Oajan Parfums de Marly 2013

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8.6 / 10 1374 Ratings

Oajan is a popular perfume by Parfums de Marly for men and was released in 2013. The scent is sweet-gourmand. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still available to purchase.

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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Spicy

Oriental

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cinnamon

Honey

Osmanthus

Heart Notes

Amber

Benzoin

Labdanum

Base Notes

Tonka bean

Vanilla

Davana

Patchouli

Perfumer

Shyamala Maisondieu

Ratings

Scent

8.61374 Ratings

Longevity

8.81232 Ratings

Sillage

8.41240 Ratings

Bottle

8.71147 Ratings

Value for money

7.3658 Ratings

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04/13/2018

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Basti87

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Basti87

Top Review 17

Great Gourmand

Comment number 2 from my Parfum De Marly test: For a week now I've been testing the PdM fragrances Oajan, Herod, Layton and Pegasus. There was a comment on Herod, now it's Oajan's turn. I have already tested the Oajan twice and can make me so a good picture.

The flacon is like all very noble. Also in this color combination great made. The flacons are already worth their money. Whether the fragrances are worth so much money, everyone should decide for themselves. Price is about 200 euros a 125ml. Or you choose the 75ml, which you get for about 100-130. Not cheap.
Oajan I ordered as a sample, because I like the fragrance twins 1 Million Prive and Dolcelisir very well. One thing in advance: these two really come very close to this Oajan. Oajan starts off very cinnamon heavy. Lots and lots of cinnamon with honey. Very sweet and just great for gourmand lovers. The opening is very well done and totally reminds me of Dolcelisir. 1 Million Prive is also very close to this fragrance. It is followed by more sweet notes with vanilla and tonka, which are actually present almost throughout the course. Add to that a pleasant spice and sensual warm notes and the delicious dessert is ready. Too much it does not change over the course, towards the end it becomes only significantly softer.
Overall, a great gourmand for the cold season. Since I have two similar fragrances with Dolcelisir & 1 Million Prive, this one does not impress me though. Especially since the two mentioned are much cheaper and are a bit better in performance. Dolcelisir in particular is the first of the three I can recommend. With ca.35Euro/50ml very much more price performance than this Oajan.
Oajan you have to let: It is also a high-quality fragrance with decent performance. My buy recommendation I would also pronounce, despite the high price. If it is umbedingt expensive niche should be: The will certainly impress many people and make gourmand lovers happy. Funny I find the rating, just what the performance is concerned. I don't think it's as good as the score here. Dolcelisir, on the other hand, is much weaker, but is in my opinion better than this.

If I evaluate only the fragrance, it has earned a high rating. On P-/L related there would be deductions, because the Gourmand competition is great. Who does not want to spend quite so much money, finds good alternatives in the Gourmand section.

08/15/2019

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Umut1984

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Umut1984

Top Review 29

Oajan - Arab Thoroughbred!!!

Introduction:

Parfums de Marly "Oajan" !!!
is dedicated to one of the five lineages of Arab thoroughbred. These noble horses decided whole wars in former times as war horses. Nowadays, as racehorses, they profit from their excellent qualities in sporting competitions. The Arabs, kings among horses, were honoured with "Oajan" in the language of most delicious desserts, nobly interpreted, full of love and worship.

So now we come to the fragrance :)

Kilan? Who's Kilian? ) no human being needs, too much overrated my opinion ! Oajan is better, so much better! Richer, sinier, thicker, a thousand times more delicious! Halva (Turkish treat) marzipan, honey, caramel, amaretto and plum in chocolate. More is not possible!
It is often compared with the smell of the Christmas market or fair, which I do not feel.
It's very mature and tempting.
Nobody can resist this temptation, not at all, because this delicacy is guaranteed to be sinless.:))))
The perfumer Shyamala Maisondieu conjured a plum splendour for us here! What a gourmand! You must experience him yourself and because he smells so adult he is guaranteed also something for the self-confident man or also woman ;) to which I count myself !

For me personally with Guerlain tonka imperiale, one of the best gourmand fragrances in the world!!!!

Hope you have a little sweet impression of my perception of the scent? :)

And to the Kilian fans :)
Didn't want to offend anyone or badly portray the scent.
I beg your pardon :)

08/12/2019

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

DaveKunstein

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DaveKunstein

Top Review 23

Oajan, a Christmas dream!

A Christmas dream!

