Oriens Van Cleef & Arpels for women

It's not it the database yet but there is an Acqua Oriens coming out in or around March. Just an FYI because the notes for the new one sound REALLY good. Also, the bottle which is identical to this one but blue/green is totally gorgeous!! :D Can't wait to try it!

Addition after some time from my first review: I haven't been using this perfume for quite a long time because I became to feel more uncomfortable wearing patchouli. Now I'm back and wearing Oriens today. I've forgotten it's so sweet and a bit salty on my skin (wintertime). Raspberry, blackcurrant and patchouli the most detectable - but Gosh, it is SO classy without feeling stiff... What a pretty fragrance in a stunning bottle.
Actually when I'm wearing Oriens, I have early morning in my mind. A beginning of something new. A new day, a new adventure, a new pretty fauna and flora awoken. The only complaint is - the patchouli, but without it Oriens wouldn't be the same.
Calm fragrance, always makes a huge impression on me.

This would be a great alternative for someone tired of Coco Mademoiselle, Flowerbomb or Miss Dior Cherie..I'm only testing this, but already I know I would love to have more juice to get a better ''feel'' of the stuff..I love how they added blackberry as a top note! I can definitely smell berries and sweet & warm caramel or praline morphing beautifully...The base isn't overly herbaceous patchouli and I'm loving it! This is more of a gourmand chypre if such even exists....For me a chypre has a patchouli base, with a strong citrus top note..This has both with a foody & gourmand punch...yum yum :)

completly party parfum for me wonderful exactly like the allure sensuell they are the same love like i loved the chanel sensuelle!!!very long lasting its kind off sweet but not to much its strong its .....partyyy

For Larissafenelli,
If You love Oriens, just go for it. No matter how its "ment to be" for those "ages"... you know what I mean. I was at your age and as well loved the kind what is said to be "old school"... so its all about between individual and perfume. No matter what people say.

I loved this one. When I first smelled it in a perfumery I fell in love. It was getting more and more beautiful on my skin. "Oriens" makes me feel happy. I love the brand Van Cleef & Arpels, so no surprise this fragrance is high quality.
I purchased for 50 ml next week and I waited until my Hermes-Kelly Caleche to finish, when its bottle was empty I was ready for my sweet Oriens! Actually it was difficult for me to change my perfume because I've been wearing Kelly Caleche for 2 or more years. It was like a part of me...
I just finished the 50 ml bottle last week and now I'm back to Hermes-Kelly Caleche EDT. I still love this odour but I have few doubts. I mean, first many of my friends said it smells like Miss Dior Cherry or Chanel Coco Mademosielle. Even my father said "it reminds me of someone from my friends". It's not because he has a friend that she wears Oriens, it's because its very similar to popular fragrances. Second, when I was trying to decide I asked my mother to go and smell it, she tried it and liked it too but the girl in the perfumery said "It's for 40+". I was shocked because I'm 18! My mother is 43 but she looks younger anyway. Few weeks after I started to wear Oriens it started to smell sweeter and sweeter. Maybe it was not a perfect fragrance for summer but I don't change my perfume from season to season or from day to night.
Because of all reasons above, now I'm back to my Hermes- Kelly Caleche and I'm happy. However, Im still thinking about purchasing a new 50 ml bottle of Oriens, because I love its smell and maybe I can use it as room spray or something. It's the same for Hermes Un Jardin Sur Le Toit too. I'm in love with this smell but I don't wear it, even though it smells good on my skin as well. These three are my favourite perfumes ever but I ll keep wearing Hermes KC forever! :)

asked for this for xmas because i just loved the bottle
the scent is gorgeous to

Oatmeal & dried cranberry cookies.

Patchouli is throughout. Giving it a funky, musty undertone, making my oatmeal cookie stale and on the verge of crumbling.

I like the tart berries and the warmth of pralines that reminds me of an oatmeal cookie, but the patchouli just ruined it for me. Unfortunately it becomes masculine to me.

