Gardenia

Gardenia by Robert Piguet smells like spicy banana leaves and I mean that as a compliment because this is a gorgeous fragrance! I get a lot of cashmeran in the opening, some spicy ylang-ylang, and a crisp lily that has a fresh cut green vibe to it that slowly mellows to a creamy gardenia. I love wearing this fragrance because it has such a “happy” scent to it; I find it very up-lifting. As someone who is a gardenia lover and having a lot of gardenia fragrances in my collection, this is without a doubt one of the most unique!

Note for self A lovely day time perfume that can transition to night easily. Makes you smell like a fresh garden of flowers on a spring day, despite being so floral it is a scent that is wearable in even the coldest January days. (-30°c) Only thing I don’t like about this perfume is it’s OVERLY powerer-y.

This is perfect for me. I never considered Gardenia to be a "one note" flower, so the subtle inclusion of Lily, Ylang-Ylang & Vanilla hits just the right pitch, smoothed by the leather not toughened. I have the huge "Magnifica" all through the garden & find it a very close match.A delightful find.

First impression: Lovely peppery debut. A sharp and a little bit metallic lily followed by a honeyed ylang. The drydown is a marvel. Such a discrete, intimate beauty. It lingers all day as a skin scent and as a tender olfactory memory. Still peppery but this time also creamy.

Stunning, beautiful, magnificent. An absolutely gorgeous take on gardenia. Pure class. The woods and leather take this gardenia to a dark place, and that's only a good thing.

Gardenia is one of those very pleasant contemporary white florals, solar and fuzzy, rounded out with soft abstract wood and vanilla. The name is quite misleading, however, as this is much more a lily fragrance than a gardenia one, at least to me. It’s so effortlessly pleasant it actually sets off my generic fragrance alert--the floral notes are very nice but there's no hiding they're suspended in a soup of woozy vanilla and Cashmeran, that suspicious-smelling synthetic fuzz, very easy on the nose yet somehow annoying. The scent is too ubiquitously woody-sweet, like almost every other vanilla-based fragrance out there. And yet, whenever I bring my arm back to my nose after taking a short break from smelling it, it strikes me again and again how wonderfully nice this is as a balmy lily-forward woody floral. It reminds me of Lys Carmin--they share a similar, soft and fuzzy, comfort scent quality. I'd say Gardenia is more silky and solar--it has more of that contemporary abstract aura--while Lys Carmin gives off a more classic vibe, as a more typical glamour-oozing sandalwood-anchored hothouse floral. After trying them side by side, I could confirm that they indeed become quite similar somewhere between the heart and not too far drydown. Both smell of fuzzy, sweet and puddingy lily supported by a soft base of vanilla with a hint of wood. I don't like Lys Carmin as much as Gardenia in the early development but this changes in the drydown; Lys Carmin simply smells more engaging, accomplished and expensive next to the synthetic wood-laden Piguet. Overall, Gardenia is very pretty and it would have a superb comfort scent potential for those who do well with contemporary woody synthetics.

Beautiful warm white floral garden. The art of perfumery is not just to copy nature (in which floral scents are largely for attracting bees) but to improve upon it to human taste. By that measure, this scent is a successful gardenia. Intimate enough sillage to wear every day, but also beautiful and refined enough to layer on for a special occasion. Could even work as a bridal scent.

It's been 15 minutes and I'm still waiting for the Juicy Fruit accord to give way to the "real" notes. I don't understand this one, in light of the name and the house. It's a stretch for me to imagine I smell any flowers at all here.

I like this! it's floral but also very sun drenched. it actually reminds me of the "fancy sun cream" scents that are going around right now. idk if I'll spring for a full bottle, but I'll happily use up my sample

A modern bouquet of primarily gardenia but also other white and yellow flowers. A special occasion fragrance. I love that it is so restrained.

Like some have said, there's something very artificial about this. It reminds me of going into a flower shop where the flowers are refrigerated to preserve them, and incidentally curb their fragrance. It's interesting, and i appreciate that it doesn't have the powderiness (is that a word?) that I expected, but I personally prefer when floral scents have a bit more depth.

I tried this along with Fracas, and this is much nicer to my nose. It is similar to Montale Intense Tiare in that it is a very strong white floral, but with the coconut replaced by vanilla & woods so it is sweeter and a bit drier. It does not have the dank, almost fecal aspect I found off-putting in Fracas, in fact it is quite neutral. Gardenia does not project to arms length but it is a strong skin scent and lasts fairly well. I do think it is quite expensive for what you get.

What to say about this one... Cashmeran and synthetic woods really tear through this composition on me. Opening lilly and ylang with hints at gardenia. The florals vanish into a synthetic soup of fuzzy cashmeran woods and vanilla. I get more mid and base notes than the floral so the name Gardenia is perplexing to me. If you get along with the modern synthetics it will work for you. For me, they do not.

A very synthetic lily that has a little pepperiness in there that quickly disappears into a soft powder. I immediately thought of the dental office and the smell of those gloves... I find this to be rather dry, I was hoping for a lush gardenia fragrance. Maybe it's just my skin chemistry but I can't even smell it after 3 minutes?

An elegant fragrance for a classy ... old(er) lady - probably someone twice my age, and I'm 38 ... This would go well with white hair, a string of pearls ... Quite surprised, and frankly, disappointed as I expected it to be a vibrant, sexy white flower fragrance. Also, it gives me a headache.

This is ugly. It's less about gardenia and more about some bandaid mess. It goes on very green with a bit of vanilla, a bit of gardenia and a touch of sweetness. Then it dries down into medical adhesive or antibiotic ointment.

Can’t smell any gardenia at all. Overall, this scent is a mess — an unpleasant experience.

short review ... this smells like sweat.

Such a disappointment ! So wanted this perfume to be about gardenias but no, all I get is a slight floral burst but as it touches the back of my nose it tickles with pepper . Not sure if it’s the leather but it ruins the flowers for me and makes me want to sneeze 😩 Can’t do spicy perfumes

Got this cause I love gardenia and well , nothing like I expected . Peppery and unisex. For a white floral lover this is a disappointment . The name is misleading