Oajan, so typical Marly,
bangs of second one, fully in.
Cinnamon, dark, heavy and sweet, how could it be otherwise?
It's nothing new for Marlys now, is he worth a test?
Strong, stormy, typical horse!
Starts with dark wood and cinnamon,
A prelude where everything is right.
Dark, weighed down it seems,
Let's see what else he can do.
In the heart now, it will be sweet and heavy,
I can tell you it's very Christmassy!
Cinnamon and spices of all kinds,
The Christmas market immediately recognized!
The Christmassy sweet bustle,
If you want to assimilate.
Gourmand replaces the dark,
and keeps the wearer well on his toes.
Apple strudel is now perceived,
The transformation, now complete.
A quick-change artist to see clearly,
Sweetie comes, the woods go.
How does that proud horse sound now?
Will the feast of love still be a horror?
No need to worry, the heavenly scent,
is still hanging in the air, Christmassy and pleasant.
The sweetness remains, cinnamon, honey, vanilla,
After 10 hours, slowly emerging silence,
You've been there a long time, you've accompanied me,
tempts me to buy.
So you have to say,
The test was pretty rewarding,
even if intended, not gentle on the wallet.
In the usual black bottle, splendid robe,
you've been standing in the closet for a long time now.

And you know Oajan, with all your glory,
You got me hooked.

10/21/2020

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Scape

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Helpful Review 32

The 18th birthday

It is December, outside it is getting more and more uncomfortable, Christmas was only a few days ago.
I stand in the bathroom and check if the hair really fits and I give myself against a whirl that lets a strand fall into my face
In a few hours it will be time, you will finally turn 18, you will not be home from mom's until 12, no more annoying excuses to the bouncer why you forgot your ID at home.
FINALLY ! I think to myself and open the bathroom cabinet to pick out a fragrance for the party.

The bottle is pitch black and the cap is shiny yellow gold, as is the elegant lettering on the bottle, which identifies the fragrance as Oajan I hadn't really worn it before, I hadn't had a chance, after all I had only bought it a few days ago. "Well, it'll fit," I think to myself, and press the spray button a couple of times.

7 pm not much time left, I can hardly be late for my own birthday party. When I arrived about 20 minutes later in front of the nice little bar which was very much appreciated by me and my friends, my best friend was already waiting for me with icy breath in front of the door, hugged me and made me realize that the evening would end with one or two glasses too many In the next hour the rest of my little troop also trundled in, each of them hugged me and had a big grin on their face, finally they all knew that tonight is on my head ;)

The last guest who came was my best friend who normally always comes first, but then I saw the reason for her delay, she had actually baked me a cake and I knew from her earlier creations where I was usually allowed to play the guinea pig that this cake will be super delicious When she hugged me and congratulated me in advance she said "Wow, you smell like Christmas, I like it very much" she said smiling and I was happy about the nice comment even though I dismissed it as a birthday child bonus :)

The evening went great and I admit that I also had a few glasses of too much.
The next morning I woke up with one of the worst hangovers I have ever had. The one or other memory of the evening was a bit blurred, but when I pushed my much too heavy head back into my pillow I had to grin. One of my guests had accompanied me home to bed.
It was Oajan :)

Well, my dear perfumers, this is the story of my first fragrance love and the first real memory that I associate with a fragrance
I hope she entertained you :)

09/10/2021

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Balticsea

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Balticsea

Top Review 27

Holla die Waldfee - Make way for King Oajan. Ruler over Gourmandistan

Moin you fragrance crazy perfumos and perfumas out there.

I hope you are all well? :-) But what am I actually asking. You guys are reading this review right now. There seems to be time for that. So it'll be fine. :-P

(Quick to the review? Well then briefly scroll down - it starts there for everyone visible :-D)

Prologue:

Before we come to one of my very favorite Gourmands in this seemingly endless fragrance cosmos and thus at the same time to my absolute favorite from the house of Parfums de Marly, I have in advance as so often a little bullshit to pass on for you.

A few days ago I have chattered at work with a colleague. This one claimed to be a walking Duden and never make a spelling mistake. "Challenge accepted" I thought to myself and promptly asked her to spell the word license for me.

And what can I say? She quite surprisingly spelled it wrong. Incidentally, interestingly enough, she is not alone in this, as about 75% of all Germans misspell this word, making it the number one most frequently misspelled word. Even German teachers make this mistake disproportionately often.

So here's my question. How do you think she spelled the word license? Resolution there at the end of the review. :-)

So, and now for all the impatient who are already sitting at the screen begging for help and thinking "Dude, are you serious??? Now finally tell me how you find the Oajan and don't annoy me with any German courses you dozy bastard." I told you, scroll down.....blame yourself :-) But now really to the Oajan.

So, let's get started!!

