West Side Bond No 9 for women and men

If you forget it's rose and amber and vanilla, you'll smell honey. Everytime I smell this it just smells like honey made from bees near a rose garden.

The rose is very forward in this one, it is FAR too much for me! It is weirdly fruity for a floral and VERY overpowering on opening!!!

It scores very highly though so, to be fair in assessment here, i am aware it must be a polarising fragrance.

Definitely worth a test, but definitely not for me, and DEFINITELY not a safe blind buy!!!

Dated and modern at the same time with boozy ambery vanilla and possibly rum as a strong opening, promising somewhat to develop to something amazing and sexy... and than - woops, dries down to boring rose, projection and longevity on my skin 4/10... it was a gift, so I will use it but its a boring disappointment over all of the perfume...not terrible, not exciting... just " I will use it but will not get a bit upset if bottle accidentally drops and breaks...."

Opened with strong chemical smell and a jumble of notes. Quite okay there. But if you leave it on for a while the scent became much more pleasant and kind to the nose. Only then it became likable. But still almost no projection for me.

hooweee I think this cinged my nostril hairs. smells like straight up acetone. NEVER blind buy this!!

Visiting New York I gave myself permission to buy one fragrance. After sniffing my way across Brooklyn and Manhattan I settled upon this funny looking guy.

The ultimate velvety sugar rose with a magical twisted depth. Rosey, maraschino cherry lusciousness! (although cherry is not a listed note…could swear it is there). This will forever be the special scent that reminds me of NYC.

I have a branded sample of this that I absolutely ADORE and have been coveting for the past few years. I finally broke down and bought a 50ml from their website and it smells…. Nothing like my sample. My sample is deep & jammy & rosey and beautiful and it makes me so happy when I smell it. My new bottle is light, powdery and musty and to be honest barely smells like rose at all. Did the formula change? Does the new bottle need to age? I dunno… but it’s too expensive to hope it becomes nice and wearable so it’s going back :(

If hairspray had roses. If lipstick had vanilla. If you replace rose jam for peony petals jam. Then a pinch of sharp liquorish vibe, something like Maraschino. A peony Maraschino.
Finally, a substantial amount of Etro's Sandalo comes as a solid base of all this, adding a warm woody-gourmand breath to the girly plastic notes and then gradually devouring them with its tamed smokiness. It becomes a really good sandalwood fragrance in the dry down. Some green nuances remain, but the floral makeup feast is pretty much over.
Smells familiar yet unique due to good choice of ingredients, both natural and synthetic. Good for a gala night in the opening, a comforting fragrance after.
For a simpler musk/sandalwood/rose combo, try Lorenzo Villoresi's Musk.

sweet, jammy (borderline fruity - actually surprised to see there are no true fruit notes in this!) rose with boozy undertones. i also get the banana-y ylang ylang at the tail end of my inhale, which adds a very slight tropical feel. overall, done before and far from compelling but also pretty, girly/feminine, bright, and youthful. 💋

I got a sample of this as I love Ghost The Fragrance but it doesn’t last long on me. Someone had put on here that this was similar so thought I would give it a try. It’s lovely but much boozier than Ghost and doesn’t work well with my skin chemistry. On me it smells quite wine-like, I’m not a big one for boozy perfumes with the exception of Jazz Club by Margiela. There’s a note in this I am struggling with, perhaps the ylang ylang as that can smell odd on me! To me the ylang ylang is quite prominent in this.

EDIT - after a few hours this has mellowed and I can smell more of the rose. I do like it, it’s a very Green, floral rose, not as sweet as I would like from a rose note, a bit more photorealistic perhaps.

I’ve also noticed that it has completely gone from my skin but is still beast mode on my t shirt. Most fragrances don’t last long on me but I mainly prefer the dry down on this and I don’t think it would hang around long enough on my skin for that. I’ll give it a few more tests and see how it goes!

I don’t pick up any florals. In my opinion it smells like a sweet/powdery/boozy vanilla. It smells modern, but dated at the same time.
It’s unisex but leans feminine.
I enjoy this scent, but wouldn’t buy it for myself. It fits someone older.

Boozy vanilla and roses galore! This one is a nice scent and it lasts!

This reminds me of rum raisin liquor. Boozy, jammy rose and sweet.

Oh West Side how I am utterly stupefied by you. Part of me is addicted to this warm marsala rose. West Side is a little dated, a little modern. What a juxtaposition here. It’s a warm hug from a boozed up second auntie. Am I buying a bottle? Yes. Am I wondering why? Also yes.

My absolute favorite perfume. It's a rose-and-peony masterpiece with fruity (almost moscato) overtones. Pity about the hideous bottle, but for this scent, I'll grin and bear it.

Very beautiful spiced rose! amazing longevity and good projection. It feels luxurious and cozy at the same time, big love!

Bond No 9 West Side EDP opens with a strong projection of very sweet, floral, ambery, and gourmand notes. The opening is delicious, intense, projecting, very aromatic, and pleasant. The sweet accords are very prominent, a combination of aromatic sweet vanilla, and sweet creamy sandalwood; the ylang-ylang is also noticeable, this note brings floral, sweet, creamy, and woody notes. The peony and rose are the floral notes, both combine themselves into a generic floral note, which not necessarily favors the rose. The combination of notes appears to have a faint but projecting accord similar to blond coffee, although coffee isn’t an official note. The fragrance does not have any significant changes, the opening is a bit sharper than the dry-down, on the other hand, the dry-down feels dry and slightly powdery as the result of the development of the amber. Once Bond No 9 West Side EDP has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a strong projection, very sweet (vanilla, sandalwood), ambery, ylang-ylang, and floral (rose, peony) fragrance. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, commanding, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, energizing, exotic, expensive, fine, floral, fragrant, fruity (ylang-ylang), heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, inviting, long-lasting, modern, nicely-blended, playful, slightly powdery, resinous, relaxing, romantic, strong, very sweet, syrupy, unisex with a slight tilt to the feminine side because of the floral notes, warm, woody, and very pleasant.

