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Nivea NIVEA 2015

Version from 2015

7.7 / 10 656 Ratings

A popular perfume by NIVEA for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is creamy-fresh. It is being marketed by Beiersdorf.
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Main accords

Creamy

Fresh

Powdery

Floral

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Lavender

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Freesia

Lily of the valley Rose

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Musky notes

Sandalwood

Perfumers

Isabelle Abram, Givaudan

Ratings

Scent

7.7656 Ratings

Longevity

5.7593 Ratings

Sillage

5.4584 Ratings

Bottle

6.7604 Ratings

Value for money

7.7311 Ratings

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Reviews

46 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/07/2020

10Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

Ignorabilis
27 Reviews

Ignorabilis

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This is a no brainer!

Since I'm not really into using body lotion, I often had that feeling of "oh, I wish I could just get the scent and skip the lotion part" with many creams. So just for that I already love Nivea releasing a perfume that just has this exact purpose: To smell like the cream.
And it does its job perfectly.

As many already mentioned in the reviews: this smells exactly like the classic darker blue nivea body lotion. Really powdery with some delicate floral and lavender.

On me it lasts up to three hours at max. But for me that's okay. The sillage can get quite heavy if you overspray. For me 2 (max. 3) sprays in the right spots are enough. I wouldn't recommend spraying more or you will easily feel like taking a deep sniff on lose powder that now won't get out of your nose. So go easy with this one.

I don't wear this that often but if I wear it, I actually really enjoy it.
Layering it with soft floral fragrances also works well, if you want a more powdery creamy touch.

All in all: You get exactly what you paid for. And how could you wish for more?

11/10/2015

7Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

loewenherz
918 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 82

The Soul of the Germans

With fascination (and a certain amount of wonder, I admit) I have been following the hype surrounding this fragrance since its launch, which imitates the scent of a hundred-year-old skin cream, and I have wondered where this interest in a - pardon! - drugstore perfume, albeit a cleverly artificially scarce one, might come from. And then I smelled it. And I remembered.

If one were to place the archetypes of a Frenchman, Italian, Englishman, and a German (or their respective female counterparts) side by side, most people would spontaneously think that the Frenchman might smell like Eau Sauvage or Habit Rouge (and the Frenchwoman like Chanel Nº 5), and the Italian like Acqua di Parma. The Englishman, in turn, would smell like Blenheim Bouquet, the Englishwoman like Lily of the Valley.

The German would have no scent.

Now, it is by no means the case that there are not beautiful and very good perfumes in this country - some of them have been exceedingly successful for a long time. But we seem to lack something like our own fragrance historical DNA - something that everyone associates with the scent of 'something German' - something that once played a role, even if a small one, in everyone's (and every woman's) life. The scent of Nivea, the white cream in the blue tin with the white lettering - and nothing else is this Eau de Toilette - is this collective scent memory, the olfactory soul of the Germans, if you will.

A gentle poke on the nose with a white dab of Nivea on the fingertip - in the hallway, still in the coat, and the lips are all chapped from the winter outside. Being creamed in the bathroom and quickly running to the living room to watch Sandman in front of the TV - even though the cream has not yet absorbed. A comforting cool and softly white touch on sun-tanned little shoulders, right behind the dike at the North Sea beach, the July sun high above the horizon. A thick ring of Nivea around the hairline during the first, clumsy hair dyeing with the best friend (wild plum!) - and afterwards still everything is full of stains. It is equally everyday and intimate memories like these - wistful and full of tenderness like the touch of a mother's hand - that this fragrance is capable of evoking - memories of a lost, better world that seems buried under all that troubles and saddens us.

Conclusion: it cannot stand in line with Blenheim Bouquet or Chanel Nº 5, nor should it. It is memory and tenderness and the collective scent memory of all of us. And that is more than many other - possibly better - fragrances can achieve.

10/30/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Jambo
14 Reviews

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Jambo

Top Review 68

Life in the Reflection of the Starry Sky

Foreword:

I had marked today on my calendar because I absolutely wanted the EDT. So, after work, I went to the Nivea House in Berlin to buy the coveted item. To be honest, I expected a crowd, as I thought the hype felt quite big. But I was the only customer in the store, and the staff there seemed pleased that someone was interested in the EDT. ;-)

Anyway, I didn’t waste much time and took a piece without even smelling it. However, the price did seem a bit steep to me - 24 euros for 30 ML is, I think, quite a lot for a non-designer Eau de Toilette. But for those who like Nivea, are interested in the world of fragrances, and have the chance to combine both, such trivialities are not a concern at first ;-) At home, I eagerly opened the packaging and delighted my skin.