Quite classic chypre floral with a fruity orangy/tangerine twist.

Okay, so some of the reviews intrigued me, especially Mandashell's desription of spiced raisin, and all in all it sounded like a safe bet I wouldn't hate it, so I ordered a small bottle and hoped for the best.

It IS as lovely as described, and I do really enjoy it. Only problem is it has nearly zero staying power on me. For two days now I've doused myself in the stuff and literally within 10 minutes it vanishes into thin air like Keyser Soze. Today it was a little more detectable, I'm guessing because I was working hard around the house and the surface of my skin became more conducive ... but should I really have to sweat my behind off to enjoy my perfume?
Update: I reaaallly want to be happy with this one, because it DOES smell great, so today I doused wrists and cleavage as usual, but also sprayed my hair and blouse and, guess what! I can smell it on me today!!

I ordered this fragrance thinking the notes sounded really good but also knowing that a blind buy is tricky and that even if I didn't like it, I LOVED the bottle...so it would be a win-win....When I received the fragrance from Amazon it was not the "pretty" bottle pictured...I was sorely disappointed. So, I got a so-so bottle with a nice enough fragrance that was sort of like a berry RL Notorious, to me. Anyway, bottom line, be sure to ask if you are getting the pretty bottle w/the silver accents...I think it must be larger than the 1 oz to get the pretty bottle, but I'm not sure? I filed a claim, ended up getting the fragrance for free, but I would have much rather had the pretty bottle.

Patchouli laden praline&raspberry combo, not a bad one, I enjoy wearing it.
I partly agree with reviews saying that this is mix of Miss Dior Cherie and Coco Mademoiselle. I found Jimmy Choo also similar to Oriens with strong patchouli and toffee tones. It goes well better in winter.

I rrreeeaaaallllyyyy like the bottle, or rather the cap, but for me this perfume smells exactly if we mixed Miss Dior Cherie with Coco Mademoiselle on a strict 50-50.

it has a pleasant scent that makes you easy to fall in love with. it's simple, clean and refreshing. you can wear it day and night, for whatever occasions but would be most suitable for a dinner at a chic restaurant with a sea view. would love to own a bottle of it... btw, the bottle design is also beautiful.

I'd been waiting to review this until I could wear it more than a few times first... because the scent is that dynamic. It can sometimes smell vaguely reminiscent of Miss Dior Cherie (minus that godawful popcorn) but I would still say this is a unique fragrance.

At first spray, all I get is caramel and pralines. Straight up. And yet, not at all in an edible way. How strange is that? I think it might be the hint of orange that keeps this from smelling like an ice cream parlor.

After a (pleasantly long) while, the smell dries down, losing the caramel but maintaining the praline, and the black currant and jasmine are able to come gently forward. It's intoxicating.
[Yes, I know there is no caramel note, I'm just telling it how I'm smelling it.]

I also noticed today (which inspired me to finally write a review) that despite my complete inability to ever smell raspberry anywhere in this under normal circumstances, I no longer doubt that it is there. I was walking around in the ungodly scorching heat and I noticed that my perfume had a tartness to it that had never been there before. Something about the heat brings out a mild Sweetart scent, and somehow, it works with the praline to make a new kind of delicious.

All in all, this is a wonderful summer scent that is layered and ever-changing and never unpleasant. It is sweet and enchanting, and sorta smells like the color of the lid, if that makes any sense. :P

I was drawn to the bottle since I am a complete magpie and unable to resist bright, shiny and sparkling objects. Having spotted this I had to smell it. The first thing I thought was Coco Mademoiselle meets Angel. The patchouli is more muted but the similarities of this fragrance to the two just mentioned is rather obvious. This means it's a nice fragrance but not necessarily an exciting, groundbreaking one.