BATCH REVIEWED: 2020.
WOW RATING: 10/10. The intensity of the notes and the resulting scent are impressive.
DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The fragrance is very sweet.
UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The scent is unique, and a fragrance easy to recognize.
MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy.
PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer.
SILLAGE: 6/10. Very good, about 6 feet behind the wearer.
APPLICATION: 5 atomizations.
LONGEVITY: 6/10. Very good, about 6 hours, it projects for over 4 hours.
SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments.
OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance.
VERSATILITY: 7/10. A great floral fragrance, ideal for almost any occasion and cold or mild weather.
GENDER: Advertised as unisex, the floral notes are prominent which leans the fragrance a bit to the feminine side, yet, it is a safe unisex.
AGES: Any.
RECOMMENDATION: Bond No 9 West Side EDP can be purchased for about $100, its uniqueness and performance make it a great option for those that appreciate floral unisex fragrances. This is a great buy.
BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes.
SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Bond No 9 Greenwich Village EDP is a fantastic, very sweet gourmand vanilla, praline, musk, ambroxan, white floral peony, water lily, jasmine, and litchi fragrance; AllSaints Sunset Riot is a very sweet, amber, orange blossom, and pink pepper fragrance; Bond No 9 Hamptons, is floral, citrusy, powdery, musky, and woody fragrance; Cartier Declaration D'Un Soir is a spicy, soft floral, and sandalwood fragrance; Mancera Gold Prestigium Unisex EDP is a high-quality fragrance that contains leather, rose, and vanilla notes; Chanel Les Exclusifs De Chanel Jersey is an aromatic, floral, and musky fragrance leaned to the feminine side; Chanel Les Exclusifs Boy is spicy, floral, powdery, and citrusy, but also leaned feminine; Creed Jardin D’Amalfi features mandarin orange, apple, spices, and woods, a great nice fragrance although very pricy; Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio Men EDT is a pleasant but soft marine, salty and white musk fragrance; Chanel Les Exclusifs De Chanel Jersey is an aromatic, floral, and musky fragrance, leaned to the feminine side; Chanel Les Exclusifs Boy is spicy, floral, powdery, and citrusy, but also leaned feminine; Amouage Reflection Man's EDP contains white flora, woody, and powdery accords, and it is very good; Montale Orange Flowers is a white floral, citrusy and white musk fragrance; Moschino Toy Boy is a unique, sweet, ambery, magnolia, woody, and floral fragrance; Guerlain Musc Noble is powdery saffron and musky fragrance with soft woody accords; Bond No 9 West Side EDP is a great and projecting, very sweet vanilla, sandalwood, amber, ylang-ylang, rose, and peony fragrance.
SUMMARY: A strong projection, very sweet (vanilla, sandalwood), ambery, ylang-ylang, and floral (rose, peony) fragrance. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, commanding, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, energizing, exotic, expensive, fine, floral, fragrant, fruity (ylang-ylang), heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, inviting, long-lasting, modern, nicely-blended, playful, slightly powdery, resinous, relaxing, romantic, strong, very sweet, syrupy, unisex with a slight tilt to the feminine side because of the floral notes, warm, woody, and very pleasant.

If I had a choice of one perfume to take with me on an island, this is it!! Love, love, love West side! The beautiful way the peony and sandalwood are wrapped in cinnamon and vanilla...omg! This is my favorite perfume of all! I get compliments on it all the time! I’m a girl and my friend said she wants to lay with my neck all night long! Lol! Even clothes I smell from the day before are so delicious in a non-candy sort of way! West Side is my signature perfume!

What a beauty to my nose!
Put a smile on my face the minut I smelled it.
Yes, it has the 90’s vibe - but not in a bad way at all!

This is so warm and comforting on me. I get the rose and the vanilla/sandalwood combo, slightly powdery but sweet and subtle. It reminds me of something my teachers back in grade school wore (late 90s/early 2000s) and I love it on me. Longevity is great, 8+ hours and still getting wafts when I move around.

Sprayed 4 times- chest, hair, wrist, neck

Initial impressions- not happy. A very synthetic, non sweet rose, with a non grape wine- almost like a rose surrounded by very ripe, fermented berries. There is some sort of underlying plastic scent that reminds me of some of the 80s perfumes. The rose is not rose water which is good. The scent tries to be a modern rose scent despite the 80s note and is successful, but it doesn't smell natural.

5 min- The slightly sweet and very sour berry scent is slightly more pronounced. The rose is lingering in the background with the 80s note.

30 min- The rose/wine/berry combo continues. Sillage is not high.

1 hr - The berry jam is now stronger than the rose.

3 hrs- scent doesn't project much so no one around me smelled it until I had them smell my wrist. Still smells like a very ripe fruity rose.

6hrs- scent is very faint. I can barely make out the notes.

8 hrs- scent is gone

Scent: 7/10- It's very typical, nothing unique. No wow factor for me.
Sillage: 3/10 (A very intimate scent, no one can smell it)
Longevity: 6/10 (6 hours tops)

Conclusion: This isn't unique, nor does it have stellar performance. For this price point, this perfume should at least have better performance.

Bond 9 West Side is mostly rose, booze, sandalwood, amber, and a heavier musk. I wonder if there is also a bit of saffron or oud in it. West Side seems very Middle Eastern and Indian to me. Unisex, but more masculine in my opinion.

Sometime it's absolutely not important what ingridients are if you know exactly how final result smells like.
If you know how old school oil based paint smells like you know how Bond No 9 West Side will smell like. If for some reason you like it, you should change your profession, and you can smell it every day for free.
This is not a safe buy.

Whoah now booze, calm down. It's only noon.

Definitely not a favorite from the house but there are some redeeming qualities. If you like the idea of strongly fermented sweet rose, vanilla and sandalwood in a perfume then this is it. Every time I smell it I can only imagine wearing it in a night setting, specifically at a bar. Truly it would fit right in there. But during the day it feels glaringly out of place.

The dry down is much better imo with that sandalwood, vanilla mixture. It becomes more gourmand-ish and the booze settles down quite a bit. Still present though. Also this stuff lasts very well and projects strongly. Typical sort of Bond performance.

Had a bottle, tried to make it work for me but it was like trying to fit a square peg into a circle. No matter how hard I tried it wasn't happening.
If I had to place it I'd say the boozey aspect of the fragrance resembles flat amber beer. It's not terrible, just not my thing.

Wow I love West Side. Very nice boozy rose fragrance with vanilla, musk, amber and sandalwood. It is definitely sweet and powdery. For me, the dry down is the best part. Projection and longevity is superb. I put it on this morning at 8:00 am and it's now 2:00 pm and I can still smell it on me.

Unbeliavable longevity! Maybe, you are able to think this is feminene but it can be used by men!

I have the same problem here that I have with Montale's Roses Musk and even more so with Roses Vanille. I'm a musk lover, but apparently, I dislike some musks. With this, all I get is metal and roses with wisps of sandalwood.

I realize that all of these houses, from the cheapies to the niche, use synthetics. There's nothing wrong with that - I'm no purist. It's just that synthetics should smell real. Bond No. 9's New Haarlem is one of my favorite fragrances, but they should be ashamed of themselves charging these kinds of prices for the same quality synthetics that I can find at Kohls.

