West

I deleted my original review from May of this year to do a new one now (August 2023) so I’ve been trying to collect as many travel size sprays from this brand and skylar both, mostly because there full size are so unbelievably expensive! I fell in love with this when I ordered several tester gift packs in the late winter/early Spring and I got my full size today and I don’t know how but the bottle is over half way empty, I could cry, but that’s not why I’m reviewing that was just to vent to my fellow fragrance lovers out there who truly get what I’m talking about! Anywho, this is such a great example of a citrus based scent. It starts out to me with almost like a blood orange/heavy orange scent and for me it stays that way. It’s for me very much a fruity citrus rather than a citrusy citrus-if that makes sense lol i wish it wasn’t so expensive because I would wear this a lot and I mean I would douse myself in it lol I always put perfume on my naked body first, then over my clothes body, a few sprays in my scarf or sweater coat or whatever I’m wearing that day, and doing the e at prays on my clothing I find really helps me stay smelling like the perfume I’m wearing that day. This would be a safe blind buy for a citrus lover, a fresh fragrance lover as well! So yummmy!

I absolutely loved this perfume before the reformulation c. 2022. After the reformulation, I still adore it after it dries down, but I find the initial application unpleasant. These notes are for the current formulation. On application, it is floral, citrus, and very bitter, like grapefruit pith. The scents are competing and I actively dislike it. However, after it dries down it is magical-- it keeps the citrus but takes on an extra woody, herby, earthy, soapy vibe that smells like nothing else. It's the only perfume I own where I smell it and think OMGYUM. I get endless compliments on this perfume, and it's the one I wear most often. 4 sprays, lasts all day and I can still smell it on clothing for multiple days after. Sillage and projection about 4 feet-- enough for people to notice when they're near you, but not enough that the whole meeting is inundated with it. It's fresh and great for an office setting. Best for spring/summer/daytime, though I do wear it year round. I pick a different perfume for going out or date night.

This fragrance really does give off the 1970s, West Coast vibes Ellis Brooklyn describes it as being designed to evoke. Tinted yellow sunglasses and open buttoned up shirts with gold chains resting in chest hair; a sunset drive along the California coast in the summertime with a breeze coming off the ocean. To me, this fragrance has notes of a bitter negroni cocktail on ice with a thick orange peel, dusty wood shavings, sour pink lemonade, and clean, warm laundry. It's mouthwatering, hot, and comfy all at the same time. I wish it had better sillage, because this will be a go-to summer scent for me. It's exactly the right laid back, subtly sexy, refined masculine vibe I'm looking for in the warmer months.

This is pleasant enough but it's not my style because it is a bit masculine leaning. It starts off very orange type citrus then the oakmoss and waterlily come in. It's pretty fresh. Then it dries down to mostly moss and amber. Edit This one surprisingly grew on me and now I'm addicted. It's the most masculine leaning fragrance I've ever liked but its not exactly very masculine. More like right on the line between feminine dipping slightly into unisex/masculine. Mostly because it has a sweet and citrus quality that is typically feminine but then theres some herbaceous-ness that I would typically associate with men's cologne. But it works! And the combo is so interesting and refreshing.

It’s not often I decide a perfume is FBW after 1-2 trials, but with West it finally happened! This perfume is so fresh, invigorating and uplifting. Even though most would classify it as a summer scent, I found it wears well in winter too (I’m in Australia though so not too cold). It’s a very linear scent, which stays true to its citrus/basil opening throughout. Longevity is pretty good, especially when sprayed on clothes. I still get sweet wafts of clementine 7+ hours later when I move. This scent just makes me feel so happy. Definitely give it a try if the notes are to your liking.

I wore this to an outdoor acoustic gig and I loved it all night. I kept wanting to grab my hair to smell it. Whoever designs these fragrances for Ellis Brooklyn must have a similar form of synaesthesia to me, because I think the color and name represent the scent perfectly. It's like a desert sunset, sort of earthy and mellow and clear. The juicy opening was very brief for me but the middle notes stuck around beautifully for hours. It was a vibe. I can't wait to wear this fragrance more, it seems to romanticize my life in a hippie sort of way and I love that.

At first I was lukewarm about this one, but the more I wear it the more I enjoy it. The citrus at the beginning is a sun-warmed spicy citrus, not a chemical cleaner citrus or a super refreshing sparkling citrus. The spicy ginger mid note is more prominent than the florals which I enjoy. Amber is one of my comfort base notes and the addition of the oakmoss and vetiver give it that little bit of bitter-stink that makes me keep going back for another sniff. I agree this could smell like a dryer sheet as it is a very clean, warm scent.

This was a blind buy but I did check the notes beforehand, and I feel like I won the lottery with this one. It reminds me of an actual honeysuckle flower bush, sweet and delicate spring/summer fragrance. It has a great fresh citrus vibe, all the notes play well together. Love at first sniff & full bottle worthy to me, I really am happy when I wear this. Work safe, travel size is a good bet for blind buy. Lasts around 5 hours, pleasant all the way through. Purchased from: Ulta

Oh. My. Word. I love this. I upon first spray of my travel size thought. Ew. Way too strong. I got a biting orange grapefruit. Then I let it dry down. And oh. My. Gosh. This is beautiful. Bold fresh citrus but not in the annoying lemony biting citrus way. A true sweet soapy sexy citrus. The ginger the oak moss the Lilly all work so well. This is full bottle worthy. Year round wear. I wore in cold weather and it performed beautifully. 6-8+ hours.

