Beautiful Love

Today, I fell in love with this fragrance, but it wasn't love at first sight, nor hot and sweaty passion, but more like falling in love with my "nice guy" best friend, who's always been there.... This perfume was a gift from my ex. He was always pushing me to wear big 80s florals - his favorites being red door and beautiful. I'm a fan of big florals, but I just didn't like this one. I wore it for him, every now and then, but it was sharp and loud, like wearing bug spray to me. After we broke up, I put this in a box along with all the other gifts he gave me and forgot about it. I discovered it again today and put it on. Wow, I am completely in love. Maybe it's the weather, maybe my skin chemistry changed, who knows, but now it's absolutely gorgeous and creamy and beautiful on me. When he gave it to me, I used to wear Fracas and Carnal Flower all the time. Comparing these white florals to wedding dresses, I would say that wearing Fracas is like wearing a vintage 1930s silk "siren" dress, the kind with a fitted waist and body hugging draping. Wearing Carnal Flower is like wearing an artsy edgy wedding dress, like a Gaultier design. Wearing Beautiful Love is like wearing a Vera Wang. Simple, feminine, timeless, youthful, and elegant. It's the dress that everyone would love and remember well into your 25th anniversary. The "nice" classic dress that you originally tried on but overlooked. Now you see that it highlights your best features. I love this scent and I'm happy it waited for me!!

It opened with lovely green flowers, I think it's freesia which dominates to me at the opening. I do feel the sweetness of gardenia and mango. For me, as I do love floral's very much and tuberose is one of my most loved notes, I must say I really like this. The flowers work perfectly together and reminds me of very beautiful garden, filled with bunch of amazing flowers. I think it's really feminine, romantic and girly, because of the fruits which can be found here, but all in all this is a pleasure to my nose and my skin. This was a lovely surprise from another member who put this in our sample swap. What I love the most is that at the heart phase the earthy violet appears, so it makes everything even more perfect as I love violet. Ahh, I can't even judge this. Gimme tuberose and/or violet and I'm hooked for life. Lovely surprise this is.

Best of the 80s here but in a modern fragrance. A mix of the orignial Beautiful with some more of the 80s - Tuberose reminiscent of Giorgio Beverley Hills mixed with some greens, and coconutty peach gardenia (gardenia is coconut to me) syrupy but classy, sweet and slightly sour. Earthy patchouli and pepper gives it just that edge to kill the sweetness. Why was this discontinued. Hoarding my last third of a 30ml bottle now afraid to use it!

Imagine the soft scent of flowers dancing on air during a gentle spring rain. Love it, love it, love it! One of my favorites. Also, I sprayed it inside my bra cups two days ago, and it's still going lovely. (However, if you don't like florals, you won't like this one I suppose.)

This is a amazing every time when I smell this fragrance I feel full with love reminds me of cardinia bosssom in after raining. after 1 Hours, I smell edible jasmine.with very to kind sweetness what a great Positive fragrance so much in love on this smell.

I am crazy about this perfume I put it on my hand when i drink coffee So i can smell it very clear and live in my world peacfully My father bought it for me in 1997 then i kept buying it until now.. *2006.. wrong year

It was my signature when I was at college, so beautiful!! The name fits perfectly the scent. Ah, and it's also very unique. Everybody recognised me by this scent!

Dry down is the most beautiful and last forever, I’m not keen on the opening but to put up with opening to have that dry down is worth it.

Very, very floral. I love wearing this in spring time as it reminds me of fresh bouquets of flowers. It’s unusual for me to like such an intensely floral fragrance but I find this different than the run of the mill florals. The tuberose really sings in this one and keeps it interesting, it reminds me a little of Michael Korrs edp which is also rich in tuberose, but this one doesn’t give off that banana-like smell. At first spritz this is really quite potent and a little overpowering for me but after 5 minutes it settles down lovely and lasts all day. Unfortunately it’s discontinued now but I occasionally see it on eBay etc for anyone still interested in trying this.

