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Oha Téo Cabanel 2005

6.7 / 10 120 Ratings

A perfume by Téo Cabanel for women, released in 2005. The scent is floral-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Woody

Powdery

Chypre

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Calabrian bergamot

Coriander

Tea

Heart Notes

Bulgarian rose

Moroccan rose

Egyptian jasmine

Guatemala cardamom

Base Notes

White musk Iris

Iris

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer

Jean-François Latty

Ratings

Scent

6.7120 Ratings

Longevity

7.387 Ratings

Sillage

6.580 Ratings

Bottle

7.577 Ratings

Value for money

6.725 Ratings

Submitted by DeGe53 · last update on 09/13/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/27/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

1

Nostalgic gem

What a nice surprise. Oha opens with an extremely realistic, deep and invigorating sort of “bright floral chypre” appearance: juicy rose and bergamot notes on top, a really compelling and kind of old-styled herbal-woody accord, resins, a tremendously enjoyable iris note. Then patchouli, a mint breeze (geranium, maybe) and other flowers providing a really nice, and again, pleasantly “vintage” feel, that classic “bouquet of wet flowers” vibe. A really effortless composition which manages to appear as a modern, light and lively floral scent with a decided classic vibe. And above all, smelling terribly good – by this, I mean deep, radiant, realistic but also “polished” enough to smell perfectly crisp and sophisticated, with a hint of musky sexiness. Several classic feminine scents come to mind within the first minutes, mostly from the late 1980’s-mid 1990s, from Vendetta by Valentino to L’arte by Gucci; more as inspirations than actual similarities. I mean that Oha seems referring to them, but with a contemporary, “brighter” approach, and a couple of modern features – that “tea” note for instance, which if I identified it correctly, smells more like a generic (yet completely pleasant) touch of fruit. The evolution is equally nice, and it shows both the quality of the notes and the skillful composition: as minutes pass Oha slowly becomes fruitier and more resinous, that “tea” note emerges more clearly, a whiff of patchouli-licorice appears. Kind of “Lutensian” at this stage – flowers, resins and fruits. And basically so is the drydown, which sadly is a bit short. Know what? I’m impressed. Understated, maybe uncreative and maybe a bit too short-lived, but a really nice little gem with solid materials and an utterly enjoyable evolution exploring several nuances of flowers, resins and herbs.

7,5-8/10

05/23/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Vintage rose

Dark, lush, and curvaceous as heck, Oha smells like a 1940s vintage perfume resurrected from the dregs of a dried-up vial found in somebody’s handbag. It is an authentic, honest-to-goodness musky rose chypre, by which I mean it smells almost embarrassingly sexual, in a similar vein to L’Arte di Gucci and Rose de Nuit by Lutens, but stripped back a bit so that the effect whispers rather than cat calls. The roses are lusty and sharp – a blend of Bulgarian and Turkish – and the bed they lie on is a sort of mossy patchouli-oak-musk thing that feels suitably dank but still incredibly perfumey.

Oha is as close as I have ever found to that whole ideal of your mother, dressed to the nines in a body-hugging black velvet dress and soaked in Coco by Chanel, coming in to give you a kiss goodnight. Well, to be honest, I never had a mother like that, but when I wear Oha, I simultaneously feel like I am both the child and the mother in that fictive scenario. This was the most unneutered and most serious perfume that Teo Cabanel has ever done, only to be promptly thrown out in 2021 with all the other perfumes by the house that didn’t smell like a bleached sun dress and citrus body spray and the whole pre-teen French girl fantasy vibe they’re going for these days. Assholes.

04/12/2025

3.5Scent 9Longevity 10Sillage

LostUmbrella
10 Reviews

LostUmbrella

1

Vintage grace

Oha is not within my lane, but it is such an old, archaic scent. Those who love very rich, spicy oriental scents will be in love with this one.

The spices are the ones that are most prominent in notes, primarily cardamom is a standout. Coriander is a close follow up, showing how it is interestingly used in this scent.

08/07/2024

6.5Scent

Käse
120 Reviews

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Käse

Top Review 20

Hello, where can you check "don't know"?

My second Cabanel and this one also leaves me a bit perplexed.

Yesterday I tested the "Café Cabanel | Téo Cabanel," which ultimately developed into a solid scent, but it wasn't exactly straightforward at first.

