Top Notes 
Tuberose
Rose
Mandarin orange
Pot marigold
Lily
Heart Notes 
Jasmine
Orange blossom
Ylang-ylang
Lily of the valley
Base Notes 
Sandalwood
Amber
Vetiver
04/11/2025
DorothyGrace
106 Reviews
DorothyGrace
1
Lovely rich florals
My bottle of Beautiful edp has batch code BA3 (a manufacturing date of October 2023 according to Check-Fresh).
Just my opinion but I think Beautiful knocks it out of the park compared to many I have tried of late. It does what I like a perfume to do - it changes throughout the wear. Perfumes that stay the same, hour after hour, get on my last nerve (maybe by the two hour mark). It lasts a goodly while and has plenty of fragrance so I find one spray is enough (this certainly isn't a perfume I would spray on arms, chest, and ankles - I think I might faint)..
My 75 ml bottle is very attractive, moderately heavy glass. a plastic lid not too flimsy but nothing to write home about, a bog standard carton box in a deep pink again ok but nothing to write home about. The sprayer dispenses quite a bit over a wide area and isn't amenable to giving a half spray so my preference of little tiny sprays on forearms ank ankles isn't possible (I could decant into a new 2ml sample sprayer, maybe, might be a bit messy).
Fiori de Capri by Carthusia reminds me of Beautiful, something about the style, the floral amber base, but Beautiful to my mind has a lot more going on.
Beautiful wasn't something I wore back in the day so other than to say that yes, it is a bit different and that difference will be very noticeable to aficionados of the fragrance, I think Estee Lauder has done a good job keeping this scent reasonably true to the original through what must have been several iterations (it's 50 years since its release so there must have been a number of tweaks due to IFRA etc.)
On first spraying my skin I get a rather nice trio of galbanum, marigold, and vetiver along with some ylang ylang. sandalwood, and musk.
Quite a bit of fruity sweet blackcurrent pushes forward after a few minutes, then more ylang and tuberose. Now and then I get the scent of some hyacinth type of floral, sometimes some soft tangerine and bergamot. and an overall impression of a huge bouquet of many different flowers that might include lilac, geranium and some honey like floral perhaps mimosa. Some hours later I get a rather pleasant, understated, vanillic amber still with some light tones of fruity florals.
The next morning my skin smelt really nice with a soft rosey, honey like mimosa, fresh fressia, musky, gently woody, vanillic amber.
it puts me in mind of some sharper woods, sharper than sandalwood, but nothing in particular pops into my head. There are some really gentle green herbal notes, but really soft. I wonder if this fragrance used to have some lovely oakmoss, I think it might (but don't, of course, know).
This will sound a bit odd because this is highly fragrant, has a whole botanical garden of flowers and woods, lasts for an age, leaves a lovely trail, but there is nothing over done. The amber is soft and doesn't screech vanilla, the woods and musk are discrete, the fruity tones don't push it into the fruity-floral style, the bouquet of flowers hangs together to give an overall impression and yet individual blooms float in and out.
Anyway, I like it and if they brought out some scented soap and talcum powder for Christmas I'd have that as well.
Just my opinion but I think Beautiful knocks it out of the park compared to many I have tried of late. It does what I like a perfume to do - it changes throughout the wear. Perfumes that stay the same, hour after hour, get on my last nerve (maybe by the two hour mark). It lasts a goodly while and has plenty of fragrance so I find one spray is enough (this certainly isn't a perfume I would spray on arms, chest, and ankles - I think I might faint)..
My 75 ml bottle is very attractive, moderately heavy glass. a plastic lid not too flimsy but nothing to write home about, a bog standard carton box in a deep pink again ok but nothing to write home about. The sprayer dispenses quite a bit over a wide area and isn't amenable to giving a half spray so my preference of little tiny sprays on forearms ank ankles isn't possible (I could decant into a new 2ml sample sprayer, maybe, might be a bit messy).
Fiori de Capri by Carthusia reminds me of Beautiful, something about the style, the floral amber base, but Beautiful to my mind has a lot more going on.
Beautiful wasn't something I wore back in the day so other than to say that yes, it is a bit different and that difference will be very noticeable to aficionados of the fragrance, I think Estee Lauder has done a good job keeping this scent reasonably true to the original through what must have been several iterations (it's 50 years since its release so there must have been a number of tweaks due to IFRA etc.)
On first spraying my skin I get a rather nice trio of galbanum, marigold, and vetiver along with some ylang ylang. sandalwood, and musk.
Quite a bit of fruity sweet blackcurrent pushes forward after a few minutes, then more ylang and tuberose. Now and then I get the scent of some hyacinth type of floral, sometimes some soft tangerine and bergamot. and an overall impression of a huge bouquet of many different flowers that might include lilac, geranium and some honey like floral perhaps mimosa. Some hours later I get a rather pleasant, understated, vanillic amber still with some light tones of fruity florals.
The next morning my skin smelt really nice with a soft rosey, honey like mimosa, fresh fressia, musky, gently woody, vanillic amber.
it puts me in mind of some sharper woods, sharper than sandalwood, but nothing in particular pops into my head. There are some really gentle green herbal notes, but really soft. I wonder if this fragrance used to have some lovely oakmoss, I think it might (but don't, of course, know).
This will sound a bit odd because this is highly fragrant, has a whole botanical garden of flowers and woods, lasts for an age, leaves a lovely trail, but there is nothing over done. The amber is soft and doesn't screech vanilla, the woods and musk are discrete, the fruity tones don't push it into the fruity-floral style, the bouquet of flowers hangs together to give an overall impression and yet individual blooms float in and out.
Anyway, I like it and if they brought out some scented soap and talcum powder for Christmas I'd have that as well.