Hailey Baldwin´s signature.

She smelled it on a guy friend of hers and loved it , and thought ´damn, im getting this for myself!!!!!´

Worst bond imo. Smells like some liquor for the first hour to two. Super strong alcohol smell. When it does evolve, it is not enough for me to consider buying it. Only bond I would never buy and this is my favorite house.

Initially I do not like the rose opening but it evolves into a really great red wine and caramel on my skin.

West Side is one of the Bond No 9 perfume that I love the most. Yes it is rosy,and I can relate the use of color red and the G key on its bottle.

Italians love roses, and classical music.
Wearing this I feel like an Italian going to an opera in the evening wearing a tuxedo, accompanied with a beautiful lady in red. It is sophisticated, elegant, and high class.

The rose for me is a bit boozy due to the amber, and it is warm and hugs you up to the dry down.

Many people love Amouage Lyric for rose perfume, but for me it is this one.

West Side is a nice and simple floral scent with moderate sillage and above the average longevity suitable for spring/summer, daytime.

It leans clearly to feminine scents. It's nice, I like it but it's not for me.

Dominant notes are rose, peony and mild vanilla.

A light vanilla rose. Rose can be a problem for me as I dont like them too heavy, overpowering, powdery or grandmotherly. However no problem here. It's light floral and fresh. This is a very impressive scent. Its the type of scent that makes other people want to know what you are wearing. Oh and I'm not usually into bottles but I love the design.

My first Bond No 9! I have to say I haven't been drawn to this house - something about the combination of the brand's very high prices and very ugly bottles rubs me the wrong way, as if their target audience is people so rich they can afford to be disdainful of beautiful things. Of course I'm aware it's reading WAY too much into it, a stupid prejudice, but there you are...

That being said, though, sampling West Side has dispelled most of my prejudice: this fragrance is obviously high quality, it performs exemplarily, and it smells wonderful. I love rose scents, and this is a good one, warm and comfortable and rather heady - a naturally fragrant rose in a soft bed of warm amber and vanilla, sweet without going overboard. Like others have mentioned it isn't exactly original, but it doesn't need to be. I keep getting lovely, mood-lifting whiffs of it all through the day - you really get your money's worth with this one, which is saying a lot at this price.

I obviously like it enough not to want to be without it, but I have enough rose scents as it is, and call me plebeian but I do like to get something I like to look at when I spend 100+ euro - so I guess I'll have to hunt down a decant of this one!

Don’t spray the atomiser too close to the skin , spray from a distance and then feel the notes come alive otherwise this smells like an irritating burnt rose and vanilla mess.

Rose makes too feminine.

The 90's in a bottle
Feminine

Very unisex. Very dense. Has enough depth for a man to wear it.

I agree with those who smell a sweet rose liqueur, even sweet red wine... But on me it is even more a dark chocolate smell, slightly bitter. A bit of pipe tobacco, too. Rich and dense.

Just got this and at first spritz, it reminds me of a margarita..but as it settles it immediately smells strongly of a sweet honey..I love it!!

I found a sample of this in my stuff and sprayed it on without know wat to expect. While I'm not sure it's my cup of tea exactly, I will say it's a very lovely realistic rose that is not sharp or green or anything else that can often annoy me in rose scents. I like the warm ambery vanilla base too. Very pretty.

This is the first Bond I've tried that makes me want a FB. Pleasantly surprised to find that West Side is my kinda rose: - it is a honeyed rose, rather than a sugary one, it's curvaceous with no sharp edges, and this rose is in full bloom, it's not twiggy or green. Each time I've tested it it's remained linear until I can't smell it on myself anymore - about 3 hrs. I'm digging the musk, which is unusual for me, I think it is white? It's alluring & present throughout, not just in the dry down. Funny thing - this wan't even on my radar - it's never come up in note searches or been suggested = that I can remember. I just found a good price on e-bay! Happy perfuming everybody!

This reminds me of a fragrance from the 90's....I just can't quite put my finger on which one. Maybe a cross between Bob Mackie and Anne Klein II?

Love. Love. Love.

I have been searching high and low for a lush, sweet rose scent. Nothing screechy or harsh. Not a tea rose scent, a sweet pink cabbage rose that blooms once a year and makes the whole yard smell like heaven and honey. I have sampled so many fragrances I'd started to think my perfume didn't exist.

And then, randomly, I came across this amazing fragrance in this hideous bottle. Thank goodness my first experience was a decant. So let's get this out of hte way: the bottle is horrid. And it makes absolutely no sense for the scent inside. It's loud and technicolor and makes me expect some over the top modern musical.

That's not what you get (thank heaven). This is the freshest pink antique roses, just opened on a fresh dewy morning drizzled with honey and pollen. This isn't some stuffy specimen rose garden full of upright nose in the air hybrid teas. This is a cottage garden where big old antique roses 7 feet tall and 12 feet across are covered with a thousand blooms and jammed in with peony, iris, tulips, daisies, and just about anything else you can think of. All so tight together no ground even shows. The air is cool and fresh and smells like heaven and there are bees buzzing through all that floral madness.

Ignore the bottle, what's inside is amazing.

I'm wearing a tester of this right now and on my skin (2 sprays, upper forearm) it smells like red wine, and vintage boucheron, and wet asphalt, the peony really comes through as it hits the dry-down which is very nice. It's very intriguing and a little intoxicating. As a man I can see myself pulling this off, especially if layered with some kind of leather scent for colder months (thinking tuscan leather) or a juniper (ex nihlo 352) for summer.

Nice projection and scent!

As a rose fragrance lover, I can say that this is a BEAUTIFUL ROSE FRAGANCE! The rose here is ambery, kinda boozy and powdery but without being too feminine. What a beautiful and gorgeous fragrance that I discovered! Great fragrance for winter/fall time. Mad longevity too. 9 out of 10

I am a garage sale person and after collecting frags for 3 years now I knew it would happen.............high end frag unknowingly thrown into a random box of gift soaps & half-empty nail polish bottles...for cheap! YEAH!!!!!
YES: this weekend I was at a sale and noticed a familiar star shaped bottle in an open shoe box......THIS BOND No. 9 !

This is my first experience with Bond No. 9 and I'm actually happy that this is "not for me" so I can just sell it and make a few bucks.

Now before I sound like a greedy money-hungry pig; I will say this:

To me this smalls like a "celebrity" scent from T.J. Maxx with a lot more complexity & longevity. A lot more!

There is quality here--but no originality. Plus the bottle looks like ugly Christmas wrapping paper from the 1980s. Hideous.

