Sira des Indes Jean Patou for women

A urine-ified Casmir. Something just went wrong on me.

I LOVE THIS!
I don't care what others say.
I have been searching a warm and spicy scent for a long time. Samsara I've already found but it wasn't what I was hoping for. A bit too offensive for my taste. I gave it to my mom. She already kept asking me what I was wearing so... naturally!

Sira des Indes is a subtle version of Samsara.
Creamy and lush. Also suitably strong and spicy on me.
Its sweetness and fruity essence are only a big plus!

I have to say, this is the best spicy/oriental-scent i have ever had.

It is very different from what I was expecting.
I was expecting a STRONG and heavy perfume but I'm bearly able to smell it on me!
I mostly smell a very nice and mild banana, pear and musk in a 'fragile' and creamy, VERY CREAMY combination.
It's too subtle even for me and surely not the 'fatal' perfume I was expecting it to be.
Sira is far away from what one would call a 'stinker'.
Longevity is also not great and one has to apply generously to 'feel' one wears a perfume.

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I wore it today, it's lovely.
The first blast may smell a little bit strange, like overripe bananas (someone else said that). Then, after a quarter more or less, this strange note vanishes and the scent becomes very creamy.
Nice, inoffensive and very soft.
Suitable for any age and any occasion, though it's mostly an elegant, feminine, everyday perfume.
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It's very odd but Sira changes from time to time on me. Today for example I don't smell anything rotten or overripe. Today, I can't stop sniffing the air around me, got a compliment from my daughter too!
I guess it's a matter of skin type and of certain days in our hormonic cycle maybe? hmm...who knows.

My first impression: Sira des Indes is similar to Chopard's Casmir! And it really is, especially in the opening. I like Casmir but its opening isn't the prettiest. I'm sorry but it reminds me of a sweet poo. And so it is with Sira des Indes, they're very very similar with the note. But Casmir brings India and its castles to my mind. Sira des... and its opening creates an image of dirty crowdy streets in India. I was hoping for the famous banana ;), I can hardly detect it.
The unfamous poo note decreases after more than an hour in Sira... (it decreases in Casmir too) and then something nicer shows up: kind of shy flower garden, a bit unkempt and wild... and fruit, finally nicer.
All in all, I don't think it's a scent I'd love to wear. I prefer Casmir and Casmir wasn't an easy sympathy for me either... I like it and appreciate it but it didn't happen at once.
Sira isn't gourmand in my perception and it's kind of weird.
Heavy burst in the opening and a delicate scent afterwards...

I'm finding this scent to be like divining water.
Some like it dearly, and some are disgusted by it.
Anyhow, for me, Sira de Indes is something I have to try...or experience.
I am very fond of fruity-florals and knowing it includes cardamom and banana, doesn't make me run away.

Holy cow!

I've never been to India, but I imagine a holy cow could smell like this perfume. The cow from Sira de Indes story is adorned with white flowers. It has just trampled a stack of stale oriental spices and is now lazily waddling along an indian street in the drowsy midday heat.

To me Sira de Indes smells milky and sweet in an unusual, queasy way. I find it simply unbearable.

Fantastic stuff. Sweet, subtle, gourmand, interesting. The right amount of "womanity" :) in a bottle.

I like so much this perfume! Very comforting,longlasting,intimate and creamy ! So yummi,mmm.
i feel a lot of tender and so sweet banana with cinnamon(maybe i feel this way cardamon ?)

I thought this was supposed to contain Champaca Flower as a middle note?? I've seen it on other sites.

I wanted to love this so badly. The notes sounds amazing and India evokes fantastic perfume pictures to my imagination.

On spritzing it smells fruity sweet and boring. I only made out the barest hint of bananas. After a few minutes the white flowers came to the fore. I love ylang ylang and jasmine and I could definitely detect them here, but only for about half an hour until the boring fruity sweetness came back.

