White Gardenia

I remember buying it as I entered a mall after being outside on a hot, sultry day. I didn't want to smell of sweat as I was meeting an old classmate. It did the job, I didn't smell bad. However, it was a very one dimensional smell and ended up being a gym perfume.

To me this smells EXACTLY like Always dailies scented panty liners. The ones available to purchase in the UK. (This statement is not intended as an insult! This is a genuine observation!) So, if you prefer to "try before you buy", go ahead and sniff some Always dailies scented panty liners. If you like the scent, you're sure to enjoy White Gardenia by The Body Shop!

This is quite nice but not extraordinary. It has quite an alcoholic start and flies away soon too, but if you are looking for an inexpensive and simple, gentle white gardenia scent, this is an option.

White Gardenia is very old smelling. It's a pretty heavy floral and is very musky.

Pushing the constricted boundaries of my gardenia knowledge even further, and availing myself of my remaining free ankle, I decided to try out my new bottle of The Body Shop WHITE GARDENIA, a recent blind buy now on clearance for all of $7. Compared to the GARDENIA of Penhaligon or Chanel, and also MARC JACOBS, TBS WHITE GARDENIA actually smells like a fruity floral to me. I do smell gardenia, but I also smell the nearly ubiquitous fruity-floral aura so frequently found in mass-marketed perfumes for people who in their modesty and humility don fragrance solely in order "to smell good". I do not know why, at least based on the notes, WHITE GARDENIA smells like a fruity floral. Is lotus sweet? It certainly appears that some unnamed mystery fruits may be included along with the bergamot--a red berry or two, perhaps? WHITE GARDENIA is an acceptable fruity white floral, but for gardenias I still prefer MARC JACOBS. I also like KAI. But it's nice that we have so many choices, n'est-ce pas? Who knows, perhaps one day in the future it will be possible to earn a Ph.D. in the phenomenologically olfactory study of gardenia.