White Gold 2017

White Gold by Ormonde Jayne
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7.1 / 10 19 Ratings
A perfume by Ormonde Jayne for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is powdery-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Powdery
Sweet
Floral
Woody
Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Clary sageClary sage Leaf greenLeaf green Pink pepperPink pepper BergamotBergamot Mandarin orangeMandarin orange
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Carnation absoluteCarnation absolute Orris butterOrris butter Jasmine absoluteJasmine absolute FreesiaFreesia OrchidOrchid
Base Notes Base Notes
White muskWhite musk AmberAmber Bourbon vanillaBourbon vanilla CashmeranCashmeran LabdanumLabdanum MossMoss Tonka beanTonka bean Ambrette seed absoluteAmbrette seed absolute CedarwoodCedarwood OpoponaxOpoponax VetiverVetiver

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.119 Ratings
Longevity
7.418 Ratings
Sillage
6.917 Ratings
Bottle
7.927 Ratings
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Would fit in well with the NR musk 'cube' series
I am trying to say this with the greatest respect, but in many ways, White Gold is the most department-store-smelling iteration of the Gold series. By this, I mean that it smells like an abstraction of white flowers, white orris, white powder, white musks, and white woods (even white spices) all blurred into one haze of cloudy white scent molecules. White Gold is made of the kind of white noise that I find very difficult to pick apart and analyze when I am sniffing perfumes at the department store. There's very little for me to hang onto. My nose feels around for the boundary lines between the notes but fails to locate any.

I think that the perfumes that have most in common with White Gold are not Rose Gold or Black Gold, but the white cube perfumes and Pure Musc by Narciso Rodriguez, which, to my nose at least, all smell like minute variations on the same theme, i.e., the freshly-poured cement muskiness of cashmeran and fluffy white musks, the basic model altered with one drop more or less gardenia or rose or ylang. I get that most people find this sort of thing comforting. It's like the warm, plush terrycloth robe you pull straight from the dryer and put on when you emerge shivering from a cold shower. It's just that it's too simple, too easy. Mindless comfort is good for those moments when you need a liquid hug. But it doesn't engage the brain cells. I can't help but hold that against it.

White Gold traps the naturally effervescent, floaty white dust that emanates from orris and folds it into a cloud of silky ambrette and lab musks, which hover weightlessly over the freshly-scrubbed wood and concrete floor built by cashmeran.

The flowers - jasmine mostly, but also some rubbery freesia and orchid - smell clean and expensive, like an upmarket shampoo that sets you back around 50 quid from your hairdresser's. Abstract and more than a little perfumey, the floral components smells more like artistic, man-made representations of a flower than the rude, fleshy vulgarity of live blooms.

There is a 1990s perfume that White Gold reminds me of strongly, but I can't recall the name. Something made by Armani, the Lei/Lui series perhaps? Naturally, White Gold smells a lot more expensive and plushly-upholstered than any department store perfume. But there's a fruity-nutty-sticky sweetness here that hints at the Galaxolide-and-Maltol candy-ness of designer musks and florals, and it's an impression that proves hard to shake. Overall, I'd peg the color of White Gold as a cloudy, almost milky white, tinged in places with a rosy pink stain. Although easily my least favorite in the series, I think White Gold would make for a perfect bridal perfume or special occasion perfume for someone who might view it as a cashmere wrapped upgrade to the very floral, very clean, musky designer perfumes they already know and love.
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