I won't miss this one when I am gone but in the meantime I will wear it as background noise to the office.

If you love Sira des Indes I think you Will adore Gai Mattiolo original as well!!

A candy banana mixed with ylang ylang and some chewing gum sweetness. This is not a oriental woody but a gourmand in my opinion. The drydown is powdery and soft. A little bit sickening in the beginning but then it calms down to a lovely sunday fragrance. I thought by wearing this I was going to travel to an Indian market place but I landed in suburbian funfair, not amazing but fun if you are in a playfull and ironic mood.

I bought this blind because it sounded lovely and the price was very cheap. It was okay...but that's about as enthusiastic as I can get about it, unfortunately. It starts of very fruity with a hint of cardamom, but on my skin it quickly softens to become indistinctly sweet and powdery without any other elements to add interest or variety. Perfectly nice but nothing to distinguish or delight.

A blind buy based on a very good price...too bad it did not turn out to be a good buy.
I found the fragrance overall too sweet and definitely too fruity for me. In addition, on my skin there was no real development; it stayed as a flat, fruity fragrance, no spice, no sandalwood, no interesting drydown. A good feature, had I liked the fragrance, was it's longevity; 8 hours and still going strong. Oh, well...

Sophi, i have the new formula more than likely..I totally adore this perfume.

Very pleasant fruity scent. Banana comes through in the top notes mixed with oreintal spices. The scent becomes powdery as it dries down. Can't say that it is very distinctive or special but it is quite nice.

Update: I've been wearing this for a while now and God knows why it I can smell a hint of cheese in the mix, which kind of puts me off.

Olga which version are you referring because the reformulation is softer , not cloying and harsh as was the original!
I happen to have tried both and i like the one you are referring most!Is the rare case of reformulation be nicer from original...lol

I am really baffled about the previous reviews, because according to them you would expect something loud and obnoxiously cheap a'la "Calgon take me away". Personally,I can't find anything messy, overly sweet or cloying about this fragrance. On me it is very soft and elegant. Banana notes are quite distinctive, but very subtle and in no way make it smell cheap or synthetic. I think it would work great for any weather. I really like Enjoy and Sublime, and Sira Des Indes is just as nice to my taste.
People, try not to sniff rotten bananas(wherever you find them) to try to compare them to this perfume. I am sure it was not meant to smell of anything rotten, not Patou.

This is the first blind buy I've made in a while as the price was SO reasonable and it's my first foray into Patou land after sampling (and hating) the great Joy.
I really cannot see anything offensive about this perfume (unless I had payed the original price, maybe!!). It opens almost masculine with woody animalic notes that remind me of 70's sweet, woody male fragrances. Can I say it's almost naff? The banana note is interesting and saves it from being banal - but it's the dry banana like in the peel, not a luscious fruit - this is not a bad thing! I find this eminently wearable and very jolly, in fact though the sillage is weak, I'm getting lovely tropical floral wafts from my cleavage which tell me all I need is a hammock and a cocktail and I'm nearly there....!!

This perfume was an utter disappoinment for me. It smelt disgusting on my skin, just a combination of artificial apricot and sandalwood. After a couple of hours it smelt like a cheap cologne from a nearby supermarket. I ended up giving it away.

first note is horrible and the rest is bananas - which I like but for eating not wearing on me:)As this is first of Patou for me, I may end it there...
do not see why it is classed as woody - has no wood. Banana botanically is a grass:)

This one is interesting for me, fruity-spicy, spices are dominating.
This one is a little similar to Pour L'Amour de L'Inde by Isabel Derroisne

Yes, well, was expecting something wonderful here, but alas, not to be so. Initial spray , was excited, mmmm....ok.. then what happened to it, the scent just changed to something that is not overly appealing for my nose. I wish I could love it or maybe like it enough to wear. I have to get Enjoy, I hear that is pretty good.........x

Jean Patou is seeming more and more like Rochas every day: the twists and turns and trials and tribulations of these houses have produced some, let us say, dubious perfumes in recent years, SIRA DES INDES being a case in point.

