J'ai Ose Guy Laroche for women

Just received this yesterday and it's a winner! It constantly changes and the scent is different (at least for me) as you enter the cold (in Canada we do that a lot!) or come into a heated environment. It is very sophisticated and different and definitely stands apart from everything everyone else on the subway is wearing! Love it!

EDP vtg mini
Lovely dark floral leather, with a nice fruity peach that is present without being forward. I would love to get a full bottle of this stuff. It dark and has this deep rubbery scent that reminds me of Cuir d'Russie, maybe it's birch tar, don't know, great stuff. This would be great on dude who can pull of some olfactory gender bending, it's very masculine but decidedly feminine. Love this stuff.

My mother liked this fragrance when she was young. She says that it was gorgeous!
As for me, I think that this fragrance is good enough, especially for the night, but unfortunately nowadays I can hardly feel the same beauty.
On me it smells mostly the vetiver note. Also I can feel something like a cedar oil.
It seems to me deep, dark and even strict. But my aunt says that it smells like a naphthalene. But I can't agree with her. Just an oriental scent. Maybe the thing is in the vetiver note. But it really doesn't smell like typical nowadays fragrances. And it's even awesome!

Whoever it is made by now , it doesn't make it any less wonderful!

The Jai Ose being sold now on FeeBay isn't the Guy Laroche scent! Many of the distributors are assuring their buyers that it's the same, but the box says that the contents are made by Jai Ose Parfums Paris. These are being falsely advertised as Guy Laroche!! If you recently purchased a sample, mini, or real bottle, check the box and see what it says on the back. This also applies to Jai Ose Baby!! NOT Guy Laroche products!!!

J'ao Ose is very rich, woody and smokey fragrance that manages to be elegant and sexy without being sweet. The bitter smoky note makes it especially unique....makes me think of a campfire in the middle of a starry night.
At first spray it reminded me a lot of Royal Secret,but J'ai Ose is much smoother, more rounded and well behaved. In terms of sillage, it makes me think of Hermes Elixir, that I just recently wore, as it projects very similarly from my skin. It is very noticeable and you know it's there, but at the same time it's not all over the place,or walking in front you announcing your arrival with you bringing up the rear.
A great fragrance that shouldn't be overlooked by true perfume connoisseurs.

Oh this takes me back when I was in my 16-17 and if you wanted to be à la page you h ad to wear J'Ai Osé. I liked its being spicy and longlasting. I liked heavy perfumes back then. I do not think I'll wear it again but I treasure happy memories of those days. The bottle was luxurious and I still have a miniature sample that it's beyond cute.

Very similar is Zen by Shiseido.

I don't like orientals. Not at all!
But when I smelled that, many years ago, I liked it! Very attractive fragrance!!
I think it is discontinued. Isn't it?

This one is classic) I remember my mother's friend wearing it as a sign scent.
I wonder why there isn't also J'ai Ose Baby in Fragrantica database???

There are very few fragrances I have come across through the years that leave a lasting and memorable impression on my mind. Too many smell similar and lack individuality. Now, I may only be 25, but I have lived long enough to determine and memorize what the definition of classic is, and Laroche's J'ai Ose falls in that category.

Remember The Motels '82 classic, "Only The Lonely" or how about the eeriness of Bauhaus' '79 cult classic, "Bela Lugosi's Dead"? This fragrance would be the perfect choice to wear to either of those two bands concerts.

This is one of the darkest, spookiest and most enchanted perfumes I have come across. My first impression was burning wood in a dark forest around a bunch of patchouli plants and mossy trees. There are all kinds of spices in the top, mixed with the very dry wood notes. The base leaves a lot of patchouli, vetiver, oakmoss and a tinge of extremely dry vanilla, adding a touch of an oriental vibe at the very end.

With all of those notes and this description, one would think you would need a license to wear this fragrance, but it really is one of the softer of its kind. It really has no similarity to any other fragrance I have ever known. I will say, though, if Laurent's Opium is not your thing, you probably would not like J'ai Ose. Not that they smell similar, but they are both very heavy on the smokiness.

In my top 10 favorite weird fragrances...right up next to my other weird favorite, Niki De Saint Phalle.

Such a great scent. My chemistry changed and I can no longer wear it. Perfume is best.

For those of you craving to have more of this type of perfume, try Sonia Rykiel le Parfum, for me that one is even better, but that is my personal preference. They are both beauties!
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My mother has some of it left, and wanted to let me smell it. While putting the cap back on, she accidently pushed it over and spilled 5 ml over the table.. I was absolutely mortified.

If you'd like something like this but in a cheaper (avaliable) version, try Salvador Dali classique.

no hay quien pueda igualar al perfume öse es un olor que se combina con tu aroma natural de mujer y crea una combinacion fabulosa

J'ai ose was my signature scent for years, unusually captivating perfume which should be back again and be among the first! Barely noticeable oriental note, just as much as I love, it's a timeless perfume.
Composition is so unique, so feminine. What I particularly like about this perfume - aldehydes are highlighted. Mostly all oriental frags are seductive, mysterious and sexy, while J'ai Ose was oriental with soapy overtones, so pure and gentle, and at the same time puzzling. It's rare in today's artworks because oriental perfumes are all so similar to each other. And this is Art, to add aldehydes in a rich complex oriental composition, that you have all in one perfume. Yes, it's J'ai Ose.
And fragrant trail is one of the most impressive that I remember.
10/10

I really thought I would like this one, based on the notes and the category and era in which it originated. I recently scored a vintage J'ai Ose by Guy Laroche mini. It doesn't smell like it has turned, but I admit, I am not 100% sure what it should smell like.

At any rate, I was a bit disappointed. On me, J'ai Ose has a very 1970's musky aroma. Kind of like a musky floral perfume on dirty denim jeans that are permeated with the person's natural body odor. Very dark and murky, and yes, very interesting, and not stinky (in spite of my description of dirty denim!) Alas, it is not quite what I was hoping for. I do think I'll give it a couple more tries before I write it off completely.

it was my first parfume. I still love it and will buy it again and again...

J’ai OSE was my first “grown up” perfume. Many years and many fragrances later I still have not found anything that could come close to that exquisite bouquet of notes, lush and sophisticated at the same time, the kind that elevates a perfume to the status of a signature scent.
J’ai OSE is translated as “I have dared” and, apparently, was inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte and his love story: a shorter, stout shape of the bottle; the stopper, that is reminiscent of the Emperor’s famous hat; and the name of the fragrance itself resonating with “Josephine”. I believe, the original J’ai OSE by Guy Laroche was discontinued in the late 80s and is now produced by J’ai OSE PARIS. I was a little leery about buying the new version but decided to give it a shot… and was not disappointed! J’ai OSE PARIS has remained the same magnificent fragrance I remember from many years ago - a timeless classic…

Smells like liquid gold to me.Very rich, opulent, the scent of an eccentric but elegant woman. I am always thinking Gala, Dali`s wife! Aldehydes are very short living here, and I feel something like bergamot - but it`s all about peach, rose, moss, musk and aromatic oils. This scent is like a velvet black glove, it is caressing and definitely turns heads.One of the best orientals ever made.And it`s absolutely delightful in perfume concentration.