White Diamonds Parfum

I love all the formulations of this, including the powder and body lotion, but the pure parfum is my favorite--intense ylang-ylang aldehydic white floral over creamy sandalwood, with a distinct luxury-soap smell. I guess to many people it must smell like a bevy of Baptist ladies at church on Sunday, or their least-favorite coworker Joelle, or their grandma's most obnoxious frenemy, or maybe, if they're lucky, one of their own beloved relatives. That's the paradox of a hugely popular fragrance: more people are likely to have already formed associations with it, specific memories that you simply cannot logic out of them with arguments focused on this note or that note or the perils of reflexive snobbery or the fanciness of the creator, Carlos Benaim. As your grandma no doubt said to you sometime, there's no accounting for taste. I guess I'm lucky because I don't really have any problematic associations with this perfume. For some reason, I gravitated to the flankers first, and it didn't occur to me to seek out the original. But then two different women I know confessed to me how much they loved this fragrance, and I discovered that I also love this fragrance. If you love aldehydes and yellow, white, and pink florals, well, this is the perfume for you. It's shockingly inexpensive, and it performs like a beast. A critic I admire said that this was a scent that was meant to waft up from décolletage, and I'm inclined to agree, although I think this mostly occurs to us all because of Ms. Taylor's famous bosom--you know what? It doesn't matter. It's just hyperfeminine and floral in all the ways I love best, but there's enough wood in the base to ground it. It's not so far removed from my beloved Samsara, although there the sandalwood and citrus are equal players with the floral notes, and here the florals reign supreme. I find the pure parfum juicier, creamier, less soapy and aldehydic, and more ylang-ylang forward than the EDP, which I also love, and the EDT, which is quite nice, too, although substantially less rich and complex. They can all be layered effectively, or worn alone. I spray the EDT once on my hairbrush, brush through my hair once or twice, and it's definitely more than enough to scent my hair (I can't even imagine what the EDP would do--it lasted more than 48 hours on a slip of paper, and the parfum is best applied by the drop). One thing you can say for the entire White Diamonds line is that the bang for the buck is simply unmatchable. Update: My friend the estate-sale habituée brought me two little vintage bottles of the parfum, which I compared to each other and to my new bottle of the pure parfum. The older ones do smell somewhat richer and more intensely floral, but this is a matter of degree, and they're all close enough that I'd probably fail a blind sniff test. I gave one of the vintage ones to my mom, who recently mentioned that she had always liked WD but hadn't had a bottle in years. Tiny as the bottle is, it could potentially last her indefinitely, since you really don't need more than a couple of drops at a time. And she is loyal to her signature scent, mostly, Cashmere Mist, which is obviously a very different scent profile.

My mom received this perfume as a Christmas gift from my dad in 1991 or 1992. It was the big dab bottle at the time. She accidentally knocked it over and it spilled all over her bathrobe and dresser one day and she felt bad. The top of the bottle was loose and didn't close properly. It was pricey at that time for her to replace it. She saved the nearly empty bottle which she still has. I was in middle school when this was released, and never really liked perfume and didn't pay much attention to these things. But I remember my mom opening the perfume and sampling it. And I remember when it spilled. I think I was in 8th grade. Over the years, my brother and I bought White Diamonds gift sets for her and for my aunt who also likes it. They were always available around holidays. Two years ago, I bought two White Diamonds mini parfum dab bottles and gave them to my mom and my aunt in their Christmas stockings. I wish I got one for me too since they sold out later. The perfume and EDP smell better than the EDT, which I have. I read the parfum is discontinued. Is the EDP made anymore? I can't find them anywhere in stores. Only the EDT. I like the dab bottle design but they seem to be discontinued and only the spray bottles of EDT exist now. The perfume has the typical big 80s and early 90s perfume smell I remember as a kid. I can't detect specific notes. But I like the perfume more after trying my mom's new small bottle at age 37. It is not as strong as I remember, but not sure I'd wear it. My mom was in her early 40s when she first got it. I am 39 now but I feel like this kind of scent is too strong for me. I don't believe age matters when it comes to perfume, because everyone is different and it depends on how perfume works with our chemistry and how we feel about it. With my personality and looking younger than I am, I think it comes off as too mature for me. My mom has always been very youthful too, but her style seems to suit it more, and my aunt too. They can carry these better than I can. But White Diamonds is a classic to me that says 80s and 90s in a bold way. I like it and would keep a small bottle for my collection. I'm glad my mom has that small bottle that I can take a sniff of now and then.