I have no problem with the opening of SIRA DES INDES: resinous and woody banana. The problem is that nothing else ever really happens. This is a flat frag devoid of depth and development--beyond dwindling. Hard to believe that the makers of SUBLIME and JOY could have launched this blunt instrument, but apparently they did.

SIRA DES INDES is okay, but not worthy of further mention, much less a full bottle. For my banana fix, I'll stick with D&G SICILY, which offers a genuine development trajectory and considerably more interest than this lightly spiced mashed banana concoction. Désolée.

Oh dear, this is one of the messiest openings I have come across in a perfume yet. First impression was sticky, sticky red cordial. Second impression, raspberry jello crystals. This second impression seems to stick in ones nose, lasting for several hours and making it difficult to really take this perfume seriously.

I do smell something akin to banana, but my nose tends to register banana in perfume as strong liquorice if I try to 'chase' the note for further inspection, no doubt the result of some peculiarity in my neural pathways.

On top of the liquorice/banana and jello, the ylang comes strutting up, adding an indolic note whose incompatability with the foody impressions is like discovering a great dirty hair in your half-eaten ice-cream sundae. It just isn't wholesome.

After a time, creamy amber and sandalwood come to the fore and rescues Sira from itself, creating an altogether different woody scent which is very pleasing to the nose. The trouble I have is the journey getting here.

I think the opening is what is going to decide the lovers of this fragrance from the haters. I doubt there can be much ambivalence here.

I agree with GrannyBear. Sira des Indes starts as spicy oriental, with the sweetness and bitterness of the cardammon, but after a while there's nothing. Just weird, not original drydown with a little bif of banana. I don't know, maybe it's just my chemistry. I'm not saying that I don't like it, I just waited more from this.

Finally had a chance to test it, and loved it.I got a whiff of bananas, to my delight, but other then that it`s a very pleasant spicy floral..The cardamom is sweet and reminded me of Indian sweets - soft round confections, all about cardamom...I expected it to be quite heavy, but it`s sitting close to the skin and the staying power is so-so. Still, it`s a very pleasant surprise for me!!!!

I would love this perfume for its top notes--very Patou there, with an exotic tropical twist--but on me, this perfume dries down to a green grass, green (dare I say, manure?) smelling base I loathe. I have no idea what that is. It doesn't really smell like bananas to me.

I ended up giving this perfume away, sadly.

I am very disappointed in this perfume - it starts with the suggestion that it is going to be a wonderful, complex oriental scent, then after about five minutes it seems to have disappeared completely. It leaves only the very faintest trace on the skin, and nothing at all on clothes. Such a shame, could have been marvellous if only it stayed and developed rather than just fading away.

I find similarities between this and Dolce vita too,but this one is tooooo hard for me

very,veeeery similar with Ilaya by Isabel derroisine .And also to Dolce Vita,but sweetened up version of Dolce Vita

A sweetened-up 'Aramis for women' to my mind - good for those who do not want to smell floral, and who like the classic spicy men's fragrances, if your partner chooses this kind of fragrance for himself, rather than having it chosen for him
It could be used for office wear, despite the sweetness of the amber notes, as the woody and spicy notes counterbalance them, but it is not a romantic fragrance

a hackneyed murky sickeningly thickly sweet one !!!
still not fully convinced its a Patou ! nightmare in a bottle ,,,,,, Staleness & Horridness.

this is a wonderful scent!! complex type of perfume!!! i would recommend it to anyone!!

