Comments on: Ormonde Jayne Ormonde for women & Ormonde for men ~ perfume review

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:45:51 +0000

Wow, this is good stuff. I wasn’t all that impressed the first time, but last night I compared it with Tam Dao by Diptyque, which I really enjoy, thinking to see how two ‘woodsy’ scents compared. What a difference! I hadn’t been able to appreciate the Ormonde properly until then. Diptyque, while very pleasant, is pretty much straight-up cedar. I like it, but Luca and Turin have a point when they say it’s more of a pretty smell than a perfume. Ormonde, though, is perfume through and through: a little heavier, a little sweeter, and far more complex and beautiful. I wish I could afford a full bottle.

By: annunziata

annunziata — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:36:12 +0000

Ormonde Woman was a landmark in my forays into serious perfumania after I discovered the blogs, and the availability of samples and decants of practically everything. I ordered it in a kind of fever of anticipation. At first sniff, I was…appalled. I thought it was weird, dreadful, certainly not for me. Six months later, I retrieved the despised vial from a drawer, and felt only wonder at the beauty and mystery of the scent. I get something sort of medicinal from it, and I guess that aspect was what shocked me initially. But I love it and am contemplating a bottle of the pure perfume. I agree, it is that marvellous.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:07:26 +0000

After 2 years sniffing, I feel like I have suddenly discovered PERFUME! Yeah, I have enough bottles to last a decade, but why? Okay, I know I”ll want a change after a couple of days in this but at the moment everything else seems like a poor shadow. MUST HAVE A BOTTLE.

Modern perfumery may have started in France, but I think my HG scent may be from somewhere else…

By: Seraph

Seraph — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:32:38 +0000

I think this might be instant love : dark inky green, warm and mysterious, spicy moss, dark green velvet…others describe it so much better. Wonderful stuff.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:58:32 +0000

Thanks, interesting!

By: DoryCubana

DoryCubana — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:43:35 +0000

Just in case you’d be interested, OJ is well known and loved among Croatia’s capital, Zagreb perfumistas. Many women come to a couple of shops specialized in niche perfumery and ask about the line frequently. Not all of them travel abroad often to be able to get to one of just 30 sales points where OJ is sold in the world and OJ is not the stuff found in airport duty frees, but once they try it, the search begins. It’s one of the better known brands among frag lovers, in spite of its inavailability in this part of Europe. .

By: Blimunda

Blimunda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:57:59 +0000

Chemistry is a curious thing……this scent smells divine on me. But my friend tried it, and it literally smelled like piss on her! It was astonishing how it smelled like a completely different, er, substance!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:00 +0000

You’re right…they aren’t weirdo perfumista-only niche scents.

Osmanthus must do that to lots of people — I love it, but many people don’t. Ta’if and Frangipani are favorites of mine too though, and adore Champaca.

By: Abyss

Abyss — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:02:03 +0000

Oh, I’m loving the the samples. The quality is evident, the fragrances are original and yet they still feel like proper, wearable perfumes rather than some conceptual creations which can be admired, dissected and intellectualised but which are not necessarily easy to wear (if that makes sense)

I’m yet to try Tolu, Orris or the masculines but so far Ta’if and Frangipani are my favourites (as expected, I’m definitely into florals), with Ormonde, Champaca and Sampaquita fighting for the third place.

Osmanthus was disappointment simply because it turned into that sharp, sweaty grapefruit on my skin within the first 30 mins and then disappeared completely. Shame as it was nice enough to begin with.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:56:06 +0000

So glad you’re enjoying the samples! Is the Ormonde your favorite of the bunch?