The drydown is very similar to Coco Mademoiselle with a touch of Chanel 5. So it's chypre and oriental and the patchouli has disappeared. (I think the patchouli's job is to mix with the praline and make the wearer think Angel.)

So if the above appeals to you, go for it. Alternatively mix the above for the same result.

I guess I just fell in love with it. It's so tasty... smells like chocolate, to me. With jasmine.

Wow I tried this today and I felt in love with it but I asked for the price and it is too expensive! To bad I will have to wait and save to have it. It is sweet elegant and unique

It reminds me So Elixir EDT Yves Rocher (I prefer the EDT, the EDP is too strong for me). So I like it. It's spicy, warm and gourmand, and soft by the end of the day. A lot of people made compliments about it. The bottle is very strange and does not suit to this fragrance.

Ok here goes my review.....

So i was in the Bay department store today and passed a counter with this amazing bottle sitting there and i was in my glory because i have wanted to try this for quite some time. At first spritz i could smell the citrus, mixed with raspberry and then this sharp freshness , like a very crisp clean scent mixed with the berries, and it then turned me off almost immidiatley. I carried on and went about the rest of my shopping. By the time i was done and headed out to the parking lot, i caught a wiff of myself! I was like omg, what is that sweet smell? It was me!!! It was my arm where i had sprayed oriens. It was amazing, its still kind of smelled of that sharp freshness, but now it was mixed with a strong sweet black currant drizzled in smokey chocolate. Its was fruity warm and fuzzy sweetness, with yet that weird sharp freshness i dont like , but do???? Strange. I am buying this for sure, it is gorgeous, its something a rich tall dark beauty would wear! And im inlove

At the beginning I liked it, especially the marzipan or praline note. But when I got too much of it, it was too sweet and I decided it's too cloying for me, escpecially the drydown.

Starts out really sharp, a bit masculine (but I like it). The patchouli note is the strongest on my skin. I don't get the sweetness though. I don't see how this is classified as chypre floral since I don't get any flowers in it. And one more thing, it isn't similar to Coco Mad. You can get this impression at first that the two are alike, mainly because of the strong patchouli note, but Coco Mad. is thousand times better. The longevity and sillage of Oriens is surprisingly bad (maybe it's just my body chemistry). As Oriens and Coco are placed more or less at the same price range, I would highly recommend to buy Coco Mad. (My fav!) instead, which can smell long hours after applying on my skin.

Oriens is a very fruity, warm, sweet and patchouli laden delight. In fact once everything dries down the perfume really smells like a spicy raisin. LOL! That may sound funny but it really does. XD It isn't a very heavy fragrance but I can't see myself wearing it in the heat of the summer so It would be best for fall/spring. It also lasts at least 4hrs noticeably on my skin.

I too agree that Oriens isn't totally original because it really reminds me of a lighter Glow After Dark by JLO. It is also VERY expensive( luckily I received mine in a swap) and I'm not sure that you are getting what you pay for. That bottle is very pretty but the fragrance unfortunately isn't as pretty as the bottle.

Overall it is okay and it smells good but it's not for me and not what I expected. Can't see myself wearing it over the other fragrances in my collection so I am going to have to next this one. It's sad to say but my Delicious Cotton Candy has more flavor than Oriens....? o.O

This has nothing to do with So Elixir which I bought because many people wrote that in their reviews. I like it a lot and to my nose it is a floral spicy with accentuated notes of Jasmine and Patchouli and something sweet, must be the pralines. The only fault is that staying power is low. I still want a bottle:)
And now I have it, this is really yummy, mmmmmmmmmmm.. And the staying power is not at all weak, received compliments also. GREAT!!!!

Pleasant but generic perfume in a stunning little bottle. I would not classify it as chypre at all, more oriental spicy. It's a wearable fragrance, particularly for someone just starting to explore the perfume groups - just don't imagine it will be a chypre, that classification is quite misleading. Quite sweet as well, with medium longevity (3 hours).

