Citrus and Wood

I would never have thought of Yardley as being a great visionary perfume house, especially when I bought a bottle of Citrus & Wood, probably soon after it came out in 2011. I came across it looking for their cocoa butter soap and then also buying their citrus & wood soap too. I bought the perfume/edt as sort of an afterthought, mainly because it was so cheap. I probably paid less that $40 online for it. And promptly wore it a few times, but it apparently made little impression on me, and I don't know why. I'd had other woody scents beforehand that I liked. I must have bought something I liked better because Yardley Citrus & Wood got relegated first into odd parts of my perfume closet and eventually out of it entirely into the depths of a drawer I seldom open. Then just yesterday I thought, "gee, rosequeen, you have a lot of new wood fragrances on your wish list..." And "don't you have a bottle of that Yardley stuff...?" So now I'm considering Yardley a visionary. At least with Citrus & Wood. They certainly came to the woodsy party before almost any other perfumer house, niche or hugely commercial. I don't usually look at the perfumer profiles but I discovered Christian Provenzano, who made this, has since then made any number of exotic fragrances, some of them with oud and other woods that people are paying lots more for. To be clear, I'm talking about the original Yardley Citrus & Wood bottle, the one pictured here at Fragrantica. Square bottle with deep brown label. Some eBay seller is calling this bottle "the original formula," implying they've monkeyed around with it since 2011. I don't know what that bottle looks like, but a cursory search of other Yardley men's scents on eBay indicates that Yardley has at least changed the design of their bottles since 2011. This Citrus & Wood is a great fragrance, rich and woodsy and long lasting; 6 hours on my skin. The citrus is bracing without being overwhelming. Not at all sweet; men will like this one. I just noticed it isn't unisex like I thought; oh well, I'm a woman and I really like it. Good year round; well, on a cool 65 degree summer day anyway. Don't remember wearing it on a sweltering 90 degree day. And still very inexpensive online, but not a lot of them around. At least not today; maybe people bought up the supply for Father's Day. And you'd get away with buying it for your father too; it smells enough like the higher priced wood fragrances to be a good gift, especially to a father who thinks you spend too much on perfume, even when you've hidden most of your purchases from him. A frugal father would wear this stuff often instead of waiting for "special occasions." Frugal fathers consider no occasion is so special to warrant wearing a glitzy obviously expensive scent. (Which is why we see so many of them from varying eras on eBay.) I don't see any of the Yardley Citrus & Wood soap online though. Good thing I didn't blithely use my last bar thinking I could get more of them at any time. It's not 2011 anymore, rosequeen... Edit, April 8, 2022, nearly 2 years after my review: Yep, it's a huge clone of Terre D'Hermes, just like everyone says. So close I wonder if Hermes didn't sue Yardley, or press them very hard, to take the Citrus & Wood off the market. It certainly seems to have disappeared quickly. No sign of it on eBay either, now or about a year ago when I last looked.

MY YARDLEY McLAREN F1 SOUVENIR Yardley is one of those brand names that I recall very well from my childhood. I still remember the beautiful McLarens M19 and M23 that raced at Brands Hatch and Silverstone in Yardley livery, driven by Denny Hulme, Peter Revson and Mike Hailwood. Peter Revson (of the Revlon family of cosmetics and fragrances) won the 1973 British Grand Prix in a Yardley McLaren M23 at the Silverstone circuit and I was there to witness it. Drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, François Cevert, James Hunt, Ronnie Peterson, Jody Scheckter, Niky Lauda, Clay Regazzony, Jacky Ickx and John Watson were all on that Formula One grid. The week after that F1 race, a bottle of Yardley (I can't remember which one) was the very first perfume I bought with my own money. I was 10 at the time. Citrus & Wood was released in the last decade and it's a very classy scent. It comes in a handy 50ml bottle that you can easily slip into your pocket. The citrus notes combined with the resins, birch, spices, amber and woods make a bold impression. The staying power is average, which is a shame because the ambery-woody dry-down is very pleasant. I have already bought three 50ml bottles of Citrus & Woods. I have more than 850 perfume bottles in my wardrobe and I wear this Yardley fragrance quite often. I like its earthy vibe and the fact that it slips neatly into my raincoat pocket on rainy days. I also wear Terre d'Hermes quite often. As a motor racing aficionado, my real personal problem with Hermés is that they have never sponsored McLaren or any other Formula One team, either in the 70s or in recent years. So I continue to reward Yardley by being a loyal customer of their fragrances. The fragrances - Citrus & Wood and Terre d'Hermes EDT - have an obvious similarity, but the Yardley bottle costs twelve times less per ml or ounce to be precise. The performance of the Yardley fragrance is inferior, but all I have to do is take the handy flask out of my pocket and spray it again. So, following my head and my heart, the Yardley flask took a chunk out of my Terre d'Hermes EDT usage. And my nose never complained about my head and heart's decision. I hope you don't mind a few little white lies in the text above. I still have the Terre d'Hermes EDP and EDT and use them a lot. It's a fantastic scent. My 50ml bottles cost me €10.00 each. At that price, I would only suggest that you buy at least one bottle blind. MUSIC: "Faster" by George Harrison Note: "Faster" was written and performed by George Harrison. The song was inspired by Harrison's year away from music in 1977, during which he travelled with the Formula 1 World Championship, and by his friendship with drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi and Niki Lauda.

