Description
In spring 2015 fans of the British house of Penhaligon’s will be thrilled by the new fragrance Ostara inspired by daffodil flowers! Just like this floral scent which is one of the first signs of spring, fragrance Ostara carries bright yellow color and an optimistic composition full of character and cheerfulness. Characteristic style of perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour comes as the seal to the new edition reinterpreting ‘blooming of daffodils, from bud to full bloom’. The fragrance is characterized by a modern version of strong flowers refreshed with aldehydes and luminous green notes.
Composition of the fragrance Ostara opens with a blend of bergamot, clementine, juniper, red berries CO2, mint, currant buds CO2, violet leaf absolute, green leaves and aldehydes effect. The heart adds floral notes of daffodil, hyacinth, cyclamen, ylang-ylang, hawthorn and wisteria along with intense accords of beeswax. Base notes combine styrax resin, vanilla, benzoin, musk, amber and blond wood.
“An iconic feature of the British countryside, the daffodil symbolises the optimism and revival of spring. In 1802, the distinguished poet William Wordsworth wrote about a sea of daffodils in his poem, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’. Excerpts have been included on the outer packaging of the fragrance to reflect the radiance of the flower.”
Perfume Ostara will be available from spring 2015 as 50ml and 100ml Eau de Toilette. Besides the official photos of Penhaligon’s, illustration by artist Mellise Bailey also presented the announcement of the new edition.
_shad_ – :
Lovely. To me, a buttercup soliflore.
LedPreenseZed – :
There’s something dirty, meaty in the background of the pollen, grass, that brings it all together. Sweet sunny harmony. Try wearing this in nighttime instead, to a dinner party or such. It will definitely surprise you.
I bought this completely blind even without reading most of the reviews here, knowing full well what I was getting into: a real, live flower of daffodil. This is something I needed in my wardrobe and GOSH is this a perfect piece. It’s not loud, but instead it casts you with an enchanting aura of liveliness that you just can’t ignore. Wear this and stand out in the most peaceful, enlightening way.
Others have masterfully described the notes and the art behind this scent, all I need to add is that, if you ever want to experience the scent of a sunny smile, this is it.
Taran – :
Ostara is complex. At first I thought…hmmm..typical…
Then when I let it develop on my skin…ooh la la…
I got primarlily daffodil/hyacinth with the ylang popping in and out…creating “tartness”. I get an insense vibe also…???…a tad smokey/sweet effect.
The dry down turns into a vintage/retro floral you might have sniffed years ago. I must also mention the herbal-ish touch of the juniper…mint…honey..ect…
This is sadly discontinued,and I have only the rollerball right now,but a full bottle is fore sure on my wish list. Pretty good projection/sillage and good longevity. A big “like” at this point.
EDIT: This one is magnificent !! A discontinued masterpiece. The more I wear it, the more it captivates me…..I have ordered a full bottle and a back-up too !!
lakgalpeedo – :
Corkscrewcurly did such a great job describing this that I cant really add anything more except from my observation that this is a natural, realistic portrayal of daffodils in all their glory. A very particular waxy flower scent, and this fragrance manages to capture it. Really wonderful, a perfect spring scent to add to the collection.
julka – :
This really is just beautiful – I can’t think of another word to describe it. Bertrand Duchaufour’s work can be challenging, but Ostara is not one of his more avant-garde creations. His hyper-realistic treatment of flowers here is very similar to his work on Flora Bella for Lalique
Narcissus has been voted the dominant note, but – to me – Ostara smells more like fresh hyacinths, with other flowers shyly peeking out from behind their more forward sister. As it dries down, Ostara starts to smell exactly like a florists, with stems, leaves… the whole caboodle. I got the same sort of florist shop vibe from Roja Dove Lilac, which I also love (but am disappointed by its sillage and longevity). There are no such issues with Ostara, which bounds out of the bottle and rams your nose squarely into a fresh, lush bouquet of flowers.
Reviewer SuzanneS has remarked below that Ostara’s aldehydes are not of the vintage variety and I can testify this to be true – if they were, I would be running to the bathroom in terror to scrub before the headache and nausea set in. Aldehydes are the reason I cannot deal with many vintage perfumes and why No.5 leaves me cold; I don’t pick up on them at all in Ostara, but they are probably responsible for its fresh, bright qualities.
