Ô de Lancôme Lancôme 1969 Eau de Toilette

Ô de Lancôme (Eau de Toilette) by Lancôme

Bottle Design:
Serge Mansau

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7.3 / 10 286 Ratings

A perfume by Lancôme for women, released in 1969. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Green

Chypre

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Bergamot

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Basil

Coriander

Rosemary

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Vetiver

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Robert Gonnon

Ratings

Scent

7.3286 Ratings

Longevity

6.3216 Ratings

Sillage

5.8207 Ratings

Bottle

7.4218 Ratings

Value for money

7.340 Ratings

Submitted by Sani, last update on 12/28/2024.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/25/2012

7.5
Sillage 5
Longevity 7
Scent

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Top Review 4

O How Refreshing!

This fragrance is absolutely wonderful. Superb in fact.

I had chosen the perfect day to test O de Lancome. A rather humid Summer day in the centre of a busy and steamy city.

I must say that at first the citrus notes came on quite strongly. It was very green and lemony. Although not entirely unpleasant, I was expecting the worst seeing that these fragrances don't seem to agree with my chemistry or my nose very often. I was about to write this scent off the list when I brought my wrist up to my nose for another sniff.

I was met with a delightful, fresh and cheerful blend of honeysuckle, various herbs/spices, jasmine and mild citrus notes. On my skin the heart and drydown was soft, slightly soapy, musky and feminine.

I can't say that I understand the masculine references. To me O de Lancome is girly and somewhat sweet, in other words something I can't imagine a man wearing.

I had no idea that this was a fragrance from the 70's, it is very modern and could easily pass as something being produced today. The lasting power is average, around 7 hours. I do recommend this.

05/25/2015

BrianBuchanan
353 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

Helpful Review 2

Mossy Cologne

Dark citrus with a touch of florals.
After a regular cologne, the moss in Ô makes it feel like sunglasses on a bright day.

07/08/2024

9
Pricing 9
Bottle 5
Sillage 4
Longevity 9
Scent

MrsGuerlain
365 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

2

A memory of summer - and my grandmother

From a very young age I remember Ô de Lancôme. To me, it is the smell of summer. A smell of freshly cut citrus fruits and of chopped herbs. The sandalwood and oak moss ground the scent so it does not disappear instantly.
Every summer I went to see my grandparents. Being at their place was an endless row of days with sunshine and loads of exciting things to do. Or so I recall it. My grandparents lived outside the city and they had a huge garden and an old garage with an attic full of things, such as old magazines, a piano and hundreds of jazz records. My brother and I spent hours going through all this. We played the piano and listened to the records. We read loads of Donald Duck and Superman. No one came to check if we behaved. It was great!
My grandmother wore this fragrance. She always smelled so good and she wore it all year round. It stood on the shelf in the bathroom and I went there many times during the day just to smell it.
She passed away way too early - she was in her mid sixties. At the funeral - I was ten years old - I thought I could smell the perfume in church. It is so strongly attached to my memory of her that it sometimes makes me cry. Ô de Lancôme is my grandmother.
363/365

04/08/2024

EvitaVilla
28 Reviews

EvitaVilla

1

Discontinued, really ?

As Parfumo doesn't like when I try a suggestion of revision (I can't no longer suggest a revision anyway), I wanted to add here that I bought this exact bottle directly from Lancôme this morning.
it's available on their French website and last time I checked at a local department store (something like 2 weeks ago), it was there too.

05/07/2018

7.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
Scent

loewenherz
80 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 46

Enchanted April

It happened the other day when I was cleaning up. Once a year - let's say every year - I get my books in order. Dust them off. See if maybe I should give away a few of them after all. Almost never do that then. On the upper shelves, for which I need a ladder, those I have sometimes almost forgotten are under - sometimes - twelve months of dust. (I am a good and courageous thrower and sorter, but not for books: the respect for the written word - as stupid as it may sometimes be - is deep in my heart.) And then - all of a sudden - I had it in my hands, for the first time in twenty years: Enchanted April, written by Elizabeth von Arnim almost one hundred years ago. And then I sat down with the dusty book on the edge of the sofa and read its almost three hundred pages in one piece.

Enchanted April is what one would generally call a 'women's book'. What's the difference? Von Arnim tells the story of four very different ladies - English women like her and too happy to be allowed to call themselves unhappy, but too unhappy to be happy - who rent a wonderful villa on the Italian coast together for a month - that very April. And how each one comes a little closer to happiness in its own way. Von Arnim wallows in light and colour, tells of sun, flowers, scents - in a language that is light-footed and airy, but never simple or banal. And when I had read out the nearly three hundred pages - partly leaning against the edge of the sofa, sometime finally sitting, while the empties that had already been put right stared at me accusingly from the hallway - the villa by the sea and their little happiness were very close.

The same lightness and airiness, the same faded charm and the same fragrant colours, the same a bit old-fashioned but loving and careful language - and sun, flowers, scents, told lightly but never banally - I find in Ô de Lancôme. Ô comes from a time in which it was customary to clearly locate a perfume as a ladies' or men's fragrance - according to today's interpretation, its classification as a ladies' fragrance seems almost somewhat anachronistic - a delicate hesperidic chypre that it is. Nostalgic and a little old-fashioned, he is - at the same time youthful and eternally young. With an almost watery herbaceousness - austere but not bitter, serious but not serious - he reminds us of those four so different people whose souls unexpectedly get wings again in the Ligurian spring sun. A lot of friendliness and longing - and joy in small happiness.

Conclusion: Moments like my lost afternoon with 'Enchanted April' have an unexcited, unexpected and sudden beauty. And so hasÔ de Lancôme. For women. Men. People.

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