One of my favourites (but I admit I have about 15 of them ;) ). I have the bottle with leaves, it's so pretty! And the smell itself is nice, actually when I wear the perfume, I think about dawn or dusk, the time when the sky is in colours like the cap. Praline comes out in the end, when you think the smell is almost left, you get surprised by the praline. The smell is quite sweet but not too sweet like Paco Rabanne's Ultraviolet or sthg like that. Positive, optimistic smell, freedom, travelling, watching the sun comes out or down.

Ah - and I can't see connection to Coco Mademoiselle. Coco is fresh in my opinion and Oriens isn't - Oriens is a kind of oriental chypre if something like that exists ;). I don't like Coco, I can't wear it, it's too strong and too perfect if you know what I mean. Oriens's lasting power is very good on my skin and it's the only one fragrance with quite a strong patchouli note I can wear.

A very nice fruity fragrance. It's not unique, yes. But it makes me feel good and happy. It's really nice, happy and not overwhelming. I can't really tell praline apart though, I wish I could. Patchouli at the base is okay, not too much. It's not very strong, it's been 2.5 hours since I put it on and it's already begun to fade away but still I like it.

I think this perfume is really rather beautiful. I tried this a couple of times on paper and didn't think it was anything special.

BUT I then tried it on my skin alongside a couple of others. It was surprisingly long lasting, and outlasted the others I tried by ages, and by end of the day it had transformed into a fruity delicious sweet scent, with the middle notes lingering and lingering in a long dry down.

It is in the same vein as coco mademoiselle, although lighter and more delicate.

If you were disappointed on your first try I would give it another chance.

For me similar to gucci Quality. I fell all the time raspberry.
Beautiful, factual bottle !

Considering this amazing bottle, I was expecting the perfume to be an art of work as well.
I'm disapointed. It's not a bad fragrance, not at all, but I can't see nothing special about it.
I thought it would be a wow perfume, but it's just a discrete and chic fragrance, really good and wearable, that people around you're going to like how you smell, not love or hate.
A very agreable fragrance with an amazing bottle.
If you want to smell good everyday, it's a great choice!

Luscious and yet Refined Oriens has an dual identity
It's sexy without being agressive it's a high class
seduction subtle never demands it but you can feel it
in the air, Opens with mandrian orange leaves a sparkling texure, Oriens turns deeper and succulent
of the presence of Black Current bringing a sense of
dark and primal sensuality the drydown is going through the tartness of Red Raspberries is sin in a
fruit rubbing against your lover's lip for delicious
satisfaction, Jasmine does'nt intrude and adds a
quiet and elusive grace the shyest note in the perfume brings refinedness, The drydown turns a bit synthitic but sweet of Praline a decadent end to a
scrumptious fragrance, praline is like creamy vanilla icing slowly pouring down on juicy raspberries finishes Oriens with a delectable pleasure.

dear oriens.......what to say....I had a sample of you during last summer and then I thought wow! Got to point of buying you 2 weeks ago i am not wow any more:(

First of all this fragrance is better for warm seasons,second- it is similar to Coco Mademoiselle but is not that elegant and posh fragrance like coco is,third- price is so much like coco m so if you are big lover of coco m buy yourself coco. Oriens is a fragrance which does not make me buy it again unless I will get it on sale. Staying power is very good and of course a bottle which catches eye very well as well as price can catch your wallet:) 5 out of 10

Reminds me quite a lot of Ungaro´s "Apparition" original, but more powderly scent. The bottle is very beautiful, but i don´t like the fragrance. I prefer Ungaro to this one. Again there are too much black currants in here, that what makes me feel like i am suffocating. But this one strongly associated in my mind with something orient, like orient market of spices i would say. The name is absolutly perfect for it and truly reflects a fragrance! Very pleasant for brunettes i think and definitly for evening wear. Just not my type sadly.