I will say this though: I spritzed this on my hand on the ride home.
At first I could barely smell it and not too much was going on. Then like 10 minutes later it started to really open! Stuff was happening!
So I am impressed with the structure of this frag.....but like I said: not for me.

Paid $5.00 for a 95% full 1.7 oz bottle!

I break for garage sales!

Michel Almairac and Bond really knocked one out of the park with West Side.

I feel selfish and greedy with this one, I wear it at home on special indulgent evenings, when I'm doing exactly what I want.

West Side is a boozy rich red rose, with ylang ylang, amber and sandalwood. West side is absolutely sumptuous.

I'm exploring more of his scents now, Cabaret and l'artisan Roses Voleur are also absolutely worth trying. They too have something to say that's unique in the olfactory world.

Red wine, roses, expensive clothing store, friday... That's what I think when I smell this.

This is an amazing rose vanilla scent. This is like bouquet of fresh red roses with no unneccessary sweetness. And the peony is a nice touch in there! I love peony. Yes there is white musk but it isn't as heavy as it could be, it doesn't give me a headache. I'm not prone to headaches with perfumes but sometimes too much white musk makes me have a headache, propably cos it's synthetic ingredient. Vanilla is great, very much combined with sandalwood. And with that I mean I don't smell either one, but I smell the mix that sandalwood+vanilla makes most of the time (examples would be: Vanisia, Dior Addict etc high quality sandalwoods and vanillas).

This scent is evergreen and it doesn't matter whether is day or night when I'm wearing it. It's not too heavy for the day and not too light for night time. Also it has great lasting power.

It isn't confirmed anywhere that this would have red wine note but I sure do smell it all the way through. Never thought I'd love that scent so much. But it actually could be just the rose. Also I smell some tonka bean and in the top notes some leather maybe.

there is no way in hell its unisex. This is very sweet gourmand, that smells almost cakey, full of vanilla and touch of amber. I fell in love with it and bought it on the spot.
Them after wearing it for a while I realized it reminded me of something-Vanilla Musk by coty lol
yep, those two are very close.
So if you don't have the $250, get Vanilla Musk.

I wanted it mainly because of the gorgeous bottle rather than anything else... I play piano and the music marks on the red bottle just looked stunning, it is probably one of the most beautiful bottles from Bond No.9
While the presentation is superb, I find the perfume a little disappointing. On my skin it has almost zero silage, definitely a skin scent, with very good longevity. I get a soft rose-vanilla combo, with hints of powder. Not much going on here, it is mostly a comfort scent... a far cry from the musical statement I was expecting looking at the bottle.

I was expecting a symphony and I got instead a lullaby .

West Side is a pleasure to look at it, as for wearing it, well, it's wearable, very tame, pleasant , and totally forgettable if you don't see the bottle.

The beauty of the bottle is not enough to counteract the gentleness of the juice, I need something with more oomph.

This is simply GORGEOUS! This is the kind of fragrance you can blind buy and be completely sure what you see is what you get. It's extremely wearable, high quality, smells divine of liquor roses & amber.

Thanks to a wonderful fragrantican I got this in a fabulous swap! At the start, West Side is not anything exciting, opening a little sweet (vanilla) and musky. It then morphs into what my nose would describe as that sweet, fresh, herbally and slightly bitter smell of green or unprocessed tobacco. Maybe really expensive Cuban cigars?? Strange, I know. I guess that could be the combination of rose and sandalwood. I also smell what I would describe as champagne, again sweet, dry and slightly bitter, a little boozy but not like wine or liqueur. The musk, vanilla and sandalwood remain constant. Eventually I get a faint whiff of my fave ylang ylang and ambre. I actually wish they were more prominent. I think this for me is better suited for cooler weather. It's a nice interesting blend but not a show-stopper. It gets a "like" from me.

Reminds me of watered down shaving cream...one of the very few fragrances in my collection that I deeply regret blind buying! :(

WEST SIDE is an intoxicating perfume. I love to close my eyes and just inhale it deeply. The initial spray for me, is like a cork soaked with a viscous, amber-y vanilla liqueur. The red, ripe rose maintains her presence behind the initial booziness and becomes more prominent as this scent becomes one with the skin. The dry down is a satisfying rose, vanilla and ylang ylang that is warm, thick and erotic. This perfume is sweet, but not cloying. The sillage is intimate and the longevity is average for me, 3-4 hours. Albeit listed as a unisex, I think it sways more feminine because of the amber-y sweetness. But, I am confident that this would smell very alluring on a man.

Very nice,delicious,unique, I never heard a scent so ... reminds me of great evenings Gala : Music rooms, lined with books, and people around me who speak of symphonic music,classical, etc ... flipping through the pages of books, and while I was offered a glass of Champagne, in absolute relax we celebrate, we talk, while my taste champagne listening to the music of a piano in the distance.... the note is the dominating .. pink rose petals that are not too heavy, but they give a touch of class to the smell,magnificent. Essence of Music!

Sillage: 8.5/10
Longevity: 8/10
Scent: 9/10

Overall: 10/10 ♥

I've tried this twice, once in Nordstrom's from a stick, but didn't feel like I gave it a fair chance, and with the ratings on here, tried again from a decant. This is a horrible blend. Nothing delicate or classy about it. If this had a name like Gaga or Bieber, it would have been proverbially crucified on this site, but because it's Bond 9, it gets dutiful ratings for the house.

There's a sickening sweet almost burned caramel (not in a good way) vanilla which overpowers on me. Everything else is dwarfed by the artificial scent. The sandalwood then explodes into my nose in a way I can't comprehend. I don't know what the designers were thinking on this one... or really many of the Bond 9 line. There's a couple I like fine, but I have yet to find a true "love" in this house. This one is just gross!

I really (very quickly) fell head-over-heels in love with this one.

I'd like to preface this by saying I never thought I'd find a Bond No. 9 fragrance that I enjoyed, and here I am looking at a potential new signature scent!
West Side is, in short, heavenly. I was blown away by how, above all other things, SIMPLY PLEASANT this is to wear!

The opening is vanilla liquor, very boozy and butterscotch-y in a way, with a deep rose note behind. Velvety, balmy, sugary, blood-red rose. Hints of peony and sandalwood peek through, but they're fleeting. This scent is thick, silky, round and romantic when it hits the skin, and never is sharp or screeching.

Into the drydown the vanilla turns more toasted/mildly burnt and crunchy - but in a very charming way - and the roses persists. If you're familiar with "Roses Vanille" from Mancera - it's that type of feel, but done with much more finesse and a gentle touch. A trickle instead of an avalanche.

