I just got this today after sampling at Ulta. I love RL perfumes and i liked Woman enough to snag a tester bottle at a great price online. It opens with pure tuberose and dries down to a sweeter creamy nutty scent. It has decent sillahe and longevity too.
When I read the card that came with my sample of this scent, it said to expect tuberose and woods. What I got when I sprayed it was a bright, fruity white floral – and a unique one. polo dress shirts I think there are a lot of standard pairings among the white floral + fruit scents but this works so well. It’s comforting and smooth, but it’s also quite bright and sparkly.
This still has mass market appeal, but it doesn’t smell like generic fragrance counter perfume. Though I do like some of the older RL perfumes, I haven’t really been into any of the fruit cocktail perfumes they’ve released post-2000. This is a beautiful tuberose that, to me, smells like a throwback to their earlier style yet ralph lauren t shirt still totally modern. The fresh rhubarb note is very nice too and a huge bonus is that unlike the majority of new releases, the sillage and longevity with this one is great! This fragrance starts off with grape flavored candies, which I assume is a combination of the pear and the black currant on the top of the rhubarb.
Lately I have been staying away from floral perfumes and moving towards really saccharine and musky perfumes. This one is for sure more sweet than you would think. Ralph Lauren describes this as a magnetic “blend of florals and sandalwood.” Magnetic is a great description! This is the most unique perfume in my collection and I am really enjoying it. Don’t get me wrong, I love to smell fresh and clean. Woman by Ralph Lauren fits this bill perfectly.
Sparkly is hard to achieve without aldehydes or citrus, but this pear absolutely sparkles. For me, as the drydown progresses, the pear stays as the standout note. Because it becomes soloed out, ralph lauren t shirt it does feel slightly more synthetic, but not to a fault. As for woody notes, I really don’t get any. Perhaps some sandalwood in the base, but not the woodiness I was expecting, which I like.
The white floral is well done here, really smooth and not super heavy. I don’t get a lot of rose, the tuberose drowns it out on my skin. There is a brief tangy note in the very beginning but this settles in to “pretty floral” almost right away on me.