About the perfume:

Now to the exciting part: What does the perfume smell like? It clearly, unmistakably smells like Nivea cream. No development, no heart note, no base note, from 0 to 100 Nivea. Straightforward like a wind tunnel and uncompromising, this EDT smells like the iconic cream.

Is that a surprise? Probably...not?! I must admit that I had hoped to encounter an EDT that has a hint of Nivea cream and otherwise goes in a creamy, possibly powdery direction. A gentle precursor that hints at its origins but otherwise has its own charm. But no such luck - 100% Nivea. The intensity did catch me off guard a bit - two small sprays are enough to immerse my entire surroundings in Nivea cream. On the way back, several people clearly looked in my direction, puzzled, wondering who used so much cream ;-) The sillage is therefore quite impressive for an EDT, and the longevity is equally remarkable. After three hours, I still smell clearly and unmistakably of Nivea cream, despite having applied the EDT quite sparingly. Therefore, one should be careful not to approach this too ambitiously, as otherwise, one might smell like 50ml of Nivea cream all day long. At first, it might be a pleasant thought for some to smell like Nivea all the time, but with the intensity, it does become a bit overwhelming after 30 minutes.

Development: Top note - Nivea. Heart note - Nivea. Base note - Nivea ;-)
Sillage: Absolutely fine, almost great for an EDT.
Longevity: So far 3 hours, and I still smell uncompromisingly of cream.
Bottle: Subtle, yet beautiful!! Soft lines on a white bottle that looks nicer in reality than in the photos.

Conclusion:

I am both enchanted and perplexed - I always wanted a perfume that smells like "everyday." And Nivea cream is, for me, a part of everyday life, a household product that neither impresses nor surprises. Nothing to discuss or receive compliments about. Something you toss into the shopping cart without comment and simply use without reflecting on it. Yet the cream has something fascinating about it; it radiates a sense of security like few other things in my life. It is a loyal companion that has followed me from childhood through youth to old age and is always present. There is no occasion where the cream is inappropriate, and there probably aren’t many people who are bothered by the scent of the cream. For this reason alone, it is strange that I use so many words to describe a scent that has unconsciously accompanied me throughout my life.

It is said that when you look into the sky, you are looking into the past. For the journey of light emitted by a distant star has left so much time behind that the star may have long since faded in our relative sense of time. To draw a vague connection: With this scent, I look back at a piece of my past with all its terrible, beautiful, crazy, and boring moments while still consciously feeling the present around me. The greatness of this realization can hardly be conveyed by any material things, and that this innocent white piece evokes such a feeling experience in me is something I would not have believed.

07/21/2019

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Helena1411
107 Reviews

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Helena1411

Top Review 40

The Cocoon

Dark. Not quite. A faint flicker of light. Irregular, flashing behind her closed eyelids.
Had she forgotten to draw the curtains again in the evening?
Sunbeams incessantly tickle her face, trying to force her to open her eyes, tugging at her eyelids like little whiny children.

She does not want to get up.
A new day. New challenges. New hurdles. Old acquaintances. Old feelings. Old burdens.

Struggling to open one eye, as if the lid were glued shut, facing the day with its glaring sunlight. First task of the day accomplished. Now to throw back the blanket. Reluctantly, a final bastion against the looming act of getting up. The warm, soft scent of laundry dissipates in the oppressive morning light, the protection from the outside world vanishes.

She stares at her bare feet, foreign objects that refuse to obey her. Reluctantly, her mind follows these strangely alien extremities that drag themselves heavily to the bathroom.

Like a hurdle race, her arm lifts towards the shower faucet with the firm intention of overcoming this hurdle as well. She lets the water run over her outstretched arm. Is it too warm? Is it too cold? She doesn't know. The water droplets patter like tiny needles on her skin, trying to jolt her awake, calling out supposed motivations that she cannot hear.

Nothing penetrates inward. It is silent there. Empty. Deaf. And eerie. Alien in her own body.
She almost has to smile at this paradox. Almost.

Perplexity in front of the wardrobe. The colors scream at her, it hurts. Patterns blur into a wild jumble, shaking her world. Black. Black is good. Maybe gray too. Unexciting. Innocuous. Unemotional.

A scent? Actually as essential to her day as breathing, now a leaden decision. Somewhere deep in her inner strangeness, a voice whispers to her kindly. She nods, the scent could go. White bottle. Almost like black. Just as unexciting, innocuous, unemotional. Just white. Like Yin and Yang.

