Jour Ensoleille

This review is from a small sample. I think I'd have to sample again before I actually bought a full bottle, but I am considering it. I think the tuberose note is too strong and shrill for the opening. I am not that much of a fan of tuberose (at least in perfume form), so that may be part of it, but it seems out of place in the scene the perfumer is trying to evoke. It's supposed to be like a walk on a dusty trail through a country meadow in the afternoon sun, and the tuberose just doesn't seem to fit. Too rich and exotic, and it overpowers the orange blossom, which is more appropriate. I do like the oakmoss ending very much. Dusty and dry and bitter, really makes you feel as if you're on a hiking trail. A very pretty floral chypre for someone who loves oakmoss.

Ahhh...heady, magnificent, tropical white flowers spring forth from this bottle! It smells like Hawaii--gardenia and pikake! Since neither of those flowers are found in this perfume, I narrow it down to a combo of jasmine and tuberose that I am smelling. It's so fresh and green, like the flowers are still on the plant. I have so much trouble with jasmine in perfumery because it's never the real deal, always very synthetic. I'm happy to report that there is no trace of anything synthetic here. This is jasmine as it should be--sweet, green, and fresh. I have nothing but praise for Jour Ensoleille. Although I don't typically wear such intense white florals, I will probably buy a bottle. I might never smell jasmine this good again.

Absolute perfection! I don't normally gravitate toward chypres, but with all of the beautiful and balanced floral notes, the combination is intoxicating. The opening is bright and citrusy - a bit like Lauder's Azuree. Then the white flowers are ushered in. They're not whiny, thin, and polite-typical. They're high-quality, and well blended. This is no tuberose monster. The white flowers mellow, the citrus mellows, and the creamy combination sets the stage for the chypric base. The result is a creamy, sophisticated, white-floral chypre. I get numerous compliments every time I wear it.

I don't wear white florals(or many florals period). Usually I find them too overwhelming and I'm not into leaving a scent trail. But I love to smell white flowers out in nature with their earthy and leafy surroundings in tact. I have been wishing I could find a white floral I can not only tolerate, but also enjoy. I think I may have found it here. It opens with indolic tuberose, OB, jasmine complete with a touch of something camphorous. I applied lightly with a dabber as I was fearful of being blown over. The flowers retain some of their difficult aspects and as it dries down the overipe, verging on rotting orange shows up but not in a repellent kind of way. I find this actually anchors some of the headiness. The flowers are sweet and honeyed, even slightly oily and maybe at the end of their lifespan, just beginning to turn brown in the late summer sun. I find this floral so earthy and warm and unsanitized. I find it truly gorgeous and really does evoke the landscape that Laurie Erickson was trying to capture in this fragrance.

Very well made and beautiful chypre. I don't know why I usually smell incense in chypre perfumes. Is it because of the oakmoss base note? I agree with Kterhark that the more it settles down, the better it is. A must try for white flower and chypre fans.

I'm using a vial I was given recently, and it is dated August 2011, so I wonder if it could have turned? That said, it just doesn't smell good to me. There's this strong plastic experience that I can't seem to get past. Based on the reviews and the notes and especially the perfumer, I thought this would be a sure thing. I hope a fresher sample comes my way, but I guess I won't go looking for it. Ah, well. It's good not to like them all, right?

A heavy, overwhelming dose of orange blossom - that is all I got from this fragrance. Days later, it is still on my jacket sleeve, and is still only orange blossom...none of the other notes come through for me on this one.

I get the "white flowers"and I like that very much, but then there's this almost "institutional" smell, to me, it's almost like a sweet glue or maybe a cleaning product smell.