Although discontinued, Ostara is still available on eBay UK for a reasonable price at the time of writing (August 2018). I think I need to purchase a backup bottle as I never want to be without it; to put this in context, I have over 700 bottles of individual perfumes and backups of very few. Ostara really is THAT good.
Despite Ostara’s exuberant opening, sillage and longevity are both moderate.
If you love floral perfumes (without a rose in sniffing distance) you really should try Ostara.
bigtorrentpack – :
Opens with a bouquet of flowers where narcissus and daffodils are the most prominent. The flowers are paired with green grass and fresh mint. Very green and flowery, some bitterness also that counterbalances with a bit of sweetness. Smelling it up close has a dirty aroma, but that is a part of how the real flowers could smell to up close, so it’s all good. Having said that, I enjoy it better from a distance. After a couple of hours the sweet notes are amplified and honeyed like. The dry down is less complex and not as appealing, sweeter; flowers are still there but muted, it’s more of a vanilla ambery with white musk. This fragrance wears lightly.
Scent: 5.5/10
Longevity: 6/10
Projection: 4/10
bobrecegmella – :
It’s exactly as plasticky as an actual big fresh juicy daffodil when you stick your nose in it in March. Somehow also a fairly wearable scent. Both interesting and lovely. Just understand what a daffodil really smells like before you pick this beauty up, because that’s what you’re getting!
dimas-OP – :
very realistic daffodils scent, warm and yellow and i can see why it can mean spring in a bottle to so many. i wouldn’t wear it myself, too much of a realistic flower for me.
alexey161 – :
Ostara is more than a fragrance. Ostara is an experience. Ostara is a time capsule, a witch’s spell that transforms a bland and dusty winter room to a bright green and dew kissed, loamy, early spring garden. Truly a magic carpet ride to springtime, no matter the time of year.
Hundreds of daffodils bloom in my garden every spring and many mornings find me sweater-clad, kneeling on damp grass to push my nose against blossom after blossom, inhaling deeply as every breath erases the memory of another gray winter day and clears space for spring in my lungs and soul.
While my mom is the soliflore fan in the family and I nearly always prefer the scent of a mixed bouquet, Ostara delights both of us. Curiously, to me Ostara is 100% cool daffodils sniffed outdoors so the overall floral scent includes a sharp, cold green and a damp, loamy aspect yet, improbably, warmed by beeswax and honey. My mom, the soliflore fan remember, smells a warm indoor bouquet of daffodil, hyacinth, lily, orange blossom and honey. I find it beautifully linear – all honey-sweetened daffodil from start to finish while she smiles through the blossoming of one floral after another.
Mom and I both get about 5 hours from 3-5 sprays and find the sillage moderate, that is, safe to wear just about anywhere at anytime of day or night, whether you’ll be in close quarters or not.
It’s beyond my comprehension why Penhaligon’s decided to discontinue this bit of God’s breath descending to bless the early days of spring. I’m grateful for my bottle and will add another before Ostara disappears.
tadas888 – :
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Like Wordsworth we are in the middle of the English landscape surrounded by daffodils, breathing fresh air on an April early morning.
The sky is clear but there’s a big cloud over us – is that the Poet?
The beautiful green opening that seems to transport us to the English countryside soon melts with the sweetness of the daffodils. It’s an ethereal sweetness, never cloying, never heavy, but light, untouchable. It’s sustained by wisteria and hyacinth and a distant hint of vanilla. It’s a maternal embrace, like the one Wordsworth had to miss almost all of his life. There’s a pensive feeling in the composition: without being sad or melancholic, it’s as if we were wandering among the grass, caressed by the air, immersed in Nature and away from any distress.
I love this composition as it captures more than olfactive sensations, it’s evocative, rich, multidimensional and utterly beautiful.
I do also love Wordsworth’s composition, but it would be impossible not to, would it?
The green of the grass, the watery breeze, the intense scent of the daffodils, all of this is captured in the bottle …. yes, Ostara is a poem more than a scent. Or, not only a scent but poetry as well.
