Un Matin d`Orage Annick Goutal for women

Gardenia, like lily-of-the-valley, needs to be built from the ground up in perfumery. As fragrant as the flower is, it doesn’t yield a gardenia essential oil. Building a flower that combines elements of green, creamy, and umami is hard enough. Then to make it dewy should be a nightmare. Maybe it was for Isabel Doyen. But we don't see the sweat, just the smooth end product

Un Matin d’Orage does smell a bit like a gardenia, just enough to make the allusion. This isn't a gardenia soliflor by any means. The success is not just in the likeness to the scent but in the odd balance of forcefulness and frailty the gardenia flower suggests.

Using the ghost-gardenia as a launching pad, the image of a forest floor at dawn actually comes true. Because the gardenia's scent suggests both soil and plant it is the ideal basis for this olfactory image. The watery notes have an ambient feel: misty, dewy, even muddy. Very nice work.

I found an unlikely kindred spirit to Matin d'Orage in PG's Psychotrope. Matin's sweet-forest has a water-color version of Parfumerie Generale Psychotrope’s electric Jolly Rancher & leather accord. Both perfumes leave me with a very clear olfactory memory. I can call both of them to mind very easily.

from scenthurdle

If beautiful, fragile butterflies could smell of something - they would smell of this.

To me it's a true meadow+dandelion+butterflies in a bottle. I was also expecting rainy+fresh, however this is very different. It's a different take on gardenia that I can appreciate - it is my favourite flower, however it's not my favourite interpretation of it.
I don't think I've ever experienced such a 'butterfly' fragrance before - a very interesting experience. So youthful, a sunny day in a meadow.

I was expecting a very "rainy" fragrance, but instead, I get gardenia into my face. Not a fan.
I do realise that the perfume is done with probably nice raw materials, as it smells rich. There is something earthy on the top that makes me even like it less. Anyways, with gardenia, it was a lost case.

This smells like flowers and it should smell beautiful as it fresh floral and green. I know it just me but i hate the rotting cucumber note, is that the ginger I can smell.

I passionately love this fragrance. I grew up in the tropic where I could not wait to wake up in the morning and ran to the garden to sniff out the champaka and the ylang ylang flowers. Those of you who never smell the fresh champaka scent could never figure out what it is like. Champaka flowers bloom on a tree, a very large tree. The flowers are usually creamy white but I heard it also comes in yellow. The one I know is creamy white and the fragrance is unique and intoxicating. The moment I spray Un Matin D'Orage, that memory of champaka from my childhood rushes right back. This is what I first smell first after spraying Un Matin D'Orage. Its scent dominates the eau de toilette, followed by jasmine, ginger and gardenia. Alas, this fragrance even with a strong champaka start, does not last all day. The irony of it all, champaka scent lasts all day in nature. I love it just the same. Perhaps, I should try the perfume instead of the eau de toilette.

I like this scent, but it had very low sillage and did not last long.very delicate, earthy and watery. quite lovely.but fleeting and too delicate for me. I gave it to one of my sisters who is even more fair than me and freckled with a gentle timid personality, it fits her.

Wow, this is really a very nice scent. The name is absolute well chosen. Green, fresh, sunny and soft.
It has something mysterious.... It match so well with my skin and it makes me so happy. I like to use it in winter as well because it gives me a sunny and fresh feeling.

This perfume is nice but i cant say more than that. I cannot find anything wrong with it but for some reason it does not make much of an impresson on me. Its very light and smells like sweet oranges and peaches with some green notes too and some ginger. This i like but its a one layered perfume, in my opinion, meaning it does'nt evolve or change much on the skin. I find on me it comes across as a bit like sun cream, so a very summery fragrance. Id use it when i was in a summery mood but not an everyday or signiture fragrance for me. Having said that it is just as delightful as most of Annick Goutal fragrances.

This is such a wonderful scent. It smells just like the jasmin growing in my garden. It's not just a representation of the flowers, but the entire plant - flowers, leaves, stem - thanks to the lush, green, watery background to the rich jasmin scent.

I find this a lovely alternative to the heavy, overtly indolic jasmin perfumes I've smelt before. Soft, floral and fresh. Lovely!

