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English Oak & Hazelnut Jo Malone 2017

7.7 / 10 208 Ratings

A popular perfume by Jo Malone for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-green. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Woody

Green

Fresh

Spicy

Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Cedarwood

Green hazelnut

Roasted oak

Elemi resin Moss

Moss

Vetiver

Perfumer

Yann Vasnier

Ratings

Scent

7.7208 Ratings

Longevity

7.2175 Ratings

Sillage

6.6177 Ratings

Bottle

7.7168 Ratings

Value for money

6.783 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 11/14/2025.

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/03/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

2

An elegant woody haiku

English Oak and Hazelnut is one of the most generic-smelling things in my collection but also one of the most mindlessly pleasant. It is the only Jo Malone fragrance I have ever bought, and even then it took me almost a full year to pull the trigger. To be honest, I still experience a pang of regret when it first hits my skin, where it is all bright, fresh woods and enough Iso E Super to sanitize a men’s locker room. For a moment, I fear I have made a rod for my own back.

But the sparseness of the structure is, for once, a design feature and not the result of the lazy, cost-cutting ‘minimalism’ that is Jo Malone’s special con. English Oak and Hazelnut is an elegantly designed haiku. The secret lies in a note that smells like a freshly stripped oak, its silvery sap running down the bark and mixing with the volatile wood vapors fizzing in the chill air.

The aroma this creates is dry and sour, but not so parched that it wicks the moisture out of your nostrils and not so sharp that all you taste is the prickle of tannins at the back of your throat. It is austere without whipping out the hair shirt. Yet, it is definitely not one of those modern niche affairs that disguises the essentially plain plankiness of wood by ladling on the booze or cream or sugar. The hazelnut note, which emerges later, lends a dry-roasted character to the oak, but zero warmth or creaminess. English Oak and Hazelnut says ‘deep winter’ and ‘birch trees’ and ‘stark light’ to me as surely as Chêne (Lutens) and Them (Neandertal), and any perfume that brings its own atmosphere is one that earns its spot.

11/14/2025

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

frmvar
8 Reviews

frmvar

2

No Hazelnut, but a very nice freshly-cut Oak

Opening: Very pleasant and complex, but subsides quickly. Herbaceous, fresh, woody, yet not dark at all.

Development: The fragrance quickly settles into a stable and somewhat flat, yet very pleasant and photorealistic cedar note, rounded out by what I perceive as “freshly cut” oak, reminiscent of a young oak barrel. As the fragrance dries down, it gradually becomes more spicy and develops a stronger dark oak character. Surprisingly, in the drydown, I suddenly detect a white-wine note, perhaps due to associations with barrel-aged wines.

Performance: The top notes fade very quickly, but the rest of the perfume remains quite stable for the 3-6 hours it lasts on the skin. After about three hours, the fragrance becomes relatively faint on my skin, and sadly, its performance and quality on textiles are not able to compensate. I would expect better performance from such a woody fragrance, but perhaps that’s difficult to achieve while preserving this “fresh” and almost “green”

08/10/2017

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

DonJuanDeCat
2046 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 23

I Am a Tree!

I was out and about with the Turquoise ones again recently, and as usual, my first stop was the Jo Malone stand. By now, I know the saleswomen there, but I visit so often that they probably don’t get excited to see me every time; they must be rolling their eyes thinking, “Argh, HIM again!” *sniff* (I’m not paranoid, I know EXACTLY that they think that!! :D)

But I’m really as sweet and lovable as a cat! Or am I?? *sigh* But no, of course, they don’t believe me. Could it be because I constantly offend everyone here?? It’s all meant with love, since I like you all!! Well, then just don’t believe me… tsss… you idiots!
:DD

But maybe it’s also because I’ve asked the Jo Malone girls too often if one of the new fragrances had arrived yet… something like this:

Day 1:
Me: Is the new fragrance here?
Saleswoman: No!

