Soliflore Osmanthus

HAHAHAHA! Oh this makes me so happy!!! I had no idea what "osmanthus" was until I sampled this... Mr. Dame gave me a tiny vial of "home"... This scent is the "base note" of a walk through my neighborhood! It's so natural, realistic and luscious; one whiff of this and I could almost feel the heat and humidity of outside, even in my chilly air conditioned home. I have the Dame website open in another tab - I'm ordering a full bottle of this and also of orange blossom. If orange blossom is even half as realistic as this and Chocolate Man, it's going to be a heavenly marriage of scent (citrus trees and gardenia are two more of the many fragrances I encounter while walking down my street). Yeah, I know... I'm a lucky duck :D Come to think of it... I suspect that this might even pair well with Chocolate Man if I can get the proportions right. Anyhow... review wise, this fragrance is a winner. I actually think with it's warm, almost honey-like creaminess, it would even appeal to gourmand lovers. I also think it is pretty office-friendly - especially if you don't bathe in it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have ordering to do. I'm going on vacation soon and I want to take a bottle of "home" with me. Be well and happy sniffing!

Oh. My. Gosh. So far this is the most magical osmanthus fragrance I've tried, and it's the one that cost the least! Jeffrey Dame is so generous, and sent a ton of samples (and a rather large bonus EDT spray sample of the Osmanthus Soliflore oil I bought). I've bought a few things from this house and have really liked everything I've tried, but man these Soliflores are just really fabulous. It smells like the most realistic Olive Tree blossoms, which smell like warm apricots and peach jam simmering on the stove. You can almost feel the leathery texture of the blossoms when you sniff it. It projects beautifully, my children were in the other room and wandered in to find me, and insisted on wearing it as well. My daughter thinks it smells like the sweet fresh peach tea I make in the summer when we get seasonal peaches in to put up for the winter. In short, this fragrance is very nostalgic for me, and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. What a house. This will always be in my collection.

(This review is for the EDT version of the fragrance.) I never have had the opportunity to smell real Osmanthus flowers, but if they are more beautiful than this perfume, they must be truly intoxicating. This Osmanthus soliflore is pure bliss, a bright, creamy, slightly tart apricot with the slightest whispers of suede. Sunshine in a bottle, this is the fragrance of happiness. Longevity is shockingly good for an EDT - about 12 hours. I am looking forward to trying the oil version, and also layering it with the other Dame soliflores. I would purchase this if it were 3x the price, but at $65/100 ml, this is an outstanding value for a truly gorgeous fragrance.

I love realistic floral scents, but am not sure I've ever smelled osmanthus. Bought this because I liked other Dame soliflores and the description sounded appealing. It smells amazing, might be my favorite of 5 Dame soliflores I've tried so far. Fresh, juicy apricot/peach, wet green note, and even something a little reminiscent of Wood Sage and Sea Salt in it (I swear they must share some aromachemical). I can't tell you if this is what osmanthus smells like, but when I smelled it there was something very familiar about it, so I probably have smelled it somewhere. It just smells great

This is a gorgeous osmanthus soliflore! I've been on an obsessive search for osmanthus perfumes. I've enjoyed wearing Amoauge Sunshine (tobacco + osmanthus) and I tried Ormond Jayne Osmanthus. Specifically, I was looking for spring/summer scents. I ordered the perfume oil and am so impressed with the longevity. So pleased with my soliflore from Dame Perfumery. I wish the packaging was a bit more refined but the product is just so lovely and I find myself reaching for this so much on these light warm spring days.

Gorgeous nectarine like aroma..osmanthus at its best. Its gorgeous, intoxicating. Its fruity, exotic and great for layering. Ill have to get the oil for summer. This review is from a free sample included with a gardenia purchase. Dame has great small bottles too for less than a triple mocha latte. Seriously whats everyone waiting for? Experience these gems for spring!

This smells wonderful! I had no idea what osmanthus smelled like until trying this, although the person who described it as like the skin of a peach was dead on. Sillage is moderate and it's very long lasting. Will have to use this to bump up the osmanthus in other fragrances that contain it, and/or layer with other soliflores. Full bottle worthy!