I received a mini in the mail the other day and tested it after my shower that night. As soon as I smelled this beautiful parfum on my skin I went right back on ebay and bought 2 more bottles. This is so well blended that I had a hard time picking out individual notes, though the ylang and lily show up early, and a creamy tuberose comes through in the heart. The aldehydes are not an assault on the nose but are soft, and the overall scent has a creaminess to it like a fine milled soap. I don't smell heavy spices, as some do, and maybe that's because this was manufactured by 3 different companies and had gone through as many reformulations. It could just be that I have a later formulation where overt spiciness was omitted or toned down, though I am picking up something like carnation (not listed in the notes), which for me is adding a little soapiness. Is that the spiciness others are smelling? I have no idea, nor do I know what version I have, but it doesn't matter because I love it anyway. For a dabber this has fantastic silage, though I can't speak to longevity because I was lulled to sleep by this blissful scent. Can’t wait to wear this again while out for a night on the town where I’ll be better able to judge the finer aspects of this scent. As it is now, I feel fantastic just wearing it and it is so beautiful it actually made me feel that way too. That’s a big plus in my book Update - My bottles are all 1st. formula Parfums International. I also purchased a 1st. formula PI edt version. Smells just as lovely.

My mother always wore the parfum, never the EDT spray. Now that I'm an adult I can see why, haha. It's liquid gold! As I dabbed it on, I quickly realized that this el cheapo Chanel No. 5-alike is more competently assembled, smells more natural, and is overall much nicer than the majority of the expensive "niche" perfumes. Today was a depressing day indeed. The EDT & EDP are more discordant and soapier, I much prefer the parfum. The formulation seems to have changed a bit over the years, although it's difficult to place my finger on the finer differences. It's still an aldehydic bomb of ylang-ylang, creamy white flower nectar, powder, and santal. Older bottles put more emphasis on yellow flowers, they smell a bit more lush and less alcohol-y, but the new ones are still pretty good. I understand the comparisons to Ysatis, but to my nose White Diamonds is softer, soapier, and more floral. There's a bit more emphasis on rose and the powdery notes, it's not as heavy on the spices, woods, or amber. Ysatis dries to a dense ambery chypre base, whereas this is more of a straightforward floral aldehyde. This iteration of White Diamonds gets you closer to Chanel No. 5 than you may yet realize. The parfum is hard to find, but they go for next to nothing online. Edit: I see gift sets that include the parfum in rack stores during the Christmas season.

WHITE DIAMONDS the PERFUME version not the 80% alcohol EDToilette. is exquisite. Powdery, feminine, men holding my hand, opening my Bentley door, giving me Lilacs and Orchids, Diamonds and First Class Flights. It drives many men to new heights of giving, I know, I have worn it night and day, after bathing, after sea swimming, after Ice Skating after ***. I am known by the lovely scent and everywhere I go I am touched and adored by seekers of my aura. The PERFUME version is very, very hard to source and I buy every bottle I see. I know this site is for your personal views but if you cannot say anything nice do not say anything at all. Parfum that sells for millions and millions of dollars just cannot have anything wrong with it, it is not possible, it is nothing less than a phenomenal, wild success, I bring beauty and glamour to some peoples dull, grey lives, just me and my WHITE DIAMONDS. People are always cheered and refreshed when in our company. I am easily upset and I only hear nice things, I am deaf to nastiness and cruelty. I do all I possibly can to help Animals in distress. Thank goodness most perfume essences are synthetic and Lab made, not derived from Civet cats or as a result of the hideous Whaling of yesteryear. Beauty without Cruelty is for me.

I didn't realize Fragrantica had finally acknowledged that the tiny mini bottles of the parfum version of White Diamonds hold an entirely different creature/creation than the 100ml bottles currently on offer in stores and on the 'net, but now that I know, I clap my hands in enthusiastic applause! If one runs into bottles of White Diamonds at brick & mortar retailers it's easy to dismiss the fragrance as an opulent 20th century Big Perfume throw-back. It's loud, it's brash, it's... easy to dismiss and avoid the purchase because it's cliche and is truly awful. BUT if you manage to find one of the mini bottles as in the listing photo you will be rewarded with a bit of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! These minis enclose a few mls of an opulent golden elixir that exudes a cloud of Old Hollywood glamour... a thick, syrupy, honeyed white flower of amber and elegance. Truly, just a couple of drops on each wrist & then pressed against the neck will envelope you in a cloud of pleasure. I have 3 of these minis and I'm constantly on a fleabay look-out for more on offer from sellers who don't realize what a treasure they have.

