Oriens

I'd been waiting to review this until I could wear it more than a few times first... because the scent is that dynamic. It can sometimes smell vaguely reminiscent of Miss Dior Cherie (minus that godawful popcorn) but I would still say this is a unique fragrance. At first spray, all I get is caramel and pralines. Straight up. And yet, not at all in an edible way. How strange is that? I think it might be the hint of orange that keeps this from smelling like an ice cream parlor. After a (pleasantly long) while, the smell dries down, losing the caramel but maintaining the praline, and the black currant and jasmine are able to come gently forward. It's intoxicating. [Yes, I know there is no caramel note, I'm just telling it how I'm smelling it.] I also noticed today (which inspired me to finally write a review) that despite my complete inability to ever smell raspberry anywhere in this under normal circumstances, I no longer doubt that it is there. I was walking around in the ungodly scorching heat and I noticed that my perfume had a tartness to it that had never been there before. Something about the heat brings out a mild Sweetart scent, and somehow, it works with the praline to make a new kind of delicious. All in all, this is a wonderful summer scent that is layered and ever-changing and never unpleasant. It is sweet and enchanting, and sorta smells like the color of the lid, if that makes any sense. :P

This is my first fragrance which has gone from the shelf "dislike" to the shelf "love". It's like with the real jewelry -if you haven't reached a certain degree of maturity, you won't be able to really appreciate a gem or a jewelry in your hands. There is an age for plastic beads, bright rings which come together with your favorite chewing-gum (and they are closer to your little heart than any sophisticated collar or precious gem ring) and there comes the time you can't wear those plastic things anymore, you are a grown up girl who is looking for something real. And this happened to me with this scent. Now I'm grown up enough to appreciate this composition -warm, thick, sweet, oriental gourmand. Like a hot, strong, dark berry jam poured into a beautiful, shaped crystal pot. Next to this pot there's a white flower bouquet, which adds to the fragrance a touch of freshness and just a bit of honey. And there's a box of selected, handmade chocolate sweets,their scent (together with amber, vanilla and patchouli) lies in the base of this beauty. I agree about Dior and Chanel vibe (and more-I smell "So elixir" by Yves Rocher) - yes, it's there, nevertheless Oriens has its own soul to discover when the right time comes. The only problem -the lasting power and sillage could be better, but I don't mind reapplying.

This is just beautiful. I haven't been this impressed by a scent in a long time. I love chypre florals, especially when they are dominated by patchouli. However, sometimes on my skin, citrus mixed with patchouli can get a little weird. Thank goodness, I don't get much citrus from this at all. I've been wearing Coco Mademoiselle for almost a decade and I don't smell any similarities at all. This is much more light and airy. It is very elegant, sweet, and smooth. I thought it was going to be sharper but it is blended so well. The praline really gives it a nice roundness while the mix with of patchouli and raspberry really create a gorgeous aroma. I think the praline is what really sets this apart from Miss Dior Cherie and Coco M. While I don't think this smells like Coco M, I do smell similarities to Miss Dior Cherie. If you like Miss Dior Cherie, you will probably like this. I find it much sweeter and airier than Coco M so I can't say for sure if Coco M fans will love this, but it's a total love for me! Oh and one of the most beautiful bottles in my collection!

Bought this for my mom after reading reviews about this. I figured I was kind of gambling here, but my mom LOVED it! She said it was a very agreeable scent of jasmine and sandalwood...so with this I found out my mom preferred Florientals and Orientals. I'm not sure where she got the sandalwood from, but I guess it's a mix of the patchouli and amber. It has a very complex smell, sweet, but fairly grounded as well. This is not by any means a light or bubbly scent, but it is very bold and mid-set. Not heavy, but layered and complex. I definitely think this is a good perfume for mature women. In fact, my mom brought her bottle along to her elementary school reunion (yep, elementary school) just to "show it off" to her friends that she hadn't seen in around 30 or 40 years. I'm surprised that of all things she decided to bring, this was one of them. Well, I guess this shows just how much she loves it! :) Van Cleef & Arpels itself is a really high end brand name, and this perfume certainly does this design house justice.

When i first applied this a few weeks ago, i were not sure at all because it smelled chemical and even plastic. I tried this again today and to my surprise, nothing chemcial and plastic has emerged despite i sniffed very hard trying to find them! In hotter weather, i get more berries from the start with chocolate throughout. in the cooler temperature however, the strong chocolate sweetness scent is dominant from the very start. It reminds me of the opening of Angel. As time passes (say an hour) the strong sweetness thankfully calms down to give place to fint floral scent. when i move, there is also curious hint of berries playing hide and seek. It is a perfume with twist and turns. From not liking it to love it. I think this perfum behaves very differently in different weather. I prefer to apply it in hotter day since the sweetness in colder day is a bit too heavy. It borderline headache inducing. maybe the solution is to apply it on the waist not the neck....

