Olivier Durbano has launched Jade, the fourth fragrance in his “Bijoux de Pierres Poèmes” (Stone Poem Jewels) series*:
Long worshipped as the stone of immortality and a symbol of love and power, jade is also thought to bring inner peace, justice and harmony. Durbano’s olfactory rendering of the stone is one of the most beautifully realized green-woody scents we’ve ever had the pleasure of wearing…
The notes feature green tea, star anise, mint, cardamom, iris, jasmine, cinnamon, amber, patchouli, vetiver, moss, musk, immortelle and maté.
Olivier Durbano Jade is $125 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum, and can be found now at Luckyscent.
* See also: Rock Crystal, Amethyste, Black Tourmaline.
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Yuuummmmmmmmmmmy.
There's my erudite evaluation.
Darn, I forgot … which of the others is the one we love? Rock? paper scissors
Oooh, that green juice looks good!
Hi,
I just ordered a sample of the Jade from LS. The notes and the color are right up my alley. I haven't had any luck with this line, so maybe this could be the one. ;0
~Dawn
The juice color is straight out of the witches potion in Sleeping Beauty. How appropriate prior to Halloween, no?
This sounds promising. It's also nice to see an incense-less release from Durbano. That was getting a little repetitive.
Omigosh!!! This could be our Monday's Girl, Kristen's dream fragrance come true!! Hope she sees this, R; it's got everything she's wanting, and I know I've had good luck with OD fragrances in the past.
Is that your evaluation after smelling it, or just on the description?
I liked Black Tourmaline the best, but really I thought they were all good. Sorry this one isn't an incense though — I was really hoping for a green incense.
It's maybe a bit too green for me? Looks like that purple Serge, whichever that was, you know, like it might stain your clothes
Mike, I was happy with the all incense, all the time, but can see why others might not be.
Ha, after testing that Wode stuff, coloured juices don't scare me! (It's really weird – it goes on like ink, and fades to invisibility over five minutes. I didn't risk spraying it on cloth, though, which would have been the real test.) Anyway, all my winter clothes seem to be funereal black and grey, so not even that purple Serge (Sarrasins?) would make a difference.
Hey, but how is the Wode juice — good, bad, indifferent??? I'm really curious about that one.
And yes, Sarrasins, of course.
I love Black Tourmaline best too and was really hoping for a green incense, but the notes on this one do sound nice. I have a sample on the way as we speak.
This sounds so perfect for me! I loved Armani's Eau de Jade, just parenthetically and almost apropos of nothing ;D. To continue this string of weakly-connected thoughts: I'm working on a series of paintings to do with rocks and water. I love cardamom and green tea and green-woody is a big favorite perf category of mine. So. This sounds so perfect for me!
this sounds good
I'm going to order a sample
Humdehum…scared to admit this…I couldn't smell a blessed thing. There was something dry and possibly a little irisy, but I honestly couldn't detect anything I could identify as perfume. This makes me think that Wode might be subtle, needing a quiet, unperfumed space to appreciate. Or else it just doesn't smell of anything?
Wow! That's conceptual art for you, LOL…
L, I remember that you liked Eau de Jade. This one sounds different, but also like something both of us might love.
that's too bad. Wode is something I reallly wanted to try,
I've tried Black Tourmaline from this line and really liked it. I've wanted to sniff the amethyst but haven't as of yet. The Jade juice is very emerald city-ish.
Amethyst was nice, and worth trying, as is the Rock Crystal. Still think BT was the best though.
Okay, I'm sampling this right now – and yes, despite what the notes say (and I can hardly smell any of the listed notes) this is a pine incense scent. It starts off with a mildly alarming Pine-Sol note, then dries down into a much less woody version of CdG Zagorsk. It's okay but I'm not rushing out to buy a bottle. I like Zagorsk better – pine is a really hard note to get right, and the woodiness of Zagorsk saves it in my opinion.
Oh goody — on the incense part, not the “okay” part.