Reve d'Ossian

Scent: 10 I have discovered this perfum thank to a free sample that i have recived when i have bought a different one by eBay. I smelt It and i felt un LOVE!! And i couldnt avoid to buy It! I never liked the frankibcense smell. I am not religious at all and i never liked the smell of the chuches: incense, myrr... But, i dont know why i cant stop smelling this perfume. It makes me fly to the catedral of a town (Santiago de Compostela) very clóse of the town where i am from (A Coruña) and where the oriest throw a thing called botafumeiro with burning incense inside. And It remember me to the smell of the streets during the oster (overall un the área of Andalucía because un my state is not as important as there). The day i have tried this fragance one girl from Andalucía told me in the the middle of the streets: "sorry, could i ask which os tour perfume. You have made me remember the semana santa of Sevilla when you passed by me". It was the first and only time un my whole life that someone unkniwn stops me in the street to asn me about my oerfum! Longevity: 10 The day i tried It i wear a coat un that one week later i could still feel the incense smell. This perfume is very elegant and balanced but bit very powerful. Nevertheless lasts forever. Sillage: 7 The sillage if this fragance is not bad but not beast Mode as well. It creates an elegant and discreet aura around you, what makes It suitable for any ocasión. Versatility: 10 As i have said before i see this fragance suitable for any ocasión and any season of the year. Even so this is not q perfume suitable for anybody. It doesnt follow fashion and is very different to the best sellers like one million, Invictus or 212, so i recommend to try It before buying. Quality/price: 8 I have paid 70€ for 50ml. The perfume is not cheap but attebding to his quality and originality i think It worths what It costs. Global: 9

What a beautiful scent. I'm pleased to write this up as my first review. After a while spent browsing, I finally pulled the trigger and created my account just so I could relish in this scent publicly. The opening alone on this is captivating. The frankincense is warm and spicy and it's very comforting in the cold weather. In the sharper notes, you can clearly make out the green sappy pine; for obvious reasons, I will revisit this scent in December. I almost smell an orange pomander and black tea lurking underneath before the amber is revealed, possibly from the cinnamon and tonka reminding me of chai. Sandalwood rests at the base, and the silage it has on my skin is excellent-- just a dab on one(!) wrist and I can smell it all around me. To me, the greatest sweetness exists only in the middle, and dissipates as the base settles in, which isn't a problem for me. I thoroughly enjoy the comparison to church benches. The warm wood reminds me of the wooden chairs that my family acquired from a church rummage sale that carry a similar, resinous scent. The musk on the dry down is still admirable if you enjoy musk, but it's not as remarkable as the first half of this fragrance; I still can't move past the top notes. I just wish the opening lasted longer, so much longer.

What a frabjous delight Reve d'Ossian is to the wearer. This is not nearly as an austere as one might expect from an incense. The opening is a cornucopia of pine needles and cones, frankincense, and spices with a flare of aldehydes and smoke, sonorous and festive. A morning incense and a real treat for the senses, certainly one of the more remarkable openings I've smelled as of late. Eventually, what stirs to the surface are rich resins and amber, less fanfare and more repose but no less cheerful. Frankincense is eclipsed by the mildly toffee-like opoponax, and there is the sensation of mahogany woodiness (perhaps the church pew association?). I have the urge to open an old tome and get lost in another time and place. Reve d'Ossian is an elsewhere scent ("reve" being dream in French after all). I think of the word reverie. A cheerful reverie under winter sunlight. The base is more dusty and leathery, sort of like that melancholic feeling you get after meeting with old friends and the time has come to say goodbye and you reflect on the joy and on the beauty of the bonds shared. Quite reflective, a salving the wear with a blanket of comfort.

Growing up, my favorite story was Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson. She was born from a little flower and slept in a bed made of violet petals and rose leaves. Her best friend was a swallow who rescued her from some frogs in a swamp, and took her to a field of flowers where she met and married a little fairy prince. I read this story again and again growing up. Reve d'Ossian is like that story in a bottle. The opening is this beautiful soft pine with aldehydes and a mix of delicate florals. As it wears, it becomes a warmer cozy little blanket of flowers enveloped in opoponax with a church wedding incense; exactly like Thumbelina marrying a little fairy prince in a field of flowers. This is the second perfume I own from this house and I'm so impressed. There are so many layers and levels of nuance in their perfumes and they wear and unfold like fairy tales. Reve d'Ossian is Thumbelina and Relique d'Amour is Briar-Rose (Sleeping Beauty), even the gothic glass window on the label of Relique d'Amour matches the gothic glass window in the Hans Christian Anderson book!