While West Side lasts literally all day on skin and clothes (easily 10-14+ hours), it never feels too bold or overdone. I do love smelling great, but I don't want to worry about always punching people in the face with my cloud of perfum. Something so wearable but still remarkable.

10/10.

to me this is intense cafe minus the cafe note (pretty inexistent even on the original one)

I smell amazing, like my adult self, lived in... a little more experienced.

West Side breathes notes of wine and roses and just a tad bit of lipstick. The vanilla is underneath, like a subtle lotion applied hours ago. I know it's there, but it's not displayed prominently as a centerpiece like the beautiful roses or close at hand in my favorite stemless wine glass. The amber is warm, safe, but a little late arriving. Wait for it, he's worth it.

The olfactory experience that is West Side is the perfect date fondly remembered. Wine, roses and a familiar warmth.

Close your eyes once you spray it. Where did it take you?
I'm betting a wine bouquet can be found near by and the someone you shared it with just as close.

Apparently, unbeknownst to me, I have been a huge fan of vanilla and rose all this time. I thought I hated rose as a perfume note, but when mixed heavily with vanilla, it is heavenly.
This perfume surprised me. The lady at the Bond counter said it was her daughter's favorite perfume, and I tried to shake it off, saying, 'oh I've smelled that one, it smells like tangerines'. She said 'no, you must be thinking of another one, this one is very sweet'. So she sprayed some of it on a card for me, and I got goosebumps! This smells SO GOOD! She saw the look on my face and handed me the bottle to spray on myself. This smells like vanilla and an expensive rose soap. I can't stop sniffing my arm. It has lasted 6 hours so far, which is atypical of a Bond for me [they normally last 3 hours tops]. I have been getting faint wafts of it all day, so the sillage must be pretty good as well. I am going to have to buy this.
I am a huge fan of Mancera Roses Vanille, if you like that one I think you should definitely try this one.

I went into the store to have a whiff of Bond No. 9 New Haarlem, looking for a gourmand fragrance to be my new signature scent. Well long story short - that on me, didn't smell like the awesome, expensive breakfast I was expecting it to, based on the reviews I read!

I tried a few more fragrances by Bond, with similar notes to New Haarlem, until... I smelled West Side.

And, oh, oh my. I wasn't expecting to like it.. instead.. i Just ADORE it.
Despite the notes which don't look those of a gourmand perfume at all.. this definitely is an edible number.

On me, this fragrance opens with sweet and vibrant, warm rose, louder than the common, clean and soapy version of a rose scent, but still innocent and pure. Upon opening I detect hot cookies and raisins. Like tea time in an Irish garden.

Then, the peony and ylang-ylang start to peek through treating us with a cleaner, cooler version of the same rose note, while clearing the way for the vanilla to make a grandiose entrance.

The flowery freshness lingers for a little while, no more than 20-30 minutes, after then, the vanilla settles in, and here we get more sweetness again, which once more dissolves slowly and this time, it turns creamier as we reach the amber notes, which last very long, and gradually and seamlessly fade into the darker sandalwood - the note that closes the fragrance.

During all of these sweetness ups and downs, which prevent the perfume from getting boring, the rose always remains, it never ever disappears - it simply shows us different sides of her character by mixing and dancing with the other notes..

To sum things up.. this fragrance is simply a work of art. GENIUS.

Please note though - this is a very complex fragrance that should be tried on skin before purchasing, as the tweaks and turns it makes can get odd on some people..

Actually this is the only Bond I could wear and could actually own. Rather simple take on a vanilla gourmand rose, soft yet warm, just like a mother's embrace. Soothing and care free, yet balanced and gentle on the skin. Projection and longevity is amazing.
5 of 10

I know a couple of Michel Almairac’s roses. Voleur de Rose for l’Artisan Parfumeur and the inexpensive but spectacular Cabaret for Grès. Voleur is a beautifully simple-to-wear patchouli rose with and earthy/fruity bent. Cabaret is a long-lasting musky rose/incense and one of the best perfumes available for about 25 bucks. Clearly, the perfumer knows his way around a rose garden.

If you like West Side, it is a richer, more complex perfume than either of the above two. If you’re not fond of it, it’s just more complicated. West Side doesn’t have the transparency of Cabaret or the succinctness of Voleur, but it is a well considered take on the gourmand-floral. West Side is built on a woody rose/vanilla core that gets pulled this way and that by a number of modifiers, making it a difficult perfume to categorize. Peony pulls the rose in a loud, frazzled direction. A sweet milkiness, I assume a sandalwood analogue, pulls the rose in a woody/creamy direction. Vanilla takes the rose toward the gourmand, but it’s not a Willy Wonka over-the-top dessert frenzy. It smells a bit like a rich, creamy porridge with rosewater. If the ‘neither/nor’ thing bothers you, West Side might not be your cup of tea. But if you like the idea of a perfume that presents a different face to different perspectives, give it a go.

West side isn’t my bag, but I can dig it, baby. It’s nicely composed, it wears very well over time and has an unhurried, zaftig sensibility. It’s dense and cozy, more a ‘come hither’ fragrance than a sillage monster.

from scenthurdle.com

boozy chocolate vanilla cake.... I use this as a go to sleep scent never wore it in public since it really is feminine and not unisex!

On me, there is a strong syrup vibe, not sure if I truly enjoy it. But then I reallyenjoy the other part of this fragrance - the rose, amber, sandalwood. Keep going back to try it. Which is not a bad sign - although my wallet stops me short of actually purchasing.

If you have it - enjoy! :)

I was sent a decant of this, and truthfully, I was not eager to try this. In the decant, the sandalwood and musk seemed to almost overpower the rose, which I didn't enjoy.

I finally sprayed it on, immediately noticing that it had decent sillage. I got rose at once, but also with that sandalwood, so I decided to let it do its thing and ignore it.

About 10 minutes later, I unexpectedly picked up this massive whiff of a slightly sweet, yummy rose. Not in-your-face sweet, though. This is a little honey-sweet. With vanilla. Yums.

After about an hour, it calms down slightly into a gentle, but still vibrant, rose mixed with mostly sandalwood, backed by musk, amber, and some vanilla. It comes across as trying to be creamy, but never really gets there. It also has a more masculine, boozy vibe, which could be nice, depending on your preference.

5 hours in, and West Side becomes rather muted. It no longer envelopes me, but I can catch whiffs of what is now a deeper scent, that seemed a bit more vanilla cake-like. I would say it fades completely after 6 hours on me.

As stated above, sillage was good. I sprayed once in the hollow of my neck, and once just above each elbow bend, and for the most part, it felt like I was constantly enveloped in it.