Today, on the other hand. The first few minutes... Ten? 15? it's a great fragrance. Fresh, interesting, makes you want more. Coriander, tea, and bergamot create a harmonious Ménage à trois.

But then they make a typical mistake, as cliché as it is in many series and films: The three invite to a party, each with just one or two buddies, but, horror, many more people show up than planned and invited. The situation doesn't completely spiral into a destructive orgy, it doesn't (we are in reality, not in a fictional series), but the party does get a bit out of hand. The invited and uninvited guests don't really harmonize. Heavy metal, hip hop, and children's songs blare from different speakers. You wouldn't think it, but two types of roses, the obligatory white flower and cardamom, don't go well together, at least in this case.
If the scent stayed like this, it would be around 5.5/6 for me.

But then the oak moss comes in to clean up. Truly not my favorite note when it's too intense. Here, however, it acts like an air freshener and masks the skirmish between the flowers and the cardamom. To stick with the image: It turns down the three speakers a bit and separates them. So it's still not a feast for the ears, but far less unpleasant than it was before.

Exhausted from the exhausting party, all the contenders lie down on the tonka vanilla bed. Iris turns off the lights and the noise sources. Finally peace, but also a hangover mood.

01/27/2012

3Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Peanut
218 Reviews

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Peanut

Very helpful Review 12

I don't want to steal your time

Therefore, I will speak plainly without beating around the bush. THIS FRAGRANCE IS MADAMIG. Elegant-madamig with a certain strictness and a lot of understatement. Classic, almost dry floral notes from slightly ommerige rose (where is the jasmine?) with plenty of bitter spice on a woody base, which only shows its softer side at the very end.

So: Nothing, absolutely nothing for me. Without wanting to offend anyone, I would like to assert that the fragrance seems to be tailored for somewhat older wearers (how uncharming of me). While I am not a bubblegum chick and enjoy YSL "Paris," Guerlain "Champs-Elysées," or Etro "Vicolo Fiori," that is already the peak of conservative (floral) Madamigkeit for me; no more is needed.

Oh, by the way: Scent progression? First the ommerige rose, overlaid by quite bitter-dry bergamot with stale cardamom (I like cardamom in fragrances, but this one must have sat in the spice cabinet a bit too long). Then just ommerige rose on a f**dry woody base (which already plays a very clear role in the heart note). Only at the very end does it become softer: very feathery musk with an extraordinarily subtle vanilla-tonka blend. A sterile iris powder cloud on top.

And all of this is moderately expressive and moderately lasting.

Flori (forgive me!), I tried my best. But this Teo here does not want to connect with me. Or I with him.

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Statements

28 short views on the fragrance

NicheOnly

1 year ago

5Scent 3Longevity 2Sillage

2

Run-of-the-mill chypre fragrance. Floral, aldehydic, spicy. Fizzy-fruity stint in the top and some tea in the heart, overall nothing new.

Alexlinhcao

2 years ago

2

A thick, vintage rose layered over CK's Obsession. If you've seen Howl's Moving Castle, this is what the Witch of the Waste smells like.

Rentless

4 months ago

1

Smells like irises, roses, and paraffin wax candles. Someone’s mom adores this…

SirLancelot

2 years ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

20

34

Very elegant women's fragrance with a clean red rose, some spice, iris & jasmine on a patchouli-moss base. However, too amorphous for WOW!

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SchatzSucher

6 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

20

10

Very classically designed, heavy-floral scent on a Chypre base. When you first spray it, you really say wow, as you don't expect it.

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First

4 years ago

9.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

12

8

Oh wow! It has something of the old, esteemed classics with an incredibly good, truly graceful, fresh oakmoss factor.

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Heikeso

2 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

9

8

An old villa. A hint of aftershave and leather lingers in the air, blending with the rose scent coming through the window ...

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ParfumAholic

5 years ago

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

9

3

Oh, I could have done without the long-lasting coriander (on me), otherwise it's an official floral scent with chypre hints.

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Rieke2021

3 years ago

7Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

9

4

Oh wow, this one is surprisingly not a run-away scent despite the rose! Floral fragrance with vintage chypre vibes. Green, herbal, dry. In the dry down, unfortunately, clean musk.

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