To me this is an almost perfect copy of Beyond Paradise.

i like wearing this on spring days, or even sunny wintery days. its a nice freshness, kind of clean and dewy and a bit sad- recalling rain and wet flowers. Sort of vintagey and unassuming. quiet, calm, tranquil. Pretty subtle and clear.

its lovely, i usually don't like fresh smells but this has a wonder and nostalgic feeling about it that is very refined. i definitely get the jasmine underneath.

Reading through the reviews, I can see that this is a real chameleon fragrance. I tested some at Nordstrom's recently, and received a small take-away spray bottle to test at home. Smelling it on paper in the store, I was completely seduced and could have grabbed the blotter with my teeth and chewed on it for ages - yes, it's that delicious. This is beautifully green, spicy and floral. If you compare this with AG's 'Gardenia Passion', you'll note at how green Matin d'Orage actually is.

There is a strong aquatic/ozonic note in here (mostly at the coeur), that seems to replicate rain or earth. This particular note doesn't wear well on my skin, but it still doesn't detract from how nice a scent this is.

Another reviewer here mentioned that there is a similarity with the Jardin fragrances from Hermes (and I think the AG and Hermes houses share many similar traits) and it is true. Also, Matin d'Orage and Eau du Sud feel like sister and brother. Just for the heck of it, I sprayed some Matin d'Orage on one arm and Eau du Sud on the other, and they are wonderfully alike, yet still distinct fragrances; as though you were walking through a garden and passed a gardenia bush. It might sound criminal to some, but I think you could wear Matin d'Orage in the morning, and spray on a bit of Eau du Sud in the evening, and the dry down of the former would compliment the opening of the latter.

This is really beautiful juice. I think it is green enough to make it unisex, but I also think this one is VERY different on different skins. If your skin has an affinity to aquatic notes mixed with green and white flowers, this is your ticket to an exotic adventure.

It opens with lush, wet, gardenia and a touch of jasmine and fresh ginger. As it dries down, it becomes a simpler, more linear gardenia scent. While there is nothing really wrong with Matin d'Orage, I think there are better examples of gardenia, and I am not even a fan of wearing gardenia as perfume. But I grew up surrounded by large gardenia bushes, and I am very familiar with the scent. When it comes to gardenia I prefer Marc Jacobs Essence.

UN MATIN D ' ORAGE
ANNICK GOUTAL

Although this is not one of my favorites perfumes of the brand, there's no denying it takes the signature of the Maison: a floral/aquatic explosion in the opening, which predominates the smell of gardenias. I don't know if it's auto-suggestion, considering the box description or if it is really my own sensory experience, but there is no way to not imagine yourself strolling in the garden, in the afternoon of a muffled and hot day when, suddenly, begin to fall the very firsts rain drops and goes up the smell of wet earth, ozone.
This is a moment when the flowers exude more perfume. No way, all smells are accented by the power of water. And meanwhile the leaves extricate the smell of chlorophyll, which confuses with land increasingly wet. So, a wave of nature comes towards you snatching and getting you entranced. The rain liberates you of the weight of this very muggy day. As you are free of that burden, you breathe better and realize the scents surrounding you. Now you have time to appreciate their mutation caused by rain that falls more stronger.
However, this occurs in the first half hour of perfume’s life. But what I feel what happens in evolution (involution)? Well, the Shiso, that gives the fresh and green note, the aquatic sensation, is extremely fleeting and sandalwood comes soon, powdery, bringing back, in this case, the whole muffled and hot day. The odor of white flowers looks like they were saved in a book for long time. Suffocating gets it all over again.
What remains is the feeling of a well taken bath and every time we say it about a perfume can only mean one thing: that it smells like soap. I still notice a bit of ginger, which turns it in a white flowers soap slightly different from the others, but soap anyway. For me, it's scent to stay home and watch TV on pajamas.
Definitely not my favorite. By the way, is my less like of the brand and will not buy it again, but it worth for this half an hour of pleasure. I would like to extend the fresh and dewy feelings propagated by brand’s commercial review. It actually exists, but would like it takes longer.
As someone has already spoken here, I don't see this perfume as exclusively female. Incidentally, this is a topic that worth a very interesting discussion; I only let registered that people are more than the limitations transcribed into a mere label, created by a single mind. I have some perfume labeled as male and I’m praised when use them.
This fragrance has an excelent fixation (about 8 hours) and I'm wondering other fragrances of the brand could have the same duration. It is produced only in EDT concentration.
Finally, even there are already many comments of this perfume, with several in the same perspective I'm writing, I hope I have added something with my considerations.

