Sweet Oriental Dream Montale for women and men

I beg to differ that this fragrance isn't long lasting because it is! I applied the small sample of .7ml from luckyscent before I went to church and the aroma was uplifting. It smells so great. Intially when I took a sniff of it I smelled powder and wasn't that impressed. So I crack open the small vial yesterday after a shower and its remained on my body the following next day. It has a vanilla aroma as well and is a nice fragrance. I tried chypre fruit,chypre vanille and I will get this over those two anyday. I'm stuck with the white aoud which was a blind buy. Thank god I didn't buy the larger 3.3 version because I would have been stuck with it. That white aoud I dislike and was disappointed thinking all of Montale's line smelled awful but when I had a shot at Sweet Oriental Dream I said, let me give this a try. Very Lovely frag

This is almost exactly the same as Loukoum by KM, but doesnt last as long for me and it is not worth having both, they are almost exactly the same.

A sweet, heavy powdery gourmand on my skin. Yummy and cozy, like an oversized sweater on Christmas morning, eating almond kringle and you can smell Grandpa's pipe tobacco wafting in from the porch.

Outstanding gourmand perfume around the turkish delight or Loukhoum theme. it's sweet and strong, but doesn't get cloying (well, i wouldn't use in hot weather just in case) or sirupy/sugary-sweet.

The sweetnes is well balanced. It gets kinda powdery/dusty for my tastes but with the great balance of notes and composition that Pierre Montale has achieved with this one, i can get over it.

Fantastic sillage and longevity (Montale garantees that). A bit on the femenine side but wearable for the kind of men that like to not be so mainstream.
4,5/5

For loukhoum lovers only, Montale SWEET ORIENTAL DREAM is just that. To my nose, this composition is slightly less sweet than my memory of the first perfume in the Keiko Mecheri trio. However, my reception of the KM loukhoum perfumes may very well have been affected by my non-expectations of super-sweetness, given that I had no idea at the time what loukhoum even was!

My suspicion is that some reviewers of SWEET ORIENTAL DREAM, too, lacked previous loukhoum experience. What is even more strange, given the name, is that people are complaining that this perfume is sweet. This is a rare case of total truth in advertising! I could definitely understand such complaints, were this perfume simply named ORIENTAL DREAM and marketed as unisex. Then any guy who purchased this scent unsniffed would have a valid claim in requesting a full refund. In this case, however, the sweetness is unabashedly and unapologetically revealed up front and center. If you do not like sweet perfumes, why in the world would you be purchasing something called SWEET ORIENTAL DREAM? Perhaps reviewers simply like to bitch in general. That would explain why they get all bent out of shape whether the name falsely or accurately claims to be this or that thing. But I digress...

SWEET ORIENTAL DREAM is a confectionary perfume with more almond nougat than anything else. The roses are akin to the ones made out of frosting and poised atop store-baked birthday and wedding cakes. But anyone who is actually looking for a loukhoum perfume should give this one a try, provided that they have a triple expresso and a pitcher of ice water close by! The longevity of this perfume is typical for loukhoum-centric compositions, at least those I've tried: quasi-infinite. Loukhoum sticks around until you submerge your perfumed naked body in a bath! That's a good thing if you like it, but a precaution to those who are testing for the very first time.

A fine loukhoum perfume, in my estimation, but it is what it is, and it's not what it's not. If you have not yet walked down loukhoum lane, this would be an excellent place to start (and, for many, to finish).

Love this! Definitely not what I expected it to smell like, but pleasant and comforting all the same. This is not gourmand to my nose in any way, shape, or form. It's a scent I would want to wear after a shower, and off to bed. I smell a delicate, very powdery rose mixed with honey. I very rarely like rose fragrances, but this isn't the obnoxious rose, nor the candied rose that you get in many fragrances nowaday. This is a classic, comforting, almost luxurious, fragranced powder of a rose that makes me feel like I've been bathed in rose petals and honey water (easy on the honey). I don't get much almonds (which I was initially hoping for), but I no longer care. I would buy a full bottle of this if I could.

