Comments on: Ormonde Jayne Frangipani Absolute ~ perfume review

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:26:08 +0000

It must be most of them. The others didn’t interest me so much, although the new Tiare has lots of fans.

By: Seraph

Seraph — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:26:06 +0000

Now that Stupid actually looks, you’ve already done 11 which is nearly all anyway…

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:27:34 +0000

I think I’ve reviewed all of the ones I care about already

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:27:14 +0000

Sorry for the very late reply, somehow I missed your comment entirely! I do remember Sunflowers, but not the other. And do try OJ Woman, it’s a great scent.

By: Seraph

Seraph — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:39:38 +0000

This is stunning – what an opening! And the dewy freshness of the floral heart…Did remind me a bit of DK Gold…will try them side by side…Thank you so much for putting me onto OJ with your lovely reviews…Howsabout doing the ones tyou haven’t done yet?

By: promiseevans

promiseevans — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:49:27 +0000

I agree this is a very nice, light floral. It did fade fairly quickly on me, though. I have to admit, it really reminds me of a scent I had in like 9th grade…I can’t remember which…but there was one called Sunflowers and one from Bath and Body Works in a little blue checked box called Gingham. It smells very similar to what I remember one of those being like. I have been debating on trying the OJ Woman…It got hightest marks from Tania/Luca….

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:30:08 +0000

So glad you love Frangipani as much as I do! Frangipani even makes me want to brush the toast crumbs off my lap, LOL…it’s so much prettier than I am.

Have you tried any of the others yet?

By: Chanterais

Chanterais — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:56:16 +0000

I feel quite silly for being so late to the Ormonde Jayne party, but I need to squeal girlishly for a moment, so please bear with me. Robin, after reading your delicious reviews of the OJ oeuvre, and then having Chandler Burr egg me on when he described Ormonde Man as smelling of compassion, I rather feel as if I’d fallen madly in love with the line before I’d even tried any of them. Having lost my head entirely, I ordered the tantalizing sampler set which arrived in record time (and let me digress by saying how utterly exquisite the Ormonde Jayne website is – it immediately makes you want to brush the toast crumbs off your lap and sit up straighter, doesn’t it?).

Having read about the pleasure you get from Frangipani, I knew it was the one I wanted to try first, and oh my nose! It is even more addictively lovely than I’d imagined. I have woefully little skill in picking out individual scent notes, so I hope it will suffice to say only that it is the kind of perfume that, as you reach for a pen, so captures your attention that you suddenly realise that you’ve been sniffing your wrist for ten minutes and are starting to look deranged. Apart from the glowing florals, I definitely get a whiff of cedar, but it’s not the insistent, loud-mouthed cedar of moth blocks. It’s something much gentler and has a warm kindness to it – the kind of note that you never realised how much you loved until you met it in this incarnation.

I’m genuinely enchanted. All those other sweet little OJ samples are jiggling about in their case, waving for attention, but I can’t move on yet. I know I’ll get to them in time, but I’m enjoying my Frangipani monogamy too much right now to be interested in anything else. I just love who I am when I wear Frangipani. Do you know what I mean?

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:34:48 +0000

You know, I’ve never tried any of the OJs in extrait because a) already VERY happy with the EdPs, and b) they’re very expensive and c) I’ve heard they’re lovely but not so lovely that you ought to feel you’re missing something with the lighter concentration. So, I’ve decided best not to know any more than that. Sorry not to be any help though!

By: Zazie

Zazie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:14:10 +0000

Dear Robin, please help me: it is you who tickled my curiosity with the OJs! Well, now I think I fell hopelessly for Champaca and Frangipani absolute! The latter is growing on me at every wear. Up to day, have you ever compared the EdP with the Perfume conc.? I suppose that the simple fact of dabbing the latter should change the perception very much (all white flowers do that trick to my nose: Songes is the most striking example on how remarkably the jasmine note – and the perceived jasmine/vanilla ratio – mutes depending on the kind of application). I’m wondering which conc. to buy. By instinct, I would say the perfume concentration should bring forward the basenotes a bit (providing less sillage and better lasting power), dimming the peppery accord and the perfume-y feeling. This would be all right. But I fear this would dim the gorgeous lime peel and the beautiful white bouquet opening. What do you think?