Day 2:
Me: Is the new fragrance here today?
Saleswoman: Still not!

Day 3:
Me: What’s the situation today?
Saleswoman: Nothing!

Day 4:
Me: You know why I’m here!
Saleswoman: *sigh* … yes, unfortunately…

But recently, the fragrances were finally there, so the saleswomen breathed a sigh of relief when I, the pest, showed up again! Well,… you know, I have to stick my nose into everything!
And I must say that I found the new fragrance, at least this one (there’s also the English Oak and Redcurrant), quite wonderful; the waiting (and the annoying questioning) was somehow worth it after all!

The Fragrance:

The fragrance starts interestingly different, both for a Jo Malone fragrance and in general, because how often do you smell greenish-woody hazelnuts so authentically as here? It’s almost as if these nuts were lying in front of you, still wrapped in their green leaves. The scent is very interesting and also pleasantly wonderful!
Over time, the cedarwood begins to take effect. It initially stays behind the hazelnuts but becomes stronger and stronger over time, especially in the base, where its distinctive scent is quite easy to identify. The oak also becomes more pronounced, but overall it remains very much behind the cedarwood; however, the roasted note, if I perceive it correctly, gives the woody scent a quite distinctive, beautiful touch. Viewed this way, the fragrance is actually very simple, as it remains so the whole time and practically doesn’t change anymore.

The Sillage and Longevity:

The projection is okay, but I imagined it to be a bit stronger, especially since it has become more of an autumn fragrance for me and could therefore project more strongly.
The longevity, on the other hand, is better, as you can still perceive the fragrance on the skin after eight hours.

The Bottle:

The bottle is the same as the countless other non-limited fragrances from Jo Malone. This means it is rectangular, high-quality, and filled with clear/yellowish fragrance liquid. The cap is chrome-plated and round or dome-shaped. On the front, there is a large label where the name and logo are printed. A nice bottle, but as often, also quite simple. Minimalists or opponents of overly playful designs will certainly like it much more.

As mentioned at the beginning, I found the fragrance quite wonderful. The green woody notes are very interesting and also something that at least I don’t often get to smell. The individual (and few) fragrance notes are quite authentic, as if you actually had, for example, the hazelnuts or acorns (botanical acorns, of course,… not the ends of, well,… male members :D Who knows what you all think… :DD) in front of you.

The fragrance is quite woody and, in my opinion, has turned out to be quite masculine rather than unisex. Okay, you technically smell like a tree! But like a beautiful, nicely scented tree! A sexy tree, so to speak… yes, laugh all you want, but there are people who actually marry trees and feel sexually attracted to these plants… it’s called dendrophilia, and I swear, that’s actually a technical term and not a term from the fantasy genre or something,… tss, just because I sometimes have a nerdy side, everyone surely thinks I’m throwing around various fantasy terms like dendroids (tree beings) :D

Let’s continue: Aside from the green beginning, the fragrance actually seems like a base note from the start, as you usually smell such woody fragrances in the base of a scent. For me, English Oak & Hazelnut has become a beautiful autumn fragrance, but it’s also still usable in spring. It’s a bit too autumnal for summer due to all the woods, and for winter, it’s a bit too weak in terms of sillage. Usable as a daytime fragrance, but perhaps, as is known from Jo Malone, it can be layered with other fragrances; that would require some experimentation! Which means I’ll have to visit the Jo Malone stand quite often… oh dear, oh dear, they will hate me there!