It's a very likeable fragrance, very easy to wear by most women. I can totally see why it was marketed as a fragrance for your wedding day, it's very clean, pure and loveable and it awakens your inner sweetness. This fragrance worked well for me, I enjoyed wearing it especially during spring and early fall, but I didn't find anything very special about it. I didn't try to purchase it again.

It's beautiful but obnoxious - it hangs around for hours and hours, intruding into everything you do. It smells like a bouquet of flowers, and reminiscent of the late 80s/early 90s in my opinion. After having it on my skin for so long I realized I liked it - a lot. Very floral and romantic.

Soapy white flowers. It's a pleasant smell, but there's nothing particularly unique or must-have about it. It also has a tendency to give me a bit of a headache. The sillage is good though, and the scent is clean and wearable.

I don't usually like floral scents but this has a big kick of something really clean, citrusy and fesh that makes me keep sniffing it! This is my second favourite Estee Lauder fragrange after SENSUOUS - which is lush!

I like this perfume but I wear it very sparingly. There's something cloying about it that gives me a wicked headache if I apply too much. I wonder if it could be the Gardenia.

my tinnager ages perfume ;)14 yrs old til 17:) brought first love with a beautiful angly soul of it!

ALL I have to say about this perfume is that is very very strong and floral

I recived this as a gift. I didn't like it. This is a VERY FLORAL scent which are not my favorite apparently. I do like tuberose but it is just way too strong of a note in this bottle. Made my tummy sick, to put it nicely. I have it away. I picture a young 20 something rich girl wear this on her casual summer days at the beach.

This is a wowzer of a floral. I gave my bottle away to my girlfriend. I unfortunately get a headache when I wear certain scents. I do think it is a great summer scent. If you like this, try Summer Hill by Crabtree and Eyveln or White Diamonds Brilliant, or Elizabeth Arden's Splendor.

If you ever known Enchanter shampoo/bodywash, this is it. I used to love that bodywash coz it smells like perfume but when I own that perfume I don't like it. Feel like an old lady living in 90's.

A successful and worthy flanker to the original Beautiful. Just like that one this is an all floral fragrance. If you don't like flowers you can forget about it. This is a delicious sweet floral perfume for women who appreciate flowers. Can you imagine living on a planet devoid of flowers? So this fragrance starts off smelling floral right away. Magnolia! Yes! My favorite flower opens the show. There is a sweet mango as well. The scent is sweet but not cloying. The other flowers include: violet, tuberose, carnation, rose, jasmine Tiare and heliotrope. For whatever reason these flowers are a winning combination. Smells so good when put together. My 3 favorite flowers are in this perfume: magnolia, rose and Tiare. The result is luxurious lush and decadent but being a modern take on the first one less intense and more subtle. In fact I find myself reapplying and dousing myself with it many times throughout the day because I want to keep smelling this scent which is soft and barely detectable and has a short life. I do love it very much. It's a spring time floral fragrance for women who want to smell good. The dry down is also as good as the other moments in this perfume. It smells of vanilla (Tonka bean is vanilla) and of heliotrope as well as oak moss. However this does not wear like a traditional chypre. It's not woodsy enough. It's flowers for days. Love my flowers. Love my Estee Lauder Beautiful Love.

I bought this version in 2014 in the US. when I now spritz it on, and just a few minutes ago, I could detect Tuberose, White Flowers, a lot of Greenness. I also seemed to detect Magnolia, Marigold and Heliotrope. it is nothing for me to NOT smell Roses if they are present but here that was the case. seeing the Ivy I think of the Greenness. the Tuberose is obvious but she is very gentle. she is a Flanker of the Original yet with huge differences. she is Lighter, Airier, with more space and less 1980s denseness. now I can appreciate all that. I thought to smell Melon but that shall be the Mango. I am not so good in Fruit-sniffing. unless Apricots, Peaches and Plums are in there. I deliberately sniffed for Carnation and as with the Rose I thought 'no it isn't there'. but how personal perfumial experience is becomes apparent with a Lady reviewer below, who senses this perfume 'sweeter' as the O.G. I smell precisely less sweetness and more 'watery' and 'green' floweriness. probably they had as a Brief to make the Original less Asphyxiative. which precisely I love (the Choking in 1980s perfumes). but it keeps interesting to compare. it is obvious I am not a 'Nez', a person with a perfumers nose. I am glad it sits in my collection.

