Damask

Since I purchased the travel size of Damask, I have been wearing this scent nearly everyday. I love this scent profile. It has a tart dewy fruity opening that is bright and bubbly. Further into the dry down (like 3-4 hours) as the tart fruitiness has dissipated, the woody tones stay on the skin that is sweet, but robust. This is a lovely and gorgeous scent, perfect for spring and summer. I definitely will be wearing this into autumn as well. Ormonde Jayne is a great niche house and executes their scents with such class and elegance. There's a mineral note in Damask that gives this scent it's unique effervescent addictive factor. And this one lasts about 6 hours on my skin. Longevity is good. Sillage could be better, but good enough and nothing wrong with touching up throughout the day. Similarities: Yes it does smell like Delina. Delina has a prominent, more well rounded tart opening in comparison to Damask and dries down sweeter because of that vanilla note. That mineral note in Damask makes it fizzy and bright, perfectly fitted for spring and summer. Though Delina and Damask are very similar (like 85% similar) I prefer Damask, as it is a hair brighter and lighter and doesn't ever overwhelm you. The vanilla in Delina can get a touch cloying. I would agree with other reviews saying that Damask is like the older sister of Delina. Both close in age, Damask has her finances in order, while Delina parties every weekend, is extra flirty, and likes to dress scantily. I prefer Damask over Delina because of its overall milder and fizzier style on this scent profile (there is nothing wrong with being extra flirty and dressing scantily). Atomic rose is even punchier and deeper in comparison, but different enough to have both in a collection. Atomic rose is like the cousin who is close in age and grew up with both Delina and Damask because their mothers are very close sisters, but is more intense and edgier, as a result of her rougher upbringing. All three have that tart dewy rose opening and they're all beautiful. 10/10. Currently obsessed and ecstatic that I purchased a full bottle on discount. Btw, when Damask sells on discount in the gray market, they sell out fast.

I have a sample of this. It is a pretty scent and can be quite easy going, meaning liked by many. Rose rose rose. For me it is somehow a bit sharp and annoying. Regardless of that, I think this can be a nice present for a middle aged woman/man (although I feel it's more on the feminine side), as it has elegance and depth. I will not get a bottle as its too strong and not the kind of scent I personally tend to like. Someone mentioned it reminded him or her to Pourier d'un Soir from Miller Harris and yes, there is a similarity, but this is heavier and less 'airy' :0) Update: I have to write this update. I put this perfume away and after a while I put it on, in very cold weather. Whoaaa.. I think coldness suits this a lot. All of a sudden the notes blossomed in front of me - pear, (glorious pear, one of my favorite notes) black pepper (it actually made me sneeze) and the lemon, oh the glorious lemon is soo in front of this, and something else as well like pine needles (am I just imagining, maybe the vetiver)? Amber (and musk) make it warm too. I love when fragrance does this - changes my mind about itself entirely, I take what I said above back, this is a lovely creation. :0) Quality!

This fragrance was part of a recent blind buy and I’m happy to report it was a success. Phew! I purchased 2 fragrances blindly in this order since the deal was too good to pass up. I felt very confident I at the very least enjoy the scent profile since it had been compared to Delina, which I absolutely love. To address the obligatory comparison, yes, this does remind me of Delina. For me it’s most similar to the OG. The rose is the same. The main difference to my nose is this fragrance has a spiciness accompanying the rose throughout the scent journey. It is peppery. I’m assuming there is pink pepper in the notes. Usually when I detect pink pepper it disappears after the initial opening, but in this fragrance it lingers. I love it. Otherwise, I would find it too similar to Delina. This is not a powerhouse like Delina, though. I find the performance on the low-moderate side. 4-5 hours at most. Delina lasts all day and even lingers on the skin the next day. Absolutely beautiful fragrance. The dry down is sweet and ambery. This fragrance is also reminiscent of Atomic Rose. This is lighter and less, well, atomic. All three are great. This is the lightest of the bunch.