Update: After a few minutes or so, I get an ever so light whiff of crushed almonds, but only because I was looking for it. It does, however, turn sweeter and more gourmand after a few hours. It also changes from powdery to dusty as well (which, fortunately, isn't a bad thing with this particular fragrance). Delicate and lovely.

I thought I would love this perfume, thank god for samples! it reminds me of something I wore from the drugstore when I was in middle school but i can't put my finger on it! it's definitely sweet but i don't notice the almonds, it just smells powdery to me. not a fan.

update: i remembered it! it reminds me of love's baby soft

Praline roasted bitter almonds, this is all that is it to this perfume. Incredibly gourmand, yummy, sweet and quite heavy, I love it. There is no complexity here, and something smells terribly synthetic, like almond essence you use for cakes, but very sweetened. I don't smell the roses at all... could it be that my sample is a mistake and this is actually Amandes Orientales? It is possible, I suppose....

A total scrubber! Honey, loukhum, hints of the "in-house built in" aoud-accord: a sickly sweet, cloying mess. Head-ache inducing and nearly no way of escaping it once it is on your skin - this potent mix lasts for ages. One of the worst Montales I ever tried.

At first this scent is rather flat, coming across as plain sweet powder with a hint of sharp dusty rose. Reminded me of the scent of Cabbage Patch dolls in the beginning phase. I found it to catch in my throat, like when you accidentally breathe in a helping of bath powder - kind of made me want cough. I had trouble getting through the beginning without scrubbing, as I found the rose unsettling , and it kept tickling my throat. But then it warmed up, and the honey seeped through, and I caught lovely whiffs of sweet nutty vanilla laced almonds. It becomes more dessertlike and less cheap rose bath powder in the end. But still, I cannot stress enough that this is definitely a POWDERY scent. The sillage is good, like a puffery surrounding cloud. Fairly long lasting.

Very heavy and sweet - I could not tell it apart from some of the loukhoum perfumes around except that it is a little more long-lasting. I think Montale should stick to the ouds.

I have such a love-hate relationship with this fragrance... At times I love it, I crave it, I need it... and then there are times when is simply makes me sick to my stomach, makes me nauseous and uncomfortable. Usually I can can get away with a tiny dab and that seems to work every time, but should I spray this on - I am never quite certain what might happen.

Good Golly Miss Loukhoum, or should I say, Pierre Montale's Sweet Oriental Dream, please meet any/all of Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum fragrances. You will have a great deal in common - because you are somehow riffing off those sweet girly-girls a bit too closely.

Although I like them both, Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum Eau Poudree wins by a soft powdery girly cloud, a few secret flowers, a more delicious, slightly sour candied flowers dry down and a few dollars less in price.
In other words, this is a more expensive, less complex, less covetable version of the masterful Loukhoums by Keiko Mecheri.

This may be a little too imitative, but its pretty, well made, long lasting, a little less intense than, for example, Loukhoum Eau Poudree but still so dashedly close, yet, alas - a fair bit less distinctive, less pink marabou feather boa sexy and less girly.

"Out of the mouth of babes": My two year old son loves me to put a drop on his wrist, so he smells like "birthday cake." He loves it!

It's a VERY Sweet Oriental Dream... First I got headache when I tried my sample (I overdosed it, I think, one drop is more than enough). I felt as I was in a bazaar, smelling some fumigants, but after a half hour it became a nice vanilla-honey scent and it lasted for hours with good sillage. However I prefer Vanilla Extasy to this one, I like it. But only one drop...

There is something a little waxy about the scent. I definitely felt like I was smelling vanilla, but it was a plastic vanilla. If I had to identify this mysterious note, I'd say it was violet, but it's not listed, so I'm not really sure what to think.

