Estée Lauder Intuition
3.9
Overall
Accords
citrus
floral
amber
green
woody
white floral
Notes Pyramid
Top
GrapefruitMandarin OrangeBergamotOrangeGreen Notes
Heart
GardeniaFreesiaRhododendronRose
Base
AmberWoody Notes
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ A sunny, ambery, citrus fragrance that is office‑friendly and not overly sillage‑heavy.
- ✅ A beautifully balanced scent with freshness, floral notes and just the right amount of sweetness.
- ✅ A versatile transeasonal feminine scent ideal for everyday use.
- ✅ It's a really unique perfume and all time classic.
- ✅ This gorgeous perfume has such depth and is so complex - rich, warm, self-possessed - it doesn’t smell like anything else I’ve smelled before.
- ✅ This is a sunny, ambery, citrus like others have said. It’s office friendly and doesn’t have an enormous amount of sillage. It’s very Estée in that it leans on the clean side but this is how I prefer most fragrances. Nice!
- ✅ Outstanding, sophisticated and classy! And it gets even more beautiful as the time passes...
- ✅ This is my favorite hot summer fragrance. To me; my brain, nose and soul, this is a bright citrus frangrance that fans me with a cool grapefruit opening that blossoms with a fragrant but subdued gardenia and remains refreshingly citrus to the amber drydown.
- ✅ edpjunkie: "It’s a sunny, ambery, citrus like others have said. It’s office friendly and doesn’t have an enormous amount of sillage. Nice!"
- ✅ Ambrenuit: "Extraordinary, bombastic ambery, citrusy floral for all seasons. Not a girly one, this is scent of a mature, confident woman."
- ✅ Enrium: "A pretty, bright floriental in its own right. It’s a beautifully balanced, cleverly composed scent with plenty of freshness, floral notes and just the right amount of sweetness."
- ❌ The reformulated version is described as a shadow of the original, losing sparkle and warmth.
- ❌ Some users report a sharp, bitter citrus opening that can cause headaches.
- ❌ On certain skin chemistries the fragrance can smell medicinal or overly sharp and disappear quickly.
- ❌ It smells awfully strong at first with overly sharp citrus and then dries down to a basic baby powder smell! Nothing like the original sultry seductive one from 2000; it must have been reformulated!?
- ❌ The bitter grapefruit and orange top notes are really assertive... There's just a teensy note of mosquito-repellent acridity in there, possibly from the citrus.
- ❌ It opens very strong, sharp and bitter. I don't get any of the floral notes that are supposedly there. It smells medicinal on me, almost like the mix has a base of rubbing alcohol.
- ❌ On my skin this smells like latex gloves and cleaning solvent. Conjuring up images of hospitals.
- ❌ On first spritz I get a strong spice scent - cumin? tumeric? it is one of the things that gets dumped together with others to make "curry powder".
- ❌ NinaVanilla: "It smells awfully strong at first with overly sharp citrus and then dries down to a basic baby powder smell. Nothing like the original sultry seductive one from 2000."
- ❌ brahmindiva: "It opens very strong, sharp and bitter. I don’t get any of the floral notes; it smells medicinal, almost like rubbing alcohol."
- ❌ cloyd42: "The opening is a truly nasty chemical smell that quickly moves into bright grapefruit and orange, but it never really warms up and fades sooner than I like."