عطر يوم مشمس من دار سونوما للنساء والرجال Jour Ensoleille Sonoma Scent Studio for women and men كلما تقدم بنا العمر ازددنا حنينا إلى الماضي وكلما تقدم العمر أكثر كلما رجعنا للوراء أكثر وأكثر مرحلة الصبا .. هي مرحلة ما بعد الطفولة وقبل مرحلة الشباب هي البداية الحقيقية في حياة كل منا للتعرف على الحياة بشكل واقعي حينما استطاعت يدك تفارق أيدي والديك وأن تسير بمفردك في دروب الحياة شارعك - مكان لعبك - جيرانك - طريق المدرسة - المخبز - محلات البقالة وأكشاك الحلوى القريبة من البيت. يا لها من أماكن حفرتها الخطى في ذاكرتنا ويوما بعد يوم تكبر أقدامنا لتشغل آثارها مساحة أكبر في ذاكرتنا وتزيدها كثرة الأشواط ذهابا وإيابا عمقا ورسوخا مدينتي كانت جميلة، بل كانت أجمل مدن العالم كله فأنا لا أعرف من العالم سواها مدرستي ما أجملك، وطريق مدرستي ما أحلاه يقصر ذهابا حيث لا مجال للتأخر ويطول إيابا حينما يتسع المجال للتلكؤ والتباطؤ وربما يمتد الوقت لحصة إضافية من التسكع في الشوراع القريبة من بيتنا لم يكن الطقس كما هو الآن إما قارس البرودة أو شديد الحرارة فلقد كانت شمس الصيف حانية وبرودة الشتاء تذهب سريعا مع قطرات المطر كانت أيامنا كلها مشمسة دافئة لوري اريكسون Laurie Erickson ماذا وضعت داخل زجاجة عطرك هذه المرة بل داخل آلة الزمن المسماة "يوم مشمس Jour Ensoleille" صباح الفل .. هذا الصباح صنع في مصر يمكنك أن ترى الفل مع بدايات الربيع وحتى نهاية الخريف هذه الزهرة البيضاء الرقيقة التي تمتاز عن الياسمين بعدد بتلاتها المزدوجة دائما أرى الياسمين غربي النكهة والمزاج أما الفل ففيه من سمات بلدي فإن رائحته صاخبة مقارنة بدفء وهدوء الياسمين. الفل - التيوب روز "زهرة مسك الروم"- زهرة البرتقال الأفريقي المر يمكنني أن أزعم الآن أن وجود الفل مع التيوب روز يعطي شعورا بوجود زهرة الجاردينا القريبة الشبه بالياسمين فالبداية إذن بيضاء ولكنها صارخة مع هذا الثلاثي شديد الفوحان الفل والتيوب روز "الجاردينا" يصارعان زهرة النيورلي التي أحيانا ما تنجح في إزاحتهما وتعزف في المقدمة بمساعدة الثنائي الأبيض الفاتن ويأتي في الخلفية مسحة بخورية يطلقها اللبان العطري وراتينج اللابدونام الفرنسي الذي سيأخذ بيد العطر إلى التصنيف التشيبري مرحلة عطرية رائعة قبل أن يظهر هذا الثنائي ويقوما بالاتحاد الفيتيفر أو النجيل الهندي هو عشب اخضر عطري منعش، جاف، خشبي، ثابت وثقيل يمكن أن يستخدم كمثبت عطري، هو أفضل مكون يمكنه أن يتحد مع الأخشاب والجلود، وهنا اختارت له لوري اريكسون أخشاب الصندل العطرية القوية الروحانية المزاج ليكون رفيقه الملازم له مدة نوتة قلب العطر العطر بهذا الشكل يمثل نموذجا مثاليا لعطور التشيبر الزهرية القليلة الوجود النادرة الاتقان. طحلب السنديان الترابي الحاد الرطب الذي يشعر برائحة التربة بعد نزول الأمطار هل يمكن حقا أن تطفئ الأمطار شمس هذا اليوم الربيعي؟ ستأتي الإجابة بالنفي القاطع على يدي عنبر الكهرمان السويتي الدافئ لتعود الأجواء ربيعية مشمسة وتفسح هذه المقابلة ما بين طحلب السنديان الرطب والعنبر الدافئ المجال لعودة زهرة التيوب روز إلى منطقة الأضواء ولكن هذه المرة بين المروج الخضراء الندية التي سيزيدها وجود الباتشولي في الخاتمة رسوخا