Still, it's a sweet scent, and even though I was perplexed when I pressed my nose to my wrist, I found pleasure in the little wafts of fragrance that rose up as I tested the scent.

It had incredible longevity, and it was very potent. One tiny drop of perfume on my skin, and I could smell it through my clothing for the rest of the evening.

Definitely it doesn't work on me. To my disappointment I feel sick inhaling it. Too sweet, too bitter. Is it nuts with honey making it so heavy? I prefer Mukhallat to this one.

The opening is very spicy and deep, and the sillage in the opening is a weird fascinating creature! The mesmerizing opening lasts a while, and the scent changes drastically into the sugary, vanilla treat that it is.

I wouldn't say that there is talc here, sure, there is this powdery talcy bent in the notes--but it's so much more than that, so very different than "powdery"! This nuance of the scent has a life and esscence of it's own, it floats out on it's own, so distinguishable but biazrre it's hard to describe, and much more refined than "baby powder".

The sweetness, extremely powerful. The sugary sustanance here takes you back to childhood, new plastic baby dolls and Barbie dolls (remember how they smell differently from eachother-well, you get them both here in this Montale) and all the candies, cupcakes, taffy, and frostings, with edible decor on top. Just like those memories, this extremely strong scent, oddly enough fades pretty quickly, and is more noticeable the next day, on the clothes one wore, and it all comes wooshing back.

This is not "just a sweet scent. It's quite Bizarre, Peculiar, a Space Oddity of sweet perfumes.

Wow. Sweet, strong, sweet sweet sweet and powdery rose talc. It's okay, but unless worn in the dead of winter, I suspect it would become too sweet very fast. I did end up scrubbing this one, because the rose-scented powder and the strong sweetness were just so not my personality. I don't actually like it, but as far as powdery roses go, it's excellent for that. Delicate, soft and warm, like very pale pink velvet.

I got this some time ago, packed it into the wrong box and it took four months to find it.
Now, I was looking for something in that box full of odds and scraps and there was the bottle. I took it out, thought Whoa, now it's here, I can happily resell it, put it on the bedside table and in the morning, I woke up smelling it. I didn't spray it or anything, it apparently penetrates the aluminium bottle.
It's not a bad scent. Just very, very strong and extremely sticky-sweet. It gives me the image of running down the street being followed by a swarm of wasps. Hungry wasps.
I suppose that there'll be enthusiastic admirers but it's not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.

I recently got a sample vial of this from a friend and was so excited to try it today....so excited in fact, that I spilled 75% of the vial down my arm and onto my dining room tale, which I promptly mopped up with my shirt tail. Whew.....Montale overload, LOL!! I resisted teh urge to wash it off, not wanting to waste the opportunity to give this scent a full test, as it were. Now, about an hour later I can finally stand the smell of myself, I felt I was being devoured by the honey sweetness! Only now can I detect a hint of rose and alot of almond. This scent reminds me strongly of good rich and moist flavored pipe tobacco. A scent that I love, by the way. This is a truly stellar gourmand, but if you test this from a sample vial, take my advice....BE CAREFUL, LOL!

On me this is one of the longest lasting fragrances, but for that fact most Montales usually last forever and a day on me. This is a wonderful rendition of the ever delicious rahat loukhoum delicatesy and very similar to Loukhoum by Keiko Mecheri. There is a wonderful powdery drydown that puts an emphasis on honey and almond while the rose sits comfortably in the background at this point. On my skin rose is more prominent in the opening while almonds and honey come out to play later. One of my favorites for cold weather.

This is a sweet fragrance with a very powdery dry down. While it is a floral oriental, I find that this is much sweeter than the 'usual' oriental scent, which I typically associate with a spicy deepness. This one is great for someone who enjoys a soft and simple fragrance as it isn't complicated. It doesn't last as long as I would hope so for that reason I would suggest there may be other fragrances that are similar that you could get for much less money.