The bottle: 9/10

Is there much to say about this? Beautiful, timeless design. Solid glass. Smooth black color with the wonderfully curved lettering "Oajan". Great sprayer and also here, as with all Marlys a lid, which you can also use quite wonderfully as a doorstop. Small point deduction, because the fill level is not visible. Nevertheless, like all Marlyflakons Champions League.

The fragrance: 10/10

Honestly? This thing knocks my socks off every time and I don't think I have a scent where I take the lid off more often and smell the sprayer. Dude Schwede, is the thing delicious, is the thing bulky and - please excuse my verbal excursion into the big city gutter - is the thing affengeil.

The scent starts with a perfect interplay of slightly spicy, sweet-woody cinnamon and a divine honey note that reminds me of golden liquid orange blossom honey. Hmmmï¿½delicious! But there's no time to enjoy for long, as we head straight and inexorably towards the Christmas market. The davana oil and osmanthus take the reins of the Arabian full-blooded oajan directly times and provide this dreamlike, sometimes reminiscent of plums, sometimes of red fruits, the whole fragrance over and over again for brief moments associations with fruit punch, tea and / or mulled wine. Incidentally, it is these ever-changing associations that fascinate me so much about this fragrance. Sometimes very clearly honey, then suddenly fruit punch, again a short time later plum cake, marzipan or amaretto. Most of the time, however, I have to think of halva. A dessert that you can get at the Turkish delicatessen at the front of the counter. Delicious stuff. And somehow the oajan always reminds me of it, too. :-)

The benzoin nestles here resinous and balsamic around the overall picture of the fragrance and amber and the strong spicy labdanum give the fragrance incredible depth and warmth and ensure until the end that this fragrance may be a classic gourmand and perfect for "snuggle up on the couch in the cold", but still has enough depth to just not just smell like something edible. This scent doesn't even want to be serious. And it doesn't have to be! Every time you wear it, it just screams in your face that you have to enjoy life and let your hair down. And every time I wear it, it takes me on a journey where I discover new facets over and over again. This fragrance is incredibly complex - and although you have the feeling that it doesn't change much after a few minutes, you still constantly associate something different with the scent. One word? Wow! Thank you PdM for this plank of a gourmand.

In short: a little bit of everything, times honey, times halva, times fruit punch, times tea, times amaretto, times mulled wine , times complete Christmas market - times everything together. Unbelievably complex. More Gourmand hardly goes.

Shelf life: 9/10

The fragrance performs - quite Marly-typical - really neat and already plays far in front. No BR540 level - but 9 hours keeps the fragrance through in any case. On the clothes even the next day still a feast.

Sillage: 9/10

Also here upper level. With three sprays you full in the first 2 hours definitely rooms. After that, pleasant sillage at more than an arm's length away. The fragrance already makes music and it is very sweet, but I find him at no time "exhausting" or penetrating.

Wearability: 4/10

Short and sweet? Clear autumn / winter candidate. Or else -and here he comes with me most to use- before bedtime as a feel-good fragrance. :-)

Compliments: 9/10

This is where, as always, my workplace comes into play. And yes, I also dared the, knows anyway everyone from my Macke. ;-) and what can I say? So many people can't be wrong. The staff disproportionately often just commented with the words "Hmm, that one smells yummy." (Right they are!!) :-D

Price / performance: 7/10

Yes, admittedly, it's a bit more than a slim penny to pay here. And I'll be careful after Al Haramain's Detour Noir to say that all Marlys are just worth their money. :-P But this one just blew me away so much that I would buy this fragrance again anytime for the €180.00 called for. However, I think that PdM would do themselves a favor to offer all fragrances in smaller bottles. There are here unfortunately only in large.

Conclusion:

Well, what can I say? I admit it. PdM got me 100% with this fragrance. He is my favorite from the house. This fragrance is for micb the epitome of a gourmand and also my favorite from this category. A fragrance that always triggers feelings in me and manages to take me on a journey every time and forget everything around me.

Epilog:

So - now a quick resolution from the prologue:

So, what do you guys think? How did my colleague spell the word license? Such a simple word, what could you possibly get wrong? Well - honestly? She spelled it the way it says.... license.....

Correct is but license*z*ieren. Looks stupid? I think so too. But is correct. :-) are honest with yourself? Would you have written it that way? If so, well then you are a small part and can be proud. :-)

Last words about the Oajan? Clear buy recommendation!!! If you like sweet also like blind.

I'm going to go smell the sprayer again now. :-P

Thanks for your time. We're done here now. :-)

Until next time and as always hanseatic greetings

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