Rue St Honore

This is my perfect gardenia. Often times, they're too sharp, too green, too bitter, too sweet, too creamy, too overwhelmed by other notes - this is the perfect FRESH gardenia scent. The holy grail for those searching for a gardenia that smells more like the actual flower. I've tried so many gardenia scents, from low to the highest of high end. Who knew this low/mid-price scent would accomplish what so many others did not? I prepared myself to be disappointed, but am in love. The violet and ylang-ylang add a floral-creaminess and calm down any tendency towards sharpness or bitterness. I think the ylang-ylang is doing the real heavy lifting here - my skin LOVES ylang-ylang and it will elevate almost any note to something a bit creamier. I'm not getting any muskiness on my skin. Beautiful and natural gardenia. Love it.

Discovered this from the Ouai Hair Oil first and didn’t particularly like the scent as I felt it was way too strong for a hair product. In general, if I want to smell like something, I will spray on perfume. I finished the mini of the oil I had and then realized I began to miss the smell, so I bought this. Ugh this is SO pretty. It’s extremely floral and feminine so it won’t be for everyone, but this reminds me of sunny spring days and white lace. It lasts a moderate amount of time, but be careful with how many sprays you use, because it can easily offend someone. For this reason I only wear it if I will be somewhere outdoors or just at home by myself.

I tested it the first time when it was released and hated it. I tried it again recently and was super surprised at how much I loved it. I loved it so much I bought it on the spot. This is nothing like what I remember the first time and I’m so glad because this smells like a violet dipped in sugar with a squirt of lemon and a puff of musk. This is also a great blend because I love Ylang Ylang and I don’t get any of that. I’m a huge fan of violet and own very few perfumes with violet in it because I’ve found very few that smell any good to me. This is wonderful, light, intimate and lasts about 4 hours on my skin and the dry down is musky sweet citrus

Bought OUAI matte pomade and was shocked by the smell of the product. Went on the website of theirs and was suprised to discover that their stuff contains different smells of the perfumes- matte pomades being Rue St Honore. Also went on to buy the hand cream and eventually the perfume. Getting my hands on the perfume was little tricky. Ylang-ylang and gardenia are really in harmony and suited together, but I can smell some tuberose, which is not listed in the notes. Looking forward to buying Melrose Place soon.

I like Ouai hair products, so I was interested to see this limited edition line of fragrances on Sephora's website. Two of them were already sold out, and of the two remaining, I decided to buy this one based on the notes. VERY happy with this blind buy. I agree with others who have said here and on the Sephora site that it smells like Kai. The ylang note distinguishes it from Kai, though. Rue St. Honore is beachy and gorgeous! I'm glad I got a bottle when I had the chance.

To my nose and even my friends said this is the garden of lilies. I could imagine gardenia but that’s not to my nose at first sniff or even now. This is a skin scent that is not overpowering. If you love white floral and you can get along w strong white floral note that could be heady, this is a great one! By the way, gardenia doesn’t have essential oil so if you think you smell rose, you are right because gardenia is a combination of jasmine and rose.

Don’t listen to the naysayers. This perfume is BEAUTIFUL!! It’s cool, fresh white gardenia all day long. Similar to leaning into the cooler at a florist shop and inhaling. It’s not screechy and migraine inducing like Gucci Gorgeous Gardenia. I also bought Melrose because this one was so lovely and I did not like it. I have been cautiously trying everything with gardenia ever since. I say cautiously because Gucci traumatized me.

A must have for Gardenia lovers, and I am one of them! This is such a realistic gardenia flower. It even embodies the faint scent of the fresh cut stems along with the slightly powdery feel of the fresh petals. I smell like a beautiful bouquet of freshly cut gardenia flowers. ❤❤❤... As an added bonus I tried layering this with Monoi body lotion by Sephora, amazing Gardenia goodness!

This is a creamy white floral scent. The note that sticks out to me the most is gardenia. It’s a musky, sweet gardenia scent. Perfect for summertime. Although nothing original or unique, I already own about a dozen similar scents, it’s still nice to have as I’m a huge white floral fan. The projection power is nice, it definitely radiates, still testing longevity.

Beautiful realistic delicate creamy gardenia flower. This is what I wanted Eau de Soleil Blanc (which I foolishly own and tried to make work for months) to be. I wore a fresh gardenia in my hair on my wedding day because I love the scent so much. This is the closest I can get without the natural flower. Nice bottle & sprayer too.