I mostly like this, but I think the decant that I have is more than enough for me. I'm not too partial to wearing a scent which, on me, leans on the masculine side. It is still a lovely, lovely perfume though.

I Love West Side, at my nose to my skin I find no alcohol in here, but lots of Peony, Ylang Yland and Musc. For me definitely one favourite from this house. Its a bit sweet, and happy, delicious. I do not know these places Bond have named their scents and maby that is also positive thing. For me they just come like they are - Scents, without mind connection to environment. Few others have also started to love this scent when got inspired by me. I think it works really well here in North where winters are cold and summers are also cold to some people I think (between +20 to +32 celsius)
Here we find West Side to be sensual floral beauty with some sweetness in it. This is one of my best scents I have. Love from Finland ***<3<3<3***

When I first sprayed this I absolutely did not like it. Smelled like sniffing a liquor bottle to me. Then....it dried down. And what an absolutely stunning dry down it is. Gourmand vanilla rose with the perfect balance of powder. West Side has gone from no thanks to one of my very favorite fragrances and I have two full bottles plus some hoarded samples. I love it so much it has made me reconsider my feelings for the house of Bond. I fell in love with this house in 2003 then my feelings changed after a number of disappointments and escalating prices and never ending releases. But West Side is making me want to give Bond another try.

I LOVE a bi-polar perfume moment. :) One of the best things that can happen as a fragrance head. As long as it is a negative turned positive. Not quite as much fun when it is the other way around. But when a fragrance can make you do a complete 180 on an entire fragrance house, you know you have found something special.

It was a love at the first sight. I bought it on the spot. Then.... When I got home and smelled the paper on which I had sprayed the fragrance in the store, I almost cried. It dried to a sweet, masculine old fashioned sent. I was determined to return it, but I gave it one more try. And magically, on my skin it opened up to this gorgeous scent and never turned to that sweet overwhelmingly musky yacky smell.
I love it again and totally recommend :-)

This on my skin, is amazing. As a perfume freak and owner of many high end scents, I purchased this one on a whim. I loved it but wasn't expecting much. Every time I wear it -- It never fails to receive a compliment. This is absolutely the diamond in the rough in the Bond No. 9 line. One of three of the only Bond's I actually purchased. (Most give me a headache although they do smell great).

This one is very strange on my skin , It smells like Sunlotion warmed up on skin, the Rose isent very clean , it almost dirty mixing With ylang ylang, amber,peony and sandalwood. on me its no Vanilla at all. musk a tiny bit , Its more feminin then masculin IMO . There is kind of a tobacco smell in it making what seam to be a clean smelling perfume dirty and not very Nice ..It can be skin cemestry but this realy is nothing special taking the price and all in to consideration.
I can relate to the Bozzy smell that People is talking about . But its not in a positiv way. Thsi to me smells almost like some one do when they have been out on the town drinking and having some sigarets . I know this is extream and i do not want to offend anybody. but this is how it smells like to me
I have to look twice at the sample to see if i had the right one. so many positive rewievs . well well.. not for me anyways

189) From Russia with Love
A rose, treat this flower is the prerequisite for all perfume brands in the world.
But when I think of Bond 9 I'm obviously very afraid of the result.
The disappointment was beyond my expectations.
The opening is very alcoholic(boozy), like opening a flask of vodka. There are no special head notes, no pyramidal composition. It's just a smell that will decrease. At heart, even if there is not a really one, well yes there are rose petals floating in the bottle of alcohol and the vodka is strongly vanilla.
What is this? no head notes, no background notes?
You paid over $ 200 for a floor cleaner (and you've missed a bottle of Guerlain or Amouage). It gives me the impression of having spilled a glass of red wine on me, a rose for a bum.
This brand is undoubtedly in the most mediocre I've ever tried, and yet I have done hundreds.
There is in the U.S. divine little niche brands like Olympic Orchids, or very good like Smell Bent, and then of course the dozens of other European ones you can found everywhere in NY. So why pay such a price for a perfume that I did not even dare put in my bathroom? Is it a New Yorker fad?
Good longevity, weak sillage and very bad quality.

Une rose, traiter cette fleur est le passage obligé de toutes les marques de parfums du monde.
Mais quand je pense à Bond 9 j'ai évidemment très peur du résultat.
La déception a été au delà de mes attentes.
L'ouverture est très alcoolisée, comme ouvrir une flasque de rhum. Il n'y aucune note de tête particulière, pas de composition pyramidale. C'est juste une odeur qui va diminuer. En coeur, même si il n'y en pas vraiment, et bien oui il y a des pétales de rose qui flotte dans la bouteille d'alcool renversée et le rhum est vanillé.
Quoi c'est tout?? aucune notes de tête, aucune note de fond?
Oui Voila, vous avez payé plus de 200 $ pour un nettoyant de sol (en plus d'avoir raté un Guerlain ou un Amouage), il me donne l'impression d'avoir renversé un verre de vin rouge sur moi.
Cette marque se situe sans aucun doute dans les plus médiocre que j'ai jamais sentie et pourtant j'en ai fait des centaines.
Il y a aux USA des marques de niche divines comme Olympic Orchids, ou très bonnes comme Smell Bent, et puis évidemment les dizaines d'autres européennes qu'on trouve partout à N-Y. Alors pourquoi payer un prix pareil pour un parfum que je n'oserais même pas mettre dans mes toilettes? Es que c'est une mode New-Yorkaise?

Opens with an alcoholic note to the point I was a little worried before going to work, but after that u get some floral/powdery scent. Longevity is ok, and moderate sillage, this is a must try before you buy scent.

boozy powdery dark pink rose and vanilla with amber and light sandalwood lingering in the background. Difficult for a guy to pull off. There is something dark and brooding in this that I can't quite put my finger on, it almost smells like liquid vanilla extract instead of the sweet vanilla I know and love. More formal and feminine than casual and masculine, this would smell awesome on a woman all dressed up for a night out on the town. If you're a guy in search of a rose fragrance I reccomend Cartier Declaration d'Un Soir and Maison Francis Kurkdjian Lumiere Noire Pour Homme.

Update : now that this has been on my skin for about an hour I partially take back what I said about it being feminine. It gets a bit darker with more amber and boozy vanilla with the rose taking a backseat. There's also an odd chocolatey scent too. The right kind of guy could definitely wear this one perhaps pairing it with a maroon or vermillion button up shirt.

I put this on at 6:00am and its now 2:00 pm and its still going strong. I really do enjoy the booziness of this and the rose and vanilla are to die for. I feel quite sensual wearing this perfume and others may not feel that way with the cake reference and all. But it definitely is for me. I really am glad I purchased it.