MAGNIFICENT
invalidd – :
This is a very realistic narcissus scent. I love wearing it January/February time when I need reminding of spring. Sunny and yellow and lasts forever.
orgonavt – :
I was looking for a daffodil scent and I found it. The narcissus is there and there is a fresh dewy green stem smell as if you just cut daffodils from the yard. Perfect for a spring day spent outside. Dry down is very old lady musk after three hours.
levve – :
This perfume artiste has captured my two favorite seasons in two of his creations, and although I think we might quibble on which season black currants should be with on an aesthetic level for the first, the name Ostara says it all here.
Indeed, this is snapshot of the air at the equinox: earth damp from snow melt, the air thick with the scent newly-green things. Indeed, just like the season, this opens with green and daffodils, then works it’s way into Easter lilies and finally vanilla-honey as the scent evolves. It finishes a close, sunny skin scent, just as I like.
I cannot believe this only had a single year run. It is an absolute gem, and a truly gorgeous green floral wearable by those for whom those notes are wont to turn bitter, screechy or ‘old lady slip-drawer pomander’ It had already lived and died by the time it landed on my radar, and I am a bit a of a scent junkie with a backlog of things to try, so this house never even gave it chance.
jerfoplop – :
I was craving so much to try Ostara, as I love yellow flowers and now have I’ve received a decant from a swap. I was expecting something different, more in a way Ferre Essence d’eau. Narcissus plays a main rule but it s too waxy on my skin, too many notes bother: hyacinth, grass notes…I smell even roten vegetable.
I do respect a creation with so many fans, but it just doesn’play right on my skin. I suggest testing before purchasing.
Edit April 18: Another try to love it in spring:a big NO, at proper wearing with 5 sprays it’s animalic and just… I won’t use that Word not to offend lovers of Ostara. 10 ml decant is available.
TopHaqo – :
Floral – earthy – woodsy
Color impression: sun yellow
Ostara is full appreciation to April – as the title underlines on Easter eve. It opens and demonstrates super-naturalist floralcy with intense and wet-soil-like carbonated greenness which I repulse at first, but then this ugly worm shifts to a mesmerizing butterfly!
A refined, modest and pure floral ambiance composed of narcissus, heliotrope and ylang ylang and strengthen by beeswax and aldehydes comes up and triggers my imagination. It’s like Renoir canvases and Tchaikovsky. Just perfect, delicate and elegant.
★★★★★
tanusha_fly – :
Penhaligon’s Ostara has become a sought after unicorn since its discontinuation a few years ago. I have always loved the scent of daffodils, ever since I was a child. I eagerly awaited the opportunity to test Penhaligon’s Ostara which was said to be inspired by these beautiful Spring flowers.
The opening notes certainly do resemble the scent of daffodils, with the buttery-sweetness that I so fondly recall from my youth. Unfortunately the daffodil aroma is fairly short-lived as Ostara is far more complex than just the scent of daffodils.
Penhaligon’s Ostara maintains its sweetness by adding notes of beeswax, vanilla, benzoin, ylang ylang and hyacinth. The overall blend is both creamy and inadvertently lush. It would make a lovely Spring fragrance and an even prettier Summer evening scent.
I am still on the hunt for my holy grail daffodil scent, but I do not regret my decision in testing Ostara. It’s one Penhaligon’s fragrance that deserves to remain part of their permanent line-up. If the positive reviews are anything to go by I actually don’t know why they discontinued it in the first place.
orgatsreern – :
I bought Ostara blind after reading up a lot on it, and I am in complete love! I typically stick to darker scents, but there are some green florals that break the rule. This is a very lifelike, fresh, sunny narcissus fragrance. I cannot get enough of it.
ibilchenko – :
I could get a used bottle of Ostara even if it is discontinued. It’s at alternatively green, floral, slightly smoky and creamy and woody. It has a lot of evolution. It’s much much deeper than other more simple spring flowers perfumes. I enjoy it very much and I even find some stages of it really fascinating (the first hour is absolutely gorgeous). It is not a beast of a perfume but it is not weak either. You will smell it on your skin at the end of the day if you applied in the morning. On me, the woody creamy base even resisted a shower. It projects just as it should, creating a small cloud for just you to enjoy without disturbing people. Beautiful perfume
boom777 – :
This is lovely! A yellow floral with depth and sweetness. Yes, it is a bit peppery. Narcissus and hyacinth and wisteria and ylang. In the base it is completely a dry Easter lily. So perfect.