A MATIN D ' ORAGE
ANNICK GOUTAL

Although this is not one of my favorites perfumes of the brand, there's no denying it takes the signature of the Maison: a floral/aquatic explosion in the opening, which predominates the smell of gardenias. I don't know if it's auto-suggestion, considering the box description or if it is really my own sensory experience, but there is no way to not imagine yourself strolling in the garden, in the afternoon of a muffled and hot day when, suddenly, begin to fall the very firsts rain drops and goes up the smell of wet earth, ozone.
This is a moment when the flowers exude more perfume. No way, all smells are accented by the power of water. And meanwhile the leaves extricate the smell of chlorophyll, which confuses with land increasingly wet. So, a wave of nature comes towards you snatching and getting you entranced. The rain liberates you of the weight of this very muggy day. As you are free of that burden, you breathe better and realize the scents surrounding you. Now you have time to appreciate their mutation caused by rain that falls more stronger.
However, this occurs in the first half hour of perfume’s life. But what I feel what happens in evolution (involution)? Well, the Shiso, that gives the fresh and green note, the aquatic sensation, is extremely fleeting and sandalwood comes soon, powdery, bringing back, in this case, the whole muffled and hot day. The odor of white flowers looks like they were saved in a book for long time. Suffocating gets it all over again.
What remains is the feeling of a well taken bath and every time we say it about a perfume can only mean one thing: that it smells like soap. I still notice a bit of ginger, which turns it in a white flowers soap slightly different from the others, but soap anyway. For me, it's scent to stay home and watch TV on pajamas.
Definitely not my favorite. By the way, is my less like of the brand and will not buy it again, but it worth for this half an hour of pleasure. I would like to extend the fresh and dewy feelings propagated by brand’s commercial review. It actually exists, but would like it takes longer.
As someone has already spoken here, I don't see this perfume as exclusively female. Incidentally, this is a topic that worth a very interesting discussion; I only let registered that people are more than the limitations transcribed into a mere label, created by a single mind. I have some perfume labeled as male and I’m praised when use them.
This fragrance has an excelent fixation (about 8 hours) and I'm wondering other fragrances of the brand could have the same duration. It is produced only in EDT concentration.
Finally, even there are already many comments of this perfume, with several in the same perspective I'm writing, I hope I have added something with my considerations.

I consider this to be more of a olfactory experience. Let me explain. In the first half hour, the following occurs on your skin:
1) A thunderstorm, which dumps lots of water everywhere
2) Flowers in a garden release fragrant pollens, and become saturated with water
3) Some flowers may fall, along with their stems, and they become crushed, releasing their essential oils
4) The electricity from the storm disappears, the sun comes out, and wet flower petals give off their beautiful perfume.

So those are the good things. The bad thing is that it's all over in a half an hour, and the rest of the scent lasts for a few hours, giving you a slightly herbal/slightly floral/soapy nice bar of soap smell. It's nice, but it is FAINT.

While I like this scent, especially in the first half hour, but I am really happy that I didn't pay full price for the bottle. The lasting power and projection are flat out poor. Please please try before you buy to see if this is worth it. I will not be repurchasing this.

Oh, this fragrance is feminine really? I tested it on my male skin, and it smells good for a man as well. I agree this perfume is a summer one.

(Unfortunately, I tested this one in a department store, with 84 SA around me...) When sprayed, it smelled very fruity, and then transformed into a strong floral, which I didn't really like as a perfume, although I appreciate the smell.

This is a really strong perfume, I am not sure of I really like it. I bought a small bottle of it, as I likes it so much in the store, but now I think it is really strong, probably the gardenia and especially the ginger.

When gardenia is good, it is very, very good. And when it is bad it is horrid. A good gardenia indeed, Un Matin d'Orange opens with the bold, creamy sweetness of the real thing in bloom, with a hint of a blend I call "thunderstorm." I'm sure some of the perfumista's here could tell me just what goes into that accord: a touch of green, a touch of gray, some dry earth with wet flowers.

