Oriental Lumpur Les Nereides for women and men

my mom loves this fragrance, it's bold , still not in your face. It lasts all day. It starts with a strong spicy smell, not foody at all. It is quite exotic and the fragrance grows on your skin. It is not a masculine fragrance, though depends on taste I suppose. However, it is a cosy fragrance, taking you somehow back in time. It does smell soapy after good couples of hours, a nice fresh fragrance with sandalwood notes. I love the fragrance, especially as it dries on my skin.

This is everything everyone has said. Spicy. Strong. It would be wonderful if not for how quick it turns soapy on me. I'm sad. But it was fun to sample. Thank you to Vie Cafe for the wonderful samples you sent. You are a darling! Yours are on the way this week!

This is exactly what I had hoped it would be (I bought a bottle "blind"), and it represents what niche does best. That is, it's rich and natural smelling, with a central focus that is obvious and straightforward. You either like it or you don't. I think of "Indian spices" as curry or some masala dishes I've had, but this isn't all that much like them and instead it's a soft spice blend with subtle vanilla and sandalwood/incense. There's also a very mild herbal quality which I assume is the saffron. By contrast, Opium Pour Homme EdP, which I also really like, has strong vanilla and clove notes. What's great is that the spiciness never takes on a soapy character, which it does in fragrances such as JHL. It lasts a long time but projection ("sillage") seems to come and go. Some seem to think they must own L'Air du Desert Marocain, but that one becomes irritating after an hour or so. This one never does!

This scent is INCREDIBLE! Just EXQUISITE! When they say there are Indian spices in Oriental Lumpur, they are NOT KIDDING. This is perhaps the spiciest perfume I've ever smelled after Opium, which I find just too dark, harsh, heavy, and perfumey. This is fresh and natural spices drying under the desert sun. It might even beat out Tauer's L'Air du Desert Marocain with regard to the sheer numbers of different spices found in the composition.

I don't like patchouli, but no worries here. There is so much spice it drowns out any hint of the dreaded patch. I'm sure that patch adds to the beauty and complexity of the perfume, but thank God it remains in the background instead of the foreground.

There is a tang in this perfume that gives it a vegetal quality, like the perfect, green, habanero pepper. I smell everything else too, all the masala spices--cumin, coriander, saffron, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, black peppercorns, ginger--it's all there.

I love the fact that the perfume is naturally and faintly sweetened by vanilla and saffron. This is not a sweet perfume whatsoever, which are the kind I tend to wear, but it's definitely on my want list, replacing L'Air du Desert Marocain.

I think this could be amazing if I layer it with Vanilla Vera Cruz by Pacifica on days where I want a little sweetness.

Oriental Lumpur is unequivocally captivating.

A strong dry spices opening where nutmeg and saffron play its main part then, quickly, a woody sandal/vanilla accord makes its appearance providing a slight dose of sweetness then, quickly, nothing.

Rating: 4/10

Ok, I'm sure I've smelled this scent before, I just can't figure where. I'm scratching and scratching my head, but one thing I'm coming to finally is that this reminds me of men's aftershave and not an expensive one. It's not that it's a bad scent per se, it's rather interesting and spicy as I like them, but I can't get past the men's aftershave thing enough to wear it in public. Still, this has an amazing staying power. I'm seriously impressed!

LOve Love Love. What a wierd fragrance! Its smells so strange, if in a way it smells like a plant that grows in a field next my mother house, it has pizza wiff on it, maybe it has oregon in the notes somewhere. I would wear it as a perfume but just more like an olfatory experience. After a while develops for something like a man cologne mixed with sweat.
Very sweet, oriental in a aromatic way I guess, fresh, mediterranean and unisex.

Wow, so good experience. Nice and mysterious fragrance. I’m in love just after first sniff. All spices are so well balanced that it smells very delicate but the silage is great. OL is also really long lasting fragrance. Slightly sweet and soapy, but these elements make OL wearable for all occasions and around the year. This is nothing like full of spices rich oriental fragrances. Also in my opinion OL is unlike any other cologne. A must try for perfume lovers.

Incence. Strong church incence is all that I get on my skin when I spray this perfume. Why am I so unlucky? I was looking for saffron, cumin that I love but got church incence that I, well, hate...

Weird, to say the least!
It starts very tart to me, with spices coming in full speed! Interestingly, I smell sumak ( a red Persian spice, that is a little sour, a little spicy), saffron and aoud here. Absolutely no sweetness, and surely no vanilla, according to my nose; no curry either.
Woods are very pronounced too. Basically the whole scent is woods and spices. Not much development, and the dryness of the whole concotion makes it not heavy either.
To me, it evokes a woody ship from the middle ages, carrying spices from far away eastern lands, bringing them to Europe, to the amazement and delight of onlookers! Along with the smell of wood wet with salty water and spices, comes the noise, the color, and the smell and the adventures of the people from that ship.
I see this fitting an exotic looking man, or a very adventurous woman, not afraid to be talked about and not to fit in. I am getting a big bottle of this!
On a side note, it is more masculine than Imperial Opoponax, and not as strong and much less wearable...
Thumbs up for originality though, I wish it had less salt and a little sweetness to it though. Last words about it: unusual conversation piece!

Spice lovers should definitely buy this unsniffed. I did and was not disappointed. It starts off with pungent spices and mellows into a distinctly red peppery smell, then into a curry note and then into an almost unsniffable musky sweetness. Beautiful overall, but the lasting power is not great because this is an eau de toilette, but for this type of scent that is not so awful. Its also good that you can get a big bottle for about $70.

sono daccordo con te Migotka
è una fragranza pesante ma io la amo specialmente dopo un po di ore che la indossi
é TEATRALE

I admit, I am a sucker for spices. A perfume abundant in them is very likely to become my skin's and nose's best friends.

I know Oriental Lumpur gets a lot of very mixed reviews. I heard everything starting from "Awful", "It smells like an Indian restaurant" to "Divine and different", and lots of things in between.

It is an unusual scent for sure. People tend to say it is very foody, I actually dont quite agree. It is spicy, and makes me think of those amazingly colorful spice markets, where spice comes in all colours and you can get practically anything you could have ever wished for. I want to dip my hand in colorful powders and feel the texture. But, at the same time, I dont have an urge to eat raw spice! Oriental Lumpur therefore is not an 'edible' fragrance.

Oriental Lumpur is BIG in saffron and nutmeg, an the patchouli also seems very prominent. Vanilla is quite different from what we usually get- not sweet, but dark, thick. it is not a fragrance that I would call sexy, I describe it in terms of being intriguing and mysterious.

It is not a typical feel good fragrance, it is not particularly cosy, it has a heavier side to it, but I love it for its richeness and depth.

Zafferano, lotti di zafferano, curcuma, cumino, coriandolo - come hanno catturato il undertone dolce di coriandolo??? e sì, appena un suggerimento minuscolo di vaniglia dolce
splendido.

Every time I open my spice box to cook, I say to myself - "if only I could find a perfume that smells just like this...." and now I have.

Saffron, lots of Saffron, turmeric, cumin, coriander - how did they capture the sweet undertone of coriander??? and yes, just a tiny hint of sweet vanilla in the drydown. Magnificent. Just splendid.

L'artisan's Timbuktu is in the neighborhood, but some unpleasant and "perfumey" notes in Timbuktu - this Oriental Lumpur is all spice and nothing else. very very very foodie. Certainly a man could also wear this (it brings back the best memories of my dad teaching me how to cook) - very nice and spicy - but none of that horrible sharp, unpleasant myrtle that turns up in so many men's scents.