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Nirvana Bourbon Elizabeth and James 2016

8.0 / 10 83 Ratings

A popular perfume by Elizabeth and James for women, released in 2016. The scent is woody-smoky. It is being marketed by Butterfly Beauty.
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Main accords

Woody

Smoky

Sweet

Spicy

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Oak wood

Bourbon vanilla

Tuberose

Ratings

Scent

8.083 Ratings

Longevity

6.864 Ratings

Sillage

6.362 Ratings

Bottle

7.869 Ratings

Value for money

8.340 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone · last update on 09/28/2025.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/29/2025

8Scent 6Sillage

HouseOfMirth
19 Reviews

HouseOfMirth

Helpful Review 1

Sweater Weather Scent

I got a Nirvana rollerball set that included this. At first, I really didn't like it, it felt too heavy.
But then my husband mentioned liking how it smelled and I decided to give it another go. Now I'm in love. This is perfect for wearing with a sweater and sitting under a blanket. It smells deep, creamy, and woody in a delightfully sweet way. Once I heard it was discontinued, I snapped up a full size bottle.
I typically wear this in the fall and winter.

03/26/2019

JSpines
178 Reviews

JSpines

Helpful Review 3

Elizabeth and James Nirvana Bourbon

Imagine sitting around a campfire outside in the summer time while eating a big bowl of vanilla ice cream drenched in bourbon whiskey sauce. That's pretty much what this perfume says to me when I wear it. It's not sweet like some might expect from a vanillafied perfume and all of the elements work together in proper unison to create something surprisingly wearable for a scent with only three notes in its composition. It's not complex but it doesn't try to be and therein lies its beauty.
The staying power is the pitts, just like Nirvana Black but because I do love the smell so much, I use these for layering with other scents to create something completely new and alluring to keep people guessing what it is that I am actually wearing. If they could improve on the sillage and longevity, I'm convinced that the perfumes in this line would be much more revered and sought after. I am not a whiskey drinker but this is one bourbon that I can tolerate and enjoy!

04/07/2018

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

Helpful Review 3

Assay of Sillage & Longevity

I love this fragrance - that is to say the ^fragrance^ of the fragrance, and find it wonderfully original. I am a bit dismayed, however, by the comnent here that it is both very shy & very fugitive. However, I have now chosen it for this evening's going out; and so that I can have it nicely pumping forth I shall take the bottle with me. Actually, I usually do this anyway, as I like to offer people I am with a dousing of whatever I have brought (they nearly always decline, for some reason, even if they are not wearing 'fume themselves), forwhich reason I occasionally get called 'bringer of aromata', or something similar - or even some Greek or Latin word essentially meaning that.

It's a good stout bottle as well - and flat, which well-suiteth it unto being taken out about ones person. However, the lid does not snap on very securely, which is slightly disappointing.

I'll get back to you in the morning. I hope the comnent to the effect that sillage & longevity are both ^very^ poor is an exaggeration - by which I am not necessarily saying an intentional one. The battle between attributing lapses in perceptibilty to intrinsic lenity or to dysosmia is a never-ending one.

... the following morning ...
^Have to^ report that this has perfectly adequate sillage & longevity. But it's a perpetual occasion of contradiction, this business. It deserves a thread, this question of the sheer capriciosity of the smellsense.

This here one reminds me of ~Euphoria~ by Calvin Klein, in that both are basically heavy embellished-woody - by which I mean woodiness embellished by a bit of say, pomegranate in that case, bourbon vanilla in this, and some fruity or flowery adjunct in the general case; and by ~heavy~ I mean the uttermost resinous essences of the wood as it were (or actually maybe) from twenty years of steeping in some ferocious solvent, rather than merely the smell of wood sawn-through. This one has a more °particular° distinction, in that I think it would require merely a single sampling for one to recognise it evermore thereafter; that one is more °abstract°. Perhaps this °particularity° of the distinction would be more apparent to someone who loves a bit of bourbon whiskey, as I do; as the combination of bourbon vanilla, & oak - which is deliberately used to make whiskey-casks by virtue of the phenomenon whereby it's oils are leached into the alcoholic liquid inside them, thus imparting flavour & aroma, imparts strongly to this fragrance an evocativaty of that most delectable beverage.

Afterthought: just completely forgot to offer anyone any last night!

Updated on 04/08/2018

01/11/2017

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Mausebeer
45 Reviews

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Mausebeer

Very helpful Review 13

Sympathetic spelunking

Shall we warm up with a little schnapps? Then let's head straight into the lodge. A lot of warm, dark, old (planed and splintered) oak wood. Vanilla plays the dirty bouncer and thinks it can push around a delicate little tuberose. But that one sneaks around the house and later tries to climb in through the window secretly. (But gets stuck halfway) Or maybe it's just the last whiff of a fine lady who warmed up here briefly earlier. Now the place is empty. There are no questionable guests yet, no smoking, drinking, or fighting, and thankfully no cooking either.
Only the innkeeper quietly polishes a few glasses, and the interior is self-sufficient.
And when was that? Some time earlier.