Zizan

Imagine - Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson doing in a tu tu doing beautiful ballet moves with the precision of a seasoned professional. This is what this is. It is a delicate fresh citrus mostly lime given a touch of body with the bay leaves and slight depth with the other notes as compliments. Unusual in that unlike any other I know it packs a punch all day yet does not turn into a soapy, dusty, powdery or overly woody finish or present as such with a strong base. The touch of cedar is just noticeable nose to skin. It is very anosomic to me so it’s still strong when you think it isn’t. Just when I think it’s gone I catch a waft at arms length - seriously leaves me scratching me head how it projects so well at such a subtle volume - like low bass music passing through walls it’s always pleasantly there just at the right level pefectly balanced no matter how close or far it is from your nose. It’s exceptionally refreshing (someone describes it here as lime mojito spilt on silk which works for me) Most positive reviews here do it justice. Not for the sort of person whom wears TDH, 1million etc or attention seeking perfumes to command the room in an In instant and possibly offend (which I wear sometimes) but more the sort of perfume that when you sit in the room after a few minutes everyone starts sniffing more and more as you permeate gradually and because it is so fresh and gorgeous and yet inoffensive I could not envisage anyone ever having a bad thing to say other than you are a modern confident man and where can I buy it... Another outstanding hit for me from Ormonde Jayne next to Montabacco...

I think Geza Schoen has been tainted by the Essentric Molecule series, being too minimal and arthouse or lazy and money grabbing, depending how you see it. I kinda gave them the benefit of the doubt for showcasing modern aroma chemistry and showing people who wouldn't otherwise know, what things like ISO E Super and Ambroxan are all about. However, it still marred my view of him as a perfumer but looking at his back catalog he's produced some wonderful stuff which I adore and the Ormonde Jayne line are right up there. Incidentally I do like the Escentric molecules, especially the later ones and Zizan reminds me very much of Escentric 03 because it's got that ultra sharp, lime citrus note and ton of vetiver, dry juniper type stuff and that synthetic cedar wood note of ISO E Super. This is like a Post-TdH scent but from the year 2050! I'm not saying there wasn't any citrus/vetiver/woody scents before that, but TdH represents the high water mark in the mainstream. The pink pepper starts to pop when it settles producing a somewhat signature smell of futuristic, fresh spiciness. I really like it.

This, for me, is a glorious potion and one of my favourites. When I first tried it in a department store it was a little too potent having a bitter astringent quality to my nose. The second time I tried it I fell in love with it. I get an initial bright blast - citrus and pepper mixed with vibrant woods, which quickly dies down to a fabulously woody vetiver scent with a bitter zing to it that adds some real sparkle. It lasts a decent time and definitely projects well. How do I know this? Well, I'm not exactly blessed with the height, looks or charm of Chris Hemsworth and so unsolicited compliments from the opposite sex are something of a rarity for me. Yet this is the only perfume I have where I have received unsolicited compliments. OK they're only complimenting the fragrance, but I guess I can live with that :-) The compliments are a nice bonus, but it's not why I love this scent - it's just a great fragrance that I love to wear and definitely a keeper.

I smell strong and peppery citrus, herbs, and woods on first spray, very crisp, assertive and pleasant. There’s a harsh, synthetic, teak-like note in the base, but it’s not strong enough to be obnoxious. It seems to be one of the typical markers of a “man’s” fragrance, and I’ve gradually made my peace with it, so can ignore it enough to integrate it into the big picture. I tried Zizan after sampling a couple of unusually wimpy EdTs, and the contrast is amazing. There’s no comparison between the clear and well-defined scent of Zizan and the lifeless, ambiguous, timid scent of the other two. Sillage is moderate, and longevity is excellent. After 4-5 hours the musky base takes over and persists for at least 4-5 hours more. As a woman, I would (and will) wear this with no hesitation. It’s definitely not for those who love only fruity-florals and sweet gourmands, but if you like woods and herbal notes, it’s a must-try.

