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Libertine Vivienne Westwood 2000

7.2 / 10 48 Ratings

A perfume by Vivienne Westwood for women, released in 2000. The scent is fruity-chypre. It was last marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Fruity

Chypre

Floral

Fresh

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pineapple

Grapefruit

Passion fruit

Heart Notes

Honeysuckle

Lily of the valley Rose

Rose

Bergamot

Base Notes

Patchouli

Amber

Musk

Oakmoss

Labdanum

Perfumer

Martin Gras

Ratings

Scent

7.248 Ratings

Longevity

7.838 Ratings

Sillage

6.333 Ratings

Bottle

7.241 Ratings

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/30/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

PBullFriend
311 Reviews

PBullFriend

Helpful Review 2

pineapple cilantro salad

I love Shera Pop's reviews, but it's kind of comical how different things smell to me than they do to her. (Perhaps we should write our own "Holey Book?")

Libertine doesn't suit its name, as far as I can smell. Rather than being something that the sexually adventurous would wear, I think of it as a fresh scent reminiscent of a spring salad. The strongest scent to me here is cilantro (which is not a listed note!) among other soft green notes, as if it were one of those mesclun mixes of baby lettuces and herbs. (I imagine, but don't smell, a light balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing.) It's topped by a soft, ever-so-slightly candied pineapple. It's one of those meals that is both delectable and healthy. It cools me in hot weather.

01/31/2012

4Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

1

The Days of Hair Shellac and Beehives

Long, long ago, when I was just a pint-sized child, my mother used to wear her hair in a "cinnamon twist" formation on top of her head. This was apparently the fashion at the time, so she'd go to the beauty parlor to get this fancy thing done to her hair over the course of several hours. I'm unsure still to this day how she managed to make it last through multiple days punctuated by nights of sleeping and, I presume, showers or baths, but she did. One thing is clear: she used a product which has nary touched my golden locks: the dreaded hairspray.

I sometimes receive nice-sized cannisters of hairspray along with the irresistible gwps which I have been lured into acquiring through making the minimum purchase at one of my frighteningly numerous online shopping emporia. But I never know what to do with them. I cannot imagine wanting my hair to stay in place in the way that hairspray is specifically designed to make it do. So I usually think about what to do with the cans but then don't really end up taking any action, since I don't know anyone else who uses this product either.

Sometimes people compare perfumes to hairspray, and it took some real digging into the deepest, darkest crevices of my olfactory memory bank to pinpoint exactly what it is that Vivienne Westwood LIBERTINE smells like to me: my mother's hairspray back in the day when she wore her hair piled up on her head in a cinnamon bun-meets-beehive sculpture of sorts. In The Holey [sic] Book, in her review of Guerlain IRIS GANACHE, TS identifies "what's wrong" with INSOLENCE as "hairspray and terror," which naturally raises the question why in the world it should have received five stars and been touted as a masterpiece. On the other hand, that apparent disparity is not any more inconsistent than many of the other comments vs. star allocations in "The Guide" (cough, cough).

To me, a perfume which smells like hairspray is quite far from a five-star masterpiece, and LIBERTINE is a fragrance that I expect to wear about as often as I reach for a can of hair shellac. I should add, however, that there is some development here. As it dries down, LIBERTINE begins to smell, more specifically, like burnt hairspray, as though someone decided to apply a hot curling iron to her hair to touch up a do that had already been liberally sprayed. Désolée.

12/29/2013

10Scent 10Longevity

Klatschmohn
28 Reviews

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Klatschmohn

Very helpful Review 12

An adult fragrance

"Libertine" and I - it was love at first sniff!
Actually, I went to the perfumery in the summer of 2003 to buy translucent powder, but I got a sample of "Libertine" and left with the largest bottle available. (Something I never do when I buy a fragrance for the first time.)
The opening already thrilled me - fruity, without being sticky sweet.
Soon the heart note came into play, and I primarily detected lily of the valley, a hint of rose, and something spicy, slightly bitter.
By the time the base note appeared, I was completely captivated - earthy, warm, sensual, adult.

The sillage is just right, noticeable but not overwhelming.

The longevity is unmatched. Even after a whole day or a night of dancing, the fragrance is still perceptible on my skin. On scarves or sweater collars, it lasts until the next wash.

Conclusion: "Libertine" is anything but ordinary and not a fragrance for little girls. It is adult, seductive, and elegant.

05/05/2013

3Scent

Carnolie
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Carnolie

Very helpful Review 6

bitter

I like "Boudoir" and I also find "Anglomania" not bad. Therefore, I was of course curious about Libertine, because it's discontinued, rare, and a Chypre from 2000. So I managed to snag (thank God only) a mini on eBay.

The first thing I noticed when testing: this bitter, theatrical makeup-like note, which I also noticed in Guerlain's Parure and which makes every fragrance unbearable in my opinion. Note the similar scent structure as well. Parure has fruity notes and bergamot in the top, Libertine also has fruits and bergamot in the heart. And yes, once you know that pineapple is in there, you can smell it. Both fragrances also share lily of the valley and rose, and in the base, amber, oakmoss, and patchouli.

So, one shouldn't be surprised that they smell similar and that both fragrances are also wearable for the male gender. I don't find Libertine particularly fresh, but it's definitely more wearable than Parure. While Parure just smelled strange and unbearable to me even after multiple tests, Libertine does take on milder tones. I can hardly notice any development; the whole thing is quite linear.

For me, this is all nothing, so unfortunately, I can only give it 30% and I don't have a photo either.

09/06/2010

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Kittycat
280 Reviews

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Kittycat

9

Classic Chypre

I came to "Libertine" through a trade. Contrary to my usual habits, I boldly traded "blind," meaning without knowing how the fragrance smells (either I had never sniffed it or I no longer remembered its scent) - so only based on the listed notes (which appealed to me). I expected a Chypre fragrance and I got one ...
But let's start from the beginning: Upon the first spray, I was slightly shocked - this is not my thing, I thought. It had a hint of hamster cage (you know what I mean ...). After a longer test of patience, however, the fragrance developed wonderfully. A Chypre as it should be, and one that I only know from older classics like "Fendi," "Paloma Picasso," "Armani," and the like. "Yvresse," formerly "Champagne," is a similarly structured scent due to its certain fruitiness. Speaking of fruit - I strangely only smell pineapple and grapefruit in the heart, even though they are listed as top notes.
"Libertine" surprises in the end with its base, which feels fine and elegant. It is more of a "mature" scent, not for teenagers and/or trendsetters. The longevity is good.
I have not regretted the trade at all, rather the opposite. It's nice that I discovered an interesting and unexpectedly classically appealing fragrance by chance, so to speak.

Statements

3 short views on the fragrance

Iris2022

3 years ago

4

At first, it's nicely floral and almost too sweet for me, then it fades to a herbal, grassy scent, with fruits and flowers completely disappearing, ending very masculine.

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