# Yardley London — Daisy > This is Yardley London's budget Daisy - a 2014 light feminine floral EDT, and emphatically not Marc Jacobs Daisy, though the resemblance is the entire point. It is a cheap, cheerful green-apple-and-so ## Essence This is Yardley London's budget Daisy - a 2014 light feminine floral EDT, and emphatically not Marc Jacobs Daisy, though the resemblance is the entire point. It is a cheap, cheerful green-apple-and-soft-florals scent priced for pocket change, widely treated as a near-dupe of the far costlier Marc Jacobs original. What makes it distinctive is less the smell - which is deliberately generic - than the value proposition: a pleasant, inoffensive spring floral for a few pounds. ## Scent Profile The opening is the best part and the part most reviewers single out: a crisp, grassy green apple top that several describe as genuinely non-synthetic, like biting into a tart Granny Smith. Within a minute or so that green snap softens. From there skin chemistry splits the room. Some wearers get an intensely oily-green hyacinth that a few find headache-inducing, while many others report the green vanishing almost entirely into a soft, rounded fruitiness reminiscent of pear or peach sorbet with a slightly powdery base. The white-rose heart is faint; the hyacinth is the more assertive floral when it shows. The sandalwood-musk base is light and clean, and a few note a hay-like, new-mown-grass sweetness - dry, not sugary - rather than a creamy wood. It is essentially linear with low development, a single pretty daisy impression that one reviewer aptly called "what you imagine daisies to smell like. Not what they actually smell like." ## Performance Performance is the consistent weak point: longevity and projection both run low. Reviewers repeatedly describe it as a skin scent within an hour, with one noting it vanished to the wind within an hour or so even when layered with the body mist. It lingers better on clothes but projects little. The standard workaround is to reapply often, which the price makes painless, and to layer with the matching body wash, lotion, and body spray in the range. It is best in warm weather, where its freshness reads well and its lightness becomes a virtue rather than a flaw. ## Wearing Context Spring and summer, daytime, casual. The reading is unanimous: an easy office or everyday scent with no chance of offending anybody, evocative of meadows and sunshine. It skews young and feminine. It suits anyone wanting a clean, undemanding floral for hot days or scent-sensitive environments where a heavier fragrance would be unwelcome - and anyone who wants the Marc Jacobs Daisy effect without the cost or commitment. ## Comparisons & DNA The dominant comparison, made constantly, is to Marc Jacobs Daisy - many wearers call it exactly like, or a bit like, the original at a fraction of the price, with one finding it on clearance for a couple of pounds. It sits in the fruity-green-floral family that Daisy popularized. This is a perceived similarity, not an official dupe; the houses are unrelated. Within Yardley's own lineup it is closely related to (and sometimes sold as) Royal English Daisy (2011, the Royal Wedding edition) and the later English Daisy, which share the same green-leaves and apple to hyacinth and white-rose to sandalwood and musk skeleton. ## Reception Sentiment is warm but unpretentious. Praise centers on value - "a complete bargain," "springtime in a bottle" - the realistic green-apple opening, and its cheerful, easy wearability. Criticism is overwhelmingly about performance, namely short life and weak sillage, and a minority report a sour or sweat-like turn on their skin or a headache-inducing hyacinth. There is mild snobbery about the Yardley name, with associations of old ladies and grandmothers, which several reviewers note then dismiss after smelling it. The blind-buy verdict is an easy yes given the trivial price, with the explicit caveat that you are buying a light, short-lived scent. ## Versions & Reformulation The Yardley Daisy lineage is tangled. Royal English Daisy launched in 2011 for the William and Catherine royal wedding; Daisy as catalogued here dates to 2014; and Yardley later sold the scent as English Daisy within its Flowerful Collection, reformulated and marketed as 94% naturally-derived, vegan, and cruelty-free. These share essentially the same note structure and are treated as variants of one another. The 2014 Daisy is the ground-truth identity here, with the near-identical sibling releases noted alongside it. ## Acquisition Notes This is a rock-bottom pricing tier, routinely found for well under ten pounds, with the current English Daisy EDT carrying a low RRP and frequent discounting. It is sold at UK high-street chains and through the Flowerful Collection with matching body wash, lotion, and hand cream. Counterfeiting is a non-issue at this price and no batch-code concerns are reported. The main acquisition wrinkle is naming: shoppers should confirm whether they are buying the 2014 Daisy, Royal English Daisy, or the current English Daisy, as these have overlapped in catalogs and retail. ## Notable Facts & Lore - The closest thing to lore is the sibling Royal English Daisy, launched in 2011 to commemorate the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton. - That edition traded on the daisy as a symbol of "youth, honour and most of all loyal love." - The 2014 Daisy itself carries no significant launch drama, celebrity tie, or controversy. - The ever-present Marc Jacobs Daisy comparison is the dominant cultural reference point for the scent. - Yardley later folded the scent into a Flowerful Collection reworked as a more naturally-derived, vegan, cruelty-free formula.