It is very difficult to compare the original Beautiful to Beautiful Love because they are both so different. Beautiful Love is more of a fruity floral whereas the original is strictly floral. The sales assistant told me that this fragrance is the younger alternative to the original, which I'd have to agree with. This fragrance is surprisingly pretty and nicely balanced. It may be a little overpowering initially with its fruity notes, but the drydown is absolutely exquisite. It becomes a soft and feminine blend of tuberose, jasmine and rose. The tuberose gives this fragrance that tropical and coconutty like scent. This fragrance actually makes me feel quite happy when I wear it. It's not like anything that I usually wear; it's not overpowering, sexy or daring. Instead it's more of a sweet and romantic type of scent. It could quite possibly be the signature fragrance for falling in love. The lasting power is fantastic and unlike most florals, this scent won't leave you smelling musty at the end of the day.

I absolutely love this perfume!it's my favorite floral fragrance at the moment.though if you don't like pure,intoxicating white flowers,this can become too strong for you. going to the notes,I can't say which flower I smell the most,but I'm sure there are also something fresh like peach or cucumber here(it can be ivy). I let it remain,when it becomes even more floral.I distinguish tuberose,that's why it reminds me velvet Tuberose by B&B works and I'm surprised by the common notes!magnolia,freesia,tuberose,cashmere wood,jasmine.but velvet tuberose is juicier,though beautiful love is more long lasting.what I don't like is osmanthus.there's also something aquatic,something like neroli,though it's very faint. it's very romantic,perfect for the wedding and perfect for sprng.the silage is very good.whenever I'm wearing it everybody around me can feel it and people rarely don't like it.

This is a very simple fragrance. It is soapy, woody and floral. If you are overwhelmed with huge florals like Poeme, White Shoulders etc, you can try this. Its a softer, woodier and warmer take on the original Estee Lauder Beautiful, but of course a few unique & beautiful notes are lacking compared to the original, but that is part of the compromise. This one is not that much headache inducing after a very few minutes of wearing. Very long lasting, as I had sprayed both my wrists 8 hours ago and it is still present but has dried to a woody base. If you prefer a slightly younger version of an oldie goldie scent, this one is it.

Strictly feminine, classic, elegant and somehow mature could be the words to describe EL's Beautiful Love. This is a sharp, sweet, an extremely flowery fragrance centered around tuberose, jasmine and other white flowers. Indeed it's a whole bouquet of flowers with a slight spicy edge to it. Beautiful Love could be a tropical version of classic Beautiful; but tropical not in a coconuty-salty way. Rather I mean the warm, creamy, tuberose effect. I think this fragrance is ideal for spring and summer. But it's better be applied with a light hand; otherwise it's capable of inducing a terrible headache.

A year ago I bought this by mistake, meaning to get Beautiful. I've used hardly any, because it's so weak and fleeting. I keep trying it and giving up, it lasts about 10 minutes tops (EDP) with a light tuberose scent that Kim Kardashian, not a power perfume by any means, would knock spots off. It's not that its a close perfume, that would be acceptable, but Beautiful Love just vanishes, like raindrops in sand. I can't understand what Lauder was thinking, unless they were chasing that modern will o the wisp of "The Lite Version". I feel ripped off, because it's a waste of space.

I have always loved Beautiful & so I had to try this as soon as it came out.It is such a gorgeous scent & I actually think I like it even more then the original.It is very feminine & I love how they added the fruity sweetness in with this gorgeous floral.I have always wanted this but for some reason I have yet to buy it???It is definitely next on my list though.I am getting tired of dousing myself with it every time I hit a department store...I need to have my own so I can actually test other scents when I go shopping for once "LOL"

My boss gave this to me as a Christmas present about a year ago. I like Estee Lauder perfumes, but this one does not work on me. No matter how much or how little I spray on, it is still quite overpowering...! There is something sharp and annoying. It is like a loud noise you cannot escape from...(like road work outside your office)... Although, I like the original Beautiful fragrance, this one is not for me to wear...! Now I use it as a air freshener ....and for this, it works quite well....:-)

I can feel Beautiful-love warm creamy side and i love it! Is soft, powerful, with good powerlasting. I like the way beautiful-love works the violet, mango and tuberose combination. The Patchouli, sandalwood and vetiver notes are usually very strong, but don't worry cuz beautiful-love makes the flowers reign from the beginning until the end of the scent. Beautiful-love is much less aggressive than her opulent mother Beautiful. this two fragrance have almost nothing in common..

