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one of, if not the most, nostalgic scents for me. to me, this surpasses any attempts at describing how sweet and floral this smells, but it's simply a scent that will always make me smile. i'm glad i've had a stash for almost 20 years going now, it's a shame this was discontinued.

With its blend of freesia, heliotrope, water hyacinth, and pear, this shares a clear DNA with Gucci’s Gorgeous Gardenia. However, the addition of peach gives it a much more intense projection and presence. It even carries that nostalgic 'Barbie doll plastic' accord that made it so unique. It’s a tragedy this was discontinued, as it was a massive hit for a reason.

I just received a bottle of Elizabeth Taylor Gardenias and it brought me right back to my room as a 12-year-old in 2008, spraying L by Gwen Stefani liberally all over my body. I'm so happy I got to experience something like this again!

Was gifted this. The cap is beautiful. That is all. I don’t get any of the above notes, besides the musk which seems to be competing angrily with an unknown, vague messy accord. This is trying to be edgy but fails. A reviewer below is correct, this left me feeling angry too. This smells of an angry skunk. I’ve never smelt one before but I picture it smelling like this. 🦨 🥴

Not sure if my vintage sample turned or the notes don't work well for me. It's not quite green, but is sweet and a bit aquatic. Sweetness is all floral sweetness. I wouldn't say it smells clean, but it is floral and fresh. It smells honeyed to my nose. Although sweet pea is not listed in the original copy, it smells like a sweet pea note (or it's the combination of notes creating this). I think the aging or previous storage took some of the luminosity from this composition. Florals I would say are primarily freesia and frangipani, but there's a heliotrope and a soft muskiness to it. (Rose and modern peach notes could be messing with me.) A hazy aquatic floral. Interesting but not wearable for me. Loved the original campaign and Gwen Stefani though! I'm excited to compare it my Leila Lou sample (Thanks, allieferraro for the recommendation!) ***on a test strip: Sweet floral that smells fresh and clean, but a little dated to that time period. I get all the notes I smelled on my skin, but more refined and much fresher. Not honeyed, but more like flower nectar from dewy flowers. Lush but soft. If only it performed this way on my skin!

Leila Lou by Rosie Jane is an 85% dupe for this perfume. Not as good as this was, but for anyone really missing it, it is worth getting a small bottle!

Today is Gwen Stefani’s Birthday. Love your music as well as your fragrance. Happy Birthday.🎉

zinga ding ding! this is sooo good. im gonna go out on a limb and say that this fragrance is the best summer scent. it’s exciting, unusual, flirty, fun, unexpected, unique, and my favorite celebrity fragrance. it is very fruity and floraly. it has fruit in the top and bottom and flowers in top, middle, and bottom. it’s a very full scent, yet light. it never bothers me, even in humid heat. i cant believe i found out about this when it came out. this is one of the few bottles of perfume i have repurchased and have 2 backups. i cant believe such a beautiful scent existed. gwen, please please bring this back. just as it was. this was a work of art. the lid of the bottle was sometimes hard to recap. but it’s not an issue. and bottle always leaked. not an issue. the scent is so good. really one of the best scents ever made. oh and guys love this. and it lasts and projects. the bottle is beautiful.

If I could only bring one perfume back from being discontinued, it would be this perfume every time. It is so beautiful and gutted it's not sold anymore. :(

from that first blast of bold, harsh, borderline chemical florals, this perfume makes its presence known. no need to spray liberally! a few spritzes will last all day. this is a nostalgic high school scent for me (although it gives grown-up, sexy woman energy). i don't wear it too often, but when i really want something aggressive, it's my go-to. i can see the stink lines coming off my skin when i wear this. this is also a fiancée-approved scent on me.

Rating: 🤢 Do I like it: Nah Who it is: 🤢 Smells I get: 🤢 Meyer's Briggs type: / For me this was sadly a scrubber, because it smelled of badly mixed flowers, plastic, anger and headaches.

Addicting. Juicy pear and honey suckle is prominent. With a hint of sunshine air and sunflower petals. Tuberose rules this scent.

The pear is very bright and fruity. It reminds me of the old pear-scented body spray at BBW in the 90’s. The florals support it well. Clean and fruity.

I just sampled Leila Lou by Rosie Jane, and wow what a scent memory! Brought me right back to my childhood room and my bottle of Gwen Stefani L.

💲 This came in a set: 1.7oz EDP, the 6.7oz body lotion, & ~7oz scrub. I can’t remember the price exactly but it was in the $35-50 range at Ross. Circa the mid 2000’s. 👃Such a fresh, clean, lightly fruity floral, fragrance. It was perfect for summer, & everyone around me liked it and complimented the scent. It was also long lasting. However, I gave it more than a few tries and it just did not mix well with my body chemistry. I had both the perfume and the body lotion, but gave the perfume away, unfortunately. No one else detected it, but I swear it would pickle on me every single time. Not only that, but something in it- idk what -makes me sneeze non stop and gave me headaches. I walked around being allergic to myself whenever I wore this. I should come clean and share that I still have the lotion (which says discard after 12mos. Lol) I still put it on sometimes and it doesn’t acid peel my flesh off or anything. Still smells great, but still causes me to sneeze all day. If you liked the scent but had a rejectful experience with it too, I would recommend going for the original Marc Jacobs Daisy instead. They are not similar in scent, but they are similar in type; They’re both fresh, clean, & just a tad fruity floral.