Hmm… and I just see that three new, limited Jo Malones have been listed here on Parfumo… well, then I’ll annoy those girls again by asking when these fragrances will be released :D

05/04/2018

7Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

loewenherz
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loewenherz

Top Review 27

The Wild Swans

One of my favorites (as it is both one of the most lyrical and dramatic) fairy tales - whose motif exists in slightly altered forms in many variations worldwide - is that of the only sister of many brothers, who are transformed into birds by a curse - and only that sister can free them from this curse by performing a task that is as difficult as it is time-consuming. In the version by the Brothers Grimm - alongside that of Hans Christian Andersen, the most popular here - an evil queen transforms the sons from her husband's first marriage into swans. The curse can only be broken if their youngest sister makes a shirt from star flowers for each of them (in Andersen's version, from nettles), during which she is not allowed to speak. In the end, the swans will save their sister from burning to death on the pyre - and because she was not quite finished, the youngest of them will keep a swan wing on his back.

The fairy tale of the princess and her brothers, who are cursed into wild swans, takes place largely in dark forests - whether Germany, Denmark, or England is almost irrelevant - where the princess searches at the foot of tall trees for those star flowers from which she must weave the swan shirts. They are impenetrable and untouched, dark forests - but neither gloomy nor eerie. While reading, I always imagined her barefoot and in light, thorn-tattered dresses wandering over sun-drenched moss, a basket with the precious burden in her arm. How she sits in the pale moonlight at the fork of an ancient oak, working the delicate stems of the flowers into a fabric - full of concentration and calm, but without sadness or bitterness. And the scent of this quiet work - the echoes of the northern forests, the enchanted swans, and the shirts made of star flowers can be found in Jo Malone's English Oak & Hazelnut.

A bit misleading is its name, as it does not have hazelnut in the sense of 'Nutella' - even though the 'green hazelnut' listed in its ingredients already reveals that. Instead, there is a hint of honey or even beeswax - and fine roasted aromas like that of sun-scorched wood, which then darken and mature - in a typically Jo Malone medium intensity. There is the sun-warmed moss, the tiny white star flowers, the rustling oak leaves in the wind - perhaps even the beating of swan feathers over a distant lake. Despite cedar and its inherently southern quality, English Oak & Hazelnut is not a Mediterranean scent, as it lacks macchia and pine resin. Instead, it features bright summer woods. Wild strawberries. Golden moss and dry pine cones.

Conclusion: Nordic-mystical summer forest essence. Without Nutella. But with enchanted swan princes and shirts made of star flowers.

10/15/2020

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Pinkdawn
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Pinkdawn

Top Review 20

Brother Oak?

He loves autumn hikes in the woods, cold air, smoke … Yann Vasnier seems almost predestined with these preferences to create a modern autumn fragrance.

My fondness for good, natural wood notes led me to Jo Malone's "English Oak & Hazelnut." The idea of creating a fragrance from English oak and hazelnuts fascinated me.

The reviews also piqued my curiosity. Wood, but with green - I found that exciting and new. That some associate the scent more with a British country nobleman in tweed and perceive it as masculine, I naturally pushed aside.

What mattered to me was the olfactory experience of oak and hazelnuts. Although it should be green hazelnuts. That sounded interesting. What do green hazelnuts and English oaks smell like? I tried to remember. The old hazel bush in my grandmother's garden in Hamburg. When I was there in the summer, the hazelnuts were not yet ripe, but they were already clearly visible. Fresh and light green, they grew on the branches and seemed to get bigger every day. However, I never sniffed them.

When I thought of the oak, I recalled hikes and encounters with venerable, ancient oaks that were so old that one specifically traveled or hiked to see them. Then you would sit next to or under them, trying to feel their energy, perhaps making contact with the unimaginably old tree soul, and imagining what this tree has experienced. These were often awe-inspiring moments. I had never perceived a specific oak scent, of course. Just the usual earthy freshness that these trees exude. But Yann Vasnier has probably sniffed out more with his trained nose.

During my research on EOH, I learned that it is not fresh but roasted oak wood. Hm. Does this mean that oaks must die for this fragrance, or do they settle for carpentry waste or cut branches?

Whatever the case. Perfume is always an illusion as long as you don't know it. The scent brings you back to reality. To iris, gentian, lavender, jasmine, roses, and many other plants that must also give their lives for the extraction of a natural fragrance oil, just like various livestock for our nutrition, if it is not vegan.

