Oyedo Eau de Toilette

Best smelling fragrance. It’s Spring / Summer here in San Diego. There is no other fragrance you’d need. 100ml bottle for the season and I’m set! I’ve only discovered this fragrance this year and already purchased a full retail bottle. It’s THAT good. Hard to believe it was developed in 2000. This thing was ahead of its time. I remember my first first first impression of this fragrance was “orange sherbet 50-50 crème bar”. After multiple wears, my take on this fragrance is that’s it’s a safe blind-buy for its category. 4 different citruses on top of Raspberry , Thyme and Woods. Nothing experimental about that! !!!!! ***(Raspberry is an official note on the Diptyque website that is not mentioned on Fragrantica)*** !!!! There is nothing floral, fruity, spicy, or gourmand about this thing. Attention -grabbing citrus with juicy raspberry. I’ve already purchased a Travalo travel- atomizer so I can take this fragrance everywhere! Lasts decently long. Maybe 3 hours on skin and 5 hours on clothes. Still pretty good for a citrus-bomb of such premiere quality! This thing PROJECTS heavy in the first 2 hours. People WILL smell you if you apply this properly. Not only does it smell phenomenal, the ingredients just make you feel good. Depending where you live, I can confirm no one is wearing this! I only discovered this because there is a Diptyque store in UTC San Diego that I happened to walk by. I tested this fragrance. Then came back the following week for a full bottle. This is the second time in my 5 years of fragrance where a scent has captivated me so much that I have to immediately seek a full bottle. I’d recommend this fragrance for: Spring/ Summer West Coast vibes Reliable and consistent daily driver fragrance Blind buy and safe fragrance Those who need to make a vibrant impression Better than Creed Aventus Better than Roja Elysium Better than TF Neroli Portofino Better than PDM Layton Better than Kilian Sun-kissed Goddess

I have stated this before, but I found this amazing place and all of you while searching for a long lost love. It was a citrus perfume called "Clementine". I purchased 3 bottles between 1996 and 1998, but after that I had been unable to find it again. I came here looking for this citrus dream. I wanted to smell it again but unfortunately it could not be found. Luckily,through this site, I have found soooo many new loves and I could not be happier with my growing collection. Back to the scent in hand... I received this beauty yesterday and I am so happy I did! The first spray is a strong but bitter citrus. It makes me say "Whoa!" but not in a good way, but almost instantly it becomes a soft and GORGEOUS citrus punch. It's pretty linear and just smells of citrus throughout the wearing. It is so reminiscent of my long lost "Clementine". Part of me wonders if some of this association is just time influencing my scent memory, but I can't shake it. This is as close as I have ever come to finding it again and I am soooo in love. There was a pleasant surprise in the drydown though, because to my nose, I almost smell something that smells like grape candy. In short, this is soooo yummy! Sillage seems to be moderate but longevity seems short. The one drawback I can see (and it is a BIG one) is the price tag. I have never spent 100$ on anything (other than cars and my wedding dress which was way more than 100$). But looks like, I'll be saving my pennies to buy myself a bottle of this lovely stuff!

Yuzu mandarin raspberry thyme incense Oyedo is in my eyes a citrus anomaly, a forgotten due to the immense level of ignorance in today’s fragrance market that will readily accept x Creed mishmash citrus musky accord for triple the price but will disregard something actually different. Starting up top at full display, tart sulphuric yuzu and green juicy slightly bitter mandarin, almost satsuma like. Intensely fresh and stimulating. Just as the citrus normally fades, further facets develop, a sweet fruity raspberry, dry herbal thyme, cool mentholated elements, and in the very back, a ever so slight smoky woody incense touch. Even more impressive than the scent itself is the structure of the scent. While we usually expect a high treble like effect of citrus shimmering for a few seconds before paving the way to other base components, vetiver oakmoss or something along those lines, Akiko Kamei, genius creator of the current formula of Caron 3e Homme (probably the most impressive retro fougere of all time), found a way to balance all of the aforementioned elements to create the illusion of citrus as the core of the fragrance. It's recognizably citrus all throughout its course without ever leaving the overall ballpark of bright mandarin refreshment.

I’m just baffled by all the negative reviews of this gorgeous, herby, zingy, fizzy, elegant and uplifting gem. I also don’t think I’m picking up the same notes most reviews mention. I can’t pick up the frambinone, so that might be a molecular I’m anosmic to. I also don’t get anything sweet or candy-like. All I smell are the fizzy yuzu (if you’ve never eaten it, you should, especially with sushi) and tonic, aromatic thyme with maybe cedarwood anchoring it. Lemon and thyme are a classic culinary pairing and, again, I definitely recommend eating or drinking it. Thyme in lemonade is just delicious. I also get a bit of juicy mandarin here and there, and lemon juice, not rind, holding everything together. So, yeah, if we’re staying with the edible associations, this reads to me more like a savory gourmand than a cough drop. At the end of the day I find this sophisticated and dazzling. If you really hate your bottle, feel free to send it my way because this is a hot, dry summer daytime ride-or-die for me.

You have to be a true and devoted citrus lover to enjoy Oyedo. It has the most fizzy, zesty, juicy, realistic citrus opening that I almost want to drink it! A bit of peppery sharpness to the nose in the opening, but I love that! When I spray it on myself, it's as if one person is spraying me down with fresh lemon spa water while another person squeezes fresh lemon halves close to my nose. It's as close to bathing in lemon as you can get (if you're into that - I am!) If you've ever juiced a lemon and those oils and juices wafted up to your nose and made your eyes roll back in your head, and wished you could bottle and wear that moment, THAT'S OYEDO. Although Diptyque products are not cheap, I think you get what you pay for because this one has really good longevity for a citrus frag, and probably the best longevity of all the citrus frags I've owned. I could still smell it on me HOURS later. Of course the top notes had faded, but the fragrance was still there and in good concentration. Unisex 100%.