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La Route de La Soie

Damask Ormonde Jayne 2020 Eau de Parfum

7.8 / 10 131 Ratings

A popular perfume by Ormonde Jayne for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is floral-fruity. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Fruity

Sweet

Fresh

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Blackcurrant Pear

Pear

Argentinian lemon

Heart Notes

Damask rose Berries

Berries

Jasmine

Base Notes

Musk

Amber

Vetiver

Ratings

Scent

7.8131 Ratings

Longevity

7.7108 Ratings

Sillage

7.3107 Ratings

Bottle

8.0113 Ratings

Value for money

6.664 Ratings

Submitted by M3000, last update on 11/19/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the La Route de La Soie collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Delina Eau de Parfum

Blouse

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Delina La Rosée

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/13/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

Lovelybrutal
16 Reviews

Lovelybrutal

3

Summer vibes you‘ve smelled before…

Those who like Delina will also love Damask. For me, it has the same DNA. The only difference is that Damask is a bit more lemony and takes over the part of rhubarb in terms of acidity.
Definitely a fresh and summery fragrance that is suitable for the masses. Do I need it in my collection? Probably not.

04/09/2025

pearlofgrace
1 Review

pearlofgrace

1

the notes should've meant i loved this...

but i didn't!!! blackcurrant, pear, rose, berries, jasmine, musk... all notes i love! but i'm a true light fruity floral and sometimes gourmand girlie, and there was something heavier and unappealing about this that i just couldn't get past. maybe the amber or vetiver... i brought this to my office for other women to try and they all thought something was just a bit off about it. maybe i got a bad batch, maybe it's too complex for normies. we may never know.

03/28/2021

10Scent 10Longevity 9Sillage

Elkay
14 Reviews

Elkay

2

Summer Wine

What a beauty...Refreshing, juicy, happy, sensual. I get first and foremost a dewy rose. Not old lady-ish, not jammy, not pot-pourri, just sweet and fresh. The rose is closely followed by a very natural-smelling berry note, very photorealistic, ripe and juicy. These are the stars of the show. They are combined with "metallic notes", which actually smell a lot like high quality ros'e wine.

The overall feeling is joyous, carefree, optimistic. Like drinking wine and eating fruit on a beautiful terrace on a summer evening somewhere in Tuscany. If the concept of "the good life" could be bottled, it would be this perfume.

06/20/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Rhubary rose

I like that there's no standard 'house rose' note used by Ormonde Jayne - their roses cover the broad sweep from the peach-shampoo-and-date juiciness of Ta'if to the jellied rosewater of Nawab al Oudh, to the smoky-fresh green rose in Rose Gold. With a name like Damask, I was expecting a purebred rosa damascena note up top, and right enough, this is promptly delivered in the form of a velvet carpet of soft, purple-red rose petals. A smell deep and pure enough to make you weep.

But just as my nose is burrowing into the tightly furled core of the rose, it disappears. Just…poof! It is substituted by a warm, waxy apple-rhubarb-amber accord that reminds me a bit of Sexy Amber by Michael Kors or Burberry Woman, i.e., amorphous, barely defined fruits, berries, and flowers dipped into a vat of fudgy amber and sticky white musk.

This all smells good, of course - it's rhubarb and custard in scent form, after all - but I am surprised at just how conventional and safe-smelling Damask turns out to be. You see the name Damask and even if your brain knows that Damascus has been reduced to a pile of smoking rubble, you not only expect the famous rosa damascena to show up, but you expect it to be flanked by all sorts of mysterious accents like cardamom, coffee, and resins. But Damask is about as exotic as the Dublin.

I'm scratching my head here. Usually, if Ormonde Jayne is using innocuous fruity floral notes such as peony or pear or blackcurrant, then the perfumer twists them into new forms with pepper and citrus, teasing both your brain and nose until you work out what's been done to them. Damask is a missed opportunity. I want to see what Geza Schoen would do if allowed to play around with a truly urinous, leafy blackcurrant or an acetone pear note paired to a chocolate truffle rose, for example. But Damask smells like he's been kept on a tight leash this time around.

Without any of that Ormonde Jayne pepper or citrus - or even oud or carnation, other more occasional Ormonde Jayne star players - there's nothing left in Damask to carve out the more exciting shapes of the rose or the fruit. It smells silky, waxy, and rounded, but not distinct. I don't dislike Damask per se because (a) I can't resist a bowl of stewed rhubarb and custard, and (b) my signature perfume for many years - Burberry Woman - features the same creamy fruit-amber core, so obviously I'm conditioned to find that kind of blurry, conventionally feminine warmth inviting. It's just that it's not exciting in the way we've come to expect Ormonde Jayne perfumes to be.

06/30/2025

7Scent

Telekinec
502 Reviews

Telekinec

1

Roses and fruits for warmer months

A tart. almost champagne-like beginning where blackcurrant is the strongest note I detect. Lemon soon follows with an added tart, almost acidic facet. Fortunately, things to end up calming down and I start getting a fresh, almost aquatic rose with some nondescript fruits. There's a weird synthetic fresh streak along the line and at one point, I started getting a waxy, almost smoky note (just like smelling a candle burning up close). It does end up disappearing and I get a fresh rose, but also a honeyed, more spicy version of it, both vying for attention at the forefront of the fragrance. Towards the end, it starts getting more warm and musky-like while the rose becomes more honeyed and heavy with a tinge of spiciness from the vetiver.

It's overall not bad, but the weird synthetic streak in the middle did kind of turn me off which is why I won't be going for a full bottle. The fruity notes are lively and well-done: I see people wearing this bright fragrance during warm weather to keep feeling fresh.

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