Please do not remove this comment, since others might find it useful. Not every rewiev should be positive, so people like me wanted to make a blind buy might find it very informative. Thanks.

i got a mini of this before-yesterday but the bottle leaked and the box was dripping... i tried out the juice left in the bottle on my wrists and it started indeed similar to coco mademoiselle & miss dior cherie. but this fades too quickly, it has not that depht in the notes and not this complexity of the Dior scents. it's almost flat and a little bit boring then.
but very nice patchouli guormand drydown, more oriental than chypre i found.
the box which absorbed the leaked juice completaly is still spreading really nice waves of a warm and seductive scent in my bedroom what means it would hold well in hair or clothes though.

the bottle is sooooo cuuuute !!!!!

I am a fan of chypres, particularily floral chypres, so I looked forward to testing this new fragrance. Unfortunately, this very quickly took on an absolutely overpowering jasmine scent that completely overwhelmed any other notes on my skin. Disappointing, but it won't be a repeat try for me.

I think this fragrance get so many undeserved bad opinions, and to be fair, I dont really know why.

Oriens is a beautiful fragrance. it is so cozy and sweet and lovely, you can fall asleep by sniffing your wrist. And I think it can give you some amazing dreams as well. It is a bit similar to Coco Mademoiselle, which by the way I love. The raspberry and blackcurrant are juicy and bursting with freshness, the jasmine soft and the pralines in the base provide just enough sweetness for the fragrance to remain elegant.

A perfect scent for a daytime wear, might not be a breakthrough in the world of perfume, but when you are not looking for something screaming into people's noses, something chic and discrete, well, here it is!

i tryed this, liked it, but it gave me a rash straight away...had to wash it off before it fully developed on my skin...dunno which of the components cause it...i've never ever got an allergy to any perfume before?!?

This perfume is so good and have everything a woman need to be attractive

OMG, it opens so perfectly, so that I thought it could be "the one" for me.
But after only 1-2 hours it just smells sweet and could be any other sweet fragrance at this stage. Also flattering (too fast) And most dissapointing: VERY synthetical smell at drydown. Too bad.

It does smell similar to Coco Mademoiselle so I won't be getting it even though the bottle is very pretty,unless I find it for a great discount:)

Van Cleef & Arpels ORIENS bears an unmistakeable similarity to COCO MADEMOISELLE, especially in the opening minutes. They are definitely neighbors on the grand olfactory map. Both are at the same level of quality of components and offer the same sort of citrusy modern chypre.

I find that because ORIENS lacks a sour note which sometimes does not agree with me in Chanel creations (including CM), I actually prefer this composition. I like the citrusy opening followed by the lush patchouli, and I do not find the drydown too sweet. To me, the raspberry and the praline here are very low key. I bought a mini of ORIENS and honestly would not mind having a bottle. Good longevity and medium sillage on my skin.

To my surprise, the designer of this perfume, Bernard Ellena, also created Versace WHITE JEANS, which is now on my wish list, and HANAE MORI, which I purchased based on a sample. Looks like I'm a fan!

I have tryd this today and I must say I really like it.
It reminds me a bit of Coco mademoiselle in the beginning. But this is sweeter. For me it opens with raspberry and mandarin on skin and it turns into a lovely praline woodsy smell coz of the patchouli in the basenotes.
Good sillage and staying power.

Because of the notes this should be my fav of all times, but it isn't. I think it's just fine, but I don't feel identified with it. This smells like walking down the street in India under the sun. I think that this would suit better on a not too young woman. Anyway, I found it very elegant.

Hi minous,
I myself do not own this one, because when I tried it in the store it reminded me of a tuned down version of So Elixir. And because I am into heavy perfumes most of the time, I prefer So Elixir EDP. I do love the bottle of this one though! Maybe I'll buy it for the bottle in the future.
Good luck!
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It's heavy on patchouli and caramel. Huge dose of sweetness of mandarine, raspberry... I'm so surprised no one mentioned its striking similarity with Angel xD
It's almost 1 in one with that. That is how my sleeve of jacket smelled after i perfumed it with Angel in store :o Bleh, c'mon come up with something more original -.- Bottle is nice tho. But they should put that creativity in to juice better, lol. Nothing 'chypre' in it.

