Reviews of Beyond Paradise (2003)
by Estée Lauder

I'm with ubuandibeme on this one...I think I understand why some call this a masterpiece (the straight-from-the-get-go warmth and complexity), but then there are times when I all I get from it is fabric softener. I'll stick with Beautiful as well...guess I'm just a sucker for a mossy base.

While Luca Turin may be right about the composition of this blend being "technically tricky", and ultimately a masterpiece in composition...my nose tells me I don't want to smell like Beyond Paradise. No matter the level of difficulty in it's creation, when I sniff this juice it is slightly sharp, soapy, and a bit heavy on the peachy/apricot note. (I can also smell Tommy Girl.) True enough, BP holds it's shape and strength throughout it's entire lifespan, but if a floral symphony is what I desire, I'm more likely to head for Lauder's Beautiful...which is velvety smooth and more pleasing to my nose.

when i sampled this on myself when it first came out, i loved it. i asked to smell it at a fragrance outlet, and the clerk sprayed it on paper and it was the most rancid thing i've ever smelled. i'm new to the world of perfumes, but i figured the paper turned the scent awry? i really think you have to have a certain body chemistry to pull this one off without it being overly sweet.

This was my second perfume bottle (except for drugstore scents), from before I became a complete scent junkie hunting scents on the internet. Back then, I wanted to wear perfumes but had a difficulty finding anything I liked in the local department stores.
This one ended up on my wishlist because it smelled like a true jasmine single note to me. I had no idea of the concept or the exotic ingredients in it. Today, when my taste has evolved away from florals and feminine scents in general, I get other notes than jasmine out of it. In the beginning I find it a bit too green, sharp, cool and perfumey. Then it dries down to pretty much a single note jasmine, but I don't find it as true and lush as I used to and I never wear it anymore.

the smell is nice, but not as complex or catching as i would have liked. it just smells like i rubbed cinnamon on me, and while cinnamon is nice, i wish there were more to it. gorgeous bottle, though.

A sweet candy jasmine, this fragrance cannot help its own soapiness. Overly astringent as the effervescent Alka-Seltzer/soap smell becomes tinged with a minty aftershave aura. Dries down to a pleasant innocuous floral. Bottle looks like sand bottle art, very 1980's rainbow suspenders homage.