Sparkling White Diamonds

I recently picked up a 3.3 oz bottle of this at Marshalls for $14.99. I always liked White Diamonds as my first Husbands Mother wore it as her signature, and of course as a young 20 something I never wore it because I thought of it as "mature". However one Christmas after gifting her a discounted holiday set she gave me the lotion, and I would on occasion apply it after a shower when I planed on staying around the house. Here I am a 37 year old Mom, and I guess nostalgia and seeing holiday fragrance gift sets made me long to find an Elizabeth Taylor perfume to call all my own. My Mother and Grandmother Loved Mrs. Taylor and after all, and I was named after her. The cool blue bottle is lovely, the spray comes out in a very fine mist. The top is very clean, a fresh burst. As the top dissipates the middle is much more floral, with that clean freshness still playing in the background. At the end I am left with a clean white musk. I checked the notes, and this is very similar to white diamonds. It is missing the aldehydes, bergamot, violet, ylang-ylang, tuberose, oak moss and patchouli. The only additional note is gardenia. I also feel like there is a freesia in the top. It truly is a lighter version of White Diamonds, and I am in love. It reminds me of the coziness of the fragrance of a woman I loved and respected dearly, but something I can wear as my own. I recommend if you liked the original, or a clean floral. I would wear this at any time, blue jeans or dressy. I think this scent must have been a much more demure side of ET, the side of her that nurtured and loved. I feel very happy when I wear this. My Moms favorite fragrance was White Shoulders, and I would classify that as more floral but with that clean scent as well. Perhaps my perception of this scent is somewhat influenced by scents my Mother and Mother in Law wore. I noticed another reviewer saw this as the frigid, ambiguous side of femme, so perhaps it was Liz's ice queen side. At any rate I recommend!

My twin got me this as a half-joke for Christmas but it’s not funny how good this fragrance is. I’m not familiar with the rest of the White Diamonds line so I can’t compare it to the OG and other flankers, but Sparkling White Diamonds is a delight to wear. In my collection this fits somewhere between (and here you will see I am a real niche head) the shimmering musky cloud of Cognoscenti’s Civet Chypre and the aromatic marine garden of January Scent Project’s Dinudisit. These probably aren’t helpful guideposts for most people on this page, but they’re the only ones I have. It’s distant from the aldehydic florals of earlier decades and I think fits more easily into a contemporary “floral freshie” space, despite the relative complexity of its composition and several decidedly vintage touches at play. I get a (yes) sharp opening of neroli and aldehydes that I can understand being off putting and indeed imparted some trepidation in me on first application. But wait 5 seconds and this becomes something so easy to love. The real stars of the scent are narcissus and lily. To me the narcissus is more noticeable, in part because it is a complex and fascinating note that I gravitate toward in perfume. The lily is probably actually stronger, but its relatively simple, creamy bouquet doesn’t demand as much attention. It is lovely in the blend and contributes to an overall decadently creamy feel in combination with the musks. Narcissus and lily, then, represent the two faces of this scent, which is at once bright, glittering and cheerful, and creamy, cool, and comforting. The other florals aren’t really detectable to me, with the exception of sheer and glowing neroli accompanying the more down to earth narcissus. The aldehydes are just right, contributing to a cold, even refrigerated, vibe that keeps the creamy base from becoming cloying or overwhelming.

This is the polar opposite of my beloved Passion and White Diamonds, two fragrances I would run into a burning building to save. I am not supposed to like this, but I absolutely LOVE it. Am I losing my mind?! Anyway, it strips away the heat, spices, and heavy resins of the original. What’s left is neroli, lily, and gardenia. It is icy (that will make sense when you smell it) and dare I say aggressively clean. It smells like a bar of French-milled soap that costs $50. It is the most unisex of the white florals because it lacks sweetness. Any man could pull this off without anyone batting an eye. It is just pure, COLD floral musk. I'd also say it's unobtrusive and work appropriate. As another reviewer mentioned below, Elizabeth Taylor's fragrances are of such high quality for such a ridiculously low cost! Along with Gardenia, this was another blind buy win for me. It is just LOVELY and there isn't a single thing I would change about it. EDIT: It doesn't last nearly as long as the others in the White Diamonds collection. But that's ideal for me. While a single spray of White Diamonds is a COMMITMENT, I can wear this during the day and switch to something heavier in the evening. EDIT 2: I've figured out that Sparkling White Diamonds needs an entire LAYER for you to get the full shabang. Spray the amount you're normally comfortable with, let it dry down for just a few minutes and do it all over again. Deep breath hun, because I'm not kidding when I say this. Let the second layer dry down a bit and apply a third. No need to clutch your pearls about it. You'll be good to go for the rest of the day, and this stuff is so inoffensive it still won't be enough to knock anyone out.