Linda Pilkington sprayed this on me herself (the owner of Ormonde Jayne). She said let it drydown 5 minutes and then smell it up close. As time, went on, I enjoyed it more and more. This is a nice spin on Terre D'Hermes. At the 5 hour mark, the drydown is amazing and refreshing. I now understand what she meant. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ At the 5 hour mark, I enjoy this one even more that Montbacco, although I believe Montbacco may be her best seller. This is an awesome fragrance for a HOT summer day. One of the best for the heat. This was not love at first sniff. Listen to Linda's advice, and do not smell this up close when you first apply it. There is a peppery note that will make you sneeze. This fragrance deserves a full wearing to review it. Just sayin.

A violet riding a vetiver fueled Harley Davidson wearing ancient biker colors encrusted with green herbs and not giving a d**n about the cloud of pepper, indole and musk fumes blasting out of the unmuffled tailpipes. Loud, bitter, ultra manly. Wear black, dont shave and do what you will. Ormande Jayne brilliantly balances incredibly potent green and bitter accords with a gorgeous, understated violet heart note and comes up with an ultra potent, super manly scent that pulls off the sheer agression of a Yatagan while maintaining the subtle beauty of a violet based floral. This is perhaps the only perfume I have smelled the can stand on its own alongside oudh as the ultimate in forceful masculinity. Hats off!

Zizan is a true masculine scent that pays homage to classic masculine scents we grew up smelling on our fathers, uncles etc. but Zizan is a more modern approach that doesn’t smell old or dated, and hasn’t been played out like the masculine scents of the previous generations. This is one for US men now. This is what a man should smell like. Crisp, clean, masculine and edgy. Ormonde Jayne brings the highest quality to the masculine vibe and gives it a classy manly feel, not just a “man wearing cologne” feel, this is more refined and beautiful for a manly scent. Very nice!

i really dig zizan. after shopping around london last week, this was one of my most rewarding purchases (along with coromandel & leather oud). how can you go wrong with an all-season, macho green citrus bonded to a sturdy, focused vetiver heart? sure it's redolent of other frags, but has strictly its own identity. great longevity and an ebullient, if moderate sillage. a very upbeat & well-constructed MAN'S frag (really didn't jive with OJ isfarkand, even less so with OJ man. tolu was inneresting...) zizan deserves more love! 8/10

I agree with other reviewers: masculine and well done smooth men's cologne! It will remind you of multiple designer frags but no one particular and it has great performance. It smells like a well made British cologne with citruses, vetiver, woods and pink pepper and a pinch of florals. Might not be the most unique or most exciting but a great scent for office (go easy on the trigger though), formal or day casual. Test it and bear with it till the dry down, which I think will impress you.

Im not particularly fun of vetiver fragrances but this one is a true love for me. It is the best vetiver based fragrance i ever tried. The combination with lime cedar and spieses is owesome. The vetiver is very refined and not aggressive. It is a smoothe signature worthy cologne, not groundbraking but very nice. The vetiver gets stronger at the end but there is something that makes it very nice!!! The quality is very high with good sillage and longevity. It is in my wish list for sure.

Like the best powerhouse scent from the 80s that you and a precious few just recently discovered. Sublime for its old-school masculinity and sillage. Two thumbs up for this niche that is worth its asking price.

I'm a total sucker for that brown, oily, almost unpleasant vetiver smell that makes the back of throat ache. I love that Zizan doesn't try to hide it.

Zizan smells good but is a fleeting affair compared to the Monsters of longevity in the OJ lineup like Nawab of Oudh or Montobacco. Starts off kinda fresh with green, herbal nuances from the citrus notes of lime n Bergamot and the clary sage mostly. The Heart turns even more herbal with the addition of the Bay leaf notes and the vetiver note from the base does turn up quite early as well. I dont really get any floral notes here even though they are mentioned. Nor do I get any musk or amber as such either. Zizan is mostly a herbal, green vegetal Vetiver with juicy fresh nuances from the citrus notes. Longevity and projection are average and for an Ormonde Jayne EDP, actually a bit underwhelming for me. This lasts about 4 -5 hours tops with decent projection for about an hour. Something in the structure of this frag reminds me of one of the Imaginary Authors Frags, Saint Julep or Falling into the Sea, has that kind of vibe. In conclusion, I'd say this is a good frag if you like green vetivers and I do and it has all the usual hallmarks of an OJ frag, good quality ingredients and smells upscale. Just that for this price, honestly, there are better performing alternatives out there. I definitely see myself enjoying my decant but dont think will be upgrading to a FB. Kinda bummed as I had high hopes for this. Maybe an Intensivo version would pique my interest a bit more. 7/10

