Boudoir

I found out they had brought this back last week by a fluke. I was on the Westwood site looking at bags and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this perfume in stock. For the last several years, I have been emailing Westwood at least once a year begging them to bring back Boudoir. I wrote to them in 2025 to tell them of my desperation to be reunited with the greatest perfume ever put into production—they must've finally listened to me! Hurrah! I saw the perfume online and noticed that it was now classed as a unisex fragrance. They had the 50ml and 30ml in stock but, before I purchased, I reached out to VW and asked: is it the same as the original? They told me they had updated it for a 2026 version and it was slightly different. I went back online the next day to get the 50ml, but it was all gone; there was only the 30ml left, though they do have 50ml stock in the flagship store. I ordered my perfume on Friday afternoon and was on tenterhooks until they dispatched it. They don't dispatch over the weekend, so I was twiddling my thumbs until Monday morning when it was posted first thing. I had it by Tuesday. I sat with the box unopened for at least an hour. I wanted to save the unboxing until all my chores were done so I could savour the moment. When I finally opened that lid and smelled the spray top, I melted! Straight away, the top note was old Boudoir. I didn't doubt for a second that it would smell any different—but I was wrong. My Review On the first spray, the iconic 1998 Boudoir was there in all its glory. I thought to myself, "Why are all the reviewers saying this is so different?" This smells exactly like the original." Well, I was wrong and right at the same time. While the original fragrance was definitely the top player, the middle layer shocked me. I kid you not, I got a heavy fecal smell—a skanky, dirty layer. I was quite disgusted for a moment, but then it hit me: a carnal smell, the kind you only get when you have been intimate with someone, the most intimate you can get with a man and a women. My heart started beating! I’m not joking; my body went into shock after I sprayed her. I got a surge of adrenaline and endorphins that stopped me in my tracks. Even though the perfume is very different, the top layer is purely old Boudoir. I missed her so much; I'm so grateful she has been brought back. I literally got emotional—really emotional—thinking of all the times I missed her; all the times she wasn't with me during my walk, my talk, my memories, and my story. My life hasn't been the same during these last seven years without her. I missed you so intensely, how could I not just adore this? That skanky smell I love is pure animalic magic. There is a slight greenery, though I'm not getting this as prolifically as other people. The carnation is there; I am a carnation lover, so I really do smell it. Once the middle and base notes settle, I just smell the original Boudoir. I sprayed her when I got her, I sprayed her when I went out to see how it would react on my body throughout the day, and I sprayed her before bed. I could still smell her the next morning, so the longevity is there. This is glorious. This is more than glorious. This is the essence of the human body in every single way: sweat, blood, tears, sex, lust, and love all rolled into one. This is sexy as hell. I’m even questioning if I like this more than the original. "Bravo to the perfumer! Bravo to the team at VW for bringing this back and taking the risk of updating this perfume. You did not alienate me for one second—and I am the self-proclaimed number one Vivienne Westwood Boudoir wearer of all time!" I would like to just add I do prefer the original bottle and the lid, the lid does now feel a bit cheap this time, this is my only critique and I am being very picky

