Oscar Bamboo

Oscar de la Renta's Bamboo is fabulous! It starts out bitter and sparkling lime. The fragrance reminds me of a mojito in that way. You will also pick up a very smooth and creamy sweetness on the opening note as well. I find the top notes refreshing and invigorating. I think one of the best things about Bamboo is that it smells very 'organic', as if the raw materials were grown, it doesn't smell synthetic at all--and it is such an original fragrance. You won't find a huge cross section of women with this one on. YAY!!! That's a huge plus. Additionally, as I'd noted with some of the other limited editions, there is a trace of the original Oscar de la Renta included just under the surface notes. The effect is a green and dewy fragrance that is hard to resist. I was complimented on how wonderful I smell today by my husband, co-workers, and strangers on the street! I also saw this one on sale at TJX for 19.99, but I'd already purchased mine from a great seller on ebay. I think I'll go back and pick another one up, just in case it gets too hard to find. I'll always want this one in my collection!

On me it's a really unique fragrance. I have never smelled anything like this before. On me at the begging I get bitter and sharp lime, even a little bit masculine, but in a good way. Soon it smooths to creamy florals with a lovely dry down. This is a really fresh and sparkling perfume and will be added to my collection for hot summer time.

I'm just about finished this bottle. When I wear this I feel pretty, it is like a sweet summer breeze.

I have had Bamboo for quite a while now, but I have been somehow hesitant to write a review...because...because I am simply not sure how exactly I feel about this fragrance. I do like it a lot - liked it from the very beginning, but there are times that I don't feel like wearing it, because it just doesn't seem to be interesting enough...and because it doesn't seem to be "complete" somehow... And then there are days (like today), that I apply Bamboo and I am thinking again - oh, but it IS BEAUTIFUL! I agree with the last review, I also get smooth and creamy and refreshing sweetness in the opening and somehow "organic" cleanness, but a moment later I also get a bit of an aromatic greenery (perhaps the bamboo. And it is quite different than any other greenery I have ever smelled. Very pleasant and unique)and some flowers. At the very beginning there is a short and very quiet entry of something citrusy (perhaps that is the lime) and I keep thinking that I would just need a little bit more of this note! In this regard I also agree with the girls who say there is something missing in here and for me this is it - the sharpness or sourness - some kind of a high note and so I also (like one of the girls) keep sniffing it and although somehow I can't get enough, because I really, really enjoy it, I am also hoping for more of the lime...(but sadly that is not coming). Since I seem to re-write other peoples' thoughts today, here is one more: it indeed creates the impression of being at a pond or lake - definitely fresh, still water. Later on the musk really is soft, timid and pretty. Today I am in love with Bamboo, that is for sure.

The lime starts out bitter and fresh, just like the little limes I buy here at the farmerś market-this is impressive-a perfume representing a fruit so clearly-with no sugar added! The lime fades momentarily and does not stay with the composition. The bamboo is so light, itś only a whisper. The mimose is what really takes charge in this perfume. Itś so genuine, simple, full, and robust, just wonderful; adding strength and vitality to this perfume, also heightening the feeling of nature this perfume purveys. The water lily is a great note; it blends with and accentuates the mimose. The water lily really helps create a thin, colorless, watery, sensation with the bamboo, then combining the mimose- it is as if you have a pond with flowers in bloom all around. The musk is soft and timid; just there to have a nice base for all the notes. I have tested other Acquatics and Floral Acquatics and none could match the sense of water...as this one does!