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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Bermuda Lyme ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 26 July 2009 47 Comments

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Essence Collection

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Bermuda Lyme, a new unisex fragrance in the Essence Oils collection:

A reminiscence of voyages from the Olde World to the New... Fresh Caribbean breezes mix with exotic spices, rum, dark wood notes and of course, refreshing lime. In keeping with the tradition of 'eau fraiche' scents for Summer, Bermuda Lyme is both, coolly light and bright and yet complex. So, whether you're sailing on a schooner or just enjoying the clear blue sky, this is your new Summer scent. fabulous for men or women!

The notes feature bergamot, coriander, khaffir lime leaf, lemon, lime peel, geranium, juniper berry, rosewood, spices, musk, patchouli, rum and tobacco.

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Bermuda Lyme is available in Eau de Parfum, Perfume Oil or Water-based Body Spray. (via dshperfumes)

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  1. Daisy says:
    26 July 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Well, doesn’t this just cry out for me to try…..
    I just placed an order with her 2 days ago….really shouldn’t go anywhere near the DSH site….maybe just a quick look would be okay?

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    • Robin says:
      26 July 2009 at 4:10 pm

      Don’t look.

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      • Daisy says:
        26 July 2009 at 4:44 pm

        hahaha….how about this? time me and see how long I can hold out! actually I’m distracting myself by researching pond vacs….more expensive than perfume and way less fun. :-(

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  2. Rappleyea says:
    26 July 2009 at 2:40 pm

    I was thinking the same thing, Daisy. This sounds wonderful, although the ex was a big fan of Bay Rhum… I hope this wouldn’t be too reminiscent of that or him! LOL!

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    • Daisy says:
      26 July 2009 at 3:02 pm

      I’ve heard the name before, but I have no idea what Bay Rhum smells like. However, I don’t think it’d be very nice to be constantly reminded of an ex…..walking around irritated all day.
      I didn’t notice before that it lists Kaffir lime leaf…I wonder if this is similar to Anya’s Garden Kaffir which I did not like in the least.

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  3. miss kitty v. says:
    26 July 2009 at 3:48 pm

    I love lime, but have gone wrong with it many times before. I tend to smell like industrial cleaner more than I’d care to. But I’m a glutton for punishment, so I’ll try this. (And I haven’t tried any of the DSH’s, so this seems as a good a place as any to start.)

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    • Robin says:
      26 July 2009 at 4:21 pm

      Lime doesn’t always work for me either, but I do love it. If you try it, do report back!

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    • Rappleyea says:
      26 July 2009 at 5:32 pm

      L’Artisan’s Jatamansi has a great lime note that is very fresh and true. Leaf may be an entirely different animal although, I love petitgrain, which is the leaf of the bitter orange tree.

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  4. RusticDove says:
    26 July 2009 at 4:52 pm

    With the lemon and the lime peel, sounds ‘zesty’. Oy, sorry bout that. hehe I would like to try this.

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    • Robin says:
      26 July 2009 at 10:17 pm

      :-)

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  5. Joe says:
    26 July 2009 at 5:15 pm

    Ack, another DSH to add to the list to sample. Sounds nice. I’ve never seen “khaffir” spelled that way… I also love the look of that packaging.

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      26 July 2009 at 5:46 pm

      I’d jump in an say the same thing, but since I was wrong about “Brasil,” I’m clearly not as educated as I would have myself believe.

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      • RusticDove says:
        27 July 2009 at 10:16 am

        Hello there Miss Kitty – I joined MUA this morning, same user name as here and I look forward to learning my way around there!

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        • miss kitty v. says:
          27 July 2009 at 12:34 pm

          Drop me a line! I think there was something I offered to send you a sample of, but I have the attention span of a gnat, and can’t remember what.

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    • Daisy says:
      26 July 2009 at 7:11 pm

      I assumed it was a typo.
      or maybe it’s a lime doing some hhhheavy breathing…

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      • boojum says:
        26 July 2009 at 8:56 pm

        Khaffir, Lyme…. creative license? Going back to my corner with the other spelling bee nerds…

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    • Robin says:
      26 July 2009 at 10:17 pm

      I saw a few other mentions on Google, perhaps it’s an acceptable alternative.

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  6. CynthiaW says:
    26 July 2009 at 9:12 pm

    Sounds yummy, although I’m not a big oil fan. I’m assuming that essential oils are actually in oil form? Do they last longer than edp?