The people at Bond sent me a sample of this and now I own it. On my skin, it smells like an alcoholic standing in a garden of roses. LOL I do love it though! It's very boozy at first; I almost feel like I'm dousing myself in rum. Then the roses and vanilla come into play as it settles, but the booziness is still there. It's actually very lovely and unique with longevity around 8 hours on my skin and heavy sillage. I also agree with it being a comfort scent; it's very nice on cool, rainy spring days.

I loved this fragrance. Long lasting and yummy... Vanilla is definitely there. Big fan of Bond no 9 and this one is a keeper.

It smells like alcoholic rose water to me. Love the smell but I have had people asking me if I have been drinking?!?!

This perfume is smell of india. it got the blend of south asian flowers and it unquine smell. I bought it for my wife and she love it. This perfume is more femenine too as for the sillage is quiet good.

Okay, I wore this all day and I loved the opening, however what sillage is everyone talking about? Everyone says this is loud on projection and it's not at all. I kept hoping get whiffs of this throughout the day and nothing. I need a bit more sillage , but too bad because I love the scent. Great scent of red wine, roses, and vanilla. Good for gourmand lovers.

If you love TOCADE and it's vanilla rose sweetness, think of this as the slightly "naughty" version. The whole vintage circa 1950's cocktail party "vibe" I get with this makes me want to wear this for upcoming Holiday parties. A mature scent but the younger girls, who possess sophistication and self-assuredness could be comfortable in this one.

This is what an alcoholic who wears expensive perfume should smell like lol. This is one BOOZY perfume that just hits your senses in all the right places. It's mesmerizing, seductive, mysterious, and BOOZY. This is for sure top 5 in the house of Bond. You will oooooooze sensual mystery when you wear this. omg im in love with it i dont regret blind buying this at all.

I wish this was half the price that it is. I find it to be quite feminine. Soft, creamy, musky rose-vanilla. I have not tested hundreds of perfumes but I try to smell as many as I can and I feel that this has a unique smell despite pretty popular notes. Lasting power is decent, silage is light. Great for daytime use and pretty seasonless as well although I like it for early fall the best.

I get all these notes. I feel this is very feminine, leaning towards a younger woman. Perhaps in her 30's. I like it, and the Bond quality is there for sure. I just love the creaminess of their line. I don't think I will re-order again though. I am so in love with New Haarlem. This is will get moved to the back of the shelf and maybe even given to my daughter if she would like it. It's very nice, but not my favorite in this line. Try to sample before you blind buy. Although, it is pretty nice if you do find a bargain on it, jump at it. I love Bond No 9.

Intoxicating is just about right! Unique and truly magical rose/vanilla scent with a mesmirizing boozy impact and it lasts forever - in excess of 12 hours! Perfect!

Wearing this perfume is like eating creamy ice cream in a rose garden in late summer. Absolutely and incredibly yummy!

It starts off strong, and a little sharp in the opening, but soon lots of luscious rose starts to waft through. The moderately sweet, but very rich and dense vanilla kicks in pretty soon also.

Eventually there is a hint of musk which also makes its presence known, but really, the stars of this show are rose and vanilla.

This perfume boasts a wispy coolness to it throughout. Smelling it is just like inhaling the scent of ice cream straight from the tub.

The longevity is great...this being a perfume that lasts all day long without any reapplication. The sillage is strong in the start but gradually softens.

This is a cool and creamy vanilla/rose with a little bite.

All in all, a thoroughly intoxicating scent.

Second test run: couldn't do a thorough 1st run do to obligations.

Top Notes: I smell some citrus and musk from somewhere. Also, a good sharp peppery scent. Nice, not me, but pleasant enough.

Mid Notes: YEA GADS! there is this bleachy vodka smell!!! i'm on my way to a parent teacher conference, not exactly the image i want to project!!!

Dry down: I can smell the rose, definitely the rose, powdery-sweet--I can still smell a hint of lemon, but apparently that's just me. I don't get but a small touch of vanilla, not in anyway overpowering. (and I am a woman who loves my vanilla) I still stick with my original premise. Nice sophisticated rose, but more for my daughter than myself.

it's nice, not quite what i was expecting, but it is a fresh, light surprise. it's really more my daughter's style than mine and she adores it. but i do like it, could grow on me over time.

What a pleasant surprise, I was expecting something heavy like a middle eastern oriental falling towards rose & sandalwood but what I experienced was entirely different. It is all about vanilla thrown in with some delicious spices though rose is present all the way to the end but does not feel heavy. Great projection & longevity, Quite intoxicating !!

Lovely scent. Starts out with nice boozy rose, then the vanilla and amber kick in. I really enjoyed wearing it. Very unisex. Moderate projection and I got 9+ hours of longevity. This is on my buy list. 9/10

For me,the best perfume of the bond series.Very warm,quality.it makes me dreaming,thinking,takes me somewhere where i dont know.Elegant,positive,cool persons have to wear this.
Just one word : magnificent!

I got to test this thanks to Kchild who sent me a lovely and generous sample.

For a floral-woody-musk, it's much heavier on the "floral" part than any other perfume I know of in its genre. It's very strong on fresh, sweet roses. Next I would say musk is pretty strong, and I don't smell the woods so much.

I think this would be really nice just about any time of year. It's a great, modern, youthful, vibrant interpretation of the classic rose.

You know, I felt very flirtatious when I tested this. This is floral and warm with a touch of gourmand - just perfect for casual seduction.

I think Francopop's review is on-point. Rose wine and vanilla ice cream are two things I'd be prone to enjoy as a prelude to seduction. LOL

I get a decent projection and killer longevity, plus the swooning factor. Ladies, beware.... hahahaha

I love this scent! As "Francopop" has so brilliantly described, think of over-ripe, fading, potent and sweet Rosepetals harvested in the warm afternoon sun, dunked and drunk on lukewarm Rosé Wine....let it rest and add 5 scoops of vanilla ice cream, more roses, 1 or 2 peony heads, some rose-pedal jam, break in some toasted ice cream wafers, a dash of amber, musk, Ylang-Ylang and sprinkle with some real vanilla pod granules, and let it rest in the afternoon warm sun. Fill up with champagne, dress with more toasted wavers and serve!

This is a totally 100% cheerful, feel-good skin scent with very moderate projection (the vanilla accord stays on the longest) starting with that boozy, alcoholic whiff of roses, then the vanilla/ wafer/ baby-skin scent takes over and becomes sweeter and sweeter....nothing much else happens to this reliant "Labrador" of a scent.