The waft of osmanthus scent is especially enjoyable and realistic when wearing it far from the face. I love Kingston Osmanthus by Eric Buterbaugh Florals much more as it is very natural smelling though so much more expensive.

Oh! I should probably add that I live on the outskirts of a small city not far from New Orleans. If you "know what it means, To miss New Orleans" you might want to pick up a bottle of this - even if just for nostalgia.

This is beautiful! I have the oil and would love to buy the edt as well. This does smell like tea olive. It smells like September in the South.

A true, photorealistic osmanthus. The supple, fresh flower, not the kind dried for tea. It’s sweet ghee drizzled over underripe peaches.

This reminds me so much of the homemade apricot marmalade from my childhood. Therefore it's hard not to love it.

I'm a Louisiana native, where the sweet olive trees bloom in the fall and winter months. I have so many fond memories of this flower, softly scenting the humid air. Making you swoon. Sitting on my mom's front porch, enjoying the quiet and the sweet olive bushes that she planted in the yard many years ago. This is the scent of my childhood, the scent that makes me nostalgic and home sick. I am always on the hunt for an osmanthus perfume that can ignite my heart and send me home through my sense of smell and Dame's osmanthus is pretty close. A bit sweeter and less airy than the actual Sweet Olive flower, but a good quality, budget friendly offering none the less. This is dense, intoxicating, and long lasting. Develops fully in warm weather and I can smell it on my clothing days after application. Are there soliflores closer to the real thing? Sure. Will you find a more cost friendly version of this flower? Never.

My mom used to make Chinese desserts like dried osmanthus and sweet taro soup and the smell of this perfume takes me back! I admit that osmanthus isn't my favorite scent or flavor; It tastes herbal and lightly bitter while despite having an appealing, fruity aroma. However, this is truly an exquisite soliflore—it captures the peachy sweetness of dried osmanthus to a tee...It is so bright and in-your-face that it tickles your nose and makes you want to sneeze. I'm having trouble wearing this soliflore on its own, but I imagine it might layer well with a drier, bitter tea or mate perfume. I'm really impressed by JDP and I am looking forward to trying his wisteria soliflore!

I didn't like this at first, as it's cloyingly sweet, but then I bought a bag of dried osmanthus blooms to put in my tea. After breaking the seal I caught a heavy scent that was exactly like this perfume. Where osmanthus absolute is more like a floral chypre, the dried flowers are a fruity syrup, rich and heavy but with the subtle warmth of hay and chamomile. While this scent isn’t totally natural, and I can’t see myself wearing something so heavy and sweet, its blending is impressively true to life.

It really does smell like apricot! With a lovely almost purpley floral underneath. It's sweet and juicy and very friendly. I love this! But then after a few minutes the floral underneath is turning kind of rubbery. In the sillage zone it's the apricot that is dominant but the rubberiness shows up when you are nose to skinning it. After 2h: just sweet apricot, no matter how close! It hung on pretty well all day.

Right away: Apricots! Then: Honey, and smoke. A smokey herbal lemon. (This is a totally different kind of scent than "Like This," but they both have this same moment when they develop a smoke and lemony herbal note. lemonbalm? lemongrass? How do they do this?) Sweet nectary and sour and green all together, the smoke fades after a while.

Creamy interesting floral. Starts very bright peachy & almost vanilla like sweetness. It evolves into fresh subtle earthy greenness, like fresh green leaves & woody stems, but the sweet fruity element still remains. For a soliflore this is a super complex scent and can stand on its own. It's almost too pretty to layer!

I’ve never smelled an actual osmanthus blossom but I think this is absolutely lovely. It has a watery fruitiness to it a bit like apple juice. It smells fresh and innocent like children’s shampoo.

More like dry osmanthus tea than fresh blossoms to me. There's also a some type of mild clove note in here that I'm not a big fan of.