West is a photorealistic citrus juice and rind bitter scent. It really reminds me of how my hands smell after I’ve just squeezed grapefruit and lemons with an electric juicer, the juice, oils and empty rinds still on the counter perfuming the air. Well balanced bitterness is not a scent profile I’ve seen much in my perfume explorations, and I think it’s highly underrated. Very happy to have this one in my collection.

I was a bit indifferent to this when first on, but I only tried it in the first place because I have been looking for YEARS for a replacement for Aramis New West, like decades. I figured the name might be slightly aligned so what the heck. A few hours later, hooked, purchasing full size and if my olfactory memory serves me this dry down is as close as you’ll get to New West. Ja-fricken-dore

I could be crazy, but I find this to be perfectly unisex?? I tried to get my boyfriend to wear it, but he's not into citrus. I love this tho. I like citrus, but I don't love citrus. I find citrusy scents to all kind of smell the same. But West is so interesting. Its bitter and slightly spicy but in a sexy way. This is truly addictive and inspired me to try more unisex scents.

West by Ellis Brooklyn takes me back to my childhood when my mom would send me off on my way with my daily chewable vitamin c tablet. I remember savoring that juicy tablet while I walked barefoot across the yard. Dewy grass growing out of moist black earth. Sunrays warming up the day. This perfume smells like those days tasted. Very nostalgic for me. It's a love.

This smells like something my grandma wore in the early 2000s! I love it. I think I mostly love it for nostalgia purposes, it does have good notes though. To me the note that stands out the most is the pear blossom. I really do enjoy this scent, it is classy and clean.

This scent is such a mood booster for me. Admittedly, the initial spray is a bit basil heavy but after that is just a really beautiful bright scent. I love it. And it lasts forever on my clothes.

Brings back nostalgic memories of being a kid and sitting in a warm British launderette back in the 1970s, when people could smoke in them.

this is my 4th purchase, all different ones, I just love everything she makes! The woman has a fantastic nose!!

smells like a delicious fresh juice orange

I was given a bunch of Ellis Brooklyn scents to try and when reading the description I was so excited to try this fragrance. All the notes were right up my alley, I usually love scents that have these same notes and are in the citrus/green spicy family. When I first sprayed this I honestly was a bit shocked at how unisex this fragrance was. It almost leaned a bit male for me but that was a quick thought before I smelled it again and definitely saw how it was a feminine leaning fragrance to most, though I would still classify this on the edge of female leaning and close to the line of being unisex. I was a bit disappointed in this fragrance, which really made me sad because it was the one I was looking forward to the most. Citrus fragrances are my favorite but honestly I didn't get much citrus as I was expecting, it felt like it was more in the background, which is surprising given how the citrus notes that are in this tend to be a bit stronger than other citruses. I definitely got the basil and the oakmoss when I first sprayed it. It wasn't until about 2 hours later when the scent was fading A LOT that I got faint hints of the citrus - I would say it was most likely the lemon, that's what it smelled like to me. That brings me to my next issue, and that is out of all the Ellis Brooklyn scents I have tried, this one lasted the shortest, which was crazy because I did multiple sprays as this was going to be my scent for the day. I really didn't think the silage was that great, and it probably really only lasted about 2 hours before it became so faint that when I reapplied some spray deodorant before heading to the gym I could smell that 1000% better than the perfume when I lifted my arm to put my bag in the locker at the gym. It's not like I sprayed the deodorant with the intention of using it as a perfume, I just sprayed a normal amount. I sprayed West on my wrists, my inner elbow, and my neck - when I put stuff in my locker I should have had ample chance to smell the perfume as my inner elbow/wrist were pretty close to my face and not be over powered by a few deodorant sprays I had put on 20 minutes before (I put it on at my house before heading to the gym so I didn't spray it there in the locker room). I don't get the cleaner vibes other people got, as to me the citrus didn't come forward much at first, and it didn't smell synthetic. To me, this wasn't very citrusy at all on me, for being classified as a citrus fragrance. Overall I was pretty disappointed. MYTH had a stronger citrus smell to me than this and that isn't even supposed to be a citrus heavy fragrance. Overall I don't think this perfume is something I would actually really reach for and I definitely wouldn't purchase a whole bottle myself. It is a nice fragrance, just not what I was expecting or hoping for at all.

Oh my goodness I'm in love! This is amazing! I came into this knowing that I loved Orange & Ginger combined and I found the other notes - especially the basil and vetiver - intriguing as vetiver is one of my favourite notes. No vanilla, no musk ... yeah, I was all in. I put it on and it smelled better than I imagined. To me this doesn't smell "sweet"; it smells like a warm spice that is in more of an upper register (if that makes sense) than the lower registers of usual warm spices that have much more of a base (bass???) presence and less of a top (treble???) presence. It matches my body's chemistry wonderfully. It's soothing and definitely "me" in that it's a bit out of nowhere (I would consider this a more unique scent than a traditional one, especially for something with citrus in it). I just can't stop sniffing it. Anyway, I loved it so much that I bought a full bottle immediately, if that means anything to anyone here. I wish I could describe it better, but it's just itself: an orange ginger that's a bit on the bitter side as a result of the peppery basil note but balanced well with the base notes which, to me smell lovely. No powder or musk at all, not sickeningly sweet on my arm. Zero scent sensitivity. No headaches or sinus issues, just something nice and safe and something that smells amazing! Currently on Sephora, they have an Ellis Brooklyn Library with 8 samples of their fragrances. If anyone is interested in trying without making a blind-buy, try it there. And if you hate the West one, please PM me because I'll take it off your hands and swap with something you would like a lot better - I have lots of samples and minis!! And one more thing ... I couldn't see this working on a man. Not saying it doesn't belong near one, or that it can't be pulled off, but it smells decidedly feminine to me.