Orb-ital

It's a little sweet, kind of caramel-y but not caramel and a really gentle fragrance! It smells like the ambery, tonka, sandalwood bases in perfumes but done as perfect as they can, I can see how it can smell synthetic but it personally never reaches to that cheap synthetic smell. It smells familiar but in a good way, It lasts longer than the other scents i've tested from nomenclature, its a good experience and I recommend their samples if you want to try out gentle perfumes that stick close to you!

I bought this fragrance in June this summer, at Aedes de Venustas when I visited NYC for Pride march and Morrissey concert at MSG. The perfume is associated with awesome memories which bias my review. I had gone to ADV to buy Costes, ADV original EDP and Baum du Doge and to my surprise they were out of all three! So I was open to trying the new fragraces from Nomenclature. Orbital was my favorite. It is a subtly woody fragrance. Very reminiscent of Molecule 01 in that one can barely smell anything! I don't get coffee. I wish I could get some rhubarb out of the scent but I can't. I put 8 sprays and no one can tell I am wearing anything. What's with that? For this reason I regret to say I cannot recommend it. I do, however, love the bottle and sprayer and the packaging is cool. I honestly thought that it would come to life on skin and went ahead and bought a full bottle on a gamble. I have tested it extensively while the scent is ok, the performance is appauling. 4/10 (but good scent memories!)

I like this fragrance a lot, I prefer the Adr-ett which I always get compliments when wearing, not sure why people complain about the lack of presence as I do not have that problem, I prefer when I am told I smell good when people are closer to me, I actually don't like people to comment that they knew I was here because my fragrance is taking over the whole building. I think this line of fragrances is great for office wear and I love the bottles and packaging.

This one doesn't do it for me. The raw materials used smell cheap especially the sandalwood. Speaking of sandalwood that's about all I smell along with the incense and a maybe a little Olibanum. I don't get any violets, coffee or amber and tobacco. Unfortunately I get excellent longevity and projection. So much so that I will have to scrub this stuff off unless I want to smell it all day long, which I don't. I like the packaging though, very clever how the sample pack was created. Hopefully the other samples will smell better than this.

It is not a balance-of (or orbit around) of any kind. It is a collision of the planets. A trainwreck. A travesty to call this by any other term. The aroma fills your sensory with the same sort of pandemonium, confusion, and chaos. It is a hot mess. Your daughter strolls in before curfew, but smells hauntingly terrifying. The fragrance projects more in the textures of constitutes than it does in the visual presence of any kind of physical ingredient. I get the warm, crude, and abrasive constitutes of cheap sandalwood. The musky brooding elements of violet leaf and other vegetals. And only the lingering, stripped down aspects of various incense and ambery aspects. Pepper and rhubarb adds unnecessary warmth to notes that are already untamed in their own. Really, a horror story that I can only begin to explain in all senses of artistic perfumery. I would imagine this to be what Sylvia Likens to have smelled like after her tormentors orbited around her with all their jabs, and obscenities, and sexual connotations. Using many different perfumes to enliven their debauchery.

It's very thin! I wonder if this stays on skin more than 10 minutes! This is Violets & a slight angelic with a kind of softly amber & a tiny essence of coffee. The cedar, Incense, & tobacco mix up and produces a weird dirty blend added to the mix above. This juice turns from something to another different thing within 3 to 5 minutes time! & produces something quite disturbing to my nose! and i guess it's the harshness of the kind of tobacco chosen and the burnt coffee. till this stage it's a huge no for me.

I smiled at chridela's review because I feel like they were really pushing this line at Aedes de Venustas and I almost did the same thing, buying this one. Thankfully, I read up on Orbi-tal and realized that it is too similar to Molecule 1 and I already own that and never use it. I also liked one of the other Nomenclatures but they all really suffer from the same thing, a lack of performance.

I'm not commenting on the scent, but to the commenter below - the fact that you would actually bring up such a sick and tragic case to analyse a perfume in such a weird manner is gross and disturbing. Your comment, and quite frankly you, should be removed.

Its ISO-E super dominant, that may be the reason you may not like the scent, but people around you will. Update after 8 months: On my skin its ceder and sandalwood dominant.