Pure White Linen (Eau de Parfum) by Estēe Lauder

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Pure White Linen Estēe Lauder 2006 Eau de Parfum

6.4 / 10 120 Ratings

A perfume by Estēe Lauder for women, released in 2006. The scent is fresh-floral. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Fresh

Floral

Green

Powdery

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green notes

Air accord

Italian mandarin orange

Raspberry

Freesia

Heart Notes

Red tulip

Gardenia Lonicera dioica

Rose absolute

Base Notes

White heliotrope

White cedar

Patchouli

Perfumers

Yves Cassar, Sophie Labbé

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Ratings

Scent

6.4120 Ratings

Longevity

7.177 Ratings

Sillage

6.066 Ratings

Bottle

6.579 Ratings

Value for money

6.912 Ratings

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13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/18/2013

4Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

Helpful Review 4

Clean and clearly a flanker

This was created in 2006/07 (I liked the commercial with Gwyneth Paltrow) in order to rejuvinate the original "White Linen". Nice, crisp and clean fragrance, yet I prefer the old stuff which is far more original, even provoking.
"Pure White Linen" is inoffensive and easier to wear than the original, which is stronger on the aldehydes and much soapier. If you ask me, "Pure White Linen" is not really necessary, but the marketing-experts of Estee Lauder would never agree. Up to now, they've launched five "White Linen Flankers" of which the first one from 2006 was clearly the best.

06/23/2024

4Scent 4Longevity 5Sillage

MrsGuerlain
633 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

1

Too synthetic

I have loved White Linen since our first encounter. So when Pure White Linen was given to me as a present back in 2015 I was curious to meet it. Unfortunately, I was hugely disappointed since PWL has nothing of WL’s originality or charisma. Therefore, I am not the right person to judge whether this is a great perfume. It would have been easier, had it had its own identity. But trying to modernize an already modern and iconic scent is, to me, not a good idea.
To me, PWL smells fresh but too synthetic. It has an undertone of something I do not like and I am not sure what it is exactly. But it keeps me from wearing it. I have tried to like it but it is simply not for me.
I suppose the branding department at Estée Lauder is capable of making new names. Next time - do so.
348/365

Updated on 09/22/2025

10/14/2024

7Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Missk
1350 Reviews

Missk

1

Standard Clean Laundry Scent

Following in the shadow of Estee Lauder's White Linen, its flanker, Pure White Linen has less powdery aldehydes, but a very similar, soapy and clean laundry feel.

Pure White Linen was created during the 'clean phase'. Everyone wanted to smell like they'd just stepped out of the shower, even if it was at the end of a very long work shift. These clean, refreshing scents also appealed to those that weren't originally fans of wearing perfume. Smelling like soap was of course the most inoffensive way to go.

In the official scent pyramid, Pure White Linen has an 'air accord'. I wasn't aware that air had a scent. Either way, I suppose it lends an 'airy' quality to the composition.

To my nose, Pure White Linen is a light, clean laundry scent, with a slightly oceanic feel. I smell mostly grapefruit, green apple, dewy jasmine and soapy freesia. It's a warm weather fragrance, mostly casual in its approach.

A year ago I fancied myself a fan of clean fragrances, however lately I've turned my attentions back toward heavy orientals. I appreciate Pure White Linen for its freshness, but at the same time I can't help thinking that it smells a tad chemical on the skin. There's that subtle hint of baking soda that I'm not so fond of.

Like most Estee Lauder fragrances, Pure White Linen has excellent longevity and rather strong projection. If you enjoy Pure White Linen, her consequent flankers, Light Breeze and Pink Coral would be well worth checking out. Beautiful Sheer too.

Original review written: April 2013.

12/10/2016

7Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

loewenherz
920 Reviews

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Top Review 14

Elsa of Arendelle

A wonderful constant of my childhood was the annual new film from Walt Disney, which usually came to theaters during the pre-Christmas season. And when you came out of the afternoon showing at a quarter to five, it was already dark outside and smelled of winter and Christmas. From 'The Rescuers' to 'Aladdin' and 'The Lion King' (when I was no longer a child), this was a beloved tradition. After that, I somewhat lost touch with Walt Disney, his films, and me - interrupted only by 'The Emperor's New Groove' (great, absolutely great!) - until he captured me again a few years ago with 'Tangled' (three times in a row during a flight - silly German title but, in the original, it's called 'Tangled') and shortly thereafter with 'Frozen' (also silly - in English simply: 'Frozen').

