White Shoulders (1945)
by Elizabeth Arden

White Shoulders conjours long lost memories and love
long forgotten like a message in a bottle from years
ago collects our treasured feelings and nostalgic
wistfulness; Rose petals lies gently on a alabaster
basking in the early summer sun glowing
in hues of pale pink and blood red blowing from a
rose garden giving a scent of intoxicating spender
A summer breeze blows though delicate white lace
curtains gives the sweet scent of French lilacs floats
in the air and adds an aura of peace and
tranquility and Relaxes your Grandmother's white
Persian Kitten after playing with her Antique
pearl necklace.

21st March, 2011.

This is a wonderful parfume!!!! A fav for a long time, ageless and beautiful!

23rd February, 2011.

A boy presented a bottle of White Shoulders to me on our first date. I literally thought you could only wear it on your shoulders! Although I have not worn it for many years, I still have a pleasant memory of it--rich, flowery. elegant, sparkling, green and never sweet or ambery. I ordinary cannot stand gardenia fragrances, but this gardenia is so wonderfully mingled with the other florals that it remains well-behaved and does not become too tropical smelling or gooey sweet. Also, Tatiana reminds me a tad of this as well.

14th October, 2009.

I can't help but say nice things about White Shoulders. First off, my husband gave me a bottle as one of my wedding gifts. Why? It just so happened that *his* father presented a bottle to his mother as a wedding gift many years ago.

For me, it evokes feelings of warm weather and romance. Other scents' atttempts at this such as Maitresse by Agent Provateur come close, but this one draws me time and time again.

I enjoy florals, esp. white florals. I adore the strong scent of the heady gardenia and jasmine, touched with rose. It is warm and very elegant with classic charm.

28th September, 2009.

White Shoulders smells good, but doesn't last ten minutes on me. On and gone. Glorious on others, and not outdated, but it can do a vanishing act on some of us.

23rd August, 2009.

I tried this on my aunt and mother's suggestion, both of whom wore it as young woman and listed it as their all-time favorite fragrance. The top notes are delicious, a very strong floral without being offensive, but as it cools down it can only be described as powery. The lily of the valley is very present (which I like) but other than that it smells almost like wet baby powder. Not terribly offensive, nobody's going to gag smelling you, but it's not something I would choose on purpose.

16th August, 2009.