Ofresia Diptyque for women

This is the first perfume I ever bought, after spraying it onto paper. Sadly when I got it home I discovered that the fresh freesia scent underlined with pepper that I had loved in the shop, on my skin smelt sharply & horribly of pepper first, and the freesia scent went sour and 'off'.

I persevered with that bottle for months and several people commented on my 'nasty old lady' perfume.

I've smelt it on other people and I still love it...on them!

Like the reviewer above, Diptyque scents always smell as if they've gone off on me. Oh well.

Diptyque OFRESIA reminds me quite a bit of Leonard LEONARA, probably because of the significant benzoin note, which is a focal point rather than serving more as an anchor or a base. This floriental composition has feminine appeal without being overly flowery, but I think that I prefer the LEONARA. The florals in this composition are not that distinct, but I might be smelling some freesia. OFRESIA also has a light touch of wood and possibly incense as garnishes. I'm quite curious to see how this appears in a side-by-side comparison with LEONARA, so let's go ahead and try that right now, since I happen to have a bottle ready at hand...

Okay, I'm back and prepared to affirm that, in fact, I prefer LEONARA to OFRESIA. It's smoother, richer, and more scrumptious. Above all, LEONARA showcases benzoin much more so than OFRESIA, which seems by contrast rather dry. OFRESIA is nice, but LEONARA is better, for what it is. Of course, those who prefer flowers to resins will likely prefer OFRESIA... And that's just fine with me!

This scent is just sooooooo beautiful!! Simply beauty!

Pure freesia with a hint of sandalwood on me...maybe I can unearth some pale pepper tone but just very hardly detectable.
This is the reflection of the innocent, pure chastity.:)
A sense of fairness and the feeling of untouchability.

fresh and nice. almost a little sweet whit all the Freesia. not very peppery Imo, but just a wiff to make it lighten up. woodsy notes , yes abit . like smelling the tree after you broken off a branche. Nice , and fresh , but not all that interesting. A bit to simple in the notes for my tast. but otherwhise Lovely

A freesia with sweet pepper. Ofresia is how I'd imagine a fairy smelling in a fairy-tale! Floral and zesty, not complex but very unique. So unique that I wouldn't know at all with what to wear this. Nice to sniff on my arm once in a while though!

Love love love this scent. My absolute favourite fragrance. It's what hooked me to the House of Diptyque and into perfumery in general.

Freesia is one of those flowers nearly impossible to extract its natural "fragrance" from (many in the distillation process are artificial imitations of what freesia is supposed to smell like) due to the chemical structure of its oils, so the fact that Diptyque's nailed this ephemeral single-note into a most natural and pure concentration is incredible. Just magic, and beautifully simplistic.

This is extremely lovely floral scent. I don't get any pepper, but I get fantastic, sweet and romantic freesia followed by some green notes. It's extremely feminine and enjoyable, but I find it too sweet to add this to my want list. Worth a try though.

Lucky me! i could get all the notes linearry with time.

Yes, the beginning is very peppery but it calms down in 5-10 mins.

Then I got freesia and something green (I prefer to say green but at instances it reminded me something rotting - like chance25 explained below 'like the water a bouquet of flowers has been sitting in after a few days'), though this kinda rotting note i could not detect on fabric, only on my skin. So it might only be my skin?

The drydown is the loveliest of all, sweet freesia with some woods.

All in all, could not be my signature but I think I like it and would be nice to have it on my shelf.

Ofresia is really interesting to me. It actually smells like REAL flowers and moss in a forest. Like, violets, maybe, a "place where fairies dance when no one watches" kind of feel. I wouldn't actually wear it because I don't really like florals, but I keep a sample of it around to sniff from time to time because the smell is just so true-to-life it's pretty amazing.

No pepper? I am a bit mystified here. To me this is very peppery! I mean vvvvveeeeeerrrrrryyy peppery! Seriously. I like pepper even in abundance. Where other people complain about too much pepper, I often don't seem to detect any. However, here the pepper bursts out at the very beginning and is tamed only a bit by some unidentifiable flowers for a brief moment (no woods of any kind for me), but from then on it seems to be gaining strength all the time! More than hour later I am still getting very strong whiffs of pepper. I rather enjoy the sharp spiciness, but I wouldn't be surprised if many people found it way too much. I could see myself wearing it every now and then in winter maybe (if given a bottle, as I do not like it enough to spend money on it) and I can imagine that all the spiciness has warming quality, but I am a bit disappointed with the Freesia, which must either be killed by the copious amounts of pepper or appears to be more like some non descriptive bunch of flowers.

I did not sense any pepper, also.
The pepper must be there, because at first spray there is a fragile, invisible note-the opening moments are thin, clear...it disappears very quickly, and then comes the freesia. The woodsy notes, I did not notice, really. I am so impressed by this scent-that I feel like I "should" write a long, luscious review..the scent is lucious, garden like at moments...but really, itś very simple-itś all wonderful, pure, full, fresh, never sweet or cloying-freesia

I've read other reviews that stated an overwhelming pepper smell. I absolutely got zero pepper from this. To me it smells like the water a bouquet of flowers has been sitting in after a few days. I think I can stop sampling Diptyque fragrances now, they all have this weird old dirt smell on me.