Oui Plus

Absolutely fantastic! I have had this for about a year and didn't like it at all the first time I wore it. On my first wearing, all I got was quite strong and scratchy green patchouli. Yes, there was sweetness, but it was absolutely overwhelmed by the patchouli, a note I frequently don't at all enjoy. So, I hid this in the back of my perfume stash and left it there. I am only now beginning to understand what a profound impact hormones and timing can have on the way perfumes are experienced and the notes that are emphasized by skin. In contrast to last year's experience, in the past few days, I have fallen fast and hard in love with Oui Plus! Now, this fragrance is a perfect balance of boozy dusty cocoa, fluffy marshmallow, and cookie that simply screams S'MORE! It also slightly reminds me of a funnel cake for some reason...:P The patchouli is just faintly in the background, keeping the overall experience from ever becoming too sweet. It grounds and balances everything and never takes over. I am now 100% on board with all the love for this fragrance. It might even overtake my love for my favorite Kyse perfume - Sucre et Fleurs. It is truly a glorious gourmand for all, as it never becomes overly sugary, a quality that can quickly lead to nausea for me. However, it is strong and lasts a long time, so for me, one spray is just perfect. Great value and great scent!

This summer has been one long heat wave, so now that it's finally over I find myself craving sweet, substantial scents a little earlier in the year than usual. A new batch of Kyse samples was just what the doctor ordered! First up is Oui Plus, and from the bottle it smells fantastic: that same wonderful graham cracker note from my beloved Confit de Rose, but this time served with pure dark chocolate and coffee instead of rose jam, and a mild, dusty patchouli in the base. Warm and sweet and just utterly, irresistibly delicious - not something I'd wear in a context where I want to be taken seriously, and easy to overdose on in general, but extremely satisfying when the time is right. On my skin, the graham cracker note disappears more or less entirely almost immediately on application. Too bad, but instead I get something else that's just as good or even better: finally, a true chocolate scent that really works for me, without either going too smoky or too synthetically sweet! (Don't get me wrong, of course this is VERY sweet, but it's sweet in a balanced way that doesn't make my teeth ache preemtively like many modern women's fragrances do, for instance) So I guess Kyse has done it again, and this one will have to go straight onto my wish list once my generous sample is used up.

First impressions (decant): On paper: I’m a hater of gourmand, and when I smelled this on paper it’s a omg! This is a chocolate smore 😍. This kind of remind me of a whiff of waffle cone by imaginary authors, only less synthetic more loud, and more of a toasted chocolate. Yes! This smelled so good. This smells like a well rounded chocolate. Edit 1: Is anyone on getting choco musk from this only way better? This is giving you’re baking chocolate cookies! Edit 2: After Trying this one for a few days of so, I would have to reward this as the best foody gourmand I've ever tried! I really Really Really like this one. If you are a foody gourmand person you might Love this one ALOT. I'm not a gourmand girl, and I'm really loving this one. Does give me chocolate chip cookies, but with a smoked graham cracker at the end, that I'm really loving. Summary: Smells like: Chocolate Chip cookies, but a little burnt in a good way. Family of: Choco musk (+chocolatey, +more Gourmand) Sillage: medium for me (Although I be it gets richer when is macerates) Verdict: Maybe- It's so good, but I'm not really a foody gourmand girl because it makes me hungry, and want to binge on whatever it smells like. I can definitely see it for someone else though.

Kyse Perfumes Oui Plus seems to be the most-reviewed and highest-regarded fragrances in the whole line, and it's not difficult to see why, given that it's a mellifluous, sweet mix of smores--that is, graham cracker, marshmallow, and cacao--with the more tempered note of coffee and woody, earthy contributions of balsam, patchouli, and styrax. Overall, I get comparatively little of the patchouli and styrax, my experienced instead being ruled by the sweeter elements. In fact, I regard Oui Plus as downright unusually sweet, even for me, a lover of gourmand and vanilla especially, for whom a scent is usually never too sweet. Mainly this is in contrast to the other Kyse Perfumes offering, J, which departs more from the sweet-dominant into a mix of sweet and woody, light and dark, and I enjoy J's duality a bit more than Oui Plus' almost heady, sweet dominance. Still, Oui Plus is quite enjoyable and yet another markedly awesome gourmand from this line. It does not quite project as much as J but is still pretty good, especially for its modest cost of $52 for 60ml, almost hard to believe. I remain eager to try the rest of my lot of samples. 8 out of 10

Official notes are graham cracker, marshmallow, cocoa absolute, Peru balsam, patchouli, styrax and burnt coffee. This is the loveliest chocolate perfume I've ever found! The most prominent notes to my nose are cocoa, graham cracker and coffee. The cocoa is on the lighter end of dark chocolate, the coffee brings warmth to and supports the cocoa, Terri's characteristic graham cracker accord is wheaty, vanillic and crumbly just like in real life. The patchouli is particularly sweet and chocolate like, also it plays a big role in adding that almost gritty starchy texture together with the crackers. This is without doubt my all time favourite chocolate scent. I was not very impressed with other chocolate scents I've tried - they are either too weak, bland, figurative, dark or masculine. This is unique, rich, feminine and true to life. It even beats Guerlain's Gourmand Coquin which I also love dearly. Strongly recommended! UPDATE: I gave a friend a decant of mine, she said everyone in her class commented how she smelled like cookies and chocolate. This is also my most complimented perfume, and the only perfume I've used up and repurchased.