8e Jour

Oh my! This is beautiful! I'm currently on the hunt for cinnamon perfumes. I recently bought some Organza Indecence after falling in love with it, and since it is discontinued and expensive, I'm looking for something similar. While the underlying base scent on this is very similar to OI, this one has the most beautiful floral notes floating on top which to me, sets this apart from OI. The cinnamon is not predominant but does exist. This is not an OI replacement. The florals are too strong. But that is not a detractor for me. In fact, the florals just add to the mystique and romance of this. So far, the florals are top and heart. I'm wondering if the base is where this transforms, finally, into OI's sister (?) This has, at its heart, a plum vibe. Syrupy, plummy, jammy. I'm a very picky floral person, and I'm very surprised at my immediate love for this fragrance with its striking florals. I must have smelled this before on someone, because the scent out of the bottle was very familiar to me. This is powerful. It projects. I don't know if it is the iris, ylang ylang or jasmine I detect. (Jasmine seems to have different personalities depending on what perfume I smell it in, so I just can't say.) This has a powdery aspect and from what I understand, this is probably the iris. Very nice! I do detect the rose, but it is not the dominate floral to my nose. While I was worried about the comparisons to Opium due to Opium's heavy soapy quality, I can testify here and now that there is no soapy. And I would venture to say that this is what I was hoping Opium would smell like. The florals predominate though, and so for me, the "incense" and "spice" that others are mentioning do not present themselves to me. Props to Action for being so encouraging and insistently supportive of this perfume. I have seen so many of your reviews on this site and think you have great taste. It was your influence here that persuaded me to try a mini. Less than 5 minutes into sampling the mini, I popped for a 2.0 oz vintage bottle on eBay and can't wait to possess it.

@gtabasso, your mini has turned, faded, whatever you want to call it. I had the same experience with the mini that I purchased, which was my first exposure to this fragrance . I thought, "what the heck is everyone talking about? This smells like crap and nothing at the same time!" Lol! HOWEVER, when I did finally purchase a SPRAY BOTTLE, I realized the mini had turned completely, no doubt due to an insufficiently tight stopper. The fragrance in the two spray bottles I have is everything the notes pyramid and the glowing reviews had promised. Divine! If find a good one, and you love vintage type florientals (rich, strong, sweet, long-lasting with huge sillage), you are in for a massive treat! (Edit: I totally forgot that I also have a full size splash that is just fine - not turned - so I am thinking maybe it's just the minis that had the insufficient stoppers, since problems with the minis seem to be common.)

It's been a while since I finished my bottle of 8e jour, and so it has been maybe 20 years since I smelled it. To me, 8e jour was all about how the myrrh, cinnamon and honey made me feel, and I've been trying to find something similar ever since. Today I smelled my 1-2 years old sample of Invite Only Amber 23 from Kayali, the juice has darkened a lot, and I think I may have finally found something close enough to my souvenir. The first hour of Invite Only Amber is quite strong on me, mostly very potent cinnamon and tobacco, and then the rose, but past the first hour, the cinnamon softens, the tobacco disappears, and the honey takes the stage with the cinnamon and benzoin. I can't compare side by side of course, but today, to my nose, in this weather, the dry down of my old Invite Only Amber sample reminds me of the memory I have of what I liked the most about 8e jour and I'm happy.

freddinos, I see we agree wholeheartedly on this Indecence issue. I was wearing regular ORGANZA yesterday (as opposed to ORGANZA INDECENCE) and far along in the drydown, when the florals really begin to assert themselves, I was reminded of 8eme Jour. So that got me wondering, maybe people are mentioning ORGANZA INDECENCE when what they really mean is ORGANZA? I allow for differences in everyone's experience with a given frag, but this one I had to comment on because the comparisons to INDECENCE are SO far off base IMO. Aside from the fact the only notes they share are cinnamon and vanilla, 8eme Jour is a sharp, floral perfume, whereas Indecence is mostly about vanilla and has round edges, very smooth. I would never recommend 8eme jour to someone looking for vanilla. That's not what it's all about.

Just in case anyone is still interested in 8e Jour, I would like to mention that, imo, there is a world of difference between EdT and EdP here. I have recently found some EdP to compare and have noticed a big difference. The EdT, while pretty, is noticeably weak, and certainly doesn't have the richness or staying power of the EdP. So, whether or not 8e is a credible substitute for Indecense, I think you need to try the EdP to give the comparison a fair shot. And anyway in general I consider the EdP to be far superior, if only because of the potency issue. After all, who wants a weak apologetic oriental? The notes have been extensively documented in the reviews below, and I agree - it's a lovely oriental with a strong and beautiful cinnamon note.