And immediately, the finest scent nets weave around her. Soft, quiet, unexciting. She stands completely still. Scents, like memories, envelop her, stirring something within her. Images appear before her eyes, childhood, cozy, soft, warm. An unfamiliar feeling of security. Was there not, very quietly, a bell-like laughter?
The scent net has woven tightly, holding her, carrying her, comforting her. It feels as if she senses a warm hand on her cheek, as if invisible arms embrace her.
She takes a deep breath. The scent flows through her, gently rocking her soul, opening long-closed doors. It is as white as the bottle, illuminating the darkest corners and nooks of her alien self, letting small beams of light in, a balm for the wounds.

And she closes her eyes and allows herself to be carried a little by the softness, the security, the memory. Of herself. Beyond the stranger.

And a tear rolls down her cheek.
An emotion.
She smiles.

01/13/2019

7Scent 6Longevity 4Sillage

DonJuanDeCat
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Brings a canister full of Nivea cream with you!!

Hello, you screen watchers! :D

Today I’m testing the scent of perhaps the most famous cream in the world: Nivea! And my title alludes to that right away. You know, it has always been a tradition among us Turks living in Germany to bring Nivea cream to our relatives and friends back in Turkey. And preferably in the largest possible containers, meaning those huge blue canisters. Especially the older generation wanted these creams, and for years I didn’t know why…

Back then, when I was younger, Nivea was simply much more expensive in Turkey and not available everywhere. But aside from that, relatives also wanted to see something new, something that was not so easily obtainable in Turkey at that time. This means that foreign souvenirs and gifts were always welcome. From Germany, of course, Nivea, which was always well-received. In addition, they wanted various other things, like a certain chocolate-hazelnut cream from a specific Italian manufacturer (yes, yes, Nutella, what else! You know, to this day, many people think there’s no better spread than this really unhealthy stuff… but precisely because it’s unhealthy, it apparently tastes so good, and believe me, I’ve tried many chocolate spreads… :DD), or other things like various cigarette brands (Marlboro…) etc.

And to this day, nothing has changed with our older relatives. At the end of January, for example, I’m flying to Turkey, and my suitcase will contain a few of those things… well, mainly actually just Nivea, which brings us back to the cream, and therefore I’ll now get to the scent :)

The scent:

Apart from the fact that the scent immediately reminds me of classic Nivea cream, I’ll try as always to break down what individual notes I can smell here. First, there are the citrus notes, especially bergamot with a little hint of mandarin. While the bergamot provides a fresh effect for a little while, the mandarins disappear immediately.
Next, I would guess lily of the valley and musk, maybe a little rose as well. Additionally, it also smells quite… creamy :D Ha ha ha, what else! Creamy is actually a perfect description here. It’s not just that the scent comes across as soft and creamy; it also smells, as mentioned, just like Nivea.
I believe, over time, I can smell the freesia, which has a slightly stuffy character. Towards the end, however, the scent becomes less floral and more reminiscent of Nivea cream again, now with a sweet musk note.

The sillage and longevity:

The scent is not particularly strong and feels more like a more fragrant version of regular Nivea cream. This means that at first it can be smelled for a while, but then it fades away and will probably only be perceived by most people from up close. The scent doesn’t last very long; I would say it’s gone after about six hours at the latest.

The bottle:

The bottle is round and white. It looks like the Nivea cream that has been freed from its blue aluminum container. On the front, Nivea is written in the famous Nivea font. There is no cap; the spray nozzle is integrated into the bottle. To use the scent, you simply press a blue button on the top of the bottle. And fittingly, the scent comes in a blue box. Design-wise, it’s simple but very fitting for the scent and the brand, so that’s okay!

So! I don’t think the scent is bad. I wouldn’t really use it myself, as I’m not a big fan of the Nivea scent (my mother even hates it… when I showed her the scent, I was shooed away within a second!), but still, the scent is olfactorily not bad and something different.

However, that could also be the downside of the scent, as it doesn’t come across to others as if you’ve applied perfume, but rather that you’ve smeared yourself all over with thick, greasy Nivea cream, and others might refuse to shake your hand because they would think you’d have a completely greasy and creamy hand afterward, baaah! :DD

Otherwise, the perfume captures the scent of the cream very well and is for me an all-rounder that can be used at any time, in any season, and in my opinion, it fits best during the day for work, school, studies, leisure, etc… but it doesn’t come across too well for going out.

Yes, Nivea fans can definitely give the scent a try; everyone else should look for other creamy scents that are much nicer, in my opinion.

Okay, that’s it for now. Have a nice evening and a great start to the week tomorrow!

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