Yardley is one of those brand names from my boyhood. I still remember (very well) the McLaren M19 and M23 racing in Brands Hatch and Silverstone with the Yardley colours. Peter Revson (from the Revlon family) won the British Grand Prix in 1973 driving an Yardley McLaren M23 in the circuit of Silverstone. Guys like Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, François Cevert, James Hunt, Denny Hulme, Ronnie Peterson, Jody Scheckter, Niky Lauda, Clay Regazzony, Jacky Ickx and John Watson were all in the grid. An Yardley bottle (which one?) was the very first cologne I bought at the age of 11 years. .....welll.... Citrus and Wood by Yardley is a magnificent Woody Spicy fragrance. I bought my third bottle last week. I have about 200 perfume flasks in my closet and what do I wear? .... Citrus and Wood!!!! .... and by the way, I used to wear Terre d'Hermes with some frequency. The real issue is that they never sponsored McLaren or any other Formula One Team neither back in those days, nor in any other year. The scents are really alike and the Yardley flask costs kind of 10 times less per ml or oz (13 times to be precise). So I just follow my head and heart and now the Yardley scent took the place of Terre d' Hermes. And my nose never complained with my head and heart decision.

Yardley's Citrus and Wood is a fantastic affordable scent and is (IMHO) a hidden gem. Well blended, lasts 3-4 hours on me, and reacts well to heat, especially if you are out and about. I'd recommend it for transition periods of the year (Autumn and Spring). Citrus and Wood gets compared (understandably) to Terre d Hermes. Although quite similar there are some distinctions. Longevity on TdH is better but at 3 times the price that is to be expected. Citrus and Wood is a little more restrained, it also is more linear. The Orange note from TdH is substituted with Lime, but, to be honest, if I smelled either on someone else I would be hard pushed to tell the difference. I got a boxset with 50ml Edt and 200ml Shower Gel for £16.95 (around $22 for friends across the Atlantic) and is an absolute steal for that price point. As dubairob states in their review buying the toiletries line is a great way to compliment either Citrus and Wood or Terre d Hermes fragrances (the later's toiletries line is criminally overpriced in my opinion) so can save you some money. Excellent!

Şu günlerde Türkiye de Gratis mağazalarında 35 tl ye bulabileceğiniz parfüm. Burada yazarların büyük bir bölümü bunun TERRE Hermes e çok benzediğini yazmış. Ancak ben bir benzerlik bulamadım. Terre de portakal turunçgiller çok bariz bir üstünlüğü sahip bunda ise durum farklı. Ancak çok benzediği bir Hermes var o da Hermes Voyage. Pek parfümleri birbirine benzetmeyi sevmem ancak buradaki benzerlik çok açık. Hem Terre yı hem Voyage ı bununla 3-4 defa karşılaştırdim ve açık ara Voyage a benziyor. İşin ilginç tarafı Voyage edt den daha güçlü parfüme ise yakın bir yoğunluğa sahip. Kalıcılık çok güçlü değil. Ancak beni asıl şaşırtan bu daha keyifli bir kullanıma sahip. Voyage ise özellikle ilk başlarda benim "yagli gibi" dememe neden olan bir havaya sahipken bu daha fresh tarafa yakın. Aradaki fiyat farkını söylemeye gerek yok. Bence bu fiyata çok başarılı. Voyage dan 1 yıl sonra piyasaya verilmiş ve açıkçası başarılı bir taklit olmuş. Ancak halen bunu onlarca kişi nasıl Terre ye benzetiyor anlamış değilim. Çünkü alakası yok.