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Etoile d'Or Volnay 2013

7.5 / 10 55 Ratings

A popular perfume by Volnay for women, released in 2013. The scent is spicy-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Powdery

Floral

Oriental

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Italian bergamot

Lavender

Heart Notes

Egyptian jasmine

Turkish rose absolute

Base Notes

Clove

Powdery notes Rose

Rose

Vanilla

Oakmoss

Siam benzoin Suede

Suede

Tonka bean Musk

Musk

Perfumer

Amélie Bourgeois

Ratings

Scent

7.555 Ratings

Longevity

8.147 Ratings

Sillage

7.246 Ratings

Bottle

7.744 Ratings

Value for money

6.711 Ratings

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/05/2020

8Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Emorandeira
395 Reviews

Emorandeira

Powdery orient into a bottle

Etoil d'or is a beautiful and very powdery oriental. It is Also very citrusy. The whole perfume goes, in my opinión, around the rose, which is present all the time. The lavender gives some dry vibe to the fragance and It has also a very spicy character. The dry down is sweet and balsámic with musk and a bit of soft suede. It is like mixing shalimar by guerlain with White suede by Tom Ford.
The longevity is good, more than 8 hours, but with a very soft projection from the beggining. It is unisex, sweet and powdery, very versatile and nice for day time when the sun is not too intense.

Scent: 8
Longevity: 8
Sillage: 6
Quality/price: 5
Versatility: 7
Originality: 7
Global: 8

12/19/2014

8Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Florblanca
1168 Reviews

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Florblanca

Very helpful Review 13

Golden Age

1925 - the year of the creation of Etoile d'Or, yet thanks to Amélie Bourgois, this Golden Star still shines brightly today! And how! It is rare for a reformulation or adjustment of a perfume to not harm it. But in this case, it has truly succeeded. It connects the so-called "Golden Age" with our modern, fast-paced time.

Here too, the fragrance components are perfectly harmonized based on 4092 (powdery notes, rose, vanilla, clove). Etoile d'Or is a spicy oriental, just as I imagine it. The extremely brief opening allows a hint of lavender to be felt, awakening memories of Moment Supreme within me, but it doesn't manage to surface, as this first impression is already gone by then.

What then blossoms, or rather unfolds, is a predominantly rose-focused spiciness with noticeable sweetness, strong, robust, and voluminous. A sillage that could certainly sweep a few people off their feet. Clove and a smoky, pleasant note that emphasizes the dryness or slight powderiness of the fragrance dominate, yet allow the rose the necessary floral space. Musk gives it the sweetness, which is simultaneously tempered by benzoin and leather.

What a fragrance! I am torn between 1925 and 2014. I know of no current fragrance that brings the "Golden Age" to life as strongly as this one, while still fitting so well into our present time and adapting to it.

Nothing banal or pseudo-oriental about it. Etoile d'Or does not deny its European origins, but rather emphasizes them while simultaneously showing sympathy for the Orient. I enjoy every drop of this fragrance and am absolutely thrilled. Although labeled as a feminine scent, I see it as quite unisex. There may even be more men than women who want to wear it, as the powderiness is kept in check here.

The leather is soft, very light, glove-soft suede that does not impart its own scent but acts as a dampener for the clove, benzoin, and rose notes.

Rarely has a floral oriental touched me as much as Etoile d'Or!

05/01/2014

3Scent 7.5Longevity 10Sillage

Maris
110 Reviews

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Maris

3

Vanilla-Tonka Bean-Musk Mash with Oak Moss Topping

Seerose wrote that this scent is for women who like themselves. Well, I like myself and I also like to smell like myself, but I do not like this perfume at all, as it overshadows everything. Simply everything. You can’t smell anything else but this perfume. Just one spray on the back of my hand is enough for the room around me to be filled only with this scent and nothing else. One spray! Just one! Terrible. Makes you want to run away. And what does it smell like now? Like cream. Like a relatively greasy cream that unfortunately doesn’t absorb right away and has received a lot of fragrance, making it really smell like "come what may" perfumed. It is sweet and smells like an artificially imagined flower. I don’t know any real flowers that even remotely smell similar. I have never encountered them. Instead, it is a very typical standard women's cosmetic scent that I have never been able to stand. This smell has already been the reason multiple times why I didn’t buy some cream. Penetrating, I would say.
Oh, and bergamot hasn’t even crossed my path since spraying it on. That it is supposed to be in there has to be mentioned, you can’t smell it. And the supposed flowers are also unrecognizable. I definitely do not smell rose. And I have never experienced anything like this, that in a perfume with "double rose" I don’t perceive any at all. That it is supposed to be something sweet-floral, yes, that’s true.
And in the end, I am left with a powdery, synthetic vanilla-tonka bean-musk mash with a hint of oak moss. Now it starts to remind me of cleaning products and floor wax from the 70s. At least the sillage fades, so one could dare to go out of the house.
The incredibly positive reviews amaze me. Apparently, it falls into the category of either you love it or you hate it.

02/20/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Seerose
775 Reviews

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Seerose

Top Review

Leather, a second skin that hugs you

"Etoile d'Or," golden star is an ambitious name for a perfume.
According to ALzD, it is an oriental floral chypre.
I admit, I like leather scents, but I don't enjoy wearing them for long periods. However, I do like leather clothing, preferably soft light washed leather that actually becomes softer with wear and, even when washed, enriches itself with one's own scents and fragrances, thus acquiring a subtle individual skin note.
Such a scent is "Etoile d'Or." A fragrance for leather scent lovers who prefer it a bit more animalistic, who love a bit more skin scent in perfumes. Those who, let me put it this way, like themselves.
"Etoile d'Or" starts with a bitter lavender note lightly supported by bergamot. Then, a rather animalistic jasmine tries to take center stage. But the lavender does not allow that, keeping the jasmine in check so that it remains pleasant, and then an animalistic leather note emerges, scented with rose and jasmine.
The leather scent intensifies with smoke, birch tar, and the bitter oak moss. I think the moss re-tans the leather a bit more, as the leather-smoke scent becomes even stronger.
I perceive the leather scent of "Etoile d'Or" like worn washed leather clothing by a campfire. I see in my mind's eye the film sequences with the beautiful indigenous North American women in beaded washed leather dresses. For example, the Sioux woman who likes to wear it has scented herself with delicate sweet rose petal oil mixed with a bit of clove spice.
As it seems to me, the Volnay fragrances have the characteristic of quickly developing into a scent unit with various fragrance accords at the beginning.
However, as time goes on, the sequences repeat.
So it is with "Etoile d'Or."
After lavender and jasmine have subordinated themselves, it repeatedly smells of lightly animalistic-skin-like leather, which then becomes rougher and smokier, mossier, and more bitter. Then, predominantly the floral powdery accords come back. To switch again to the components of resinous, smoky, leathery, and so on.
Throughout, despite all the leatheriness, the distinct "Base 4092" accord is always noticeable: rose, unsweetened vanilla pod, and this time also perceptible clove spice.
For leather scent lovers who do not want it to be like a smoky peat bog, this fragrance is recommended. I find "Etoile d'Or," despite all its floral notes, not of the very noble kind like something from Anne Gerard's "Cuir de Nacre." I always think of Grenouille and his final perfume as soon as the leather accords dominate.
The longevity is good, the sillage not so strong and close to the body, which may enhance the allure of "Etoile d'Or."