What a lovely refreshment! This is exactly the kind of citrus I like, a deep, woody, smokey one with many layers. The lime is very prominent but it's so lovely I don't mind. Actually, it smells like a fresh lemonade and without the notes listed, I would have though it was lemon. It's shortly followed by bitter vetiver, which tames the citrus and prevents it from getting too sour. This fresh bitterness is present throughout. As it develops, Zizan get slightly warmer and just a bit peppery but it's still fresh. At the same time, it gets slightly herbal and green. All of these phases are very well blended and merge together smoothly. The impression I get is a very elegant man in a suit. I'd definitely say this is a summer fragrance, but an interesting one.

Zizan is masculine. Zizan is a piece of beauty in the "classic" genre. This is a classic that we all know and love but in a modern man's hands. This stuff is clean, crisp, elegant-yet-easy going. The lime plays a fantastic role. The vetiver is clear, but easy. The bergamot makes this sugary. I can see how this might remind someone of Guerlain Homme, but this is much more bold. The sugary aspect is what makes me think of Guerlain. Other than that, this stuff is way higher up. If I tried my best to describe the picture I get, it would be: Spilling a margarita on a freshly washed silk sheet. It's fresh, clean and VERY satisfying.

A light, pleasing aromatic citrus, Zizan is a deceptively well crafted scent. The scent opens with fresh citrusy aromatic notes of lime, lemon, bergamot, sage and juniper. The brief heart showcases subtle florals (jasmine and violet) and bay leaf. The perfume settles into an aromatic powdery vetiver surrounded by slight hints of amber, cedar and musk. The scent as a whole is refined, elegant and understated. Never overpowering or overwhelming, building a soft aromatic halo around you. Perfect work scent. Unisex (masculine leaning) with moderate sillage, projection and longevity. Enjoy!

A citrus and aromatic, woody fragrance that is a touch too strident for me but it would be gorgeous on my man. A big bergamot and lime entrance that becomes stronger with the vetiver amping these notes up. The cedar is strong but there is quite a lot of lemon, bay leaf and aromatic sage which keeps everything zingy. I love the sage note but I guess my skin is really amping it up and its ruining the fragrance for me by becoming harsh. If the sage was gone then it would be a fb for me for sure. I dont know where the musk, amber, pepper are but I think they are underneath the sage!

Airy and pleasant aromatic citrus with a delicate hint of spices. Fortunately I don't feel any vetiver since I don't like it. For me this scent is more on a feminine side, reminding of Dior Diorella. But it reminds me of Eau Sauvage as well. Very nice casual fragrance for everybody. Not a signature, since it lacks character.

Pleasant dumb reach for any summer occasion, it's basically Guerlain L'Eau Boisee with a dash of bay leaf imho. Well priced if it can be found in a discounted tester form, but L'Eau Boisee when it was easily found was the true bargain.

Its a classic cologne scent thats been modernized. Love this particular Vetiver scent, it may be up there with my absolute favorite vetiver scent, Sycomore.

A pleasant smoky citrus harmony. For an athletic male without great pretensions. Excellent longevity and sillage.