Personally, I love this for the summer months, despite being a fairly sweet scent and I do funnily prefer it to the more potent and stronger, yet "cooler" and somewhat louder, more complex and crisper "Lyric Man" by AMOUAGE (some people might kill me now but despite liking "Lyric Man" I prefer it on a woman).

"West Side" also reminds me of "L'Eau D'Hiver" by Frederic Malle, also a very pleasant skin scent with similar soft (yet more milky and more almondy nature) character and little projection.

This is not a "head-turning" perfume but more of an intimate feel-good scent that you might wanna enjoy on those special and relaxed summer evenings.....perfect soundtrack to this would be Otis Redding's "Dock Of The Bay".

Very 'gourmand', you cannot stop sniffing, you wanna eat it as it smells so good. Advice, spray also on fabric to intensify scent.

Bond No. 9's West Side smells slightly similar to Tom Ford's Black Orchid (which was Michael Jackson's favorite).

Although both sway over to the feminine side, West Side is slightly more unisex, and is a little more tolerable for the metro-sexual male to pull off. West Side is a "doughy" and ripe/dense humid red rose with cream.

West Side almost smells like an upscale version of Paco Rabanne Black XS, except West Side is a rose-vanilla gourmand rather than the Strawberry/Praline of Black XS.

West Side also has some resemblance to Euphoria for Women by Calvin Klein. Someone also previously mentioned that the nose behind West Side also created a similar perfume called Joop Jette, which is much cheaper.

I find West Side to be a very well defined, clean, transparent, rich, and lovely fragrance which is neither too heavy nor too light.

At the end of the day, West Side is too feminine for me.

West Side by Bond No. 9

Rose` wine and italian vanilla ice cream in a sweet french gelaterie watching the world go by...that is my description of West Side by Bond no 9.

It lasts forever and keeps you wrapped up in a jolly dream for a very long while...wonderful stuff; great for evening wear and totally unisex...big thumbs up !!!

I was introduced to this fragrance by a rather good-looking male sales assistant. He wasn't trying to sell it to me, he was just so very eager to show me what he personally wore.

West Side struck me almost immediately as being rather strong, feminine in some ways with a note that resembled that raisin-type smell of tobacco. The scent when summed up in my own words, is tobacco-rose.

This fragrance has a lovely richness to it, that does make it extremely wearable for both sexes. There is a definite sweetness in there somewhere, perhaps even a gourmand touch, yet not too sugary.

This fragrance is very Wintery and warm, I couldn't possibly imagine anyone wearing it during the hotter months. The very alluring sales assistant informed me that he wore this fragrance whenever he went out, where many often asked what perfume he was wearing. It was not always a definite crowd-pleaser however it always had people intrigued.

Despite the array of floral notes, which do seem rather feminine when observed in its scent pyramid, West Side is very bold and very different. The drydown has a very likable carmelised quality, rich and syrupy.

Unfortunately this fragrance is not very long lasting, which was a shame because its sillage seemed to suggest otherwise.

Wending one's way through the ever-expanding world of Bond no 9 is no mean feat. No matter how many reviews I write, I find that still more lie ahead (WASHINGTON SQUARE and COOPER STATION are lurking on the horizon, when I have yet even to taste HIGH LIFE or MONTAUK!) And then some of their wares just take some time to wrap one's nose around, a case in point being WEST SIDE.

WEST SIDE opens with an evanescent cinnaminty freshness which, as I far as I can tell, no one but me has detected. For about one minute, this perfume reminds me very much of Dentyne (or is it Trident?) chewing gum. From there, the roses descend, not petal by petal, but by the truckload. The roses are suspended in amber, which abides through to the drydown, making this to some an amber rose perfume. I've seen comparisons to TOCADE, but I think that WEST SIDE is distinct, and while I very much appreciate the former, I'm not sure yet--even after multiple testings--about the latter.

I think that I do not understand WEST SIDE. For one thing, it does not remind me of music at all, since aside from the surprising and mildly discordant Dentyne opening--perhaps designed to mimic the experience of popping a tic-tac in one's mouth at the opening of an opera?--I don't experience a lot of development, much less lyric undulation. WEST SIDE is just sweet roses and amber to me. So what would the musical analogue be? Philip Glass?

As an irrelevant aside, I wish that they had used a less orangey red for this bottle. I feel that there is a clash of the reds between the roses and the vessel in which they are presented. I will say that the staying power of this edp is quite good, as evidenced by the fact that even after a few wearings, my purse spray is still nearly full!

Rose, Rose and one more time rose. To me it smells like mostly rose, moreover there are diffrent flowers and pretty big dose of sweetness which it could be trick of vanilla. Very pleasent and elegant fragrance, sometimes it reminds me of hot rose syrup (this kind of syrup for tea).

Pleasant floral but not outstanding. It has no significant development like some other Bond fragrances. At least, not on me. The rose note seems to predominate on me. Some Bonds I adore but this one is ho-hum. Itested this from a bon bon sample.

This is a powdery floral scent on my skin. I am a young adult male, and this scent was just to feminine when i tested it. I'm sure woman will love it but not for men at all!!

if you love amber fragrances, i recommend this one. all i had to do was smell westside on a spray card and i immediately purchased it when it first came out. it really is a beautiful, warm, and elegantly comfortable fragrance. the metallic undertones keep this scent from being too sweet.

I want so much to love this (I'm an opera lover,so I adore Lincoln Center,home of the Met), but so far it seems a bit understated for me. The first perfume where I can actually pick out the vanilla notes.Maybe just too elegant for me. I'm more Verdi and Puccini than Handel and Monteverdi. And you gotta love the bottle.

Powdery and soft. Pretty, yet somehow unremarkable as well. It is described as unisex, but I find it very feminine.

MMMM! This was one of my favorites! Smells soooo freakin' good! Like cakes and musk! I can't WAIT to get this!

I love mariotgomez's comment "it reminded me of my mother baking a cake (vanilla)and my father bringing her a bouquet of roses" - perfect description! This is a beauty of a scent, elegant and voluptuous, yet comforting at the same time. A favorite!

Now having added this fragrance to my collection, I have to keep myself from wearing it every day. I like to keep others guessing what fragrance I am wearing. Today, when I spray this fragrance on, it reminded me of my mother baking a cake (vanilla)and my father bringing her a bouquet of roses. I Love this scent. It is one of my top 5 favorites.

This is truly a surprising scent by the Bond No. 9. West Side first seduces you with a floral note and then caresses you with a warming of amber, sandalwood, musk and vanilla notes. I look forward to adding this to my collection of fragrances.