If you are looking for a sweet orange fragrance, not an orange blossom, check out the new MARC JACOBS ORANGE 
Additionally, since his splashes dissipate so quickly, you would want to spritz more often, so you would need a larger bottle than you are accustomed to.
Orange Splash is a fruity floral with top notes of bergamot, mandarin, neroli and tamarind; mid notes of water mint, freesia and white rose; and a dry down of moss, tonka bean amber, musk and blonde woods.
My first thought when I sampled this in Nordstroms, then spritzed again in SAKs, was that I wasn't sure if it stayed sweet or not. I'm not interested in orange blossom at all, as that is strictly a scrubber on me in whichever brand I have tried it, though some are worse than others. I also wondered if it had that masculine strain that I find not-so-happy to wear. I decided not to buy it until I had tried it again, even though I really like sweet orange fragrances. I went home with a sample from Nordstroms.
My second try was yesterday, without any other spritzes that I had tried the first time when I had sampled my way through my own individual sniffa, trying out as many new ones as they had that I thought I might like after spraying a card.
The second time it stayed sweet.
I think it is the mint underneath that is keeping it somewhat green. There isn't enough of the base notes for me to smell any mossy, woody or ambery or tonka bean dry down. That I would have particularly liked. If I had wanted to jazz up the orange, I would have simply spritzed again.
I'm wearing it again as I type. I dunno, I'd have to try it again to see if I felt it were FBW. So far, it is in the iffy range.
I think it is a perfectly adequate and lovely fragrance if you didn't already have sweet oranges and if you particularly like mint. Somehow the combination on me is almost, but not quite, an orange blossom.
Karin
Originally posted 2007-04-21 13:39:49.
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