I hve this in both the parfum and EDP form. It's transporting; sweet but not sugary--sweet in the way farina or wheat germ is--with mashed, only slightly ripe bananas over fresh, cold cream. Something smooth, solar and dry emerges. Something green and palm-like breezes through and lingers until drydown. Then the spices arrive. Tart, yet creamy with a peppery, petroleum-oil hint of cardamon, like the smell of actual cardamon ground with a mortar and pestle. The spices deepen into a smooth wood with a dash of dried vanilla bean. This is in no way your typical cupcake vanilla, but that of the earthy, raw variety, similar to the smell of actual, dried vanilla beans. There is a hot, languid creaminess to "Sira des Indes" that totally places it as a Patou; it has that intimate, subtley worn, skinscent quality, reminding you of lush paradises and sunbaked days that's so distinctive of Patou scents. If a hazy morning spent lounging in a hammock amongst palms, dangling forest orchids and tiny whitewashed cottages is what you need, spritz on some "Sira des Indes" to hold you over until you get there.

Really wanted to like this, but the cloying banana undertones make me feel sick. Reminds me of a tropical juice drink for children.

I can't believe so many women, from the reviews here, seem to love this perfume!
I took a gamble on this and ordered a bottle over the internet based on good reviews I had read about it and I was VERY disappointed. It sucks!

Some of the reviews I had read about Sira des Indes said you can't smell the banana in it but I totally disagree and musty, over-ripe bananas is the first thing I smelled when I sprayed it on and that's not a very nice smell at all! After that it mellowed out a bit but still smelled quite unpleasant, musty and spicy-ish. It got to a point that I had to rush to wash it off because I found the smell repellant.

I'm returning my bottle of Sira des Indes for a perfume I can actually enjoy wearing and that won't make my stomach turn!

the top notes are great.have nothing much to do with india.it smells just balanced,not heavy,not too fresh.I think if they could add some mango to the top notes,it would be better.besides it would be closer to India.
don't get mad at me,but the midlle and base notes are terrible!maybe it's me because I dislike ylang-ylang but it smells like pee.bitter and warm,it makes me seek in the stomach.

The bottle looked like is was going to be a perfume that packed a strong lasting smell, but it ends up a very mild smell of vanilla.

Is it just me, or it is really similar to Dolce Vita!I find big similarities ...

Joy on a base of vanilla. If you like Joy and vanilla, and I do, you will probably like this.

Glitteralex said it for me. I love all Patou but this one was a huge disappointment . I am no lover of fruity frags I prefer to eat the stuff.

I read the notes, I read the reviews everywhere I could, and I finally ordered a bottle at Parfum1 for a very reasonable price.
Buying unsniffed perfumes is the only form of gambling I indulge in.
And what a gamble!
I was very familiar with 2 other Patou offerings, the exquisitely elegant and classic Joy and 1000, and Sira des Indes threw me for a loop.
Only the house of Patou could manage to make a perfume in the fashionable fruity/oriental genre and make it something exquisite and unforgettable.
Who would ever think of banana as an elegant note, and yet in Sira des Indes it is nestled in the arms of berries and spices and resins and flowers in a way that is very unusual and yet, in its own way, subtle and elegant.
It has something irresistible, sweet and comforting yet not cloyingly gourmand, it smells like desserts and flowers and spices, and yet it still retains that something beautiful and elegant of other Patou perfumes.
I do wish it had more sillage than it does (I have the eau de parfum) and the lasting power is nothing to write home about (about 4 hours), but I can't stop sniffing my wrists when I wear it.
Wonderful!

At first I was intimidated by the top notes in the fragrance, like banana and berries even though the bottom notes always work perfect. When first sprayed it was delightful, not really sweet. You could smell the berries, not the banana so much. Then it became floral and after that a little spicy. I assume that the basenotes will end up nicely. Even though others have classified this as intimate or special occassion, it is not strong enough on me to keep me from wearing it to the office, cause I would! This is my first Patou and I have to say it is really nice.

Wanted to add that this one had over 10 hours of staying power.

