Orazuli (for women)

Aysu

I like it a lot, find it very special and mature.
Surprised that it is cathegorized as a "floral" only.
Because I feel some chypre in it. It is a perfect combination of white flowers and bitter almond and has a sort of "sour" smell in a good way, IMO this gives it a mature charactere and feels like a classic, or as a scent from 70's. After long hours I start to feel a little vanilla and musk but bitter almond and flowers are still there from the beginning till the end. Bottle is perfect too, lapis color with some gold dust, amazing..

darlingbuds

Sometimes, on a day when I've smelled too many perfumes, I'll misjudge a fragrance as being 'indistinct', when really it's my sniffer that's no longer making the distinctions. This happened to me with S.T.Dupont's 'Orazuli'. I received a carded sample of this from an acquaintance who'd just blown $500 on, of all things, a USB key from S.T. Dupont. Expecting a fragrance I could probably never afford, I hoarded the sample until a day when I was testing samples. Sniff, sniff. Nice, strongish, flowers. . .. what else? Nothing. It was just... OK.

Months later I found a large-sized bottle of the EDP in my favorite discount store. Hey, there's Orazuli! What?! Only $16? Gorgeous lapis-coloured bottle -- hey I'll spring for it. The next day I devoted my entire body (as opposed to a section of my forearm) to the perfume and lo! an angel appeared! 'Orazuli' was a poem of dependable meter, flowing persistently and effortlessly from its bitter almond floral beginning to an unmuffled osmanthus in the heart. Maybe that did it: I'm a sucker for osmanthus. It isn't a creamy osmanthus so much as an edgy floral one tempered by the lemon in the basenotes. I felt very classy wearing this, and decidedly un-American (not that those two are mutually exclusive of each other!). Classy and earthy.

As the first reviewer commented, this seems a bit strong at first spray, but truly, it's not so much that as it is *concentrated* -- an EDP of which a little goes a long way (I have yet to see 'Orazuli'in anything less than the EDP).

How I almost missed this one! And such a bargain too. I have heard through the perfume grapevine that this is, or will be, discontinued so perhaps that accounts for its present affordability. I'm grabbing another bottle if I see it again. So, even if I can't afford the USB key that's more than my car payment, at least I might smell like I can.

mackie

It strong when you first spray but it calms down to a nice soft scent in a couple of hours. Perfect for dinner and a movie.