Sparkling White Diamond's: Wow!! Sparkling - This Beauty Sure Is, Like Expensive Champagne & It's Bubbles Rising & Bursting In A Tall Fluted Glass!! Being A Lover Of The Original White Diamond's I've Had This Beauty In My Vast Perfume Collection From It Was Ever First Launched!! This Is Deffo A Lighter,Fresher,Cooler Scent Than It's Big Full On Sister!! It Starts With A Real Blast Of Citrusy All Most Lemony Tartness,Which Soon Morphs Into The Most Beautiful Florals Of Both White & Yellow Flowers,Gardinia Then Show's Itself & Mixes Beautifully With All The Florals Giving This Perfume Pure Creamy Depth!! There's A Coolness/Freshness In This Perfume Which Makes It The Perfect Choice In Warm Summer Very Much Like Another Favourite Perfume Of Mine Estee Lauders White Linen,Although I Wear Them Both Autumn & Winter When I Just Want To Feel Up-Lifted/Clean & Fresh!! Gentle White Musk Laid Over Amber Then Finishes Of Sparkling White Diamond's!! It Smells Very Classy & Expensive & Really Does Last On My Skin A Good 10-12 hour's Like Most Of Elizabeth Taylor's Diamonds Perfume!! This,The Original,Brilliant & White Diamonds Night's Are All Very Much Related To Each Other & Are Just Absolutely Stunning!! This Perfume Brings Me So Many Compliments When I've It On It's Unreal!! & Her Other Three Perfume's Emeralds & Diamonds,Rubies & Diamonds & Sapphires & Diamonds All Equally Beautiful & So Well Related To Each Other!! Delighted To Have Them All In My Vast Perfume Collection!! Ms Taylor Sure Did Us Proud When She Launched Her Stunning White Diamond's Perfume!! Deffo A Real Classic Just Like Her Beautiful Self!!

Este lo agregué a la colección hace 1 mes aprox y al usarlo en distintas ocasiones puedo dar una opinión más amplia de lo que es en sí. Todas las fragancias de Elizabeth Taylor cuentan una historia, un momento, una inspiración, algo que la marcó y que quiso enmarcarlo en un perfume para ir a ese momento en un simple spray. Puedo decir que Sparkling White Diamonds es un baño de tina espumoso! me huele a un jabón Dove en barra. Elizabeth quiso este perfume para ir directamente a esa ocasión de salir del baño de tina y que el jabón en piel dure por horas y no se esfume.. puedo intuir que esta fragancia la utilizaba para ir a dormir! yo lo hago así y al despertar hueles las hermosas flores enumeradas en las notas! tan bien mezcladas que te reconfortan y calman.. esta fragancia puede ser utilizada como quieras en verdad.. funciona tan bien en un frío invierno.. literalmente vas a oler al salir de la ducha con un hermoso jabón mezclado con flores blancas que van apareciendo mientras se va secando el spray en tu piel. Este perfume para lo que ofrece podría ser perfectamente muchísimo más caro de lo que es. Tiene el ADN del White Diamonds original, pero muchísimo más calmado en cuanto a las notas. El original es embriagador porque te está gritando las 12 horas que dura que está ahí presente.. no es para todas las narices el original, el Sparkling White Diamonds es más sutil y femenino, poderoso de igual manera, pero con un camino olfativo distinto. Pruebalo!!! lo recomiendo mucho para usarlo en tu día a día y para dormir.. señor perfume hace que tus sueños huelan hermoso.

This is my first Elizabeth Taylor fragrance and I have to say that I'm very pleased with my purchase. As other reviewers have correctly assessed, it is a somewhat 'cold', neutral and, indeed, sparkling white floral, on a sweetish base. It smells clean and delicate (unless you overspray)! It is also kind of soapy, but not unpleasantly so; no sharp aldehydes or suffocating big bouquets here. Although the list of notes might scare some people off (lily! narcissus! gardenia! jasmine! rose! neroli!), the overall effect is nothing like the heady floralness of, say, Amarige. Here all floral notes are stripped of their more challenging aspects and beautifully blended. This scent is appropriate for all occasions and not at all dated. I see that several users have compared it to the sadly discontinued Narciso Rodriguez Essence, and I can also add a comparison to NR Pure Musc. The main difference between Pure Musc and Sparkling White Diamonds is that the drydown of SWD is less musky and more ambery; also, in Pure Musc, 'cold' floral notes are there to boost the musk, while in SWD it's the opposite, and musk is there to elevate the flowers. Bottom line: this is a fantastic universal 'cheapie' that doesn't smell cheap at all, and the bottle is absolutely beautiful.

