Jardins d'Armide (2013) by Oriza L. Legrand

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Jardins d'Armide Oriza L. Legrand 2013

Version from 2013

7.1 / 10 126 Ratings

A perfume by Oriza L. Legrand for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is powdery-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Sweet

Spicy

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Iris

Orange blossom Rose

Rose

Heart Notes

Iris

Violet

Tagetes

Wisteria

Base Notes

Musk

Tonka bean Almond

Almond

Honey

Ratings

Scent

7.1126 Ratings

Longevity

7.8103 Ratings

Sillage

7.1105 Ratings

Bottle

7.893 Ratings

Value for money

7.032 Ratings

Submitted by Merlina · last update on 10/24/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/30/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Foustie
5 Reviews

Foustie

Very helpful Review 5

Dragées on the dressing table.

Jardins D'Armide;

What a joy this is! I defy any fragrance lover not to react when they smell Jardins D'Armide, even if it is not to one's personal taste. I can't imagine that anyone would find it uninteresting.

The opening of this fragrance immediately brings to mind sugared almond dragees, every time! That's a bit odd maybe because I don't think that those particular confections have much of a smell actually, but that is the first image that pops up and floats around.

In fact, if you can imagine sweet sugared almonds, and those tiny candied violets which can be found in Madrid, add some orange flower water, some sweetly aromatic dried rose petals, some geranium soap, old fashioned iris powder, and some soft, billowy (and strangely not sweet) nutty vanilla, then you would be with me on this one. It is so gloriously old fashioned! Underscoring this feast of sweetmeats is a sweetly nostalgic floral accord, built around that lovely old fashioned aromatic rose. In time the fragrance settles into an aromatic accord of rose/violet/iris/geranium.

Jardins D'Armide is certainly sweet and powdery but of course that is it's charm. There is a little brightness too which provides a perfect foil. It is delighful, charming, nostalgic. It strikes me that it was made with unrestrained pleasure and perhaps even a little humour.

Official notes; (from the OLL website)

Top notes: Old Rose, Orange Blossom and Iris Powder.

Heart notes: Florentine iris, Violet Wild, Glycine and Carnation India.

Base notes: Honey, Almond, Tonka and Musk.

I am sure that this fragrance will have it's detractors. It won't be to everyones taste. It is very old fashioned after all, and it will be perceived by some as overtly feminine, too sweet, too powdery. But I also think that it will melt the hearts of many. It presents itself as an homage to fragrances past, with little or no compromise to suit current tastes, and in my view it should be respected for that alone.

Dare I say that it could be utterly intriguing on a man.

09/20/2013

5Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 7

The Power of Powder (or a tale of a near scrubber)...

Jardins d'Armide opens with an effervescent orange flower and dull rose floral tandem with an underlying shampoo-like powdery sheen derived from further violet florals, with the overall accord resembling an orange and cheap shampoo spiked root beer float. As the fragrance enters the early heart the violet driven powder takes control and dramatically intensifies as the rose and orange flower remain, now relegated to still significant support. During the late dry-down the fragrance slightly sweetens as the powdery violet driven floral accord recedes, revealing a honeyed amber-like mildly animallic musk base. Projection is excellent, and so is longevity at about 12 hours on skin.

This composition was a tough one for me to keep from scrubbing. As soon as I sprayed it on skin I recognized the almost dusty powdered orange and rose florals resembling a Tauer composition I sampled last year called Lys du Desert by Decennial. This may be missing the "Lys" but the real drivers of the two compositions (the powder-laced soapy rose and orange) through the heart phase are quite similar, with Jardins d'Armide taking the powder up more than a notch with its heavy dose of violet. From the open through the heart this one is difficult for any powder hater to tolerate, though things improve in the dry-down as the fragrance sweetens a bit and the powder swaps places with a relatively benign musk and amber-like accord as welcome relief. The bottom line is Jardins d'Armide like all the rest of the surprising Oriza L. Legrande house offerings uses top-notch materials and is relatively well composed, but this 120 euro per 100ml bottle near-scrubber is one only the most ardent powder lovers will be able to tolerate, earning a slightly "below average" rating of 2 to 2.5 stars out of 5 and an avoid recommendation. If you are an ardent powdery Tauer composition fan (something this reviewer definitely is not), ignore the rating and give the composition a shot as it will near-certainly be up your alley.

01/03/2016

6Scent

Tinctureall
94 Reviews

Tinctureall

Helpful Review 2

Gleefully old fashioned

Huge violetty orangey sweeties and an overwhelmingly old fashioned lavendery, rosy bouquet with minty herbs piled high in a straw basket. These are strong polleny, rosy, irissy, mimosa like rich spicy flowers from an ordinary garden and not cute florals. The nose seems thrust right into the centre of the yellow polleny part in a honeyed old fashioned pot pourri style scent. There is a clean coal tar soapy aspect with the huge dried rosy flowers with a slightly rough green aspect underneath like slightly stale stem cuttings. If I'd dug this perfume out of great aunties suitcase, it would come as no surprise at all. As Fousties review says... A true homage floral perfume to what once was quite normal.

