Golden Cattleya Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes for women

After gratefully recieving a sample packet, from Ms Covey, my husband and i have tested through the group and found gem after gem. Tonight, it is a little balmy and the air is humid, breezy, but not hot. A good friend and i both donned GC and immediately noticed a brightening citrusy note in the beginning. As it settled, i left the room, and as she & i would walk past one another we'd love the gorgeous trail we would encounter. It excited us both! Among the lush honey, labdanum, and amber, there seemed to be a powerful olfactory effect taking place. A sense of nag champa incense perhaps? GC becomes exotic, and captures a feel of almost "taboo" in the sudden warmth, excitement, and racing heart that brought me back to the seductive and rushing anticipation of a youth sneaking into a "smoke shop" and discovering many, but never all of its forbidden delights. After this initial sensation began to wane, i enjoyed my stay in the beautiful golden haze, a light sandalwood, and barely detectable incense note appeared, and the scent slowly began to shift into a sensuous languidity like the aftermath of said forbidden delights.. lingering in the air, seducing with a memory, making me want to lift my hair, bare my neck to the breeze and close my eyes. Maybe just drift of into the sweet, exotic, goden siren song.

My husband immediately fell for this "sirens song", on myself, as well as on him. we will be purchasing fb's in the near future.

I would recommend trying all of the line. The quality is right here.

I got a sample pack from Olympic Orchids yesterday in the mail and so far have tried three of the scents. This one smells lovely-- a honeyed floral scent. I put it on exactly 12 hours ago when I was getting ready for work and can still smell a faint honey-tinged, powdery trace of it on my skin. So far, all 3 scents that I've tried from this line feel extremely pretty and feminine. Really amazing quality, especially for the price. Now, I just have to figure out which one will be my first full bottle purchase from the line. :-)

This is a beautiful honey fragrance. It's not too overpowering as I find a lot of honey scents to be. The other notes supporting this scent are quite soft. As another reviewer said, it really is all about the honey. I highly agree, if you like honey scents, this is a must have for you.

The best truly warm honey fragrance I have ever smelled. It´s ALL ABOUT THE HONEY. Pretty strong, this has an excellent quality. Lasts very long and fortunately does not develop, it stays the whole time the same like the opening, only less intensive. Remindes me a little bit of Red pearl paris bleu, but this is much better. If you love honey, a must have.

After a heady grande green floral opening this precious liquid turns a breathtaking golden colour. The warm colour of honeycombs, two or three brushes of suinshine colour, a line or two of a burning sunset. All of this and more. Yew it's sweet no doubt about it but it's also slightly musky and unashamedly sexy. In the dry down it becomes more resinous,it has a very pleaasing sillage and wonderful tenacity around 7 hours. It's definitely one of the most interesting interpetations of a perfumed built around honey. Mmmm....

Lovely, but honey is too much for me.

Maybe the sparkling note is cream soda Moyra? Fantastic stuff. I don't want anyone to find this one...Bravo! Bravo! Shhhhhhhh.........

I am so excited that this beautiful line of perfumes is finally on Fragrantica!

Although undoubtedly sweet, Golden Cattleya completely lacks the banal, boring, everything-smells-the-same element of most contemporary sweet scents because it literally seems to sparkle.

That "sparkling" note is one I can detect in several of the Olympic Orchid "orchid" perfumes, perhaps the perfumer's version of the famed "guerlinade", but one completely original and her own. Its addictive - I may well have to have all her orchid scents!

Golden Cattleya is also inexplicably honeyed, fruity ,flowery and yet resin-y/woody at the same time- its truly unlike anything else I have.
The symphony of notes goes on and on and on, with beautiful sillage and 8 hour plus lasting power.
It has garnered a ton of compliments, and all my other perfumes are languishing for want of attention these days, because I consider Golden Cattleya one of the very best things I have smelled or worn in years.

A perfume blog I read referred to the perfumer, Ellen Covey, as a genius.
You know what?
I couldn't agree more!

I have been keeping orchids for many years. For me the orchid perfumes of Olympic Orchids accurately represent both the beauty and the complexity of orchid fragrances. Golden Cattleya is rich and heady just like the flower with the added depth of labdanum, amber and sandalwood. Golden Cattleya is a scent I would feel comfortable wearing day or night, anytime of the year, in any situation. When I wear this fragrance I am surrounded, but never overpowered by a golden scent and visual aura. A great synesthetic experience!

This fragrance is honey sweet, intense and tender altogether, unusual and exotic without any exotic fruit notes.