Not getting anything remotely animalic, thank goodness--just white florals and clean musk, with a little citrus to cut through the sweetness of white lily and gardenia. The musk is whiter than white. I see why people compare it to Ivory soap, but I get predominantly florals. Maybe this will develop somewhat on the drydown and depending where I spray it (right now it's still confined to testing, back-of-the-hand status, and I like it enough to wear it on pulse points once I shower and start with a clean slate. I'm sure it's the aldehydes that account for the bright soapy aspect of this perfume; I suspect I must like them, since they tend to be a common factor in so many of the scents I gravitate to these days. I wouldn't wear this if I felt a migraine coming on, though. This is more the kind of scent you wear when you're feeling great. Update: It's obviously Dove soap, not Ivory. But so wonderfully clean once the aldehydes calm down. I think the candylike notes that I at first identified as iris or lilac were actually white lily, probably, in combination with gardenia. A reviewer back in 2013 compared the floral accord to Juicy Fruit gum, which I totally get. So somehow this is both soapy and delicious? A miracle, at a miracle price.

Sparkling White Diamonds is my gym-bag scent. It’s not special enough to be my hands-down signature scent but it’s my signature day-off scent, gym scent and sweaty hot summer scent. It’s the perfect clean, fresh laundry scent as it smells identical to Dove deodorant. (A slight disclaimer, the original Dove deodorant smells different in Canada with the light blue lid, compared to the USA and U.K. variations that both have a dark blue lids - Sparkling White Diamonds smells just like the USA version of Dove deodorant and mostly like the Canadian version but not as creamy powdery soapy as the U.K. edition). It’s translucent with sparkling aldehydes and powdery white floral laundry detergent with a little fuzzy oakmoss. There are no vintage animalics to me. Sparkling White Diamonds is how you smell after a shower when you spray Dove deodorant and put freshly laundered clothes on. So if you’re feeling subway-sweaty, it helps to restore your original clean scent. This belongs in every gym bag. Longevity isn’t as beastmode as claimed, realistically it lasts for a good 5/6 hours. So you need to reapply again if you’re going to the gym after work.

Is it hot as hell where you are right now? Does the entire world smell like a collective unwashed ass? Does the thought of wearing some spicy, resinous, rich, and gourmandish scent elicit shuddering dry heaves? Well, consider Sparkling White Diamonds, the very sublimation of soap. Yes, this is a floral fragrance (I can even discern the narcissus, which delights me), but mostly it is an aldehydic floral fragrance, which means it smells like a nice, flowery soap. Take a shower, spritz some of this on, and prolong that Ivory Soap baby feeling for hours. If you don't care for the OG White Diamonds (I do, but the rich orientals aren't for everyone), this might be a good choice for you, especially if you have pleasant associations and formative memories associated with Ivory bar soap. If you were longing for a bottle of Byredo Blanche but can't rationalize the ridiculous price, try Sparkling White Diamonds, and see if it doesn't function similarly. Everyone defines the "clean girl" scent category differently, but to me it's that pure and righteous white musk aldehydic soap smell.

Recently I’ve been collecting the Flankers in the White Diamonds collection by Elizabeth Taylor. I loved how perfect for everyday wear Emeralds and Sapphire are, and since I’m almost out of my bottle of Emeralds, I decided to try out another one of the flankers to see how they hold up. Immediately, Sparkling White Diamonds is such a beautiful and calming scent. I love how soft and elegant this is while still being bold. It definitely smells similar to an Ivory bar of soap with emphasis on the powder, so if that isn’t your kind of thing, you probably won’t like this. So far out of the Diamonds flankers I own (Rubies, Sapphire, Emeralds, Dazzling White) this one is my favorite. Compared to the other flankers, this one feels much more timeless, while the others do still have a vintage feel to them. This one feels like it will be perfect for everyday use. I could see it working in Spring, Summer, and Winters. Definitely perfect for the gym, after a shower, to wear with your little black dress, church, truly any occasion.

I got this for a Christmas gift and when i sprayed it on my skin it opened with an sharp metallic scent of aldehyde and i thought this must be an inexpensive version of Chanel no 5 Unlike chanel it dried sweeter and more softer florals came steeping though the notes. What Sparkling Diamonds conjours up for me is a sight of fresh white Lilies wet from the nocturnal summer's rain giving off an sweet aroma from their long and sinuous Petals blowing in the clear summer sky Gardenias blooms under the Sun's gentile rays the reveal it's pure and unblemished petals of Elegant white folds with it's stately and trademarked buttery sweet scent, dries with elusive jasmine blooming in a shady bush with it's herbal greenish smell gives it an earthy quality. Rose opens the middle with a velvety heart then deep intoxicating of vain narcissus adds to the vanity of beauty, The drydown is cloyinish with amber adds the animalistic in us and dries with dry woods. Sparkling Diamonds i can put in three words Breezy Sexy and Beautiful.