As for the roasted oak wood, it is obtained from wood chips that are washed and then roasted at high temperatures, I read. This procedure is supposed to produce a rich, smoky-sweet aroma.

EOH had been on my wish list for a while when an opportunity arose to purchase a small bottle in the souk. Autumn was just around the corner - why wait any longer?
I had, on one hand, some illusory ideas about the scent, but on the other hand, no concrete expectations. Has EOH met my demands?

According to the fragrance pyramid, the scent begins with green hazelnuts. In the heart note, aromatic cedar wood is primarily present. Only later, in the base, does the proud oak make its appearance.

The scent starts green and woody. This is not a big surprise for me. Rather, it is the almost alcoholically sharp freshness that becomes noticeable upon spraying. The green notes announce themselves with a restrained, natural sweetness.

At first, the scent feels refreshing, but for me, it is nonetheless a distinctly autumn fragrance that reflects what one might smell during an autumn walk in the countryside on a blue-skied day at the end of October. What is it? Wood, above all. The star is the oak.

Wood in a leading role in a fragrance is quite rare. Usually, wood notes are found only in the base, at best in the heart note. But here, the wood scent is present from the very beginning - spicy, robust, natural, and elegant. It is sophisticated that fresh green notes accompany it. This makes it a rather light, cheerful, cozy, and yet elegant autumn fragrance that no one needs to fear. Those who associate earthy patchouli and mystical smoke with autumn will not find it here. Everything is sunny and decidedly easy-going. I suspect that elemi is at play, known as a "light-bringing" resin. It contains woody-citrusy elements and - really only - a hint of incense.

The oak or its toasted chips create the illusion of an impressive, large tree still in leaf.

The freshness gradually takes on a soft, almost creamy quality, but never gourmand. Instead, nuances reminiscent of vetiver and earthy moss seem to emerge.
I could imagine that Iso-E-Super is also mixing in a bit. Because the scent lives a little from contradictions. This makes it varied and exciting. For example, I couldn't now decide whether the scent is soft, warm, and cozy or rather cool. It changes. Likewise, we have a perfume here that is both modern and classic, cosmopolitan and down-to-earth.

In terms of structure, the scent resembles the oak tree: The progression is clearly linear after a relatively short top note. This is also the strength of EOH for me. It is an aromatic, very natural, lightweight, dry wood scent with accents of forest and moss. It seems to have nothing chemical or "perfumy." A scent like a handshake, honest, trustworthy, mature, and cultivated. It contains only a few perceivable notes, which, however, suggest high-quality ingredients, giving it an impressive simplicity. The solid longevity and sillage also speak for the excellent quality. At this price, of course, that is a given.

If one really wants, one can sniff out wilderness and adventure. I think more of tweed, British country gentry, solidity, and understatement. That might not be entirely my world. I would have wished for more depth, something like nature magic, perhaps a tiny secret, a scent that corresponds to the wonderful landscape descriptions of the barren, late autumn moors and heaths in J. R. Tolkien's works. That would have been it. But here I encounter more of a jovial, rosy-cheeked country squire on horseback, comfortably managing his extensive estate.

So this is what comes out when a Frenchman creates a fragrance for an Englishman, with the English oak at its center. Does it differ from the German, Austrian, or French oak?

EOH is a good fragrance with innovative, original traits. And I find it interesting that it is an autumn fragrance that manages not to be earthy-dark and foggy. On the other hand, we, at least I, are sustainably influenced by the mystical autumn clichés. I am impressed that they do not exist here, but I admit: I miss them a bit. I will certainly enjoy wearing this fragrance, but I won’t repurchase it because it is too masculine, simple, and straightforward for me. There are surely women for whom this spicy, robust scent suits them well. I think of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. However, I am a completely different type of woman ...

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