I fill my home with gardenia when my tree is in bloom, but I don't especially want to smell like one. For this reason I'm grateful to have a few moment's with UMdO's dead-ringer opening, quickly followed by those softer middle notes.

This one almost goes clean and soapy on me--but not quite.

One of those I-will-not-buy-but-would-love -to-receive-as-a-gift perfumes.

I think Annick Goutal should change the name of this one. My suggestion: Un Matin de Dusty Gardenia. Although i admit, it does not roll of the tongue so well.

I dont know what it is with AG fragrances, but they all somehow turn more like soliflore compositions on me, and they all have so much powdery quality to them, despite all the green notes they contain. Le Matin d'Orage is yet another scent where the green notes smell somehow 'antique', more like grass put between pages of a book and left there for a century. I am not saying this must be a bad quality, there is something interesting about it.

However, LMdO is way to strong on gardenia for me. I'd love to smell it in my garden, I think it is a unique and adorable scent, but when you have too much of it on your wrist, it becomes a bit too much of a good thing, makes me a bit tired. And gardenia successfully overpowers all the other notes, before disappearing within two hours, not the most long lasting scent I have come across.

This opened on me first with burst of extremely sweet citrus notes followed by sharply green leaves. What I find most amazing is that I expected this to be refreshing, because of the citruses and green notes, but instead it is very, very warm. The gardenia plays perfectly together with the leaves and the jasmin here is not too sweet. Jasmin for me here appears well blended with the green leaves, so it seems fresh and very earthy.

I suggest to try this, it's surprisingly good, feminine and delicate and would work perfect in, maybe, spring, when it's still little bit cold outside, but the air has this sunny vibe.

I tried this because of the gardenia note but the gardenia never developed on my skin. Instead, I got a happy warm southern peach. Very very slowly some greenery made an attempt to rise to the top, but it did not make it very far. Southern spring peach with a little green sums up this happy fragrance.

Annick Goutal UN MATIN D'ORAGE is essentially a gargantuan gardenia (GG) perfume with a few twists and turns thrown in for good measure, but the gardenia note is rather strong, so be prepared.

I believe that champaca and magnolia are substituting for what is often tuberose, but jasmine, another key note in big white florals, is present here as well. The spiciness imparted by the champaca is a nice touch, and there definitely are some notable green and woody elements moderating the gardenia as well, especially moving toward and in the drydown.

From the name, I think that I may have been expecting something along the lines of something in the Hermes UN JARDIN... series, but UN MATIN is a very, very feminine fragrance, as I should have been able to guess by now from my earlier AG experiences...

I like this slightly oriental, slightly green and woody, big gardenia composition and recommend it for gardenia lovers as an alternative to MARC JACOBS or KAI. UN MATIN D'ORAGE is spicier and more complex than both, with big sillage and excellent longevity on my skin.

Un Matin d'Orage is one of those really feminine and dewy white floral scents. It reminds me a little of Kai, however this fragrance is much lighter and more green.

This fragrance is most likely going to appeal to those that enjoyed Songes and Le Jasmin. The dominant gardenia note, while crisp in the opening, especially when alongside the citrus, becomes creamier and buttery towards the heart.

The gardenia and the other floral accords in this composition, smell very naturalistic. One can imagine an exact replicate of this scent in a luscious, Spring garden.

Un Matin d'Orage can sometimes be a little too one-dimensional, especially since it doesn't develop too well. The lasting power is also very fleeting which is another slight disappointment.

In the drydown, it becomes increasingly soapy. Not to an extent that it's unlikable, however it does resemble a somewhat generic bar of sweet gardenia soap.

While I do honestly like this fragrance, I would have aimed to improve it by making it longer lasting and perhaps more green.

This is a different face of Anick Goutal’s fragrances. The dirty- green- earthy notes are missing completely.

It is creamy, delicate and smooth. I can see it was inspired by the Japanese gardens or more exactly I can see the Japanese approach. There is nothing sharp or contrasting in this scent.

Composition as per AG's site: Sicilian lemon, green perilla leaves, ginger, magnolia, jasmine Sambac, Indonesian champaca)

I like the picks for the fresh side: sweet lemon and perilla leaves. I find perilla is better choice than mint or basil. It helps the composition and keeps a smooth line. The ginger touch brings an earthy spiciness to the dry down.
Champaca, magnolia and definitely Jasmine Sambac complete each other nicely saving the composition from linearity. They are the main players and create a big creamy white flower with refined and complex tones. Everything else is just revolving around them.

