Description
It softens other materials, appeases tensions between musk, woody and floral notes, and makes perfume blends
light as clouds… Since the early 1990s, “the transparent woody-ambery odor of Iso E Super has shaped and defined modern perfumery like hardly any other material,” writes the fragrance chemist Philip Kraft. With Orbitone®,
Takasago offers a sophisticated, surprisingly textured version of this indispensable molecule.
Orbits are the result of a perfect balance between momentum and gravity. And in Orb_ital, Patricia Choux has brilliantly used the balancing qualities of her star molecule to create a new fragrant planetary system. Violet and rhubarb; pepper, cedar and roast coffee; tobacco, smoke, and a whiff of struck match… Of the many facets spinning around Orbitone® the perfumer has picked pepper as the main force of attraction. The spice’s cool-hot burn acts from top to base notes in Orb_ital, exerting its pull on a creamy sandalwood compound, Takasago’s Hindinol®, anchored by sacred olibanum.
Orb-ital was launched in 2015.
sodrx – :
This one doesn’t do it for me. The raw materials used smell cheap especially the sandalwood. Speaking of sandalwood that’s about all I smell along with the incense and a maybe a little Olibanum. I don’t get any violets, coffee or amber and tobacco. Unfortunately I get excellent longevity and projection. So much so that I will have to scrub this stuff off unless I want to smell it all day long, which I don’t. I like the packaging though, very clever how the sample pack was created. Hopefully the other samples will smell better than this.
Meeex796elipseskism – :
I like this fragrance a lot, I prefer the Adr-ett which I always get compliments when wearing, not sure why people complain about the lack of presence as I do not have that problem, I prefer when I am told I smell good when people are closer to me, I actually don’t like people to comment that they knew I was here because my fragrance is taking over the whole building. I think this line of fragrances is great for office wear and I love the bottles and packaging.
Angelina_fromAD – :
It’s very thin!
I wonder if this stays on skin more than 10 minutes! This is Violets & a slight angelic with a kind of softly amber & a tiny essence of coffee.
The cedar, Incense, & tobacco mix up and produces a weird dirty blend added to the mix above.
This juice turns from something to another different thing within 3 to 5 minutes time! & produces something quite disturbing to my nose! and i guess it’s the harshness of the kind of tobacco chosen and the burnt coffee. till this stage it’s a huge no for me.
ilya 25 – :
I smiled at chridela’s review because I feel like they were really pushing this line at Aedes de Venustas and I almost did the same thing, buying this one. Thankfully, I read up on Orbi-tal and realized that it is too similar to Molecule 1 and I already own that and never use it. I also liked one of the other Nomenclatures but they all really suffer from the same thing, a lack of performance.
maan – :
I bought this fragrance in June this summer, at Aedes de Venustas when I visited NYC for Pride march and Morrissey concert at MSG. The perfume is associated with awesome memories which bias my review. I had gone to ADV to buy Costes, ADV original EDP and Baum du Doge and to my surprise they were out of all three! So I was open to trying the new fragraces from Nomenclature. Orbital was my favorite. It is a subtly woody fragrance. Very reminiscent of Molecule 01 in that one can barely smell anything! I don’t get coffee. I wish I could get some rhubarb out of the scent but I can’t. I put 8 sprays and no one can tell I am wearing anything. What’s with that? For this reason I regret to say I cannot recommend it. I do, however, love the bottle and sprayer and the packaging is cool. I honestly thought that it would come to life on skin and went ahead and bought a full bottle on a gamble. I have tested it extensively while the scent is ok, the performance is appauling. 4/10 (but good scent memories!)