Another one of my favorite Estee Lauder scents. I am not sure if the Beautiful Love has been around long enough to be considered a classic yet, but to me it is. I love the floral notes that continue to rise to the surface even hours after first applying. This perfume last forever on me, even through the night. I enjoy that in any great perfume. I hope this scent remains in the E.L. Beautiful series and I hope they do not change the ingredients down the road.

In Texas we have a tree called a mimosa tree and it has flower blooms all over it and it smells incredibly good. So yesterday I finally got to smell Love and I am shocked to find that there isn't a mimosa note in this. Either way, this is the youngest smell from the Beautiful flankers. Modern Muse is still a better scent for younger ladies though. Love is almost on the verge of smelling generic. (meaning that there is other perfumes that smell just like it)

Lovely flanker. I'm not sure how it smelled on me, but out of the bottle it was warm and enchanting. A floral bouquet like the original with what smelled like a hint of melon and something sweeter than the original. So well done. Ten years ago or so when I tested it the scent was strong, long lasting, and easily available. I would recommend the original, for sure, and would love to smell it again to find if it would agree with my chemistry! <3

There is an apparent naivety in this perfume I find very charming indeed! It manages to smell more like a flower and less like a composition, it is spontaneous and fresh! I can see it working great in the summer and spring, it's more like a floral "Kenzo Homme" but not as ingenious. Its prominent sharpness and irony can safely be interpreted as "youth in a bottle". Try it!

I do like this perfume, I have used half the bottle however some days I am just not sure about it?!?!?! it lingers on your clothes for days, if you put a coat in the wardrobe and take it out a week later beautiful love is still there! its a perfume I wear depending on my mood, a warm floral that is a modern twit on the classic beautiful.

This works far better on my skin than the mother scent, which doesn't give my anything from its 'beautiful' roses only some wizened buds. I like it because the tuberose isn't too strong in it (could cause headache)and my favorite patchouli gets also a role in the orchester. Sillage is good, longevity appr. 5 hours (could be better)

A very traditional ladies floral perfume. Not quite as pretty as the original Beautiful but still a really nice perfume. Not for kids, it's more like what perfume used to be years ago. If you want a fruity-floral then this isn't for you. I think this would be a nice Mother's day gift or for someone who likes a classic perfume.

this is one of my favorite perfumes..there is none like it..it reminds me of my grandma,my mother and all my aunts..this might as well be a family heirloom..because all my family gatherings are intertwined with this scent..very rich..lasts really long..and really befits to be called beautiful..

This is very pretty. I'm usually not a fan of florals, but I do like this one. The gardenia really comes through for me, as well as the mango which mellows out and lets the florals take lead.

My sister present from her heart. I love this fragrance because the softness and the versatility on me, I can wear it during the day and at night. Very feminine and delicious. I love it!

It's a very nice fragrance though I prefer Estee over Beautiful. There's some note which might be a little bit too much though many people find this perfume pleasant.

I love this one, never really owned it, but gave it away as a present after a duty free buy. So sweet, so special, and the word says it all: beautiful.

Duitable for those wholike flowery strong scent, didnt really like it that i sold it off to a friednt.gave me a headache at the end of the day

Finally, a perfume that my husband and I can both agree on! I usually pick something he can't stand, but this is working nicely.

INCREDIBLY intense! The original "Beautiful" multiplied times ten. Great blending of notes. A true original.

@Adrian_jacobs 1984 What are you talking about? Too much alkohol, or...? :P

I used to love it. I tried days ago...awful reformulation .