passions is a powdery vanilla. Original Diamonds and Emeralds is a quirky aquatic floral similar to Hermes Sur le Nil. The modern reformulation of D&E is a synthetic tropical Glade. Original Diamonds and Rubies, a warm, spicy, milky carnation. The modern reformulation of D&R is a watered-down, spiced floral. All of the Stone perfumes--Diamonds and Rubies, Diamonds and Emeralds, and Diamonds and Sapphires were made by master nose, Sophie Grosjman. The perfumer of White Diamonds was Carlos Benaim I mean, these were not some cheapie cast-off throw-away scents, and they all had major cultural impact when they were first dropped. If you really want to know them, head over to eBay and get a mini vintage bottle at least. Then you can either criticize them or sing their praises ...properly.

A lovely scent for women who like pretty things. It reminds me of "Beautiful" by Elizabeth Arden in that it is a rich bouquet of floral notes, but in my opinion this is a more well-balanced scent (and thus I like it more than Beautiful.) It opens very sweetly with peach but this is fleeting and gives way to gardenia, hyacinth, and orange blossom; there might be a bit of apricot, but it is very subdued and seems to be a very quiet supporting player to the floral leads. The tuberose is quite strong. The ambery base appeals to me. It lacks any harsh musk (musk might be present but it isn't that overbearing harsh stuff of the 1970s) With the wild sweet opening that brings to mind violets I could see how Elizabeth Taylor would bring this forth as one of her lineup of fragrances. Younger fragrance wearers might see this as old-fashioned, and compared to a fresh fragrance of today, I suppose it is. I prefer to think of it as classic and just as there is room for hip hop and pop in music; there is also room for grand opera. This is grand opera. A little of this romantic fragrance goes a long way; this could be overpowering in an elevator or small office. I find it quite long-lasting (6 hrs at least) and I have edited this to note the peach that I did not recognize upon the first wearing. I mentioned Beautiful, but I can also see why people liken it to Revlon's Fire & Ice, but where (in my opinion) the notes in that leap and fall much like flames, Diamonds and Emeralds expands, holds very steady, and then fades to an eventual whisper. I'll wear it most often in the evening and during the fall, winter, and spring.