I have always liked it, since I put my nose on it. I think it was 10 years ago. My colleague presented me an almost empty bottle of it, as she had got tired of it. Now I managed to buy it on Ebay, as it is discontinued 😳 At the moment I am rather raging, because I have received a leaking perfume, not to mention that how much of it had leaked during the transition !!️ And of course I cannot resell it 😡 But yes, I find it to be a very appropriate perfume for autumn and winter months, as it is a bit "oriental" in terms of the sillage, strength and the notes. If I am to compare it to another fruity praline patchouli scent, like Mugler's Angel Muse EDT, this is more comfortable for my nose. The fruits are prominent, but not overbearing like in the AM, the praline and patchouli are noticable from the very start, still everything is very well balanced. And elegant. Yes, I truly get the resemblance with AM EDT 👀 Beware, this is a strong scent, may cause a headache!

I can understand the comparison to MDC 2011, but in all honesty I love this and don't like MDC 2011 so I don't think they are extremely similar. For starters oriens is more spicy, I really like the choice of raspberry over starwberry, and it seems less "girly" somehow, not that girly is a bad thing! Oriens serves of a kind of saucy spicyness from immediate spray. I get a burst of fruit and I pick out raspberry and tart pulpy blackcurrant note immediately. From the start this is not fruity in a fruity floral way, you can smell patchouli and praline from the base. The patchouli in here is different from the smooth tame ones is the miss diors, I have to figure that's where this peppery spicy element is coming from that can't be explained really by any other notes. The vanilla and amber add a richness to the fragrance that is nice. I prfer oriens over any miss dior/cherie or otherwise...but that' just me! I feel like this perfume has a lot of character.

One of my favourites (but I admit I have about 15 of them ;) ). I have the bottle with leaves, it's so pretty! And the smell itself is nice, actually when I wear the perfume, I think about dawn or dusk, the time when the sky is in colours like the cap. Praline comes out in the end, when you think the smell is almost left, you get surprised by the praline. The smell is quite sweet but not too sweet like Paco Rabanne's Ultraviolet or sthg like that. Positive, optimistic smell, freedom, travelling, watching the sun comes out or down. Ah - and I can't see connection to Coco Mademoiselle. Coco is fresh in my opinion and Oriens isn't - Oriens is a kind of oriental chypre if something like that exists ;). I don't like Coco, I can't wear it, it's too strong and too perfect if you know what I mean. Oriens's lasting power is very good on my skin and it's the only one fragrance with quite a strong patchouli note I can wear.

I must admit I purchased this fragrance because of the bottle. More importantly the cap which is based on a ring 'The Arbre Aux Songes' from the Van Cleef & Arpels Midsummer Night's Dream Range. I just wish I could afford the real piece of jewellery... Opens with an abundance of Jasmine and creamy White Flowers weaving around your body like a warm breeze. Intermingled amongst the flowers is the sweet tang of Raspberries scattered on a bed of Blackcurrants while Mandarin Blossoms slowly float down. A shy Patchouli whilst adding depth, pushes forward the floral notes so they can be centre stage, content to hover in the background. The notes are blended so well you could almost think you have discovered a new scent, very hard to tell where one note ends and the other begins. It is intoxicating. Definitely a perfume for A Midsummer's Night.

Luscious and yet Refined Oriens has an dual identity It's sexy without being agressive it's a high class seduction subtle never demands it but you can feel it in the air, Opens with mandrian orange leaves a sparkling texure, Oriens turns deeper and succulent of the presence of Black Current bringing a sense of dark and primal sensuality the drydown is going through the tartness of Red Raspberries is sin in a fruit rubbing against your lover's lip for delicious satisfaction, Jasmine does'nt intrude and adds a quiet and elusive grace the shyest note in the perfume brings refinedness, The drydown turns a bit synthitic but sweet of Praline a decadent end to a scrumptious fragrance, praline is like creamy vanilla icing slowly pouring down on juicy raspberries finishes Oriens with a delectable pleasure.

Finally, my quest for the original 2005 pre-reformulated Miss Dior Chérie has ended! Just got this with a bulk medley of frags from a cosmetician friend and am totally in love. Not yet sure if this could be my signature, but it sure makes my heart sing, puts a spring in my step and a smile on my face. Makes me feel cozy and feminine, a very classy, juicy, enigmatic and potent frag that will follow you everywhere and seduce those around you (lest you overspray... this is a potent one!). Juicy fruity splash that becomes caramelized, sugar dusted pralines. I am sooo in love. Shall edit! Wonderful sillage, great longevity and my friend loves it on me saying i smell like a fruitchuli candy :p . thanx guys for the reccomendations! You were spot on! one of my faves now that Spring is here .