tiredofl1fe – :
I was very happy to get a 100ml bottle from this discontinued fragrance. It opens with Easter Narcissus but dries down to a kind of pepper spray. It’s not listed but I detect black pepper.
lordorc – :
An absolutely stunning creation. Very sorry it has been discontinued, but I bought a 3.3oz bottle so hopefully I’m set for a long while.
If you grew up in the North where winters are brutal and spring is quite a celebration this fragrance is likely to be nostalgic. It smells like a Northern spring, the flowers are all there, mixed up together with dew and cool breezes.
The scent is heavy with pollen, very rich. It’s undeniably floral, but the drydown is more than floral, though I can’t really identify exactly what is mixed in there. Daffodil really is the star here, but there’s hints of all sorts of other flowers, the whole garden gets in on the fun.
The bottle is very simple and retro, the box is gorgeous. And I love that the name harkens back to ancient celtic rites of spring. It’s the perfect name for a fragrance that absolutely smells like spring. What better to name something like this?
Update after a couple weeks of wear. This is still lovely as ever but I think the drydown has become my favorite part. The opening is like sticking your face right into a patch of blooming narcissus it is so realistic. But the drydown is far more evocative. You know those wet spring days where you go for a walk, and the air is cool and breezy. And on that breeze there is this lovely sweet fresh floral scent? You can’t quite tell where it’s coming from but you find yourself breathing deeply, totally enchanted? That’s Ostara’s drydown. 🙂
Adic7 – :
In the midst of the winter blues, I reached for Ostara.
A discontinued Narcissus fragrance that kept creeping up in my searches. I love narcissus fragrances, and can wear them well. It opens with a mandarin juniper freshness supported by aldehydes to give it an airy lift, but make no mistake these arent your vintage aldehydes. Soon the green current bud and violet leaf take over with the narcissus beginning to bloom, then hyacinth, and wisteria. The ylang and beeswax adds a thick honeyed creamyness to everything so in essence it boarders on a very exquisite soft floral gourmand from its mid to end. The honeyed beeswax, amber, vanilla and benzoin keep this plush and sweet.
The white musk could have been toned down and echoes much like it does for Carnal Flower and Stephane Humbert 777 Generation Femme. I wish perfumers would scale back on this with the cashmeran wood accord as its so dominating to a fragrance. On me, its mostly linear with a good majority coming up at me at once.
Ostara manages to bottle the warmth and optimism of spring when the air is more crisp and the daffodils (id say paperwhites) herald the beginning of spring. A definite mood lifter, and optimistic perfume. A great fantasy narcissus. Perfect to chase away the blues.
Especially for:
Narcissus fans
Experiences in a bottle
Sweet, creamy floral fans
Remember in dealing with Narcissus, less is more.
Over spray can lead to headaches and nausea.
Daveffd3yqw – :
I really liked the opening of this fragrance – it’s a super fresh and authentic, realistic and natural flower smell, which I prefer to a concentrated, artificial flower smell that I get from a lot of floral perfumes. I’m not really a fan of florals because of this, and it’s also why I appreciated the opening of this one, and it’s also the reason I like Cartier Baiser Vole. I did not, however, like the dry down of this. I guess I don’t like the beeswax and/or the resin – it was an icky kind of sweetish smell on me. If you are like me and you like the opening of this better, try Chanel No. 22 if you haven’t already. The dry down of 22 smells very much like the opening of Ostara to me.
eph303speagoessenda – :
The sun is shining! Fresh cut grass, a cool breeze, the warm sun, and mostly.. Daffodils and dandelions! What a beautiful scent. I am in love. Such a hyper realistic yellow floral.
Ostara is the essence of spring, bottled. It reminds me very strongly of the green smell you are overwhelmed with while walking through gardening centers, or even just huge and well kept gardens.. Maybe even ripping up dandelions and grass as a kid..
