Pure White Linen Light Breeze

PREMISE: This is a very beautiful scent even though the original White Linen has nothing to do with this incarnation. MY REVIEW: It's quite long lasting for its being a sort of eau fraiche, for its being a summer scent. This is certainly good news, enough with those cologne lasting the time of the liquid drying on your skin. I love the citrus opening, very merry in my opinion, very lively, not much original perhaps, but very nicely accomplished as you would expect from Estée Lauder. Soon it develops in a path of flowers, not very complex (none of Pure White Linen's business, though; its aim is another) but refreshingly beautiful. It is a wonderful scent that I adore not only in summer but even now, early autumn. A THOUGHT: I find Pure White Linen very similar to Eau de Givenchy, the much underrated Eau de Givenchy. If you smell PWL and EdG wrist to wrist you will see that the differences between the two are very tiny. I had a smile thinking of the reviews that Luca Turin wrote for PWL and EdG: the first awarded with a flattering note and four stars, the latter with a mere two star evaluation and a not so nice review. I love them both and do not find EdG so mean. CONCLUSION: Do not rely on others' authoritative (or supposed so) final words, TRUST YOUR NOSE!!!

I have all 3 of these Pure white Linen and the flankers (Coral and Light Breeze) and I just don't know which one I love the most. Well not exactly true -the Coral is my least fav of a great trio, but still I would take that one over many other different brands. Of the Pure white and Light Breeze - they both are in my top 20 favs that I own. Love them. Fresh, clean good quality ingredients. These particular scents get compliments from people around me. They are not harsh or try to be attention seeking perfumes, but still have good sillage and longevity. Yes, beautiful for Spring and Summer, but of course you can wear these anytime. The lighter fresh perfumes CAN be worn in winter, but conversely, heavy amber gourmands and the like, are more difficult to wear in the summer. Beautiful scents!

This is my favorite summer fragrance of all time and I cannot find anything to replace it - though I have tried! the combination of notes, so well blended as all EL frags are, is refreshing without being overly citrus or floral, just a modern masterpiece out of the flanker trilogy, this one being the star. I hope they bring this back someday because I cannot afford $350 for a 3.4 oz bottle. Or maybe the lesson is that if you find something you love this much then you better stock up on it!

This used to be my signature scent until it was discontinued. I ADORE this scent and still miss it very much. It was a beautiful combination of citrus, floral and honey. I find it disheartening that the nose behind this masterpiece is not mentioned here. I am contacting Estee Lauder's Gone But Not Forgotten department to see if I can obtain the original formulation of this wonderful fragrance.

I received this scent for mother's day & I really love it. It's light, bright & fresh but not screechy or harsh. It's very refreshing when first sprayed & I really like the woody/mimosa/honey longer term dry down. It's great for summer! I'll be taking this on holiday with me. It's really not like the other scents in the pure white linen line at all, I love this & don't like those.

This is one of my favorite summer fragrance for several years, until it was gone! Can any one knows the reason? So clean and fresh. I don ́t usually like the scent of too many fruits or flowers, but this combination was just perfect. Love the scent of Neroli and the Wood base notes. Just Loved it. Very sad that Estée Lauder decided to discontinued...

This is just wonderful. New favourite. Citrusy at the beggining and then Floral. Very femenine. I find it a bit sweeter than the original pure white linen, but not as powdery. Hours after the first spray you could also smell a delicate hint of honey. Definetely a safe buy.

Fresh and floral fragrance with citrus notes and... some kind of magic... It's like the smell of a summer morning. Love it very much!

Very fresh and uplifting. I like to wear in the summer as an everyday perfume. Brings out such a happy and fresh feeling!

Have a hard choice between this, Versace Versense and green choice Chanel. Finally selected this one and just love it!!!

first time i sprayed it onto my skin, i hate the smell but after few hours the smell turned so dang good.

this has been and will forever be the best fragrance estee lauder have ever made for spring and summer

Very nice light green scent. Very elegant, very Estée Lauder! I love the honey in it!

very fresh and elegant...forgive me for my apt statement: it smells very expensive

I love this scent. Very fresh, clean and citrusy. Perfect for hot summer days.

