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.

Action, Thanks to your reviews, I now have 8e Jour and I like it very much. Yes it's gourmand, very softly touched with cinnamon, and MOST similar to Organza Indecence in strength and character. Comparatively, 8e Jour seems a bit more "buttery" smooth and more gourmand than Organza Indecence. I don't find it much like Opium or CoCo, since both of those are stronger and more spicy on my skin, and both project MUCH more strongly. 8e Jour is smooth, soft, rich, more honey sweet than floral on me. It's gentle, unique, tasty, and lasting. Thank you ALL for your reviews, and especially Action, for bringing this beautiful vintage fragrance to our attention and spiking interest in it.

I am so happy to posess this one again, found a brandnew mint bottle online!!! Action, you are so right, this has a certain resemblance to Organza Indecence, wich is a new favorite of mine. They are definately from the same family! This beautiful, unique fragrance is unfortunately so rare...This would be a staple in my wardrobe!!! Have used it as a teenager...brings back so many happy memories... The myrrhe, incence and cinnamon bring the mystery to life in this scent! I can easily detect the iris, rose, ylang ylang, all the spicy notes...except the honey note is very far away for me now... Feel very lucky if you have it!!!

Fresh and warm fruity spice, like chai or spicy herbal tea being sipped by the fireplace, could be a daytime sister of 2000 et une folies and Délire d'automne, my all-time favourites, with their warm spices and sweet fruitiness. To be worn at this time of the year. I find the base mellowed out and rounded, bearing more resemblance to the two fragrances above, which suggests that they might share their base. They are simply beautiful, timeless and for fans that like spicy scents with a fresh, enticing, youthful edge. YR had marvellously priced, interesting compositions that are sadly almost all gone.

This 90s compote was brewed from an impressive oriental-salty vintage perfume for mature women. What brings this piquant to the point of animality saltiness in the perfume? The perfume is like a two-color pencil for technical marking: red and dark blue. Red is the archetypal spicy sweet orient, blue is that very salty-leathery animality. The medicinal-balsamic, almost coniferous sound of myrrh is gradually added. This not-heavy perfume is very cozy in the cold and promises a very pleasant meeting with the past.

This is a strong, spicy, in-your-face floriental, with very strong floral notes, resin and cinammon, and it's great, but I am baffled by the comparisons to Organza Indecence, which reminds me NOT ONE BIT of 8eme Jour. Indecence is a big fat vanilla bomb, where vanilla overshadows all the other notes completely, whereas 8eme Jour is nothing of the sort. I would hate for someone to blind-buy this hoping for an Indencence substitute. It isn't.

I'm so glad the weather is finally cooling down, I can now take out my stash of orientals that I love so much. 8e Jour gets me into the wintery mood because it feels warm, spicy and cozy. It's like sitting in a candle lit room and being wrapped in a blanket on your sofa with a bowl of cinnamon drizzled in honey. I'm also being surrounded by the aroma of myrrh, vanilla, ylang-ylang and roses, this is an excellent start to the holidays.

a cold drop of white honey on a golden spoon, dusted with cinnamon sugar. barely-there sheer spice; soft sweaters made of snow. my mom found a small splash bottle at a thrift store and gave it to me for christmas. i’d love to take a bath with this but i want to cherish every drop. the first honey note i’ve fallen in love with.

This was my favorite perfume growing up, and I couldn't wait to be old enough to wear it. I stole my mother's bottle when I left home. This is so sultry and exotic. I do notice a resemblance to Coco, but a little heavier, and headier. Coco's little sister in black stockings. If you can find a bottle, buy it.

This week I discovered some great similarities between this perfume and Organza Indecence. The cinnamon in both perfumes is so nicely combined with a very sweet note that they both become gourmand! So this is a category like a gourmand version of Opium and that would be something like Organza Indecence.

This is one of my most precious perfume in my collection and it not a perfume for delicate pallets. It's rich, strong, have character and I love it uniqueness. Some may complain off it lac of sweetness but frankly how many sweet perfume do we need.

Vanillastorm40 I received a vintage mini bottle this week and it smelled absolutely gorgeous. The first word that came to mind was «beautiful». So I am sorry to say, but your bottle almost certainly went bad.

You are right Amarilia about the resemblance with Coco and Opium. The most similar to my nose is Organza Indecence! You should test it with that one in mind! ;-)

You are so right Amber!! I actually never realised the resemblance until I put on my bodycream Organza Indecence and I was transported to 8e jour right away!!

Actually Passionflower, that sometimes is the case, people filling mini's with water. This happens when a collector is collecting mainly the bottles.

My mini sample came yesterday and all I'm getting is a blast of alcohol. Has anyone else had this experience? Maybe my bottle is adulterated?