This is a summer fragrance, ethereal and exquisitely feminine.

8.2/10

The first thing I smelled was a gorgeous creamy gardenia. Wow! It’s big and bold and very natural-smelling at first, but quickly deflates to the status of a small and subtle flower surrounded by a wet, green landscape. From there, it just sputters along with a little bit of gardenia and a little bit of green leafy things, subtle and weak until it completely fades away at about 2-3 hours. I never smelled the sandalwood that is supposed to be in it.

The gardenia at the beginning is amazingly realistic, but it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t last. What I have is the EdT, so I suppose it’s very diluted and I shouldn’t expect a small dab of it to last all day. Still, it seems like it should be possible to at least have some base notes.

Definitely Goutal, you know it from the first whiff! Fantastic gardenia opening, not bad staying power (perfumes normally 'slide off' me after about 15 minutes). After a few hours it still smelled lovely on the paper sample; however, on me it leaves a turmeric-like, dusty middle note I'm not keen on. Why o why?

This is the first time, i can detect the gardenia note so well in a perfume and like it,, not a great fun of Goutal's perfumes, but for the gardenia lovers this is lovely, not sooo strong, just nice, staying power not bad, about three hours on my skin. Not soo impressed but this can be explained, i am not a fan of florals.

Thick, heady, bee-intoxicating gardenias. Really beautiful.

Mmm this is gorgeous. Green, citrus, and flowery. Love it

This is seriously the first perfume that draws my attention after...a decade!!!

I was amazed.It made me think of the imaginary"nights in napoli"scent, mentioned in the book"The perfume"...

I strongly sensed a peach note,nowhere to be found above. I guess it's one of the exotic floral notes that includes the fruity aura.Ah...

An asian-culture admirer like me was only even more astonished to find that the perfumer's intention was to create the sensation of a japanese garden after a rain. (I think I'm gonna cry...)
I want it.I'll save money to get it.Period.

When you smell Un Matin d'Orage you quickly guess it's Goutal, if you ever smelled Goutals feminine fragrances like Petite Cherie or Songes.

Opening note is bright, sweet floral. Like tree after bad weather, when it's all sunny and flowers smell divine and more intense than in average good weather.

Sharp, green note is present in parallel - I can smell citrus (lemon) too accompanying it. This though doesn't spoil the florals but adds extra mood.

One other special thing about it is that 10 or 20 minutes after application you can smell Nuphar water lily.

Have you ever been on a boat sailing down your local river? Or just took a walk by the river? There you can find water lilies grow. Those yellow ones. I always wanted to pick those, because of their pleasant aroma. So this flower you can smell here in Un Matin d'Orage.

Lasting power is very good, projection as well - I sprayed 2 times and it's enough.

Sometimes perfume names are just something that marketing people come up with to get you to look at their product, sometimes they are perfectly descriptive. Un Matin D'Orage falls into the later category. It seduces with the soft wet smell of greenery after a morning rain.

This captures with absolute accuracy and poetry the feeling of spring. Un Matin D'Orage (Stormy Morning, loosely translated) is a light and lovely floral. Annick Goutal celebrates delicacy white flowers.

The only issue is the that it is not only ephemeral, it is also fleeting. The ingredients, while beautiful, lack lasting power.

This however, in spite of the lack of longevity may be the perfect spring fragrance.

I enjoy the opening of wet green leaves and citrus, followed by a melange of sweet white flowers. The drydown - a pretty, dry gardenia, and woods - tends to fade into nothing fairly quickly on me. Seems that it's got more lasting power if sprayed rather than dabbed. Lovely.

Yesterday I was testing Un Matin D'Orage. It opens with the bright note of gardenia flower,- it is fresh and sunny, and surely makes you wanna smile :) Then the scent of jasmine appears and grows stronger, making the composition more complex and non-linear. Interesting, as the time goes by I notice the light sweetness of mimosas in the middle notes though they are not in the pyramid.

It is a lovely fragrance for a sunny spring day, pity the base is very soapy on my skin. The staying power is good.