I received the whole line and this is the first perfume I tested. I love it. It's a jammy rose, sweet but delicate, never cloying. I’ve only had it on for 10 minutes. The beginning is strong and sweet but I can tell it will fade as it is already morphing a bit and I can start to pick up the musky base with some woods. The sweetness will be there from start to finish. I can detect a strong pear and the sweet aspect may come from a pear-jasmine combination? This is definitely a sweet Jasmine and a natural one as the nuances are hard to detect and the smell will never be disturbing to your olfactory experience. It also gives the feeling of an exotic sweetness never boring or mainstream. Definitely niche. I love OJ, can't wait to get my nose on the rest of the pack. Sometimes I can even pick up some sort of lychee like smell. The vetiver might be a shade of itself in here. Forgot to mention, at times it is Chanelesque as it gives me a hint of Chance. Meaning Chance Eau Tendre. :)

I wore this perfume on my wedding day. It’s a heady, sensual rose that’s very likeable whilst more interesting than most designer perfumes. There is some fruitiness in the top notes, a brightness that I think is the citrus and some spiciness from the pink pepper. Unlike many fruity perfumes, I don’t find this sickly or cloying. I get more rose than jasmine, deep and rich rather than powdery. I get the amber and woodiness in the base. Amber can turn me off as like fruity notes I find it can be cloying, but here it is warm and heady but not nauseating. If there are mineral notes (perhaps I get a slight saltiness) they are perfectly blended. The projection and longevity are both good without being overpowering, many fragrances disappear on me but this doesn’t. I get a lot of compliments when wearing this. I think it is interesting enough and to me smells like high quality ingredients are used so it’s worthy of the term “niche” but would also have mass appeal.

Comparing every rose fragrance to Delina has got to stop lol bc this is nothing like Delina maybe similar to Delina a la rose. This perfume is feminine, effervescent, youthful and gorgeous. This is the perfect summery rose perfume. It kind of reminds me of the Fentiman’s Rose Lemonade just bc of its so effervescent. When you first spray it you get the freshness and fizzyness of the citrus. Then you get the sweetness of the rose and jasmine. There’s a slight musk to the perfume but it’s very slight. This is a very happy type of rose perfume, love! Longevity and projection was moderate.

Ok, just wow...This stuff is intoxicating. Strong rose, but tart and juicy from the fruit. The metallic note gives it an almost fizzy freshness. But there is something else here, giving it a mysterious, vaguely oriental feel (not resins, not smokiness...just something else). This is Delina all grown up, a female spy dressed in red velvet and sipping a Bellini cocktail while riding on the Orient Express. The quality and performance is amazing. I must say that Ormonde Jayne is just such a stellar house!

My FAVORITE spring-summer scent! Bright, uplifting, sparkling, feminine, classy, it's an instant feel-good. It does have strong similarities with Delina - which I also love - but this one has a little something extra that I adore. And the dry-down is to die for! Long-lasting, great projection - without being overpowering - suitable both for day and night wear. Strongly recommend to give it a snif if you're into fruity-rose florals!

This is similar to Delina and many of the dupes of delina but it also has that ethereal VaIaya muskiness. However, I can reassure you this is on another level when it comes to quality and performance. This has a richer, deeper and warmer scent to it. Beautiful, timeless and elegant with outstanding performance, I took a shower and the scent was literally projecting hard afterwards. I love it.

My signature scent. Makes me happy and energized every time I put it on. Feminine, elegant and playful. It is very juicy and uplifting with lots of fresh rose, the one you can smell after a rainy summer day. Perfect for everyday, it won’t offend anyone especially because it does not project too much, but it is enough for others to catch a whiff of it and give compliments. Simply beautiful!

What a beautiful scent. It's completely reminiscent of some other jammy rose fragrances, but is so perfectly balanced I'd say it's one of the most charming and wearable takes on a theme I've had the pleasure of smelling. It's sweet and feminine - so I can see the comparison with Delina, but for me, the heart is much darker, and even flirting with a barely-there kiss of oud.

I just purchased it as I was mesmerised by it. I came back home and run to see the comments about it and there are a lot here highlighting the similarities to Delina. I certainly have not smelled Delina, but I have Amouage Beach Hut Man and .... Am I crazy to think that in the dry down they are very similar? Anyone else having both can you comment on that please?

I was immediately reminded of Delina when I put this on, but it’s not the same. I don’t find it very similar to Atomic Rose either. I find it to be a beautiful and well balanced rose forward perfume. I definitely get the fruitiness as well. I’m not usually a rose perfume lover, but this is one of my favorites that I’ve smelled.

Blew my mind, despite the seemingly boring scent profile. Like, yum. The currant works better here than in Babylonia, primarily because rose is a strong enough floral to support it. Not ambery or woody enough for any warmth, but that's just as well. A true spring rose, long-lasting and fresh.