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    • Robin says:
      26 July 2009 at 10:17 pm

      No, this comes in EdP & water formula also, you don’t have to get the oil.

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  7. Absolute Scentualist says:
    27 July 2009 at 12:48 am

    I love lime and am adding this to the list of DSHs to try. I haven’t procured anything from her site yet. I just get soo overwhelmed by all the wonderful choices… Like a buffet for the nose. I simply don’t know where to begin. I wonder if there’s a favorites sample set available? And would my scent choices fit in that sample set? Hmmm…

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2009 at 8:26 am

      I’m pretty sure she does have sample sets. Also check the reviews at MakeupAlley, there are lots of them.

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  8. Flora says:
    27 July 2009 at 1:16 am

    This should be a good one since her scents are virtually all natural – I only get into trouble with so-called “lime” when it’s in some hideous mall clone frag that’s usually marketed as unisex and unlikely to have much, if any, of the real thing in it. (You know what I’m talkin; ’bout, Calvin.) :-)

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2009 at 8:27 am

      I think only some of the scents are mostly natural?

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  9. plume says:
    27 July 2009 at 3:10 am

    Everything sounds great but the lime! ha :) I still want to try it though.. surely I can find a way to love a bit of lime.

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2009 at 8:27 am

      Worth a shot!

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  10. mals86 says:
    27 July 2009 at 9:03 am

    It’s funny… at the moment I must have all of 25 DSH samples. (Seriously. I shouldn’t have that many, but they mixed up my sample order with someone who, apparently, has the same first name, and graciously resent my order while allowing me to keep the wrong stuff. Voila, lotsa lotsa samples.) In any case, when I see “DSH” in a review title, I think, “OOOH! Maybe I’ve smelled this one…” but it’s never, never one I’ve tested. I suppose that speaks to the fact that the DSH website is so labyrinthine and stocked to the brim, but it also points up that my taste is very different from yours. :)

    I saw that Wasabi Shiso, for example, and shuddered. Viridian? Um, I’ll pass. Jitterbug, Dirty Rose, Cimabue – they all sound great, but they all sound like Not Really Me. I love love love Oeillets Rouges, and Rose Vert is beautiful as well; I’d call both of them Edgy Pretty (which is about as Edgy as I can handle). The other one of Dawn’s I love is the Silk Road, which is all tea-florals-spices-leather-tobacco, a sort of old-fashioned steamer trunk of a scent. Maybe sometime I will try the Pamplemousse, too.

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2009 at 9:53 am

      Oh, sounds like I need to try Silk Road, that sounds lovely — even if we do have very different tastes :-)

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      • Daisy says:
        27 July 2009 at 1:38 pm

        oh btw Robin….I tried really hard to NOT look at Dawn’s site again….but I caved and ordered some samples….changing my name to Zero Willpower Daisy….sigh

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    • Daisy says:
      27 July 2009 at 10:16 am

      oh yeah, comments like these really help me to stay away from perfume buying….NOT!
      Mals—have you tried DSH Arabian Rose? It is one big lovely rose that does not turn to wine and does not turn to syrup—I just ordered some of the perfume oil and the EDP for J. —since she is a big rose-ho too. It is very similar in dry down to Montale’s Highness Rose, just way less spendy.

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      • CynthiaW says:
        27 July 2009 at 12:47 pm

        I’m desperately trying not to hit the buy button on the sizzling summer scents sampler – it has the Lime, Pamplemousse, Quinacridone Violet, and the Wasabi, all of which I really want to try. But…. I already have 60 – 70 other samples, plus 40+ FBs. I really have to stop.

        Does anyone know what size her samples are? Are they all 1 ml?

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        • Daisy says:
          27 July 2009 at 12:54 pm

          All the samples that I’ve gotten from DSH have been the standard 1ml size….like TPC , Luckyscent and Aedes.
          (It’s good to ask though since some independent perfumers send you about 4 drops for 7 bucks! sheesh!)

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          • CynthiaW says:
            27 July 2009 at 1:03 pm

            Well, then $35 for 10 samples, including shipping is a pretty good deal. It’s a good thing that school is getting ready to start up and I’ll have to go back to work in a few weeks – it’s less expensive all around when I have less time on my hands.

            btw – I finally got to try the Le Labo Fleur d’Oranger 27 that you scent me – it was so beautiful that I couldn’t stop sniffing my arm yesterday! I think that I’m going to have to get a FB of that, too.

