Ofresia Diptyque for women

I personally really like the scent, although it doesn't smell like real freesia. It smells more like lily than any other flower. I do get some strong pepper in the opening notes, which I love, but it fades substantially within 10 minutes. The perfume smells very old-fashioned, and I see I am not the only one here who thinks so. Something about it reminds me of the Victorian Era, like old potpourri, Victorian architecture, and those cumbersome hoop skirts. The perfume soon transforms into a gentle, sheer, innocent floral. Clean like i imagine Victorian soap to smell like. If this perfume was not gifted to me, I would not buy it, but it's rather nice considering it was free. I've never smelled a perfume that reminded me so much of everything Victorian.

I just think it's genius to combine a simple flower scent with a single spice like this.... A comparison; this perfume smells nothing like Penhaligon's lily+spice, but it does the same thing for me... it gives me that vibe that the flower itself is still alive and firmly planted in the rich wet soil. Smells very much like Spring to me, and the pepper is not overwhelming at all. Very well blended, but eh, it's Diptyque after all! A scent of fresh rain and real flowers and soil.... I can really smell the freesia here, and it is not a perfume-y one, it's a real living one!

I sure love a soliflore with a dirty soil twist. If you do too, maybe this one is for you.

@mimi88.... I do get the jasmine tea as well, now that you mention it!

i am looking for a real fresia smell because i just love it, but there are no true fresia here. The smell is nice but i would rather say it's green tea with jasmine. I can smell the pepper and some kind of flower but sadly not fresia

Got it as a gift from my boyfriend. He said he thought of me when smelling it. I do like it but it's too flowery and somewhat stingy. I have a hard time in detecting more than the fresia note. It's like wearing a Barbie fuchsia pink dress during a funeral. Not a horrible dress (fragrance) at all just not suitable to the occasion (my nose). If I wear it it's for my boyfriend.

So lovely, breezy, and soft. The pepper and woodsy notes blend with the freesia so well you can't detect them individually.

Ofresia makes me feel like I'm relaxing on a hammock amongst hummingbirds and velvety flower petals.

Unfortunately the lasting power is not so great (two hours max), as with most Diptyque scents.

To me this is a simple but delightful freesia fragrance, as close to the real thing as I've ever smelled. The piquancy of the pepper is less pronounced than I would have thought, but it keeps it from being dull. Rather romantic too I think, and it does feel quite full bodied considering how basic the pyramid is. A must try for freesia lovers and recommended for anyone looking for a quality understated floral.

disappointing. I was hoping for a fresh, true freesia. On me, this is oily and rank for about two hours when it becomes a bit sweeter smelling and fades away. It's me - I can't do the spicy thing in perfumes.

In this perfume, the pepper makes it - brings a well done twist in the fresia dominated fragrance - otherwise it would be to boring and one-dimensional for me.

I tried this perfume on my daughter's skin and we both were amazed at its opening.The pepper just indulged us with this attractive and vibrant introduction.

However very fast, the smell totally changed the way towards this flowery and flowery fresia note.Then after 5 more minutes, the powerfull smell of fresia changed into a green( grass) notes.

Very fast transition, changing from one note to another one. Amazingly done.

Oh! Freesia!
When I was in my 20's a friend of mine died. Suddenly, inexplicably and without warning. It changed everything and all of us. At her funeral her husband asked us to bring freesias, her favourite flower. I'd never really considered the humble freesia before, it's easy to be drawn to something more showy...the rose, the iris.
When I found out about it I so wanted to try Ofresia because I've never smelt a true likeness before. Diptyque are alchemists. They have created freesia in a bottle. There is pepper, but on me it's mostly flower. The pepper feels like the twitch in your nose you get when you smell a real flower and inhale a bit of pollen. I have to say it's magic for me.
This one is for Lynn. She would have loved it.

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.