This fragrance reminds me of Poirier d'un Soir and Enchanted Forest. Both including this are elegant fragrances. What makes this different? The blackcurrant note with bitter green background and hints of musk and amber are simply amazing. Performance wise, this is better than the other two.

This doesn't have the sharpness of Une Rose nor the heady creaminess of Delina...it's a perfect representation of the juiciest, most delicious rose in the garden. It's a warm spring day and the bees humming in the rosebush are just as delighted as I am. Magical!

Doesn’t smell like Delina to me — and I love it. It reminds me of the elegance of Paris, specifically when I lived there at 18 and the grown-up French women all smelled so amazing. And for once, this is a fragrance I can smell on myself for a good long while.

Sexy! Sexy! Sexy! This is my go to date night scent and my husband (who detests rose fragrances) absolutely adores it as much as I do. Oh and don’t waste your time on Delina, Damask is sooo much better in every way!

Rose perfumes saturate the market, but this one is head and shoulders above the rest. The blackcurrant and rose are so juicy and musky together! Heaven. Reminds me of Stella McCartney but perhaps even better...

This is a refreshing fruity rose. Reminds me of Stella but better blended with better performance. I don’t discern a clear jasmine and I don’t know what mineral smells like. Really lovely for spring/summer.

Such a pretty scent that reminds me so much of narcotic flower fragrance. The notes are so juicy and floral yet leaving you to not smell overpowering in the spring or summer time.

It smells exactly like Delilah which is a Delina dupe. I love Delilah and I love its price point even more. I’ll enjoy the sample I have of this but no need for a full bottle.

This smells like Delina with a burst of tart lemon instead of rhubarb. I prefer this to Delina and wears well in humid summer weather. Projection and sillage are great.

Can't stop falling in love with this perfume. it stands for itself in every different level. Classy...Yes Sexy...Yes Elegent...Yes Simply...The perfume of all seasons

This is an addictive floral with pink pepper and pear giving a rhubarby feel. It's deep, exotic and heady and I refuse to be parted from my bottle!

It does remind me of Delina a lot but delina is the cockette little sweet naive girl and Damask is a sofisticated lady

A sensual, deeper rose with a more tame sweet-tartness for a grown woman (compared to Delina, if we must).

Green. Limoncello. Rose. Very beautiful. I want to hold the woman who wears this.

Sweet, jammy rose with a Turkish delight accord that lasts for a long time.

For such a light fragrance, the longevity on this is impressive. I thought it would be obliterated by the cold, but once my nose stopped running I could definitely still smell it! It has a very intimate sillage (though I didn't apply much since I was using a tester with a wand applicator, which is always tricky) but I can still smell it now 9+ hours after applying. The scent opens quite juicy and fruity -- I mainly get the blackcurrant and pear, with a little bit of lemon. The rose is very faint at the beginning, but it's there. As it dried down the rose came to the forefront, and the final dry-down definitely made the vetiver and musk more prominent. I never really got the pink pepper at any point, which I was intrigued about. However, I did pick up on a faint bitter/sharp note in the initial scent that I couldn't identify -- maybe that was the "mineral" note? Overall, this is a lovely fruity/floral scent and has great longevity for something so airy. I'm definitely going to save some to test again on a warmer day to see how that affects performance!

Pretty, elegant fragrance, but it didn't blow my mind as I'd already smelled La Nuit Tresor (Lancome) and My Burberry Black Elixir at this point. All three are pretty similar to my nose - centered around a jammy, syrupy, almost rose-watery rose. MBBE is the strongest of the three, and also the most easily identifiable as it's less syrupy/jammy. LNT and Damask are very similar to me, despite LNT technically being a 'foody' rose with things like praline underscoring it. Regardless of official notes, they are very similar - jammy roses with a gourmand (praline/vanilla-ish) base that intensifies the longer you leave it on. Longevity and projection is solidly above average. ETA: It also reminds me of Montale's Sensual Instinct.

An elegant rose scent that feels like a couture dress in silk. It most reminds me of Galop d'Hermes, though it's not leathery. It just has an Hermes-like quality of balanced, abstract Frenchness. There isn't a dominant note really, the rose is present but doesn't bite you or overwhelm, neither sharp nor heavy. Very elegant and sophisticated, yet contemporary. Perfect for almost any occassion, though its elegance means it's not so much of a grounded relaxation scent perhaps. In the past I've not really loved any Ormonde Jayne perfumes, this is impressive though and I do think it's a 'like' for me.