This is White Diamonds in its purest form. I get more ylang w/ this concentration, lots more ylang. There are animalic undertones to the pure perfume as well. It is still the cold blinding white powder of the eau de parfum and toilette but less so. Cinnamon undertones in the dry down. I get more rose w/ the eau de parfum than in either pure perfume or the toilette. All 3 have the same beautiful blinding white powder smell, all 3 smell like White Diamonds but there are subtle differences. More ylang in the pure perfume and more aldehyde in the toilette. All 3 versions are beautiful. I would recommend the toilette for the daytime and the pure perfume or the eau de parfum for evening. White Diamonds has become one of my favorite perfumes in my collection. I never thought it would but the more I smell it and the more I wear it the deeper in love I fall for it. If you haven't tried White Diamonds because like me you thought aldehydes weren't for you (#5 ruined this genre for me for too many years) Give this cold, crisp, clean, bold and blindingly beautiful white and sparkling powder fragrance a try.

The pure parfum, I believe, captures the essence of the TRUE White Diamonds that Elizabeth Taylor meant to share with the world. I wear it layered with the matching lotion and body wash and it seems to perfectly suit my body chemistry. I do not wear perfume to receive compliments but this one garners me the most from all ages, from both men and women. It is rich from the amber and orris root, the tuberose is creamy rather than high-pitched. All the floral notes are well-blended so I cannot pull out any of them in particular, except for lily. It will last FOREVER in your hair and on your clothes. It has become my signature over the years and I have hoarded several parfum bottles in all sizes. A little goes a long way! My grandma wore it for years (the vintage EDP, which I wear as well), but on me, it smells different. Now it smells like ME rather than my grandma even though I still imagine her when I first put it on. But over the course of the day as it dries down, it smells like I am coming home to me, does that make sense? It smells divine. Sometimes, I wonder why I wear anything else.

I bought several mini bottles of the pure perfume/parfum, and it is truly amazing at how this fragrance doesn’t even truly compare to the Eau de toilette. The Eau de toilette is just insanely woody to me, and the flowers are very subdued in comparison to this gem. The dry down on the EDT might be similar, but I never smell the Ylang in the EDT like I do in the Parfum. I know there is an Eau De Parfum floating around out there somewhere, but I have yet to find me a bottle of it to compare. As of now, I can’t wear the edt. It’s too harsh, and honestly doesn’t even smell good to me. This Parfum however instantly transports me back to sitting next to my mom at church. What I find to be odd is that she only ever owned the EDT. So I assume that the EDT was originally formulated to smell like this, but something in the EDT’s formula has changed drastically in the last 20 years. To the point in which the EDT doesn’t remind me of my mom at all. Only the Parfum with the potent Ylang note reminds me of my mom. I hope to God this Parfum formula isn’t discontinued.

I've already discussed my feelings of the EDT notes so I just wanted to make a quick review on how I feel the parfum differs. For White Diamonds I do prefer the parfum because I like the way it develops. I feel like I get through that skank/animalistic phase much faster and its not nearly as loud at the EDT is. I really have to hold of for dear life when I spray the EDT because the first five minutes to me don't smell very pleasant at all, and with the parfum its very close to the skin that unpleasant smell as opposed to being blasted with an atomized version of it. White Diamonds is a great fragrance, that I think gets a bad wrap sometimes because we all know someone who used it as a signature scent or over sprays because they've become nose blind to it. Miss Taylor was so kind to make this affordable and accessible to all. If you cant find a way to wear this as your own due to association with someone who did, try a flanker. They are all built off the bones of this, and with so many to chose from there is bound to be one that fits your personality.

Aldehydic at first yet soon a lovely harmony of flowers appears and this is the sillage - ylang, jasmine, tuberose, lily, amber. It is full bodied and indeed similar to Ysatis, First by Van Cleef&Arpels and Chanel N°5. But to Ysatis is bears very close resemblance though I prefer White Diamonds which is more refined. My small bottle aged perfectly (well, it is my Mother's actually but I hijacked it) and is just as perfect as it was as new. It is warm and spicy in the background which makes it full bodied. It is just perfect this winter. From the bottle it seemed retro but when on - not really. Just sweet floral bouquet on amber. Classy and gorgeous. I used to stay away from the classic compositions but this is so very feminine and clean and radiant, slightly soapy, too. Its sillage pleases me. Very elegant. Truly a scent to golden jewellery and diamonds. It is rather gentle on.