Very nice, gorgeous and classy but very weak longevity like a lot of the Ormonde Jayne's fragrance.

opening good, but drydown just odd, to much pink pepper too, still havent found a Geza i love

Very nice citrus fragrance. Opens with aromatic/peppery lime and lemon, and closes with a clean, green, citrusy Vetiver. Very classic and elegant. Like for Ormonde Man, I feel that its price tag should be updated given the strong similarities with Escentric 03 (which is part of Schoen’s other line), given that E03 can be found heavily discounted online. Still, Zizan probably shoots a (very small) step higher in terms of blend. Spring/Summer days, 25+

Rich and pongy, definitely an autumn / winter frag, way too rich and cloying for hot weather. It smells "like" a citrus frag, but on application it's very strong and much more resiny. Not something I need - it's not horrible, just without purpose for me. I really like Ormonde Man, it's intriguing, but this is a little bit scubbery.

in between like and dislike i had been so much looking for to getting my first bottle of ormande jayne. i had hoped to be blown out here. now, having one, i ask myself, "can umpteen umpteen billion frag heads be wrong?" i am not sure where a unique pleasure is here. it's everything i expect from the upper end with a good grade of ingredients. a whipsaw of brash notes. the mix approaches a balance of genial. they say masculine, i say in the middle. when the scent settles down it's like a long ago battlefield where the violence is reduced to a meadow with a few flowers swaying in the breeze.

I'm not wild about this. There's a nice bit of lime upfront in the first few minutes before it settles down to fairly boring, sedate floral middle accord of jasmine and violet. The savory base is very light and hardly worth mentioning. It's all spiced up with colossal amounts of raw pepper/ISO E super mix which seems to be the Ormande Jayne house style as far as the masculines are concerned. I don't think men are going to form a queue to buy this one.

Me gustó bastante... se nota la diferencia a cualquier fragancia vulgar.- Buean fijación 9/10

A very boring scent; lemony limey and ones that are over ripe and going brown it has a bitter smell like you would find in a perfume that is going rancid.It was a fresh bottle too ordered from her store in London. It sounds promising on paper. All of her fragrances have a very Indian/ Middle Eastern smell, and their names like Nawab, Champaca, Isfarkand seem to tell you her love of the Asiatic spices and smells associated with the same. I think these smells are exotic, but in greeny sleepy parts of Surbiton Mrs Brown and Edna find it objectionable, which I think is fine in those countries but in England where people generally purport to hate curry and spice smell, yet strangely curry is the national dish. I know cos as a kid I took some spices into school in a cookery lesson and all the teachers and European kids started to call it the P*k* smell and insist that the windows are opened and started holding their noses it seems not to be quite their cup of tea yet chai latte they wax lyrical about. Quite why it is £90 is beyond me. If I bought a perfume that smelt like this at the £ shop I would think I have paid too much for it. I have already had some adverse comments when frequenting pubs saying I smell like a dark skinned gentlemen, I cant use the word they actually used for it is offensive and yet they all order Chicken Tikka Masala and naan bread? I tend to wear her fragrance in the inner cities where their are many immigrants and I have found that people from Asia always ask if I was the chef in the family as what I was cooking was potent!

Alas like of all of her fragrances buy the smallest bottle you can, O.J fragrances go rancid very, very quickly, you will end up smelling like Almafi oranges that have gone of and sweat and onions. Well I guess this is what in old Italy smell amore! I dont think bells are ting a ling a ling, I wore this once and people just too polite but a few said have you just been to the gym or put some onions on to stew. Its rank and no wonder this fragrance has been discontiued now! If you want what I think Linda Pilkington was trying to reinvent was Aqua di Parma. But then you should never ever try and mess or emulate an old masterpiece! The cost also is ridiculous. I guess someone has to pay for the rent and rates in Londons fashionable end! I wore it once and I was too embarrassed to even place it on a certain internet auction it was that bad!

I usually love Ormonde Jayne fragrances, but this one is just blended badly. Too much bay leaf and Vetiver, I get none of the other notes. It’s also very masculine. Even so, I wouldn’t waste my money, there are millions of much better fragrance options out there. And it doesn’t last. Which I’m glad of since I don’t like it at all.