This perfume reminded me of other scents I had smelt before, M by Mariah Carey above all.
Annick Goutal Ambre Fétiche, Bvlgari Jasmin Noir, Antonio Banderas Spirit, Laura Biagiotti Roma and Guerlain L'Instant pour Homme drydown have something in common too.

I still haven't discovered what are these notes that they have in common, but I think it could be a sweet patchouli accord.

I don't feel completely comfortable wearing it. I find it too sweet for me, but it's longlasting and has good sillage.

I agree that this perfume smells like coco mademoiselle & miss dior cherie. It's very sweet gourmand & very strong too. I like the bottle the most. I may get one this year.

Some reviews are dissappointing :) but i felt in love with this one when i bought it as a gift for my friend..
I am planning to get one for my self in the next few months.

Oriens has a good potential upon opening. For that part I can say only praises: fresh, elegant and joyful. Must admit, that was kind of the thing I expected. Because the trade name "Van Cleef & Arples" to me sounded like Scandinavian royal family. Polished and luxuriant. As I said, high hopes and beauty expected, managed to last for 30 minutes.

Afterwards Oriens flattened into sweet praline notes, synthetic and boring. Royal family fallen on their knees, leaving me disappointed. And the Oriens (meaning east)? They forgot to put it in the bottle.

This starts off bright and fruity, like freshly squeezed juice. If you like berries, you might appreciate the middle stages because raspberry dominated this phase for me. The praline asserts itself in the base and is unmistakable, fused with the sweet notes of fruits. It was difficult to detect patchouli. The dry-down is sweet, but without becoming overwhelming so. The praline here is not as viscous as I have found it to be in other fragrances that contain this note.

Overall, this is a fruity gourmand (I cannot see it as a chypre). It cannot claim originality but is surprisingly pleasant nevertheless. It reminds me of Flowerbomb, but as a lighter and fruitier version.

I am editing to say that whatever else it is or isn't, Oriens impressed me with its longevity. I sprayed it this morning at 9:00, and I was still able to feel it at 6 p.m. (no spraying no clothes).

Take a sweet berry compote, add a piece of myrrh into it and you have Oriens. Impressive? Inspiring? Interesting? Unusual? For my nose - it's boring and similar to many other fragrances.
P.S. I love Quizas, Quizas, Quizas by Loewe, but Oriens does not work for me at all...

Bad taste in full swing.

A horrific bottle,
a sticky-sweet-fruity scent,
plus a couple of irritating chemicals.

I sneezed and had some skin irritation on my wrist seconds after spraying. And I am really not the allergic/sensitive type of person.

From the start is reminds Lulu Castagnette lol - very sweet scent of caramel or something like that. Then Oriens becomes similar to Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle. I like the beginning more than the heart notes. But that's not bad fragrance and lasts so long.

i have this perfume and it is sooooo good on skin and it last long too! <3

I love the flacon but from reading the notes; I think that it might be very sweet.I'll give it a try though.

I had the possibility to buy it over ebay in France,for a good price.
It is a stong perfume, strong mandarine with pachouli, later on it becomes a bit
softer and than you can smell the raspberry and the praline. A strong perfume for an strong women.Like it for so far.

No Bathsheba , it's not too sweet.

P.S Lovers of Quizas, Quizas, Quizas by Loewe will love it, its similar to this one,only this one is fuller, rounder and some sweeter, love it.Stayingpower is greatttt.

im soooo curious about this one!!! i cant wait till sniffing it!!

when i read that it is a Bernard Ellena creation i was sure its gonna have jasmin... i hope it wont be overpowering and ruin this scent...