Calypso Gardenia (2005)
by Calypso Christiane Celle

I have strucked to the gardenia note in it and cannot move any further. A synthetic bitter gardenia note nearly as bad as Classic Gardenia by Dana. we have many Gardenia round here.
If you like a solo gardenia, cry with me for the finest solo gardenia "pur desir de ardenia" by Yves Rocher is discontinued. It is really smooth and creamy gardenia note without any synthetics and metalics and aldehydes or bitterness. So smooth that smell even better than the gardenias i grow in the pot.
If you can live less of gardenia and would like a good composition go for Organza by Givenchy.
If you like some gardenia and some adventure go for midnight bloom of Stila.
If you do not like Gardenia at all but you have to buy a scent with a gardenia name on, go for Chanel Gardenia.
If you can never get enough or/and want to drive anyone around far far away and stay alone with the help of some Gardenia go for Kai.
But i was talking about Calypso Gardenia. This one is good when you want to have headaches and hate gardenia.

3rd November, 2009.

Very nice. Fresh, as Lizzie said, but still instantly recognizable as gardenia. Warm, womanly never offensive or trashy. Better than Chanel's (which is still one of their best), because Chanel's is a more complex, finetooled, almost berry-like scent.

16th February, 2007.

A chic, cosmopolitan gardenia. Fresh, well composed and evolving, not cloying or heady as one sometimes expects a gardenia fragrance to be. It opens with a provocatively spiced (Brazilian spice says Calypso East Hampton) Gardenia zested by touch of fresh citrus, warms to a heart of narcissus, jasmine and luscious peach blossom sweetened and rounded by vanilla and soft musk and revved up by Coriander, grounded and simultaneously given an aura of mystery by an elegant Vetiver. Quite nice.

22nd January, 2006.