It's another scorcher out today, so I decided to try one of the made-for-men offerings in my queue, since candy and flowers can be overwhelming under these climatic conditions. Ormonde Jayne Zizan somehow never got sniffed by me before, so here goes: No argument that this is a masculine cologne! Many of the usual suspects are readily detectable in this blend, from vetiver to juniper to pepper to citrus. This is an aromatic woody composition with a big dose of aromachemical base "cedarishness", so for me it's not very appealing. Some people really like that "stuff", however, so Zizan could be a winner for them. I was thinking about the difference between this British house and Miller Harris, which strikes me as basically this: Miller Harris avoids the aromachemical boosters and uses only natural wood in their blends. The aesthetics are very similar, at least when it comes to their aromatic-woody-citrus blends, except on that point, it seems to me. Overall, I'd characterize this as a fairly classic (as in not original but comfortingly familiar) made-for-men cologne. It's an interesting combination of natural-smelling aromatic notes atop a fairly dominant aromachemical base. Zizan will certainly do for many one-bottle-at-a-time gents. The sillage is pretty big though, so only guys who don't mind everyone knowing that they wear fragrance will feel comfortable in this.

My husband really rocks this particular scent; he's an outdoorsy, athletic kind of guy who doesn't want his cologne to announce his arrival--no thick gold chains or inflated ego here-- yet he still wants his scent to have a presence. The house of Ormonde Jayne is brilliant at that--scents with medium sillage that are quality modern offerings. Zizan starts off with a tangy lemon/bergamot but quickly joined by a burst of lime and a hint of juniper. (Zizan doesn't strike me as peppery as some of OJ's scents, at least not on my husband. ymmv) Soon the citrus starts to meld with some of the more herbal elements, and the effect is slightly bracing and astringent. The grassy vetiver and woodsy cedar become apparent in the drydown, and 12 hours later, we still could get a conservatively musky cedar glowing from hubby's chest and arms--probably a nod to the IsoE that OJ seems to love. Zizan is full bottle worthy for DH and goes on our short list of To Buy. A worthy scent from one of my most beloved fragrance houses.

The latest masculine offering from Ormonde Jayne, Zizan features perfumer Linda Pilkington's by-now signature crisp, herbal overtones, and rich, dry ambery undertones. The peppery beginning is frustratingly fleeting, but the floral midpoint is quite pretty, and renders this scent quite wearable for women. While overall not as breathtakingly original as Ormonde Man, Zizan is clearly another quality offering from this most impressive British parfumerie.

personally don't think this fragrance deserves the poor reviews it seems to receive. At once, it is a quality and skilfully realised scent with bold projection and enduring longevity. The super-masculine blend of citrus, herbs, wood and vetiver evolves elegantly and reminds me a little of Terre d'Hermes and Gucci by Gucci pour Homme by the time it has reached the final stages. Very good.

This one is pretty much Guerlain L'eau with a distinct bay leaf note. The bay leaf becomes more noticeable as it dries down reminding me of a tomato leaf. It also shares similarities with Boisee, its just as delicious to say the least. Its light, bright, citrusy, but rather linear. Not sure its bottle worthy cause you could easily just grab a vintage bottle of Boisee and call it day.

After the big surprise with Ormonde Man, I was probably expecting too much from Zizan but, as a matter of fact, all I got was a citrusy-peppery, wood-centered composition with slight green undertones. We've seen this iteration too many times, not to talk about the huge amount of Iso E Super with which Zizan is fully loaded... Woody amber galore... Rating: 4/10

Great scent. Reminds me a bit of chanel bleu edt. Both make me sneeze which is unusual. Bleu is diferent im not saying they are the same, just similar, BDC is sweeter, doesn't last and more synth. Zizan is smoother and well rounded. It opens like a fresh, cold, refreshing gin and tonic. But still....sneezy! I wonder why?

This has become my signature scent! Just got my second full bottle after one year. Hands down the most compliments from women of any fragrance I have ever owned. If you like a clean, green, vetiver based, masculine perfume, look no further and try this out.

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This is very masculine and green, nothing different but a very nice vetiver scent- its a more tangy version of tom ford grey vetiver- still not as good as encre noire for me- 7/10