Gypsy Water fragrance notes
Head
- Bergamot, Lemon, Pepper, Juniper Berries
Heart
- Incense, Pine Needles, Orris
Base
- Amber, Vanilla, Sandalwood
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Latest Reviews of Gypsy Water

Brands update, re-brand and reformulate all the time for many reasons. I don't think it would be out of reach for Byredo to simply rename this one. If this is a good scent, I'd never know, because I'm not going to touch it with a ten foot pole. G*psy is not my word to use, and I won't wear a frag whose name I wouldn't speak aloud. It doesn't mean free spirit, it doesn't mean wanderer, it's a slur used against a marginalized group.
I know this doesn't bother a lot of people, but whether we like it or not, our spending speaks for us. I hope people aren't buying this stuff because they explicitly don't care about the oppression and genocide of Romani and traveling folks. And if they aren't, maybe they shouldn't be buying it at all.

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Everything about this is nice, nice opening, nice drydown. Does it have the 'wow' factor? I'm not too sure.

The base adds a vanillin note that is accompanied by a weakly ambery sideline.
I get weak sillage, poor projection and a rather suboptimal longevity of three hours, with the last hour being very close to my skin.
This summery scent is pleasant in its top notes, but only in a watery sense of a way; the rest of its development not exactly bad, but it is characterised by being generic, synthetic and diluted - as evidenced by the poor performance on my skin. 2.5/5

Projection is adequate and longevity is decent lasting 6-8 hours.

Good fragrance overall I guess, just not for me.
Not something I'll be decanting or paying $200+ dollars for.