Jany

Sometimes I crave a really good gourmand fragrance. I don't typically go crazy for this genre like other people. I'm not the biggest fan of something that smells like food. I'd rather just eat it. If I'm going to wear it, there has to be depth of character. A lot more needs to be going on in order for me to not get sick. That takes a while for me to finally decide which ones work and which ones do not. In regards to Jany, at first I thought it was too sweet. It smelled just like apple pie or some type of apple croissant. Instantly put me in the mindset of an autumn morning at the coffee shop. For some of you, that sounds great. For certain people like me, that's not my favorite. But it kept me interested. This is my fourth attempt and I have to say, I am coming around to it. Are there synthetic notes? Doesn't there have to be? I don't think you can get an essential oil from a pie. People have to keep in mind how fragrances are made. A grand cru cannot come from just anything. Even a note as simple as Amber is an accord, which means it is not a naturally occurring essential oil. It is the idea of what Amber smells like created in the lab. Compared to vanilla attar Grand cru. The best naturally occurring essential oil crafted from vanilla. Someone had to create Jany from beginning to end. I don't think calling it synthetic helps anything or hinders anything. You can knock the longevity, but I don't think that is that bad either. I think this is a good fragrance for gourmand lovers and a good introductory fragrance for people like myself who are not into gourmands.

Instant love! Like Italica by Xerjoff level of love! Which happens to be my all time favourite gourmand perfume! As first impressions, I am ready to put Jany at that top tier of gourmand perfumery! It’s entirely different type of gourmand than Italica, but it speaks to my soul and makes me feel things...if that makes any sense! It’s baked, sweet, caramelised apples, buttery, puff pastry, creamy vanilla, apricots, peaches, plums and cinnamon with strong nutty, almondy nuances. Depending on the performance, it might be the Sora Dora for me! I liked a lot Red and Ylop but those two didn’t draw me in as much as Jany. Will see how I like Mallow next. Jany is perfection in a bottle and for caramelised apples fans, Jany is a must have. And for fall season, it’s a staple perfume, so warm, fluffy, enveloping type of scent. Unbelievable good, so delicious, mouthwatering kind of fragrance. Nowadays, so many niche fragrances get so hyped up on social media but not even half of them worth the hype in my opinion, after testing them. Jany deserves more hype and more recognition, it’s impeccably done and smells so photorealistic. Totally safe blind buy if you’re into foody gourmands, like me! As a first impression, it seems less intense and less long lasting than Red and Mallow. From the four Sora Dora’s I have sampled this time around, Jany and Ylop appear to be moderate to long lasting fragrances, while the other two prior mentions are really deep and strong perfumes with impeccable performance.

this has been such a fantastic find. i truly love jany for its warm, comforting smell. there isn't anything sharp to the nose, it truly smells like stepping into a bakery and sends me down memory lane picking my favourite pastries and cakes as a treat from my grandma. jany is a decadent enveloping smell and the reason i've made an account just so anyone wondering if this worth a sniff has the answer they need: it is so worth it! be warned however: some people do not like edible-type fragrances and this is definitely one. that said, i think it's done incredibly well. it doesn't give me that synthetic drugstore candle type of feel. this is truly a gourmand well done. edible, sure, but so well balanced. i've had people wonder aloud what smells so good without being able to place it (i didn't say anything only because i am criminally shy lol). this fragrance has made the gloomiest of days bearable. it's allowed me to escape into a cozy bakery daydream when the weather seemed set on making me miserable. i only had a sample and i used every last drop. despite the price, i really think it is well worth it and i am now saving to purchase a bottle. this is a warm embrace before it is anything else. this is your mum, auntie, granny, parental figure letting you lick the batter off the wooden spoon and that feeling of looking forward to your favourite tea time treat. comfort in a bottle. can't wait to have my very own bottle.

Stunner. Adored. It’s not as sweet as you think either, blasting the opening with a truly intoxicating baking pie thing, the wood fired oven too hot cause you can’t control the temp in the goddamn things, drying down to a white powdery flourey creature, a bit sandalwoody, takes me back to Bois Farine and that Etat d’Orange rice one. Oh what’s the newish Diptyque one, Papier, don’t get me started, I bought the shower gel and it’s a hideous blast of that nose scorching horror whereas the perfume isn’t... Jany burnt her pie, ran out to the apple orchard in the sweet Autumn haze, with her leather ballet pumps on, but kicked them off, found the overripe apricots and that guy from over the valley who it turns out cannot resist her beautiful big breasts and he doesn’t care that she’s got six kids, hell, a seventh sounds good. Wait it is fairly sweet, I cannot lie, and there’s that gorgeous black vanilla molecule that they are all using atm, but here it’s just sublime...probably my favourite new perfume of the last couple of years, it’s female, not feminine, my absolute favourite genre in art and life (lol I put it on next to Falcon Leather, and I think that’s adding to the imagination)

I was generally afraid of trying this because I hear that it either smells like the best thing ever, or like the most basic thing ever. As with any other perfume on fragrantica. I do recommend trying this before you buy, but in my case I was able to get it at a very good price and in my case it worked out. I get basically all the notes, I get the baked apple (with a hint of the other fruits) and I get that puff pastry. I can also smell the almond and the nutty components, as well as the vanilla and caramel adding sweetness. The pastry smell doesn't hang around for too long, still a decent amount of time, but don't expect it the entire wear. The rest of the notes stick around the entire time pretty much. And even with all of that, it doesn't feel too sweet or overbearing. All in all I'm pretty happy.