Unlike 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' or 'Cinderella', which stay close to their literary sources, 'Frozen' loosely draws from Andersen's dramatic and epochal fairy tale. In short: Elsa, Princess of Arendelle, has the gift of commanding ice and snow. Because she seriously injures her younger sister Anna during play as a child, she is tasked with controlling these powers and never using them. However, when she is crowned queen, she can no longer control herself, her 'gift' comes to light, she flees to the mountains, where she conjures up an ice castle - and an eternal winter for the town. With the help of a kind-hearted guy named Kristoff, his reindeer named Sven, and Olaf, the snowman who dreams of summer, Anna manages to bring her sister back to life.

'Frozen' is the most successful Walt Disney film of all time, and since then (and still!) a wave of Frozen merchandise has flooded the girls' rooms of the world. Who wouldn't want to be like Elsa - beautiful and ethereal, clad in sparkling ice blue and endowed with the gift to master the forces of nature? Yet she is also sensitive and vulnerable - and loved by her little sister, who ventures into the eternal ice to find and save her. In the form of Elsa of Arendelle, all desires and girlhood dreams unite - she is innocent and delicate, fragile, in need of protection, and ethereally beautiful - surrounded by something sad and tragic - yet light-footed and graceful. And of course, everything turns out well. Even Olaf, the snowman (voiced in German by Hape Kerkeling), finds his longed-for summer in the end.

Estée Lauder's Pure White Linen embodies many of Elsa's attributes and desires: the cool, fleeting, and delicate, the untouchable, graceful, and weightless. The relationship with White Linen, its big brother without the 'Pure' in the name, lies more in its expression and essence than in its actual composition. Less accentuated and cooler - lighter and even paler - it replaces the fine soapiness of its predecessor with a shy powder note, being quieter and more delicate. Pure White Linen is both a skin-close and bodiless scent - for those days when 'no perfume' feels so much more right than opulence and drama - yet it is perceptible and not 'no perfume'. It retains its freshness (Freesia!) and coolness, its base note hardly darkens (only a hint of very light woods) and remains bright, delicate, and cool.

In conclusion, in Idina Menzel's words, who sang the famous title song in 'Frozen':
'The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen -
a kingdom of isolation - and it looks like I'm the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside -
couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried.'

Updated on 12/11/2016

03/23/2017

7Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Minigolf
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Top Review 8

Freshly washed and soft-spoken....

.... this scent is the epitome of the American "clean woman" par excellence. I see a lady with perfectly styled waves, where not a single strand is out of place. The aldehydes do justice to the detergent note. I wouldn't claim that detergent doesn't smell good, but it's an "everyday scent." Colorfully patterned dresses, bright pants and blouses that are then starched, hang on the line. Roses, freesias, and gardenias compete in fragrance with the laundry. Mrs. "Cleans" has a household that is nearly perfect. Everything runs like clockwork. Waking the kids (blonde and chubby-cheeked neat), breakfast, the school bus is already waiting, kids at school, the household calls. Making the beds, dusting, and vacuuming in the daily rhythm. Oh... don't forget shopping... lunch for "Mike" and the kids... washing laundry, ironing, starching shirts and blouses. Planning the hairdresser appointment for Friday.
And a bouquet of flowers from the garden still needs to be arranged in a vase. Fragrant decoration for the guests in the evening. Showering... moisturizing... and applying "Pure White Linen."
Later, in the garden, a cool cedarwood note awaits the nose. Does it come from the trees in the garden, from the perfume, or from the laundry???
Probably all of it together. Accompanied by a hint of musk. The bright, extra-fresh...
What reads here like a parody actually reflects my true associations with this scent.
Especially because my sister has American acquaintances (who have stayed in "good old Germany"), and the woman actually wears "Pure White Linen" as her signature scent, which closely resembles the imaginatively described lady.
By the way, "Pure White Linen" smells very good on her. For that, I would give it a 9 instead of a 7.
On myself, I don't like the scent that much. Freesia and aldehydes are too prominent.
I think it's often a matter of skin how a perfume "comes out."

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