Category: Citrusy, floral, soapy Notes: Sprays on a tangy orange and bergamot. Quickly develops into a lovely cacophony of yellow and white florals, to me the neroli and rose stand out the most. Out of the base notes I'm only getting cedar, fresh and a tad masculine. It settles in a mix of distinct rose, cedar and citrus. Vibe: Clean clothes hanging on a laundry line on a hot summer's day. Beachfront villa. Stockholm archipelago. Idylle. Shower fresh. Citrus trees. Green tea. Greecian hills. White sheets. Sillage: 4.5/10. As expected, the sillage is just moderate, if not on the weaker side. You have to get up real close and personal to catch whiffs of this one, that being said it's not a skin scent - it's very much noticable. Longevity: 6.5/10. Decent longevity, will last you at least a couple of hours. Wear: Day or night, but a definite spring/summer scent. Overall rating: 7/10. Very citrusy, mildly floral - overall super fresh, soapy and clean but I must say a little generic. If you love this discontinued scent I highly recommend checking out Giorgio Armani’s Acqua di Gioia as I personally find them to be very similar, although this is a little heavier and doesn't last as long. I prefer Acqua di Gioia because of its lighter, more aquatic feel, but similarly to my review of that, PWL Light Breeze is a wonderful scent that just isn't for me. Who would wear it?: Temperance Brennan in Bones. Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Initially, I thought this was yet another fragrance similar to the original White Linen. But no, it is not. This opens up citrusy and slightly synthetic, which gave me a mild headache. The citrus notes are dominant in this scent but slowly I could smell the whiffs of tea, lime blossom, osmanthus, honey (it's faint here but keeps the scent "rounded" like honey water) and cedar. Actually, if you smelt this carefully you should be able to pick out all the notes. The only similarity I can find this with the original white linen is probably some undisclosed synthetic note that I find across all Estee Lauder's fragrances. Maybe it's a touch of the aldehydes but I can't be certain. In all, I think this fragrance has all the notes that I find agreeable - citruses, tea, honey, a touch of woodiness. I like it, but perhaps would not invest in a bottle because of the synthetic note that made me queasy and the fact that my no. 1 citrusy tea fragrance is L'Occitane's The Vert.

I have been looking for the perfect fresh summer morning scent and finally have found all the right things in this scent. It's incredibly fresh, weightless, transparent, airy, unobtrusive, subtle scent. Adore the citrus fresh opening, which turns into a soft flower smell. It also beautifully smells like tea, one of not many truly beautiful tea scents. It makes me feel like caught in a gentle summer breeze on the seaside in Italy. Also I have noticed that my mood lifts noticeably after I put it on in the morning, which is a wonderful sign. Pure White Linen includes Darjeeling tea, bergamot, orange zest, grapefruit, watery kumquat, freesia, osmanthus, linden, rose, teak wood, cedar, soft skin accord and acacia honey. It's a great scent, however I dislike very bad staying power, which is often the case with fresh scents. I also love the pretty clean bottle, I find its minimalistic design very appealing. Wouldn't repurchase because of the quality.

I wonder if there is a category of citrus florals. Because this is certainly one. Does anyone remember Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea? I think it's still around. Anyway, this is reminiscent of that scent. It has that manufactured for perfumery 'green tea accord.' Real green tea, diverse as it is, does not smell like the green tea of perfumes and candles. This isn't bad, there's just a difference. Anyway, PWLLB is a very fresh, clean, happy, and breezy scent, as others have stated. It opens very brightly citrusy, and then just citrusy, and stays there for awhile. The drydown is floral on me. I would not call this 'sexy' by any means, but it is a very happy scent for me. You could wear it anywhere for any daytime occasion. It has good longevity, lasting an upwards of 8 hours before it's done.

Just got this yesterday. The first hour or so there is a disturbingly strong note of honey (or something else that is quite sickly sweet & sticky) but then that goes away and it's just clean and fresh. Much like your white linens, drying out in the breeze :) I don't know why, but this very much brings to mind Clinique Happy Heart. The scent is not the same and the notes are nowhere near each other, but the style seems very much alike. Fresh, but with a sweetish sicklyish tone in there somewhere.