This is the best perfume ever to me, as far as quality and personable enjoyment goes, it's an invigorating life-giving, iridescent journey of nature's best notes, inhaled and truly relaxing when first sprayed.This is panic attack medicine 4 me The biggest bouquet of flowers to start out with Beautiful and perfect and the widest array of flowers in just about any other perfume in existence surely.with none sticking out too much for what it is. After most of the other notes settle down you get the best iris I have ever smelled, definitely blows designers out of the water because it blends in a way that makes it stick out all.on its own in a fresh way , which is so unique beginning the dry down a slight undertone of the opening flowers remain but 85% of the smell is just that bright full iris with also even a tiny bit of the amber peaking through as well. Such a great smell, this smell WILL last on clothes for multiple days and it will go strong for two whole days easily The late dry down begins around maybe 7-9 hour range and then most of the remnants of the top notes and all other fresh flowers have gone and the amber will have started to amp.uo now with vanilla having been introduced and during this period they.will become alot stronger with most of the remaining freshness being subdued. The vanilla is a medium but super natural vanilla that provides a rich base along with a top quality dense deeper amber to go along with it. This is the most mature phase of boudoir with the base having Come out This will last form that roughly 7 hour mark all the way until it's gone It will also strongly smell of this lovely comforting sweet but fresh strong iris and flowers for the rest of the day and the day after The days after it the amber just becomes better and better with the vanilla slightly fading and the iris as well Amazing best favorite iris scent to ever exist, maybe the best amber vanilla as well come to think of it And you certainly can't beat that picture of a 90s English town home with a garden of flowers and that flow through your mind at first sniff Then your host opens the green house of pure iris overpowering the whole back yard. eventually, you two go from the garden into the kitchen where the window is still open to the garden area and are about to make a cake when you accidentally tip over a giant jug of pure vanilla extract without noticing, that slowly spills out and then the kitchen smells like this for days This is addicting no matter who you are, This is a feminine smelling perfume This does have a toilette smelling powder smell but I got used to it and don't even smell it anymore hardly , it dies down significantly throughout the drydown to nothing after late drydown I now know that this doesn't have the lipstick vibe as much as the other maybe from lack of Choco,.type of iris and freshness of this, which is also would make the other smell more like a heavier product filled makeup bag smell rather that the light toilette powder smell here, much better here having compared the two. This is an invigorating rush of nature's beauty Comfort Joy Love Romance Gourmand it's a warm mature full bodied fragrance Truly eternal strength 10/10 for its category

The bottle with the Vivienne Westwood logo cross on the saturn planet thing as the top/stopper attracted me to this perfume. I bought it off Amazon as a blind buy but was anticipating a modern Oriental. I was absolutely enchanted. This is like a 1990s version of Dana's Tabu. This is only for us vintage fans. As it opens, I smell cinnamon and vanilla. This is a very early gourmand scent that has spices on the forefront. Make no mistake. This is a sexy spicy sultry scent. The cinnamon, the dark vanilla, the patchouli, the tobacco, the incense, the sandalwood. If you like notes like this throw into one perfume you'll love it. This is supposed to have aldehyde top notes but I don't smell them and after a couple of years of experiencing aldehydes I am not getting any. This has a spicy top with a vague soft floral heart. There is a yellow floral in this in the heart and white floral. I can't really specify any distinct stand out flowers. There is spiced up carnation, maybe a white soft jasmine, something yellow which I guess is the marigold. But this is not a sweet little sexy pretty or demure womanly floral. This is a sex bomb. The spices and the dry down of woods, smoke, vanilla and tobacco give it a peppery root beer kind of seductive va va va voom flair. This does smell like root beer but it's also got other stuff going on. There is something that feels like skin like flesh like unwashed but sexy skin. It's a fuck me perfume. Smells like having had sex. This is a boudoir alright, the boudoir of a French courtesan who has a lot of clients that give her everything she wants because she has a rockin hot body and sex skills. This is a fragrance for Satine from Moulin Rouge, or goes with the Manet painting Olympia. Goes with the Lady Marmalade oldie song. "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" "Would you like to sleep with me?". The aroma is intoxicating. Just in heaven smelling it. One spray is enough but two in the right spots even better - the neck the breasts. It's got very good sillage and lasting power. I love all the notes in this even the ones I can't smell. The ones I smell are just giving me nosegasms. I love the cinnamon, the vanilla, the tobacco, the sandalwood. This is a warm spicy scent and sexy as fuck. The bottles selling on Amazon are very good quality although they are reformulations. The original has a darker brownish liquid and not pink. This is a very good fall and winter scent but it's not really something to wear out in public. It's like for seducing your man indoors. Fabulous fragrance.