This is clean just hopped out of the shower smell but in the best way. This doesn't smell like all of those fruity/floral shower gel scents out there on the market. This smells clean, white bar soap clean. This smells like that feeling you get when you take a really hot shower after working really hard or you were very upset about something (therapy shower) and you took a fancy white bar of soap and scrubbed the day away. There is a tingling effect to the smell of this perfume as well like the feeling you have after that hot shower and you step out into the cool air. In the dry down there is an astringent almost clove note that is stark and very clean. This is almost a therapy scent to my mind, like a reset button. I didn't have anything like that in my collection and now I do thanks to Elizabeth Taylor.

I am with Parfum Amour!! A beautiful sparkling Oriental Lily backed by sweet bubbly citrus. Original White Diamonds is classic perfumery. A perfectly executed portrait of an Oriental Lily. Sparkling White Diamonds could be classified as the lighthearted bubbly younger sister.This beauty showcases Oriental Lily in front and center as does White Diamonds, yet is sweeter and efferescent. There is gorgeous lemony citrus that surrounds the lily. Reminds me of enjoying a mimosa or Champagne spritzer at a formal brunch on a beautiful summers afternoon. It's inexpensive and easy to find, but it smells of quality ingredients. I love Oriental Liles and collect perfumes built around this note. Unlike some, I detect nothing artificial to speak of. Just Lilies and Lemony sweetness.

I really enjoy this perfume, it's very elegant in my opinion. Not as strong as white diamonds, so a little easier for those of us prone to headaches. It unlike white diamonds, doesn't start of inherently powdery, instead I first notice a string flower, I'm inclined to say neroli and jasmine. It fades out of that fairly quickly and moves onto the lily and other flowers smell. Even though it's not as powdery as white diamonds, it still retains that distinct powdery hint that made the latter unique. This one is far more wearable for just out and about. But again while less strong than white diamonds, it's still pretty strong and I recommend not using it heavily, as well as testing it first because white flowers are picky and can just smell bad on the wrong person.

i love to give love to the cheapies:) and this scent is really nice in the world of white diamonds..........its not as heavy as the original white diamonds..........its a lighter more "sparkling" version of the original...........the florals stand out nicely & softly..........and thankfully it has no weird chemical smell lol........as for longevity it last a few hours on me.......sparkling really fits the scent :) i get everything except neroli & woodsy notes - i dont get woodsy at all & luckily not neroli - neroli is not a fav lol..............for the super price on fragrance discount sites give this a try.......its pleasantly nice :)

Omg... I love it! It's soapy, floral, and creamy. It smells like a combination of the original Dove deodorant spray (the one with the blue cap—not the roll-on) and the classic Dove soap bar. It's honestly so pretty if you like smelling like soap. And I do! This is probably the closest I've come to a true Dove soap scent so far. And from such an unexpected fragrance! Everything people recommend as smelling like Dove usually ends up smelling nothing like it. It also stays soapy from start to finish instead of drying down into something completely different. I'm obsessed. The bottle is super pretty too. Will repurchase this forever!

This is a really nice fragrance. It has a bit of a citrus blast on me when first sprayed on and then the light white florals appear with a soft musk dry down. I love the powerhouse fragrances of the eighties and nineties but I never was interested in celebrity fragrances so I never tried them. Not sure why I even decided to try the ET line but glad I did. Since they are so inexpensive now I have ordered some of the other scents in this line to try. Better late than never! The sillage and longevity is great with this fragrance. I received a compliment the first time I wore it.

I never thought much about this fragrance until I just tried it on in this below zero weather. You really get a soapy gardenia with lots of musk and deep Amber with whispers of jasmine, the neroli makes it fresh and sparkling. Oh my this is a gem! It's singing so beautifully! I had assumed this fragrance was more for spring and summer and I was not impressed. I'm so glad I gave it another chance now because it really is unique and full bodied just like white diamonds, just singing it's own beautiful tune.

I just ordered the perfume version of the body spray that I have. I love it so much and its so fresh and light. Its perfect for the day and for the office as it is inoffensive and really does smell as if you just showered. I love the original white diamonds, but its just too strong to wear at work. This is a great alternative and (to me) it smells like a lighter version of white diamonds. love it and can't wait til my 3.3 oz bottle arrives. It was literally pennies compared to other fragrances.

UGH! SO WONDERFUL! This is a dumb reach for super hot days--which is not something I'd say for any of the other ET frags. Clean, cool and soapy. It's refreshing without a trace of sharp citrus (thankfully). This will NEVER be dated, IMO. How do you put an "era" on soap? Just lovely! Longevity is a little less than some of the others in the diamonds lineup but you can go HAM on the trigger (5+ hours heavy spray)! Never too much with this. Will forever repurchase!