Sonoma Scent Studio Jour Ensoleille Sunny Day is the perfect name for this stunning fragrance. They say falling in love is a process, and that holds true for this perfume. My intense love of vintage fragrances containing real oakmoss, my love for hiking outdoors amidst the California eucalyptus and sagebrush, and my love for indolic white florals have all been seamlessly blended into this dazzling perfume. If I had to name just one perfect perfume for a Taurus, it would be this one because it’s perfectly earthy, radiant, and lush. The jasmine is full, creamy, and just slightly indolic, not in a skanky way, but in an earthy way which is accented by a warm patchouli and labdanum. The chypre comes from a blend of heavy, dark, ripe oakmoss and pungent green Eucaluptus seeds with just a touch of vetiver to enhance the greenness. My favorite note is the California sagebrush, which is a smell I would imagine only a California perfumer could master. I’ve been looking for a perfume with this scent, and this is it, without a doubt! The entire composition rests on a warm bed of honeyed amber and sticky myrrh softened with creamy beeswax and brightened with a sunny thick orange blossom accord. The first few minutes of this perfume are rather loud with the oakmoss taking center stage. It’s best sprayed lower on the body so you aren’t overwhelmed by the opening. The sunshiney florals come out in the heart. The dry down is all about the earthy resins. This is the first scent I’ve tried from SSS, but if the others are anything like this, I’m sure I will not rest until I’ve tried them all. This perfumer has truly captured a sunset in a bottle. I love it!

Jasmine and oakmoss—or reasonable facsimiles—loom large in Sonoma Scent Studio JOUR ENSOLEILLE. To my nose this is more appropriate for an overcast, threatening-to-rain day than as a celebration of bright sunlight. In fact, JOUR ENSOLEILLE seems just perfect for today in Boston, with a lot of wind, and numerous gray cumulus clouds threatening to spill their contents any moment now. The wind is so loud that it seems menacing, beckoning me to remain inside my warm apt. with my even warmer divine white furry feline friend, Diogenes incarnate aka Howard Hughes kitty aka Nanook of the North aka Houdini aka Orson Welles avatar aka Emperor Oliver, who, I recently learned is coincidentally the same age as Hugh Hefner. Let's just hope that HH kitty does not dump me for a younger, more nubile, could-be-his-great-granddaughter member of his very large fan club—all females in existence, to be precise. But I digress... JOUR ENSOLEILLE has enough oakmoss to be a turn-off to those who have not acquired a taste for the somewhat dirty, dusty, even “old lady” quality of the perfumes in which it figures big. I, however, happen to like that note a lot. Is this presentation worthy of a full bottle? Probably not. This one reminds of several other middling oakmoss-rich perfumes and does not stand out from the crowd. It's not bad, but it's not great either. The alleged neroli and tuberose included in this composition are beyond my threshold capacity to detect. Désolée.

I read that Laurie likes to hear from wearers what feelings her scents evoke. Very well- this scent makes me want to be laughing with friends. This is a happy, joyous fragrance (and I thought that before reading her own inspiration for this) Now more technical: this is the third fragrance I've tried from this line, and I feel comfortable saying these wear like Caron Urn fragrances on me. They open rather harsh and unpleasant, and you have to wait a good 40 min before you are rewarded with a long lasting, beautifully harmonized, gorgeous composition. Now I like my scents to sit under my nose for at least 8 hours, and Ensoleille complies. This is a scent that turns 'watery' on me, which is a nice change from the sensously earthy fragrances that dominate my wardrobe. Everything here is treated lightly, indeed, it's just like an afternoon spent at the seaside, with a warm breeze rustling the wild flowers and purity in every breath. one of my favorite floral chypres to date.

A buoyant, booming white floral with not much by way of base, funk or unpleasantness in it. Very easy to keep on sniffing at this one, but there's not enough unease in it for me. It's mixed AMAZINGLY -- the tuberose and jasmine blend together effortlessly -- but I needed this to have something a little more messy in it. A resin, some woods, something like that. Just because I don't like this doesn't mean it's bad. It's a very pretty white floral and I like my stuff weird...

This smells like a lighter version of Champagne de Bois. Wouldn't anyone agree? Fantastic!