I ordered samples directly from the boutique in Paris to get a feel for the perfumes, thinking Le Régent would be my favourite. But boy oh boy! when I smelled Rêve, I knew I’d found the perfect spring scent I had been searching for. At first sniff , the memory took me straight back to childhood, to Sunday mornings when my granny would take me to mass.It has atmosphere of an old Catholic church in Europe—where the air is cool but not cold, carrying the scent of ancient stone and well-worn wooden pews, polished smooth by generations of disciples. The opening is gently smoky, with aldehydes softened by pine and a delicate sweetness I can’t quite place. As it dries down, it settles into a warm, resinous blend of amber and musk, leather is not that prominent in my opinion. The whole fragrance feels nostalgic and serene, with no sharp edges. To me, it’s the ultimate French perfume—leaning more feminine. It lasts around 4 hours, staying close to the skin, which I actually prefer. There’s something enigmatic about it too & I would rate it higher than any Chanel perfume.

Reve d’Ossian has one of the most amazing openings I have ever smelled: A superb pairing of a magical, cooling, gently spiced frankincense dancing in unison with a sparkling, citrusy, freesia-like, modern sweetness. Celestial. Then, a round woodiness comes through, and so does a sweet, soapy, benzoin-amber accord, which will slowly dim into a flatter base. In the drydown I get everlasting tonka, vanilla, powdered sugar, and a soft, dusty musk. Not my favourite. In fact, I would have much preferred something richer, more resinous, and natural here. For a sweet incense, I’d rather have Eau Sacree or La Liturgie des Heures instead; but Reve d’Ossian clearly doesn’t want to be that. This is a more “mass-pleasing” candied fragrance that allows you to enjoy the beauty of its fizzy, piney, incensy opening and then have people around you appreciate its sweet vanilla sillage. I'd love it on a woman!

Its supposed to smell like orthodox incense (interesting) perfect for christianity freaks like me Its super intense at first, a bit too penetrating. But when the first spray dries down, it becomes very sweet, woody and unique. The smell of benzoin and pine is strong. It is definitely intense and not for everyone. It smells EXACTLY like the smell of sacredness. It takes a certain kind of vibe to pull this off successfully. It is unisex, but id say it has definiely a kind of femininity to it. I know a lot of people said relique d'amour is THE church smell. But to me this one definitely is more of a alive church full of praying. In contrast to relique d amour which is more deserted church". I dont know how to put into words. But this is DEFINITELY a smell i want to have a full bottle of. Its PERFECT for a melancholic people who love the smell of sacredness and church.

While relique d’amour is a hyper realistic wet stone church in a pine forest, this is more like the incense specifically. A warm and very beautiful incense without the typical masculine amberwood aspects found in modern incenses. This isnt smoky at all, rather smells like a box of fresh incense. Very similar to nag champa actually but less floral. I think its the aldehydes causing this, because ive always found nag champa to smell soapy and vintage. Theres also a chocolate nuance i notice that i havent seen others talk about. Not sweet or gourmand, more like the idea of dark chocolate in powdered from. Not cocoa either its SPECIFICALLY dark chocolate. 9/10, i hope to purchase this in fall. Much more nah champa than empire des indes which literally states nag champa as a note but ends up smelling like cinnamon room spray

Exactly what I needed for this autumn time of year! This is a beautiful offering from Oriza L. Legrand, with the character of a precious and sacred ancient balm. The frankincense opening is truly special, and something rarely seen in this high class of French style perfumes. Like many, I wish that opening lasted longer, but I enjoy what follows it too. There is a sweet benzoin and cinnamon harmony resting on a dry bed of sandalwood. It is a bit sugary, which I like when it's done well, and here it's perfect and I think a very good complement to the drier resinous notes. I don't really catch the musk, but I do believe it's there, propping things up and giving a little extra fixative power. All in all a lovely incense fragrance, woody and sweet and bright.

This fragrance art combined with the top notes reminds me of a Russian fairy tale in the cold woods. The amber with cinnamon and resins comes out in the opening but in the end this dries down to a straight up frankincense. I am fond of these smells as someone who was once Pagan and eventually converted to Christian Orthodoxy. These smells are very familiar to me in both religious settings as well as in hippie circles. It is mind blowing to ponder how hippie fragrances are actually favored perfumes of the middle ages (where this recipe originates). If you aren't into that vibe you may not like this. I wouldn't call it incredibly complex but it is beautifully done. Sillage is decent but not in your face, could easily become a signature scent for me.

194) Nostalgie 1900 It's quite close to a balsamic Baghari by Piguet. A surprising opening, aerial and metallic (aldehydes and terpineols?) notes of pine, old wood and foam on wet stone but it's warming gently, blowing a strange impulse to this myrrh fragrance. The smell of warm lightly ambered paper, dry almost dusty leather binder. An impression of moor in the autumn. It is so at odds with our modern conception of the perfume he could be the last release of Comme Des Garçons: Odeur 1900, without changing anything. Truly a beautiful work of resurrection of the house, all these completely forgotten fragrances are high quality, both modern in their treatment and completely faithful to the spirit of time: a real success.