This smelled so familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then it dawned me...it smelled similar (not exact) to my favorite B&BW christmas candle "Underneath the Christmas Tree". Lol. But 30 minutes in though, the similarities started to fade. It's a very nice balanced, well blended scent on me. It seems like more of a Fall and Winter scent bc it's warm and a bit spicy (& bc my holiday candle impression?). I would wear this for special ocassions/get togethers. It doesn't fit my casual, easy-going personality for an everyday, signature scent.

Crisp, clean musky pear with saturated rose petals. Lovely! This is pure class. I think Ormonde Jayne is a better execution of Jo Malone-esque fragrance houses, because the longevity is great! Today I layered Damask with JHAG's Pear Inc for some extra crispy, juicy pear. (If you're interested in Damask because of Delina, I'd say Damask is a better balanced, more timeless perfume that could safely be worn as your signature scent for your entire life and you'd likely never tire of it. Could be worn at age 18, 30, 55, and 90)

When I tested this perfume, for some reason, I immediately thought it would be great for colder weather rather than a typical sweet summer perfume, and I believe I was right. It feels much fresher, although it's still a sweet perfume but not sticky. Also, you don't need to overspray this - few perfumes last properly long on me at all, but two sprays of this on my neck, and I'm good for at least 6 to 8 hours which for me personally is an outstanding performance.

Super femme. The fruity sweetness is actually very girly. I would imagine a young woman, early 20's, wearing it. Now, take into account that I only sprayed it like 10 minutes ago so it's just a very initial impression. I hope that it'll mature a bit within the next couple of hours , because I think it's a tad too youthful for me at 45. It's very pleasant, don't get me wrong - But I prefer O.J. Ta'if by a mile. More rosey, more mature, less fruit bomb.

This is the fruity rose scent that I have been craving. Finally, a pear note that doesn’t turn a fragrance into a shampoo or hairspray scent. The black currant note is deep, sticky and sweet. The citrus note keeps this fragrance refreshing and from becoming too cloying. The rose note brings everything together into a scent that balances all the notes just right.

One of THE prettiest Rose centric perfumes available. I've received both inquiries and compliments whenever I've worn it. There is something so incredibly feminine about Damask... makes me smile every single time. If you're a rose lover ... check this one out. Also I feel it's different enough from Delina and Atomic Rose to not come across redundant.

The star of the show is rose but with a fruity zesty opening. Haven’t smelt anything like it. The closest would be Blouse YSL but this is a more sweet and sparkly one. Nothing like creamy Delina or jammy rose Portrait of a Lady. Please do not compare those fragrances just because they’re rose fragrances. They’re completely different.

Reminds me of a fruitier version of La Fille de Berlin. If there was more depth - Reine de Nuit. Overall, this is a fresh smelling rose with a huge fruity accord. But this accord blends in such way that it seems this is the scent of the petals, not some separate, additional notes.

This doesn't remind me of any of the above fragrances (I haven't smelled Blouse). Atomic Rose? Absolutely not. Delina? Perhaps if I really, really squint my eyes, I can see it. This is beautiful and a recent addition to my collection. The dry-down is fabulous, and I'm in love.

An elegant modern pink rose, the best I've come across so far. It appears light, fresh but there's depth there and for me, it reminds me of rose water but in the best way possible! Drydown becomes this fizzy fruity tart.

This doesn’t smell like Delina. This is better. The rhubarb in Delina is very off putting. The dry down of damask is phenomenal. I’m falling in love with Ormonde Jayne fragrances.

it’s a beautiful bright rose sweetened by blackcurrant but not being a fan of the delina-rose style dna, i'll pass

This is Delina minus the tartness. Lighter, airier and smoother...

This is Delina with a glass of expensive champagne in her hand.

Metallic juicy rose in simple terms, really good

Like Delina without the atomic longevity/silage. I can’t believe this is rated as high as it is in that area. This is a whisper after the first hour!

This is as much a lemon pepper fragrance as a rose fragrance to my nose, and I’m not really sure how I feel about it yet. It’s very... pungent.

Smells identical to Blouse YSL