I have no idea what osmanthus smells like but this stuff is awesome. It smells like fruity blossoms mixed with oily leaves. -

Finally received the much anticipated sample. Thank you Mr Jeffrey Dame. For people who are unfamiliar, they have a postcard sampler program. If you send them a postcard with return address, they'll send you a sample of a scent you want to try and some extra surprises. It's a nice personal touch in the cyber age. I put it on my arm. I get a soft whiff of osmanthus if i'm far away from it. If i put my nose in it, it's a strong synthetic apricot. It's like eating oikos triple zero peach yogurt: stevia and fruit. The apricot is sharp and slightly powdery. The scent is linear, instead of developing, it softens over time. The synthetic edge melts away. I feel it's more like a scent found in personal care products than a perfume. I don't visualize a real person wearing this, possibly due to the lack of base notes to ground it to the skin. This could be what a cyborg smells like. Perfect for those days when you feel quite unreal and need a jolt out of a stale mood.

I saw there was recently an EDT released; I have the perfume oil rollerball, a blind buy. My best blind buy ever. HOLY. GRAIL. Osmanthus. Disclaimer time -- I have never smelled a real osmanthus blossom, but I have been chasing after the dream in perfume version for some time. I have no idea how close this approximates an actual osmanthus blossom, but to me, this is absolute perfection in terms of that floral apricot thing that osmanthus generally seems to have. Despite being a solifore, this is a pleasure to wear throughout the day due to a slight green/earthy twiggy-ness underneath that apricot. Lasting power is admittedly not great on me (scent eating skin) but I really don't give a hoot; I'll gladly keep this in my bag and reapply generously. LOVE. And the price? LOVE MORE. Dame Perfumery is truly a gem, I seriously put this on and swoon. Oh Jeffrey, you are a marvel.

thank you jana;hullinghorst for mentioning out sweet olive trees. I live in New Orleans and wait for the weather changes just for the sweet olives. I have 8 osmanthus sweet olive whatever you want to call them bushes and have yet to find a scent that captures their magic and they are magic. down here when they bloom they are everywhere and very intoxicating. I am going to order this today and cross my fingers. update: ordered and this is the closest thing so far to the sweet olive that I have found so far. I ordered the oil and they sent a good size sample of the spray and I layered them on. Pretty good. And like the sweet olive which smell better when you catch it in the breeze than when you stick your nose in it , Dame Osmanthus is the same. If you are looking for realistic try this.

I've been looking for the perfect osmanthus fragrance for awhile now so this was high on my test list. Unfortunately I think something went wrong on my skin or in my nose because this is very screechy on me. I can smell that there is real osmanthus oil in here but there's something else that's pushing the citrus-y aspect of osmanthus so the overall effect is of a very high pitched osmanthus note, if that makes sense. There's also something that my nose reads as coconut which kind of mellows it out a bit but overall it's like a woman with one of those voices that are so girly and falsely sweet that it's off putting.

All I can think of is the smell of the trees that used to grow around the playground when I was younger. The park had this beautiful mustiness from the bitter and sweet botanicals, pungently filling the air in late summer and early autumn. I don't remember the name of the plant I was smelling but it was identical to this. I am continually awed by how close to nature Mr Dame gets it. I want to breathe in the beautiful memories I've experienced, in the past, imprinted by the world around me. The scents, and the memories they evoke are forever comforting!

It's somewhere between Roger & Gallet and Perris Monte Carlo; not sure how realistic it is since I've only smelled the dried flower (for tea) and its absolute--this smells like neither. Personally I like the syrupy ones that smell like the actual absolute (try Auphorie Miyako)

I've tried several of Dame's soloflore scents as part of a Olfactif sample set. The simplicity, singularity and photorealism of each is captivating and real. Osmanthus falls in line with the others - Light sillage, lasts several hours and the price for quality is very good!

This has to be one of the most beautiful Osmanthus focus fragrances I've ever smelled. Open very fruity with lots of apricot then slowly turns into the milky, buttery Osmanthus texture/taste/feel that those who drink dry Osmanthus tea will be very familiar with.

when you first spray it it smells screechy and synthetic. overtime i get wafts of osmanthus just like the real flowers with their scent blowing in the wind. definitely need to layer it with another warmer scent to ground the osmanthus down.

Just received a sample and an order is coming. Love LOVE the scent. Now the challenge... what other scents from this line could you layer the Osmanthus? Or just leave it alone and smell the joy.

This is a gorgeous fragrance... so alive with life and juicy greenness... buoyant and tonic, the ULTIMATE summer fragrance for a woman, bar-none.