I did not know what to expect. At first it's hard to make out, but definitely smells like a "Patou". Then lemon (or bergamot), basil (or some other herb/spice) and black pepper (or other spice). Note: this was picked up from what I smelt, not from what I read on this page. Later the scent became fruity and gourmand (could not really make out the individual notes). Then floral. I thought there might be rose and jasmine, but was surprised to find only ylang ylang listed here. The base is soft musk and sandalwood. Overall, this fragrance is a very well crafted piece, an olfactory masterpiece. I would consider buying it (although it is not as strong or long lasting as the more ancient Patous...)

I sampled this yesterday and was very surprised...my nose got very little of what the reviews suggested. I immediately detected an underlying sweaty, body odor type smell that I was hoping would go away with the top notes. Alas, it did not, if anything it got worse...which is very strange, because I sampled it on paper. I was able to somewhat enjoy the lovely red berries and pear, but that musky sweaty note just ruined everything for me. It almost smelled like coumin. (sp?) Anyone else have this experience or is my nose extremely handicapped? (LOL!)

scented alcohol, if at all. Bacardi 'Breeze' smells more of the perfume than 'Sira des Indes'. In my opinion, the absolute flop and I agree in this with glitteralex

Iwas utterly disappointed in this Tropical Punch scent. What on earth was the Patou house thinking?

Rich sweet floral, no matter the claims of gourmand accords, the opening is all classic Patou.

However, in the process of drydown, towards the middle and finish - I swear it's the aroma of an ice cream parlor. Not just the fragrance of ice cream alone .... it's the fragrance of the whole entire parlor: fruit, marshmallow whip, sparkling clean floors, over-working a/c, everything is there.

Vanilla is here, oh yes, but so definitely an ice cream vanilla - it's chilly! how can Patou convey temperature? I can only guess.
And the fruit....these are not the ripe, heavy bananas flecked with brown from the top of your kitchen counter, nor are these the classy caramelized delicacies found in a Bananas Foster. Instead these are quite indeed the fresh, perhaps even slightly green, chilled, subdued, bananas of an ice cream split. Other fruits mix in, with the florals still shouting quite loudly, making the banana even less prominent. But they are there.

Between the heavy floral notes, the icy cold fruit, chilly vanilla, and the hints of mildest white musk anchoring things, a more appropriate name for this fragrance would be "First Date at the Ben & Jerry's". Which is actually a compliment. A great summer scent, very fun.

Wow! Guess I'm the only one that wasn't nuts about Sira des Indes. I would describe it as just okay. I had a small decant and I ended up giving it away. On my skin, it smells like apricots and sandalwood and was 100% linear. I never caught a whiff of the spices or ylang-ylang. Not unpleasant, but not something I feel I need to own. I prefer the other Patou's to this one, and other gourmands fragrances like Angel or Pink Sugar to this one.

Fortunately, I got a little bottle of it and I just LOVE it. It's becme one of my favourites. It is so incredibly warm and longlasting...the base reminds me of Valentino V a bit.

Thanks everyone, for the lovely reviews! This really sounds like my next buy.... Does anyone know where I can order a sample of this....?

This is one of the most unique, outstanding fragrances I've ever worn. I love it, and so does my husband. It's a warm, ambery, romantic gourmand with a hint of a heady white flower. Sira des Indes stays close to the skin, and its sensual, musky drydown is irresistible. There's a slight touch of powdery lightness at the beginning, but it's not the type of powder that emanates from many early 20th century fragrances. This powder is a sort of sweet, crystal amber, that makes the fragrance very soft, and slightly mysterious. I don't smell specific fruits or spices, but rather a balanced fragrance that gets more sensual throughout wear. It's great for a date night!

At first is burst of berries and hint of banana, after that it reminds little bit of Gucci Rush and then developes to warm base, mosty cardamom to my nose. Sounds heavy, but even EdP is quite mild (on me)and can so on be used on daywear too.

Nice bottle and colour of the juice.

The description of jeanpatou.com sounds great-any experiences with this one?