          • Daisy says:
            27 July 2009 at 1:36 pm

            LOL good thing you’re getting back to work soon then…Le Labo is some uber-spendy stuff! I don’t think there’s any listed at scentwiki for sale, but I have a 100ml bottle so if you decide that 5 or 10ml is enough –let me know and I’m sure we can work something out.
            hahaha my Dangerous Daisy Super Enabler status remains intact!

        • CynthiaW says:
          27 July 2009 at 9:56 pm

          Ooh… you really are an enabler, aren’t you? lol .. I sent you an email.

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      • mals86 says:
        27 July 2009 at 4:05 pm

        Nope, haven’t tried Arabian Rose!

        Dang. Finger hovering over the luckyscent “buy” button on samples of Teo Cabanel (I have one of Julia, you can guess why – it’s lovely but very innocent – but wanted very much to try Oha and Alahine), as well as some Divine samples (Divine, L’infante, and L’ame Soeur). NOT THAT I NEED MORE SAMPLES… sigh. Leaving my cart where it is for now. Paypal password firmly in pocket. Might go get my sister a GC & samples for her birthday, though… she’s been living in Coco Mad since Xmas, and I can’t help but think that she’d like to have something different as well… and I can just, um, toss some samples for ME in the cart…

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        • Daisy says:
          27 July 2009 at 4:43 pm

          samples do get quite lonely if there are very few in the cart….they really like to be shipped in larger groups as well. They have a “flocking” kind of instinct….you can tell by the way they sort of roll together in basket …..and apparently this flocking behavior is a well known thing….after all, the CEO knows very little about perfume and yet the other night as he was trying to move about 50 samples out of the way of the computer keyboard I was sure I heard him mutter something about all these flocking samples! ;-)

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      • Joe says:
        27 July 2009 at 4:16 pm

        D, I love how you pass it off as “I ordered it for J.” I do love that technique… and I’d use it, too… if there were anyone else in my household!

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        • Daisy says:
          27 July 2009 at 4:38 pm

          welllllll….I DID buy it for J. –progeny can be so useful….that’s how I convinced the CEO to buy our first computer years ago…J went to kindergarten and other kids knew about computers thus, she was being “DISADVANTAGED” by not having access…..worked like a charm….I had, er , I mean she had a computer in the house in no time!
          Arabian Rose…of course I bought one for ME too!
          mu-wahahahaha!

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  11. OperaFan says:
    27 July 2009 at 4:27 pm

    I think that Robin had mentioned a few weeks back that we now have a permanent 10% off purchase discount code “NST” at DSH…
    I received this sample with my last order and only tried a tinsy-winsy bit of it – very pretty!

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    • Daisy says:
      27 July 2009 at 4:46 pm

      We do! I used that code today when I ordered samples….too bad I forgot about it when I ordered $150 in perfume last week!
      sigh…. :-(

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    • CynthiaW says:
      27 July 2009 at 8:32 pm

      Must.stop.reading.the.comments.in.this.thread. – now, with the discount, I feel like I’d be losing money if I didn’t order.

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      • Daisy says:
        27 July 2009 at 10:38 pm

        It’s not your fault…it’s those pesky lemming glands!

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        • OperaFan says:
          27 July 2009 at 10:56 pm

          Daisy,
          Your remarks never fail to put a smile on my face!
          LoL!

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        • CynthiaW says:
          27 July 2009 at 10:58 pm

          There’s another phrase that I need to write down and save the appropriate moment – the phrase “what are you *doing* with all of that perfume?” springs to mind.

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  12. thooth says:
    27 July 2009 at 11:00 pm

    What is the staying power for the DSH scents. I need staying power!! thanks

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    • Daisy says:
      29 July 2009 at 10:59 am

      The DSH EdPs are available with or without fixative…I can’t imagine why anyone would buy it without fixative (allergy perhaps?) anyhow, the ones I’ve tried are pretty good for lasting power. The oils that I’ve tried , a couple drops last most of the day —–pretty good considering I’m the queen of perfume eating skin.

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    • OperaFan says:
      30 July 2009 at 9:42 am

      Like Daisy, my skin also tends to absorb a lot of scents. My experiences with DHS (and I’ve tried both oils and edp) is that they tend to have have light to medium sillage, but can last 3-6 hrs depending on the fragrance formula.

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