Onda Vero Profumo 2010 Eau de Parfum

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6.4 / 10 84 Ratings

A perfume by Vero Profumo for women, released in 2010. The scent is spicy-animal. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Spicy

Animal

Fruity

Woody

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Citrus fruits

Coriander

Passion fruit

Heart Notes

Honey

Ginger

Base Notes

Cedar

Musk

Patchouli

Vetiver

Perfumer

Vero Kern

Ratings

Scent

6.484 Ratings

Longevity

9.258 Ratings

Sillage

8.054 Ratings

Bottle

7.856 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 22.09.2023.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/16/2021

Intersport
62 Reviews

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Intersport

Top Review 12

Onda at last

Onda came to me years ago at Vétiver Recherche, I could only experience the fragrance many years later in a perfumery in Bologna, the test strip, packed in cellophane sachet, I held in front of my nose for more years. All concentrations of Onda were sold out in the meantime, Vero Kern's death also brought uncertainty about what would happen to her work.

Onda is the most appropriate name for this perfume, a wave, overwhelming, respect-demanding, also refreshing, and just "deeply moving" as she said herself. The Eau de Parfum presents with a force a fruity Maracuiá note that together with the 'rest', offers an exceptional constellation, difficult to describe or compare. I also admire Onda precisely because it stages fruitiness in a mercilessly impressive way - a direction that always, especially if it is not dried fruit, scares me away and makes me seek the distance. Perhaps it is fruitiness plus vétiver or vétiver plus fruit that makes the difference. Maître Parfumeur et Gantier's terrific Route Du Vétiver has already suggested an eccentric root-fruit pairing with its currant-velvet-shrub note, Ellen Covey's Bat / Night Flyer combines fruit plus vétiver plus much more convincingly. Onda Eau de Parfum, timed between the two, mixes neatly in these fruit/vétiver experiments, which comes with a dry waxiness. I haven't smelled the extrait de parfum or the voile d'extrait yet, unfortunately. In drydown, the Eau de Parfum stains everything with a spice-honey distillation, complete with ginger and mace, and brings back fondest memories of old Kouros. An interpretation of the historic Animalis base + honey, not in Greek but shifted to a tropical context? A bit dirty - perhaps the original tagline "onda - For those who love the good things in life." exactly to that. If these animalic components in the extract, as explained in detail in Profumo's execution to the different concentrations, are correspondingly more intense: a fantasy.

Onda also balances formidably between a lived-in, or enlivened facet that makes the fragrance seem physically materialistic filtered - some facets of Onda could have appeared decades ago where. Yet Onda never loses itself in the purely media-archaeological, the passion fruit modulation always brings it most current, even timeless terrains. Released between 2017-2010, it seems as if these three Kern waves anticipate many a trend of ubiquitous neo-retros. Vero Kern as 'role model', Vero Kern who started perfume design only at 54, and attended seminars at the legendary 'Cinquième Sens' institute of Monique Schlienger. I don't know the curriculum or the subjects, but perhaps these encounters with Guy Robert, among others, were formative for the connections from Extrait de parfum and the Voile d'extrait to Guerlain's Djedi. Perhaps this new retro context, has prompted Campomarzio70 to re-release the uniquely fruity eau de parfum surprisingly. My memories and residual traces from the blotter are identical to this re-release. With thanks to Costello for's re-experience.

05/17/2015

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 7

Onda Eau de Parfum

Monsters frighten us for the way they tell us about ourselves. Don't doubt it, Onda is a monster. Vero Kern plucks specific and unexpected descriptors from each of her component pieces. Vetiver (salt lick), passionfruit (floral rot), ginger (sand-paper), honey (musky sharpness),woods (dust). Using these disparate pieces Kern composes a perfectly poised perfume that I could never have dreamed of. It's not simply coherent, implying that the the odd bits have been smoothed over. It's right, as if it reveals something important that I hadn't considered. It should look like Frankenstein's monster; torso from one body, head from another, limbs from a few others. We should notice the ill-fit and coarse seems. It should be awkward if not uncomfortable. But it is in fact perfect.
So, with my biases hanging out and my eyes a little glazed, Onda.

I turn to the artist not to reassure me of what I already know or believe, but for the unexpected. Wearing Onda gives me a detachment from normalcy that I could just kiss. It's hallucinatory. It's the scent of an angel, who, on getting up after a hard fall, adjusts his powdered wig and his jockstrap with delicately gloved hands before digging through the soil to harvest pickled citrus fruit. Fantasy and synesthesia in a bottle.

Abstraction is a tool for reducing components to the properties that the artist find most important. Kern recognizes properties that another artist might not. For all the outrageousness of this composition, it feels comfortable, like the way that a vivid dream can have a bizarre narrative while feeling perfectly normal. While Onda brings to mind a trippy angel it also also simply smells like skin and motion. There's an expression that pops into my head unsummoned when I wear Onda. "The sins of the flesh." This expression, like Kern's perfume, ties together desire, fear, exposure and release into one experience. To pay Kern a high complement, her perfume is gorgeously, magnificently queer. Kern shows the difference between prettiness and beauty and prettiness starts to seem beside the point.

from scenthurdle.com

01/19/2014

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Drseid
819 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 7

Maybe Lighter, But No Less Challenging and Great...

Onda Edp opens with a very brief and somewhat subtle bergamot and citron tandem before quickly moving to its early heart. Upon reaching the early heart the early citrus quickly dies, replaced by a powerful animalic and floral-like passion fruit and slightly sweet honey tandem that dominates, supported by clay-like coriander spice. During the late dry-down the composition turns even more animalic as a strong leather and musk-laced vetiver begins to dominate, as the passion fruit and relatively dry honey slip into a supporting role. Projection is excellent and longevity outstanding at 15+ hours on skin.

Onda EdP is touted by many as easier to wear than the original extrait. That said, I think while it is indeed different smelling early-on it is no less aggressive and challenging, just in a different way. The EdP composition substitutes passion fruit and honey used early-on in a very innovative way featuring the combination's more animalic and floral facets, and at times it even could almost be mistaken for dulled dark rose. That combination may be a lighter way of transitioning to the leathery musk-laced vetiver driven base of the original extrait but it is no less challenging and interesting, just different. The real question is which challenging aspects of Onda you prefer since lighter or darker transitions, neither composition compromises and can be equally polarizing... and fascinating. The bottom line is Onda Edp at $200 per 50ml bottle is far from inexpensive and is not going to appeal to the "crowd pleaser" crowd in all likelihood, but Vero Kern's outstanding skill coupled by the use of top-notch ingredients make this composition every bit as good as the extrait but different enough to justify owning both, earning an "excellent" to "near-masterpiece" rating of 4 to 4.5 stars out of 5 and a very strong recommendation.