So gorgeous. An absolute staple and must have in my collection. One I recommened all floral lovers atleast sample.
mijsh – :
I have been testing Ostara from a roller ball, with a little at neck and wrist. It immediately strikes me as a yellow floral fragrance that stays close to the skin with little or no projection, even on first application. I am aware that this could be partly due to the method of application, and that sprayed, rolled and dabbed samples of the same fragrance can smell very different.
It certainly reminds me of daffodils, but not strongly. It is more like sniffing a forced early daffodil that has been refrigerated overnight in a florist’s shop and hasn’t had time to recover, rather than the beautiful scent of daffodils freshly picked from a sunny spring garden. Almost the ghost of a daffodil… Perhaps Ostara also needs a warm sunny day to shine. Today, in the middle of a British winter, there is no sun and the air is damp and chill. Not really a day for daffodils
After about four hours the main yellowness has faded away, leaving a creamy, musky, slightly sweet skin scent. It is pleasant, and I can just smell it on myself without actually sniffing my wrist, but it is not the most interesting of drydowns. I think I need to test this one again in the spring, when it will have a chance to do itself justice.
gromotuh – :
When I first sprayed it,the smell reminded me of some kind of yellow chewing gum with cinnamon and/or mint. Within seconds,it was all about dry and sweet yellow pollen as well as powdery yellow flowers in my mind. Yellow is written all over this perfume.
It was a familiar scent from the first spray, but as time passed by,I was more and more convinced about my feelings toward it. Yes,this is the unknown odor that I have always hated and couldn’t stand on other people! I’m pretty sure that there are other perfumes with the same smell as this one out there. It is officially torture for me; makes me gag and gives me headache and bad vibes due to the animalic beeswax note. I have washed it off twice so far and it has still stuck to my skin. Very long lasting!
It is the second time that Penhaligon’s house shows me its animalic chemical face!
AstaAvada – :
I have never been much of a springtime scent girl, with the exception of vintage Vent Vert. But this was a surprise. Thank you, Kafkaesque and Bois de Jasmin blogs.
It is rich spring. Deep, deep spring. Ungiddy, almost solemn, reverent spring– the spring you greet on bended knee. I never especially noticed the scent of daffodils before, but now I realize I was missing a lot.
What I like best about Ostara is it smells completely real.
So often in some other fragrances there is tinniness somewhere, a rattling. Correctly or not, I have always believed that’s caused by using a cheaper molecule (or two or seven) than the composer might have liked.
Whereas on some really high-end new BMW and Mercedes cars (for example), the doors shut with a thonk as perfect as a single musical note. You know endless engineering went into it and that the thonk is comprised of hundreds of expensive elements, and yet you hear just the one unique sound.
So it is with Ostara. It is seamlessly lovely. And, again, deep and rich; always the daffodil theme, but never boring. It is one of those scents that make you marvel at the perfumer’s genius, because the idea is so simple, and yet the execution is breathtaking.
Update at 18 April 2017: the long drydown is just magnificent. Beautiful. What an evolution from beginning to end, over hours and hours and hours.
Igorrr74 – :
full froral …
She is yellow spring garden
КЕША – :
tempting to recall Wordsworth’s famous poem or to tell you that yellow is my all time favourite colour.
i happen to live in the same area as Wordsworth (don’t be too in awe, it rains virtually every single day here in The Lake District, Cumbria.
Plus my home was flooded last December and the insurers still haven’t set the builders to work on it!) i digress.
oh what the heck….
“I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.”
on initial spray, Ostara is a host of daffodils on a Spring day flowering outside my house on the Green, where we hang our washing and have neighbourly chats.
i was sitting outside my house this March, waiting for the loss adjuster, when i first tested this scent. the chest deep water in December must have washed around a few seeds. primroses and double headed narcissi scattered from their pots, seeded in between pebbles, bursting from the layer of nutritious dirt the flood water behind. yellow is all over. My front door is yellow and apparently has been since folk can remember.