This is such a gorgeous fragrance! I would describe this as an ambery take on church incense. It opens with amber, incense, what feels like aldehydes (I'm guessing that's a soapy myrrh), woods, and elemi/pine. As it develops, the aldehydic nature of it dissipates and I get cinnamon and what feels like vanilla...but I think it's the benzoin. The cinnamon and benzoin combined with the amber make this sooo good. The amber in this is incredibly smooth and warm; I don't get a lot of the labdanum/leather aspect. I would say that this is most "churchy" in the opening, transitioning into an amber-dominant scent. This has fantastic performance, lasting all day. I consider this to be completely unisex.

Soapy, sweet. hesperidic. and with a little bit of a smoky note, this smells so beautifully evocative of the early twentieth century, redolent of frankincense and opoponax. This is a greatly comforting and yet complex fragrance: I don't know how Oriza L. Legrand does it, but almost everything I've smelled by them has not only been incredibly enjoyable but also unlike anything else I've ever smelled before. What a superbly unusual house! UPDATE, 3/15/22: I'm trying a sample for a second time, and I have been receiving compliments all day. The frankincense and the opoponax are what make this so memorable. You won't smell like everyone else in this, but it is so dreamy and pleasurable!

The opening is so refreshing, pure incense, the frankincense, cinnamon, pine & elemi are so uplifting. I love this part of the perfume development most. This is a complex scent, many phases and facets, i really enjoy it. The last stage of drydown, the incense has faded in the background, the animalic musk, ambergris and leather take centre stage. Its weird because i did not percive those notes early or during development, but sadly I am not a fan of animalic musk, and the Glorious incense this was at start is gone. I still think this is amazing, and worthy of praise and recomend for incense lovers and animalic lovers. Love this perfume house, fantastic creations!

With this house the notes listed don't touch the experience. I get an initial blast of ginger and creamy wood. I feel I am entering another world. Not the fairy forest floor of Chypre Mousse. This is more magical people living in a sacred woods. As it progresses frankincense and benzoin become prominent, then settles into an amber. Sillage is lovely and delicately radiant, longevity a good 6-8 hours. The perfumes of this house so far are not overtly gendered. It is more a question does the refined, magical style suit you? Reve D'Ossian and Chypre Mousse must contain sinus-clearing herbs. I have seasonal allergies and testing these opened up my sinuses.

Gosh this is a unisex, dry spicey, but with a little sweetness heaven. I immediately thought of Andy Tauers much loved moroccan desert masterpiece. It has a lot in common with it. Im glad I dont get much of the aldehydes but I do get bucket loads of pine, incense, benzoin, labdanum, opopanax, cinnamon, tonka bean, elemi and amber. Its very well balanced and has the perfect amount of sweetness care (I guess) from the tonka bean and cinnamon. There might well be some iso E super in here but it is very low key. It probably assists in boosting the sillage. Moderate sillage and longevity. I did really expect the longevity to be really long but hey ho!

* * * "spellbinding like a dream in which heroes and fairies of Celtic myths still dwell" (from house's description) Oriza L. Legrand eau de parfums offer high-quality ingredients; deep, lasting notes; and historic references. Rêve d’ Ossian (“Dream of Ossian”) (launched 2012) honors 3rd-century Gaelic poet Ossian, known for his epic poetry, popular in Europe’s Romantic era, late 18th century. Incense smolders within an ancient forest church, with pine, cinnamon, benzoin, balsam, tonka beans, and sandalwood just some of the earthy notes that transport you to the Old World.✿ Scent family: Amber Woody Longevity on me: long-lasting

The opening of Rêve d'Ossian is AMAZING. Really uplifting and stunning. This is a warm incense, it feels very human. Absolutely beautiful. I was obsessed with smelling my arm! I have to admit I ordered a bottle after two hours of wearing this, and then I went to bed in a total bliss. Unfortunately when I woke up the next morning I realized that the drydown was somewhat different than I expected: ambery, musky, animalic with vanilla...which are not notes I love. It's still good and cosy though, and I will enjoy my bottle but how I wished it would have developed closer to the initial scent! Beautiful anyway.

One of the most beautiful witchy scents I've come across. It scratches that itch in my brain for the perfect warm easy to wear incense. Its starts with a fizzy and sparkling incense in the initial spray, kinda like when you hold up an unlit stick of incense to your nose. Slowly it starts evolving into a warm woody amber ginger, the church incense note still dancing gently throughout the wear. If CDG Avignon is a cold midnight mass church service, Reve D' Ossian is that same stone cathedral during a warm day with the doors open daylight streaming in and the freshly lit incense wafting over the pews.

Unlike the very critical reviewer further below, I don't get either Iso E Super or damp greenery. In fact, the two standout notes on me are frankincense of the lovely boswellia serrata kind (initially lemony but morphing quickly into "chewy" liturgical resin) and benzoin, adding a dry, ambery sweetness. Two sprays from a sample radiate very well, deceptively strong without coming across obtrusive or obnoxious like other incense frags (*cough Tauer! *cough). So all in all a lovely thing, ancient and modern, calming and intriguing,all at the same time.