01/18/2025

7.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Pollita
386 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 39

In Your Garden

Your garden. You still miss it today. You still have a very small garden, but it doesn't compare to that splendor. You spent so much time with your flowers, vegetables, and herbs. And everything thrived beautifully. When you weren't in the garden, you created fine essences and care products from plant extracts. You know so many secrets of nature and their individual effects.

In your house, it always smelled wonderful. From the recipes you designed yourself and from the beautiful products you brought back from your annual caravan tours in Provence. When I sniff Jardins d’Armide, I smell your house from back then. Your garden. I travel back about 25 years at the push of a button. And I feel a bit nostalgic, because since we didn't always get along well, I wasn't very keen on coming to your house. However, this scent now makes me smile. It delights me, reminding me of so much that was there, which I didn't truly see back then. You must be sad, missing all of it very much. I would feel the same way.

Jardins d’Armide is a very naturally elegant, classic rose scent. It combines for me the fragrance of garden roses with the gentle aroma of rose soaps. Iris and violet add a subtle powderiness, and the whole thing feels refined, well-groomed, elegant, and immediately evokes the past. I can only vaguely sense the sweet notes from the base. Almond? Tonka bean? For me, it simply remains rosy and classic. Perhaps a tiny hint of sweetness in the dry down, but not worth mentioning. It is and always will be a rose scent.

I see you smiling when I sniff Jardins d’Armide. Yes, I think I should let you test the scent.

Many thanks to Ergoproxy for the lovely Oriza set and the opportunity to test. This one was once again a little time capsule.

03/10/2022

8Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Seerose
775 Reviews

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Seerose

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What has changed?

When I tested "Jardins d' Armide" from a newly purchased sample set in 2014, I smelled a charmingly old-fashioned soft fragrance with flowers, especially violets. A slightly sharp note was also perceptible, which I suspected to be camphor. Later, I guessed it was galbanum. "Jardins d' Armide" became more powdery over time. A light, pleasant floral scent, feminine, close-to-skin sillage, with no overwhelming longevity, this is how I perceived "Jardins d' Armide." That's what my notes say.
I didn't write a review because the writer below expressed what I felt similarly.
Now, after eight years, I was browsing for decants at ALzD, which I occasionally like to order just for testing. My finger clearly lingered over the box for "Jardins d' Armide": 1 bottle order, hesitated, and bam, it was purchased.
Now the bottle has been sitting here next to the Surface for a month for a review. I keep testing and using it. To this day, I couldn't bring myself to write something about it.
What held me back?
1. "Jardins d' Armide" is now different from what I remembered; is it the fragrance or my perception of it?
2. Has the fragrance been reformulated?
3. The pyramid has been changed here. According to this pyramid, I would never have ordered the fragrance, as marigold is listed, a smell I find horrendous.
What do I perceive now?
"Jardins d' Armide" starts like back then with a distinctly waxy violet note, which is almost immediately overshadowed by the galbanum note and/or citral, smelling slightly sharp and medicinal. This sharp note remains present throughout, gradually fading until a soft and bitter vanilla takes over in the base.
After the initial phase, I perceive a very subtle, also bitter, powdery floral bouquet as the base of the heart note, along with a very faint clove note.
Since the marigold listed here, I am sure, is at best citral, perhaps also galbanum from the beginning, I was slightly disappointed in the first few days. Good that I don't perceive marigold. Because the smell of marigold is that of pyrethrum, a poison, a plant insecticide against endo- and ectoparasites like worms, lice, fleas for both plants and humans and animals. My skin reacts allergically to pyrethrum and the chemically produced pyrethroids. I don't have that problem after spraying "Jardins d' Armide."
After a few days, I not only got used to "Jardins d' Armide," I like it. And it gives me a familiar body feeling when wearing it. "Jardins d' Armide" is a bitter, yes, initially harsh and off-putting floral perfume.
Depending on my mood, I also smell a hint of bitter almond.
It can be worn anytime for any occasion. Honey, tonka, and especially musk are incorporated in an undetectable way for softening. I do not perceive either note.
The similarity that has been assigned here to "Lys du Désert" by Decennial cannot be understood in any way. Since Lys du Désert smells so distinctly of tobacco, which I fortunately do not perceive even remotely in "Jardins d' Armide" at any stage.
I conclude: The fragrance "Jardins d' Armide," which I smelled in 2014 and which Pipette so lovingly describes, has either changed for my scent perception, or it has been reformulated. Or both may be true. Now it is indeed a unisex fragrance.
Sillage and longevity have remained in the mid-range as they were back then.
If someone tested "Jardins d' Armide" a while ago and has it on their wish list, a retest is absolutely recommended before purchasing.
PS: The black button shown above and the separately supplied attachable spray head have been replaced by a permanently mounted spray head; the closure cap is made of heavy metal and fits tightly. Because with the bottle that has a screw-on spray head, the perfume evaporates over time, this is my experience with "Héliotrop" by Oriza L. Legrand.

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