Ostara smells of Daffodils, their thick green stems, therefore it smells of Spring. oh joy, oh rapture. oh yellow. The Hyacinth comes next (it does in the garden) Wisteria later, when the daffodils are pretty much past their best.
now i didn’t enjoy the dry down the first few times i wore this, but then i got it. the dafs on the village green, they don’t last for long and i am as equally sad when they wither as i was rapturous when they nodded to the start of Spring. Yes they died, but Summer’s coming, with its warmth, its amber sun as the kids come in for their tea. The golden start of something else altogether, the blossoming of everything all bathed in light here in Cumbria.
The dry down is the summer night, honeyed, viscous and warm, but you know what, Ostara is always Yellow.
I love it, but wonder as i stroll down the street, whether i smell marginally floristy. But who cares? i don’t. i am yellow, like the Sun, the Spring, smiley faces and my home.
atu336bedyWelty – :
Love this so much! Fresh fields of daffodils, I imagine acres of them growing in The Netherlands when I wear this. It’s the whole flower, stem, leaves, petals and pollen. An oustanding yellow floral with great sillage and longevity. Alas, hard to find in US now, except at greatly inflated prices. Penhaligon’s Rockefeller Center shop told me it has been discontinued. I found a great deal at Penhaligon’s UK website, but my debit card was declined due to “The Patriot Act”. OMG! Well, maybe next spring…..
vif910Negeltzex – :
I just randomly found this fragrance in Barcelona, and I can tell you exactly what it smells like: the Sharry Baby orchid, also known as the chocolate orchid.
I can see where there are echoes of daffodils in there, but if you ever smell that orchid, you will agree with me. I’ve been wearing it for a couple of hours now, and it still smells exactly like the orchid!
Loddediarie – :
4/10
foxi22 – :
Hi folks,
If, like me, you read descriptions and reviews on here when you see a bargain in T.K. Maxx which you can’t have a smell of, please let me help you.
I would totally recommend that you try to have a smell of this one before you buy it.
I read reviews on here and blind bought it.
I don’t want to sound mean but phwoar! I really wasn’t a fan. Perhaps this particular bottle was “off” but to me it smelt like vinegar-y tyres! Rubber and vinegar in an unholy alliance!
For all you fans out there though, it’s in a lot of T.K.Maxx stores in East and Central London, going pretty cheap!!
Ded Pichto – :
I was sent a sample of this by a lovely Fragrantica member.
The initial spray made me gag. There was something so green and bitter in it that it turned my stomach. I’m not sure what note it was that caused this. I’m positive it isn’t the aldehydes as I am a fan of them in other perfumes.
Even though it turned my stomach a bit, I could appreciate how true to life this smelled. It smells just like you are outside after the rain, smelling a bunch of daffodils. When the initial bitter notes faded away, I was left with a sweetish smelling bouquet of flowers. It isn’t overly candy sweet, but it helps to counter the sharpness.
When I tested Bluebells, I had the same reaction to the sharp, bitter, topnotes. As with Bluebells, Ostara is drying down to a very nice perfume. I’m not sure if I would purchase a full bottle, as the opening is just a bit too much.
janiesr – :
British springtime in a bottle! Daffodils, so freshly picked that you can smell the juice from the stems ( wisteria?), gloriously sunny morning vibe about it. Silage excellent, longevity excellent, I wore this to go to a morning medical appointment today, I sat looking around the gloomy waiting room and suddenly got a waft of a bouquet of flowers, I looked around for the vase containing it and then realised I was wearing it!
Raduga – :
Love it. Discontinued. Damn.
kirillrgspn – :
She’s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stared too long
I’d probably break down and cry
Imagine the most flirtatious fine woman, a woman with beautiful lips and a smile that drives you crazy. A woman that you have the world’s biggest crush on. The woman that you try to chase but may never have. This woman has hair that you would like to drown in. The woman with the perfect curves and body. The woman that gazes at you and makes your heart skip a beat. This woman isn’t a woman but an elegant lady. This lady smells of Ostara.
A moment of silence for this magnificent fragrance please. This fragrance is as emotional as they get.