I have a small amount of the pure parfum/extrait, and bottles of both the EDP and EDT. I have to say that they are different creatures--though the EDP and parfum are closer to each other. In the EDT, the orange and aldehydic notes seem strongest, while here in the parfum and EDP, the spices, heady florals, and rich chypre base are at luxurious levels... In fact, a good friend's mother wore the EDT exclusively, and neither she nor her son were able to recognize the scent when I've worn the parfum or EDP. Other people have discussed the notes of WD in detail, so I won't go into that, but I will say that, if you'd REALLY like to experience this beautiful fragrance and the whole of its intention, go with one of the stronger (and vintage, if possible) concentrations and see your skin glisten nicely with the rich oils as you bask in the aroma.

This is lovely! At the beginning, there's a flowery-buttery accord, maybe the tuberose. It's just heavenly. I can't tell apart the rest of the floral notes, but I do get the slight spiceness--the clove & cinnamon. This is way more rich and opulent than the eau de parfum or the EDT, it is intoxicating. It's giving me old money vibes, and I guess Elizabeth Taylor was just that!! I'm not sure what took so long for me to have this fragrance in my collection, but now it won't ever leave. I did myself a favor and also bought the shower gel, body lotion & powder. All these things together is a chefs kiss, as if White Diamonds can't be any MORE long lasting, this makes it so it stays with me the whole day and then some. I love that the body powder has "white diamonds"/shimmer. Makes me feel a little extra. 💎💎💎

Wow! What a surprise gem! Picked up a vintage mini at a thrift store forever ago and I'm ashamed to say the perfume snob in me assumed it would be terrible and I've only now tried it out. Cheap perfumes just used to be made better! White Diamonds parfum is surprisingly complex with impressive longevity and projection. It is very old fashioned, but I absolutely adore it. It reminds me of old-school White Shoulders parfum, but turned up to 11 with modern ingredients. The lovely warm spicy and fresh undertones help cut through all the florals and prevent it from becoming cloying. I'm just so surprised by how good this is! 😄

If you love (or even like) White Diamonds, please do yourself a favor and also buy the matching body wash, lotion and the body powder. The WD body powder is the last bath product that I have purchased, just today, at Meijer, for about $13.00 (2.6 oz powder with puff). My goodness, this smells amazing. Layering this with the body wash and lotion and a little spritz or two of the EDT or EDP or parfum....pure luxury. I can smell more of the spice now in the powder (not distinctly cinnamon or clove, but spicy). I have said it once and I will say it again....sometimes, I wonder why I wear any other perfume.

Review for White Diamonds Parfum Splash: HUGE fan of La Liz, not a fan of her perfumes. After a long awaited second chance with Passion that ended in a scrubbing war, I never thought I would fall in love with one of her perfumes. At first drop one can easily smell why this scent is a best seller. Strong, bold, and beautiful. This one reminds me of a fashionable older woman, maybe in her mid 50's, who knows how to dress, look, and smell. This is one that's a keeper. I may not be 50 just yet but I long to be that fashionable older woman that smells like this. Purely divine.

White Diamonds Parfum is my absolute favorite of the White Diamonds family. It’s a gorgeous, warm rich yellow floral, accentuated by aldehydes and the slight soapiness. It smells very expensive and luxurious. Like any glamorous star from Hollywood’s golden age would wear. The parfum extrait is the EDP and EDT in one beautiful bottle. No sugary cotton candy gourmands here, this is a classic, timeless fresh sensuous floral. Elizabeth Taylor epitomized glamour, and she knew what smelled good! I always have a bottle handy!

I was about 9 spraying this in makeup section at the military version of Walmart on a base with my dad. I was so in love I begged him to buy it for me. However there was a big difference in the EDT and EDP, even I could tell when I got the EDT...however this was the first perfume I was gifted. This is elegant, classy, and timeless. I feel like Elizabeth Taylor knew what she was doing when it came to fragrance, it wasn’t a haphazard mishmash of everything sweet smooth out with vanilla like a lot of celebrity scents.

I haven't smelled the EDT yet, but I really like this pure version. It's so rich, so luxurious. It smells so much better than the edp. I'm testing them both out right now. In the e d p it doesn't smell less clean bred. Well blended erie warm fuzzyn3ss the edp is a fresh smelling a claim, but not the same, and it's not blended. Yeah, equally. I prefer the pure version and it's the only version to get if you want to rock. This classic both are great, but the pure version is the way to go

White Diamonds pure parfum is a strange scent for me. It was the first look into the fragrant jewels for me, but it's the one I like the least - same goes for the EDT. However, in saying all of that, I do find it to still be quite lovely. I understand when people compare this to No 5 by Chanel. It has a similar soapy cleaness to it, but the similarity ends there apart from the mildly aldehydic opening. It's sparkling and very full of tuberose. Bit too strong for me, sadly.