I used to LOVE L in the mid 2000’s.. I purchased one bottle and it smelled soo good but gave me the WORST headaches. I thought I had a faulty batch and got another about a year later… same effect! 😩 Oh the memories ☺️

This and Benefit's Maybe Baby are nearly identical upon application. Maybe Baby stays more fruity with apricot shining throughout. L becomes a bit more floral and musky/peachy/spicy in the drydown. L has impressive longevity on clothing more so than my skin. I'm glad I was still able to find a full bottle of L for a reasonable price on ebay as BMB is scarce and way overpriced.

A lady friend wore L for me. I experienced it from initial application and for three hours (it was still going strong). My only reaction was "blah". I had high hopes. I wanted to imagine eating a fresh fruit cocktail in a flower garden. No dice. She would have been better off with a cheap scented soap.

A sweet but not treacly fruity floral. The sweet notes come from the lighter florals; sweet pea,frangipani, heliotrope and soft jasmine, mixed with mouthwatering peach and pear. This is delectable! Longevity and sillage are moderate (could be more intense with heavier applications, but I apply one light spray to my torso, one to an arm and press the arms gently together.) This is office safe and suitable for most venues. It is “sprightly” and cheerful. I doubt one could be crabby or grumpy whilst wearing this; it is a happy fragrance!

Fruity, fresh, and green. This is a really fun scent to wear in the summertime if you're feeling a bit flirty. I got this in 10th grade and still have it and wear occasionally. I actually wore it a lot in the winter back then, because something about it felt somewhat heavy to me, but now I just associate it with summertime by the pool, or stepping fresh out of a tropical shower on vacation. This truly smells great and has a gourmand quality to it.

I can't believe some of the negative reviews on here, it had me questioning if I should blind buy this or not! I caved in and I did! I actually bought TWO bottles. It's hard to say what hasn't been said already. It smells like Garnier, a peachy fruity shampoo with some musk. It's heady, but light and airy; the pear makes way and gives birth to fruity florals. My nose isn't that talented to distinguish one note from another, BUT I can detect LOTV and orange blossom 🧡. I'm so happy my skin chemistry agrees with this, I don't understand how people are getting rancid, plastic, chlorine, toilet fresheners, and stinky bathing suits. Just say it doesn't work with your skin chemistry, instead of bashing the perfume! You can tell she put in hard work, payed attention to every detail! It is unique, it reminds me of the fresh summer days in the 90s, even though this was made in the 2000's... it totally relaxes me...I feel like playing some Sara Mclachlan (Surfacing) or Smashing Pumpkins or even some Vitamin C, damn. It is a strong fragrance, it's 8:00 PM and I've had it on ALL DAY and afternoon. Do yourself a favor and BUY this, before it goes extinct. A good, new, fresh one is already worth 80$ dollars or more on ebay.

This is one of my favorite Summer fragrances! Its amazing! Fresh, clean and gorgeous. Also I find it elegant. Its so underrated. I bought this back in 2007 and now own two bottles because its discontinued and I don't want to live without it. I own over 200 fragrances and its one of a kind. Firmenich & Gwen Stefani made a memorable gem.

this perfume is the perfect pear/floral scent. the longevity and sillage are amazing, i spritz once on my wrists, chest and behind my neck and this stays strong throughout the whole day its a gorgeous floral perfume that i dont find to be mature at all. the only downside for me personally is that sometimes it can trigger my migraines. most days it's completely fine but others its just too strong for my head. 8/10

I have had this perfume for over 10 years, and it’s still one of my favorites! I haven’t ever smelled anything else quite like it. I’m wondering if the formula changed recently because I don’t get any trace of the fake/plastic scent others have mentioned. I actually bought Jo Malone Frangipani because I love the frangipani in this, and I discovered that I still like this one more. It’s floral yet very fresh, clean, and sweet with no trace of the common old lady/powdery floral notes. I will look for other fragrances with peach and frangipani because I love this one so much!

Smells like plastic. And at times, burning plastic. Every time I try this, it opens with a very bad plastic note. Wonder if I received a bad sample. It’s very old at this point. Update: I’m throwing this out, it is that bad. I thought I purchased a bad 5ml sample, but no, I see others smell the plastic + burning plastic that I do. Maybe since this is so old, it turns bad in the same way for everyone. Perhaps this fragrance started out good. Needless to say, I think this is absolutely disgusting. Worst fragrance I’ve smelled, tied with KKW White Diamond. It smells toxic.

Smells like a fresh, clean, pretty, floral-fruity scented bubble bath! Nice all year round.

this perfume honestly reminds me of a fresh peach but floral but the perfume isnt crazy floral to thee point where you smell like a old lady perfume infact the floral almost brings out the perfumes scent

It's shampoo with green in it. It's very fresh, all day wearing, all-seasons wearing. Got in when it launch, finished it. Got a new bottle last week with a good deal. I'm happy.

L by Gwen Stefani reminds me a little bit of GUCCI GUILTY in the opening. L has a fruity, honey, honeysuckle, frangipini scent to my nose... with a hint of pear. There is also an intangible aquatic, synthetic, industrial cleaner quality to the fragrance that mingles with the fruity notes and pear. In the dry down, a soft powdery, feminine lily of the valley is revealed. However in the beginning, the lily of the valley is hidden by the prominent fruity top notes of sweet honey, pear, and frangipini. The lili of the valley that emerges late in the dry down of L is similar to the soft, pretty, powdery lily of the valley that you get in GAP HEAVEN and PHILOSOPHY LIVING GRACE.

I ended up blind buying this one. I found two pre owned bottles for a song. What a score! This is very reminiscent of sun lotion or the beach. It's very uplifting but far more interesting then say Bobbi Brown Beach. This one even has a touch of spice initially. I can't speak for longevity but it was an instant love. I understand this one has been discontinued. I can see why some would be heartbroken to lose it. It's nice, unique and pretty without being boring or common. She's a keeper!!!