Addition after some time from my first review: I haven't been using this perfume for quite a long time because I became to feel more uncomfortable wearing patchouli. Now I'm back and wearing Oriens today. I've forgotten it's so sweet and a bit salty on my skin (wintertime). Raspberry, blackcurrant and patchouli the most detectable - but Gosh, it is SO classy without feeling stiff... What a pretty fragrance in a stunning bottle. Actually when I'm wearing Oriens, I have early morning in my mind. A beginning of something new. A new day, a new adventure, a new pretty fauna and flora awoken. The only complaint is - the patchouli, but without it Oriens wouldn't be the same. Calm fragrance, always makes a huge impression on me.

I'm not a lover of oriental flagrancies but I'm glad to purchase this one. I thought that this oriental notes come from peper. But after more profound investigations and tests I can say that it comes exactly from patchouli and amber. Hopefully I do not get lot of them in this particular perfume with my skin chemistry. I get more flowery oriental scent than just oriental. I can detect white flowers, raspberries and vanillia that gives this slight sweetness to the flagrance. But no pralines if not it would be much sweety and overwhelming. Patchouli with these very oriental notes appear in the very end of the dry down something like 10-12 hours later hopefully. Really good flagrance for winter with a very lasting power.

i got a mini of this before-yesterday but the bottle leaked and the box was dripping... i tried out the juice left in the bottle on my wrists and it started indeed similar to coco mademoiselle & miss dior cherie. but this fades too quickly, it has not that depht in the notes and not this complexity of the Dior scents. it's almost flat and a little bit boring then. but very nice patchouli guormand drydown, more oriental than chypre i found. the box which absorbed the leaked juice completaly is still spreading really nice waves of a warm and seductive scent in my bedroom what means it would hold well in hair or clothes though. the bottle is sooooo cuuuute !!!!!

Oriens truly shocked me when I tried it for the first time. It was so rich and it filled the room with its sweetness. It is overpowering at first. I wear it mostly in winter - not just because of its richness, but also because it is yummy, it remind me of loads of treasured Christmas sweet treats... At the same time it is very feminine and clothes me in an invisible very warm and luxurious shawl... that's why I have to look at my best when wearing it. It takes me to a different level. Also, for me it's not the 'light' kind of sweet, but rather medium to dark... evokes glamorous winter evenings with dim light and beautiful color all around...

The crystal bottle is 5 stars class rating, can be use as a decorative piece. It is quite heavy for 100ml bottle so it's not ideal while travelling. The juice smell delicious but in a strange way. The opening is candy sweet, luckily it's not the sweet type of celebrity perfume. The middle note is a combustion of what many viewer describe as dry prune fruits sweeten in alcohol sugar..lol... Regardless, this juice is of high quality. The dry down has a more tingling warmth which is rather nice. I will wear this on the cold winter days as I prefer more aquatic perfume for summer. Overall, lovely bottle and worth keeping :)

I think this perfume is really rather beautiful. I tried this a couple of times on paper and didn't think it was anything special. BUT I then tried it on my skin alongside a couple of others. It was surprisingly long lasting, and outlasted the others I tried by ages, and by end of the day it had transformed into a fruity delicious sweet scent, with the middle notes lingering and lingering in a long dry down. It is in the same vein as coco mademoiselle, although lighter and more delicate. If you were disappointed on your first try I would give it another chance.

A friend of mine has it. It's an incredible fragrance, elegant, feminine, modern yet classy. Not for teenager. I would like to smell it on my gf. The bottle is a beautiful jewel. Sadly discontinued, grab it if you can! Una mia amica ce l'ha ed è un profumo fantastico. Elegante, femminile, moderno ma di classe. Non adatto alle ragazzine. Lo comprerei alla mia ragazza. La bottiglia è praticamente un gioiello di arredamento, molto bella. Purtroppo è fuori produzione, se potete prendetelo! My vote-9

I am so delighted with Oriens. I like fruitchoulis on other people but on me they usually go acrid and I have a reaction to something in them. Whatever that something is, it is not in Oriens. And Oriens is a very nicely balanced and excellent quality perfume with a civilised sillage, a lovely smooth development from a fruity opening to a full fruitchouli and down to mostly patchouli. It is a bargain at the price too. I cannot wait to try some more Van Cleef and Arpels frags

I had the possibility to buy it over ebay in France,for a good price. It is a stong perfume, strong mandarine with pachouli, later on it becomes a bit softer and than you can smell the raspberry and the praline. A strong perfume for an strong women.Like it for so far. No Bathsheba , it's not too sweet. P.S Lovers of Quizas, Quizas, Quizas by Loewe will love it, its similar to this one,only this one is fuller, rounder and some sweeter, love it.Stayingpower is greatttt.