Oiro Mona di Orio for women

This scent is first as a slap in the face - overwhelming jasmine and armpit/hourse-stable! Not my kind of melody, I thought.. but wait about one hour and it´s starting to transform..Now a warm, old-fashioned kind of fragrance starting to take form, I´m thinking of a lady from the 1920 during those happy years, she is sitting in front of her makeup-mirror, she is holding her powder with one hand, holding a cigarett in a long "cigarette-holder" in her other, a little bit nonchalant.. She is dressed in lilac and grey with a short "bob" and smokey eyes.. She´s looking beautiful and a bit decadent, just as this perfume. The animalic tone is now in the background, and just makes the flowers and jasmine stand out more beautiful. This scent is very far away from a fresh and romantic jasmine-scent, is more of a really sexy, mature or oldfashioned womans jasmine.. Demanding but rewarding, I now love it, but I just have to wait for the right time to wear it. Less is more, but WOW, wait for "more"!

Was a present. This scent was mothballs and jasmine on me, plus a... feeling of violet-coloured fog. This fog to it all. This fog was half-pressing and half-magical, and had no real weight, but texture or even density - those it had for me. Closer to the end (second 24-hour timeslot) I felt a bit of musk and some sweets, too. This scent had a very familiar sound to it, something smelled like it in one of my Granny's wardrobes, so the scent's a pleasant memory for me.

I'm afraid that this was my first experience of what is cruelly but accurately termed a scrubber. I couldn't get this nausea inducing thing off my wrist fast enough. Which was amazing because on paper it contained everything I would normally love. Perhaps mine was a bad batch, because it smelled oily and rancid.

This is a marvelous creation. I love the flowery opening, it's rich and very sensual yet being kinda cold and distant. I love when after only few moments a fantastic orange appears and it becomes a bit fruity, a bit playful, but still very grown up, very sophisticated.
When the fragrance goes to it's heart phase it gets a bit bitter and I have seen it with other two creations by Mona di Orio as well, nothing unpleasant or anything, but it just goes to this bitter, cold phase. Weirdly I do not get too much jasmine, it's been well hidden in all the other notes and well...it all is perfectly blend together.
The only thing that doesn't make me jump and scream in pleasure is the amount of orange here, it's a bit too much for my taste, but would work for others. If it wouldn't be for the amount of orange I'll gladly put this on my want list.

I wish I could point out specific 'notes' in a fragrance, but I only know this is one of my favourite 'skanky' frags. Gardenia and Tuberose usually do that for me, but I don't know which ingredient is doing it in here. Jasmine? Longevity is a bit better than average, a very rich scent that makes my husband sit up and take notice. I hope others in this line are as impressive. I'll try another as soon as I can FIND one.

(edit) AFter three wearings I need to edit my original review.
Some internet reviews complain that is too heavy in the jasmine dept, and I can see why they would say that. As an oriental woody I would expect it to sit farther down in the 'earthy' notes, and not get stuck on the floral sweet spot.

I do like this scent, however. There are many notes here that I love, and the quality is up there. Overall, a good, well rounded fragrance that probably could use more of a woody anchoring.

Now why is this a hard sell in America, and why did all retailers pull it??? I LOVE old school classics, as mentioned above, and this can rub shoulders with the best of them. this scent is a stunner, but I am stressed at the difficulty at finding a place to buy it....

Oiro by Mona di Orio left me breathless. I absolutely did get the falling in love feeling.

"Oiro" means "gold" in Portugese and this perfume supposedly named by the fact that jasmine absolute is worth several times its own weight in gold, since there is a generous addition of sensual and luxuriant jasmine in this perfume.

It opens up with heady flower notes followed by the burst of sunny mandarin. A tangy ginger note and the velvety spiciness of cardamom soften the sweet floral accord before green yet animalistic jasmine reveals itself. While jasmine intensifies, savory immortal and dry cedarwood swirl out. The citrus notes are present all over the composition in the background keeping the heady flowers not beeing too overwhelming. The drydown of Oiro is slightly powdery with a lot of sweetness.

The entire composition is so exquisite, magnificent, I'm looking forward to get acquainted with the other pieces of Mona di Orio's perfume collection. (Mona di Orio've been taught by Roudnitska)

My only complaint about Oiro is the price-tag... :(