Oha Teo Cabanel for women

A very elegant scent, rather 1940s. The Teo Cabanel bottles are beautiful. Alahine has much more character than Oha and Julia.

A sophisticated scent, rather old-fashioned and musky, but sours quickly.

Have you ever sat and flipped through channels at night, stumbling upon PBS where Charlotte Church was on stage, singing a pitch perfect operatic song, afterwhich everyone clapped politely?

That's Oha.

But I prefer it when Mariah Carey or Celine Dion take the stage and belt it out. And this is my problem with Oha.

It's subtle. Pitch perfect, but subtle. And as a chypre floral it is competing with some grand divas in my boudoir, like Caron's Or et Noir and Guerlain's Mitsouko pure parfum; and they are outsinging this one.

Nevertheless, I like this fragrance, it is indeed beautiful, and has all but three of my favorite notes. I will order a sample in the pure parfum to see if it kicks it up a notch, becuase htis is one I'm not ready to write off just yet.

I like Oha most than other Teo Cabanel's scents. It's very feminine almost in an old-fashion way, still not a granny perfume.
It has a very French touch, quality is out of doubt. It smells like a classy, elegant and feminine woman from a French poster would smell.
Jasmine and green tea are very evident in the beginning, then the whole scent is a mix of roses and jasmine with a hint of violet (not listed), then tonka bean and cedar. I can't smell the cardamom and the vanilla is very subtle, not a vanillic scent.
I don't own a full bottle and won't probably buy because Oha is not totally me in every moment. It would suit a more elegant woman than I am. It would make a good statement with an evening dress, but it's wearable during the day without exceeding. I think its character is more related to the personality of the wearer rather than the occasion, because it seems "alive". Not a mainstreet fragrance in any case.

Judging by the notes alone, I expected to like Oha (notes of bergamot, tea, rose, jasmine, tonka bean, iris, musk) and I don’t really know why I didn't. It was charming,lovely, quite elegant... but there was something lacking in it for me. To be "for me" it would have much sweeter jasmine, more cardamom, and a different, not so clean, kind of musk.

It starts with an accord which I can only describe as jasmine flavoured green tea; the jasmine note begins to fade in the middle stage giving its place to the roses, and by the time the drydown comes, the scent is mostly iris, powder and a woody note that I assume is cedar.

Oha is considered to be an evening scent, but truly you can wear it anytime.