Very realistic white florals. Soft and somewhat powdery. Reminded me of a gentle hand soap or lotion. Comfy, creamy and light. Sweet but not in a gourmand way. Simple nothing groundbreaking. Feminine, pretty and warm. Uncomplicated and approachable. It also reminded me of the store Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Similar to Acqua Di Gioia Light but powdery and sweeter with the Ylang Ylang and not woody. Honeysuckle Banana Gardenia type of fragrance with a musky dry down. Great for spring and for summer nights. I find it soft and relaxing to wear for bed. I wish it came in a 100ml.

Beautifully uncomplicated gardenia scent. Ever so slightly musky with thankfully no sweetness. Sits close to the skin. Doesn't last quite as long as I wish it would; about 4 hours in the summer heat. A little overpriced at $60 for 1.7 oz.

Super realistic gardenia, white and creamy. I get a hint of ylang ylang which I don’t normally love, but it works here. I don’t really smell the violet. Subtle white musk after a few hours on the dry down. Love this one.

OUAI is such an approachable brand, all scents I've tried, including this one, smell modern but not edgy. No matter what the notes are, people always compliment, Ahh! Smells so nice!

clean, crisp gardenia. I spray this on myself SEVERAL times a day - the staying power is almost non existent. but it is so very fresh and pleasant - distinct similarity here to KAI.

It smells like the color white and lacy. It’s soft and pillowy and very creamy, it smells like silk sheets. Amazing

I bought a small bottle of ouai hair oil on my last trip to the mall, and I was currently looking for a gardenia scent and I never expected that it would smell like gardenias, and the catch is that it smells EXACTLY like gardenias! Oh my goodness this is heavenly, the creamy, florally, coconut-y flower is just chef kiss🤌. I’m definitely gonna get the perfume because thank god it exists otherwise i’d be using the hair oil on my pulse points. By what it smells like to me, it smells like it could be used as a bedtime scent, its not a sharp gardenia nor is it offensive as a floral, its soft and sweet enough to cuddle up in bed with. Idealy i can see it being used after a relaxing bath, the type of baths where the only lights being lit are candles and you almost fall asleep in the baths. And then you come crawl into bed where all the sheets and comforters are clean and your pillow is nice and cool to instantly fall asleep on. I love giving visual descriptions of perfume, it brings the element of liking a fragrance more than its actual smell. This is a 1000/10 Gardenia fragrance Edit: okay, its been a handful of months, I don’t have the perfume yet but still the hair oil. I don’t know for sure if they put the same scent ingredients into the perfume but the smell of the hair oil turned to being a scratchy white floral. I haven’t used it much since it really greases up my hair (not fit for my hair porosity and current condition) but its what happens when you forget about it, the fragrance gets scratchy.

Hm, I am strongly hesitating, if I like it... Or not... I blind-bought the perfume, together with North Bondi and Melrose Place. NB and MP was of 10 ml, and Rue St. Honoré was only 50ml. It sounds so French... So I thought I can't go wrong. I use Ouai hair care products. Well, some. And I know Jen Atkin put some good smells in those products. However, on the paper where I sprayed the perfume, nothing significant happened during the whole process of opening - heart - base. I felt a strong dislike because of that sharp green violet. I love violet as a flower, but noone seems to cope with violets in fragrances, they always mess up that note 😒. My overall impression of the perfume was - it smells like a vintage violet-powder puff, mixed with some dirty, earthy mushrooms. And some bananas and coconut. So I started to think that I have to sell the perfume somehow. On the other hand, my Dad smelled this by chance when he was near me - I have already sprayed the fragrance on my wrists. He complimented me immediately. For me, this perfume of the 3 ones I purchased, symbolizes the cold winter. When I sniff it, I always get the image of the elegant, shiny snow with lots of beautiful coniferous trees. I know it has tropical flowers in it 🤭, but still. Edit: I tested it with Jo Malone: Myrrh and Tonka. What you get is green vanilla leather. I know this sounds crazy, but that is it. And it is very interesting. STILL. Those violets completely ruin the beauty of the white flowers. Rue St. Honoré - you leave !!!

creamy ylang bomb! showed this on a tester paper to my mum and she said 'Yep. That's ylang'. Mum grew up in the Philippines so she'd know, but I've never smelled real ylang so i'll try and describe Rue St Honore without saying 'ylang': it's a creamy, cloudy, waxy, almost coconutty white floral - in fact i was surprised to see this doesn't have coconut. It's just kind of heavy so I probably wouldn't wear this, but out of the four OUAI perfumes they had at my Sephora this was the best!