Peace.
mdz182elipseskism – :
Different. Unique. Kafkaesque and Bois de Jasmin have comprehensively reviewed Ostara with my experience being closer to Kafka’s than Victoria’s. She gave Ostara 5 stars; such bounty, from a fully trained perfumer and critic that it behoves us to examine Ostara as potentially great. I am bothered by the musk in the mid phase, as is Kafka, but overall it is a charming fragrance with a soaring opening. Imagine a perfect spring day, a fresh breeze on a hilltop, the grass a little too long and daffodils swinging their heads at the edges of a pond. You begin to run, kite in hand, and the heady scent of the grass mixes with the remaining headless narcissi stems. Up she goes and you stand to gain control, feeling the kite dip and surge higher. You smile broadly, compelled to by the sun on your face, eyes creased at the glare, and realise that you are giggling, no, gurgling, with pleasure.
LOLO66 – :
Ostrara is a dream on my skin. I get narcissi, then hyacyth, then wisteria, and fresh greenery. I don’t pick up the listed sharp notes at the top. I do eventually perceive vanilla and a little amber but the spring flowers never completely go. Ostrava is going on my wish list.
1526015v – :
It is not a perfume for me but rather a room ambiance fragrance. I cannot imagine to waer it on myself. The scent is not bad but does not really resembles to a perfume. It’s more like presious oil scent rather than eau de toilette. In no way it is a fresh fragrance. Maybe only in the beginning but with the time becomes too heavy and intense for my liking. I put it on clothes today but several hours later it was just too much. My husband said that it resembles to funeral flowers and slightly outdated. I do not think so but cannot keep it as a perfume. And it is too expensive to keep it as a room ambiance fragrance.
иван евтухов – :
One of the best soliflores of late. If course this concoction, being a masterpiece of the Great Master Msr Duchauffour himself, is an intricate and skillfully interwoven fabric of everything floral and spring: you have the “broken tulip stems” moment, the woodsy-ylang-ylang one, the sharp and bitter green one, the aldehydic-hyacinth, the fresh and paper mache vanillic wafer moment, and everything else that conjures up the olfactory picture and expectation of an egg-yolk yellow burst of sunshine that we are currently experiencing here in London.
I remember when it was released last year, I was so desperate and yearning for its launch, but it came too late in the year, meaning all daffs had already gone by the time it was ready for the market.
This year I can fully indulge in being on time and in season and it is so wonderful! There is also a slightly medicinal note in there that reminds me of my early childhood visits to the “Reformhaus” in Germany (a mixture of Holland & Barret meets pharmacy), where my mother would reward me for good behaviour with some honey-herbal lozenges or some wafer fingers full of organic berry paste.
Concluding, this is a very poetic release, meaning you feel as if you are in an old exhibition place of the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) on a cold and stormy, typical unpredictable London weather day with recitals and book signings as it is that sophisticated.
It is somewhat sharp but not unpleasantly so, as there is enough vanilla-papery-waffle-esque sweetness without any cloying.
It is just an ode to the humble daffodil that is such a hero in bringing this charming dash of lovely yellow onto the lawns, the meadows, the forrest peripheries, the flowerbeds, the gardens all over the country.
OSTARA I love you forever and unconditionally!
A ‘solifleur’ masterpiece and a text book example of what abstract perfumery with lyrical content really is meant to be
10/10. Leaning towards the XX but can be easily worn by a charming (if slightly dandy inspired) XY.
romzik_14) – :
My narcissus hunt is keep going on…
If I wouldn’t have already got another faaar too similar combination from Duchaufour – Seville a l’aube and Onde Sensualle – I would be hooked, but..I recognised absolutely same trick-note combination that bring this spicy loud bewitching night-flowery accord, based on Juniper, beeswax, benzoin and-ylang-ylang this time. Its far too similar with those two, more like each is an interpretation of the previous one and for full narcissus satisfaction it must run a ten thousand miles yet…Don’t get me wrong, I adore Duchaufour and would get Ostara FB for good price anyway, but it is not that amazing narcisse I am after. Green flowery ylang-ylang. Instead of narcisse name u can put hyacinth, neroli or jasmine with tuberose , – beautiful , but not there…
mokiea – :
Fresh, uplifting…..all of spring in a bottle. Impossible to be down in the dumps wearing this!
moinnaGainouh – :
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