Gardenia
by Jalaine

This is a beautiful, true gardenia scent. There's a fruity-citrussy note in the opening, which quickly gives way to a green gardenia, becoming steadily sweeter as it dries down over many hours. Like many oils, it recedes rapidly to become a skin scent, but it lasts for hours & hours. Very nice, but too expensive for me.

7th February, 2011.

Gardenia is a very difficult flower to reproduce accurately. Many occasions and many reviews I've read claim this and I don't doubt it. Jalaine does a great job making a perfume oil that smells very, very close but what perfume is the exact same as the real thing anyways?

A gentle little white flower and high green toned fragrance and smells delightful. Has sorta of a "scented candle" feel to it but it's much richer. Unquestionably feminine but white flowers are used in many mens fragrances i.e. AdG. Very pleasant experience.

14th December, 2008.

This is a very unusual, special, fragrance. I am in love with it! It may be a gardenia, or it may not be! It is pungently green, and softly sweet and a bit vanillic. The only other scent it reminds me is Diptyque Philosykos, but it's a feminine and floral kind of uber green. It doesn't last all day, as it dries down to a softly sweet, vanillic, musk. That 3 hour green note is enough to make it worthwhile.

The bottle is a half of the purchase. It is a solid, heavy, chunk of cut crystal with a central well for the oil. The edges are beveled. The oil is potent and two drops constitutes a wearing. The stopper is another chunk of clear crystal. The photo doesn't do it justice, as it has a refractive coating which catches the light in an auroral manner so that it is a different color from different angles. Green and pink are replaced with apricot and cornflower which are replace with fuschia and blue. It unscrews from the metal neck and has a glass dabbing rod. They should sell refill oil!!! But my plan is to have this bottle and reuse it with any other oil I ever find that needs a home. My son covets it desparately !!!

But enough about the bottle. I fell for the oil from a passed along sample in a plain little vial and ziplock bag. And I absolutely advise sampling before you buy it !!!

2nd April, 2006.