My real love..Shared Boudoir with my mommy and it's really the only one like no others..soo distinctive and original,unique and powerful.Let me say from the start, clear and loud and final that there's absolutely no reformulation issue, it has never been, don't know how the hype was invented but I have 2 75 ml bottles of the old brown juice and several new items, kept purchasing Boudoir constantly in time and must say it's the same identical strong animal floral indolic beast from the start.It's well known that the only thing that has been changed after a short time from the launch was the tipe of natural vanille used in the beginning just because the oxidation provoked the change of color, but it's well written even on the box that this caused no change in the quality of the perfume formulation.. Anyway..This fume started something on it's own..the animalic floral even the most macho man can wear, nonetheless remains the epytome of femininity..it's sexiness transcends the gender rules and the effect is the same on a man as on a woman..just like Vivienne fashion..imagine boudoir as the most feminine dirty underwear item, so apparent the skank factor on my skin, that can be worn by the most masculine of the male testimonial ,as often in Vivienne campains, and the effect is not a travesty party but a sort of efforting arousal response given by the "don't know why but it works so well" of the situation. Such a rich mix of flowers, where the Marigold is the queen, with the rose and every pink thing comes to your mind, so apt the color of the juice and the box actually.But the base of Boudoir is deep honey Marigold Yellow, urine like indolic but no way repulsive, can't deny the skank element is there anyway.Something pungent and effervescent is present for a long long time in the mix, like Champagne bubbles and the aldehydes keep kicking strong forever.It never rests really and in the final part after about 8 hours of beautiful strong and powerful delight the composition settles in the most velvety musky scent of the hot skin after a deep workout, aftersweat effect, soo sexy because some flower petal is always there, wet and raunchy ,and this phase on my skin stays like this until the morning after..Definetely Boudoir is my real love and will Always be, even if my signature is another perfume..Boudoir is the real me that Always reach the surface of every shelter..I'am a man by the way;.

Boudoir is wild sex. It's the smell of wild sex. Sweat, heat, excitement. In that small time slot that ended up being the Memento Mori of perfumery (1998/2005) McQueen and Vivienne Westwood gave us two masterpieces, they travelled to the past and brought back the scent of a turn-of-the-century french brothel. They said to hell with what's in style now (those were the days of Cool Water, Eternity, cK One and many more), gave the world the middle finger and said “let’s teach them what it is to be a trendsetter”. And they really were. Good old Kingdom I haven't smelled in ages; very out of reach now, but Boudoir still stands out today like a fly in a glass of milk. And it continues to be groundbreaking, it goes against trends and it doesn’t give a fuck. And some of that sexy sweaty smell stays on skin for hours and hours after applying it. Boudoir is spicy and powdery carnations at the start; the good Madame from the brothel mentioned above bathed with Maja soap. After an application of body powder, some cheap perfume full of daffodils, roses, jasmine, civet, orange blossom... underwear is redundant. After a joint to get in the mood, lying on the bed, naked with her exuberant curves visible, her lover arrives. A muscular, little rough stud. He wears an oil with the essence of herbs; lavender, rosemary, thyme, lemon and some animal notes. Their sex session will last as long as their bodies can handle. The sweat of both is mixed with their perfume and the smoke from the joint that they share at the end. The Kama sutra has just inaugurated a new chapter. I love it, in case there is any doubt. It makes you blush if you start to think and fantasize while wearing it. But if you know how to tame it, then there’s no need to fantasize; you are going to live your wildest dreams. Like very few recent perfumes, Boudoir fits like a glove with who Vivienne is as a person, as a designer, and as a personality. While the rest of her perfumes, almost all of them actually, are now forgotten, her firstborn Boudoir is her manifesto and she could shout it louder (difficult; it lasts forever with tremendous sillage) but not clearer. I just need to meet again with my long gone Kingdom. The two are twins with the same overwhelming personality. (And then they sell us today's releases as groundbreaking, transgressive...Boudoir eats them up while painting her nails) Review based on an edp from 1999.