Pure Sun (Eau de Toilette) by Betty Barclay

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Pure Sun Betty Barclay 2021 Eau de Toilette

7.1 / 10 29 Ratings

A perfume by Betty Barclay for women, released in 2021. The scent is floral-sweet. It is being marketed by Mäurer & Wirtz.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Woody

Fruity

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Orchid

Magnolia Geraea canescens

Heart Notes

Lotus

Apple blossom Neroli

Neroli

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Hinoki wood Benzoin

Benzoin

Ratings

Scent

7.129 Ratings

Longevity

6.126 Ratings

Sillage

6.127 Ratings

Bottle

7.035 Ratings

Value for money

7.724 Ratings

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/13/2022

5Scent 10Sillage

Eriele
327 Reviews

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Eriele

Helpful Review 4

Back to the 80s

The first heatwave of the year is about to arrive, and I was on the lookout for a new summer fragrance. While I have already found a very fresh summer scent in Fenjal Aqua Baden Baden, one can still keep searching, and it’s fun.

Then this cheerful and colorful bottle caught my eye, which I really like, so I went for the tester. If you’re expecting a summery fresh scent, you will be disappointed. This is a summer blockbuster from the 80s in a new edition. Everything back then was just a tad too much. Fingernails too long, shoulder pads even in thin blouses, and the fragrances announced your arrival before you even entered the room, and the flight attendants would have deserved a danger allowance.

Pure Sun is pure 80s. It starts off with a bang featuring drums in the form of orchid and magnolia. This is how one imagined the South Seas during training, even if it was only enough for the North Sea in Holland. Then it continues with a blast of lotus, neroli, and apple blossom, and the scent becomes increasingly sultry and warm. You start wishing for a fan, but no, the dry down with benzoin and sandalwood is even warmer and more powerful. You could say it embodies the burning sun.

For sensitive individuals, it’s a candidate for drumming in the head in the form of migraines and headaches. The scent plays in the same league as SUN by Jil Sander. But in its original form. I like SUN, but today in a milder version from a Dutch supplier. A slimming treatment wouldn’t hurt this fragrance either, or one could change the name to Pure Winter Sun, because I can well imagine that it wouldn’t be such a lady-killer in the cold season.

Well, something was added that didn’t exist or was modern back then. A bit scratchy and unharmonious, because the old scents in the 80s were not like that despite all their strength.

For me, it means continuing the search for a summer fragrance, because this one just doesn’t work for us.

Updated on 06/13/2022

05/16/2022

5.5Scent 6Longevity

Käse
120 Reviews

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Käse

3

The Central Star

of our solar system is often used as a name or part of the name for fragrances. So far, I have unfortunately only had bad experiences. I find Sun by Jil Sander horrendous, and Sun Delight is very horrendous. Many reviews say something like "smells like sunscreen."
So, if my sunscreen smelled like that, I would consider whether skin cancer could be an option.

Now I have dared to try Pure Sun by colleague Betty Barclay. It starts off pleasantly floral. I am relieved. A catastrophe like with Sun (Delight) does not seem to be looming. In fact, I initially consider it a fluffy, pleasing floral scent that doesn't hurt anyone but can even bring joy to some.
After about half an hour, the pleasant floral note turns into a piercing floral scent. The dose makes the poison, as they say. Here it is too much of a good thing. I am also glad that my sunscreen doesn't smell like this.

When the base note comes through, it becomes milder and softer again. The woods take the piercing edge off the flowers and round it out nicely.

After Tender Blossom and Pretious Moments, this is the weakest scent from BB for me, but still good for the price. The weakness lies only in the heart note. And it is miles better than the two suns from JS,

02/15/2022

7.5Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

Bellatrix

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Bellatrix

Top Review 12

You like Barbados, I like Baltrum.

Soundtrack to the comment: Kokomo (The Beach Boys)

"Aruba, Jamaica, oh I wanna take ya to...
Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama...
Key Largo, Montego, baby, why don’t we go..."

For the summer, I was looking for a nice sunscreen scent. I actually wanted to buy "Nivea Sun," but in the end, I spontaneously bought "Pure Sun" at the drugstore after the Nivea online shop had excessively annoyed me with technical glitches during my order attempt. It meets the requirement of "beach scent"; it is truly a perfume that reminds one of beach, summer, and sunshine. However, it is on the heavier side. It plays in a league with that Ambrée scent from Narciso Rodriguez in the peach-colored bottle, which "Pure Sun" strongly reminds me of (the only thing separating them from being scent twins is the apple note in "Pure Sun") and also with Jil Sanders "Sun," although the latter is certainly not a scent twin compared to the Narciso fragrance. But all three belong to the category of rather heavy, creamy summer scents with a certain sweetness that, while smelling of beach and sunshine, should be used sparingly and perhaps not at all in extreme heat, as it can easily give one a headache (and poor bystanders too!). And like the two mentioned fragrances, "Pure Sun" also has a certain retro charm and a tropical vibe for me, more Aruba than Amrum, more Barbados than Baltrum, more Hawaii than Hiddensee. I don't know how sunscreen smelled in the 1980s, as I wasn't around yet, but I imagine it smelled something like this. Beaches in the eighties probably smelled exactly like this...

I perceive fruity and floral notes immediately after spraying. Apple (-blossom) dominates; orchid and magnolia provide a tropical, summery freshness, then lotus and neroli push their way to the forefront. Alongside the floral and fruity freshness, there is a heavier creaminess. In the base note, which I like best, it becomes increasingly woody. This mix of wood and flowers also reminds me a bit of "Alien," but only a little. Sandalwood and hinoki wood in the base note provoke in my mind the image of lounging, freshly slathered in sunscreen, in a small wooden pavilion on the beach, decorated with fresh orchids and magnolia blossoms, in a hammock. The tropical woods from which the pavilion is made and the lush scent of the colorful flowers blend with the smell of sunscreen. Even the warm, white sand can be smelled. One swings relaxed, content, and a bit drowsy in a hammock while sipping a cocktail... of course, a colorful one with a little umbrella.

To be my absolute perfect summer sunscreen scent, "Pure Sun" is too heavy and too tropical. A bit less heavy sweetness and more of the scent of seawater on sunscreen-covered skin would have suited me even better. "Pure Sun" is still lovely if you want to bring a bit of beach feeling home. It's also great that such an inexpensive fragrance can smell so high-quality. No one would suspect this scent to be a drugstore fragrance! It certainly doesn't have to hide behind the peach-colored Narciso and other scents from this fragrance family, so you might as well save your money and get the affordable "Pure Sun" instead. The money saved can then be invested in colorful cocktail umbrellas. Therefore, for all fans of the peach-colored Narcisos or similar woody-creamy-floral summer scents, a clear recommendation to buy! Go within yourselves, renounce the evil snobbery towards drugstore fragrances!

Updated on 02/15/2022