Volupté

One of my best blind buys of all time. I was expecting a pure floral blast but I love how big of a role the melon notes play. I really get the warm smooth osmanthus too. I don’t use ‘dated’ or ‘old lady’ as an insult to a scent (I was born an old soul and older has nothing to do with a scent being good or bad) but this doesn’t read as dated as I thought it might too. Warm, juicy and powerful.

this is a fantastic perfume. elegant and sophisticated. I have always sensed it as an overload on Flowers which I love. in the first woosh you can smell Mimosa, Heliotrope, Narcissus, the Melon(s), Jasmin, Carnation, the Freesia and Osmanthus. in 1992 I immediately had the soap on vacation with a girlfriend. with Amarige as perfume. they definitely were interchangeable. the given that you had Paris and New York I found smashing. and the whole 1980s tactility and presentism of these legendary perfumes. strange thing was that I found some perfumes too light. while the Rose is my flower I never liked Trésor. but I came to recognize Sophia Grojsman's genius. Eternity I found too light. Samsara never did it for me. Ysatis and Amarige too light. but now I can embrace them and discover them. bc I loved only the most vile Hookers from the 1980s. Poison, Obsession, Giorgio. Red, Bijan Beverly Hills, Fred Hayman's 273 Rodeo Drive. and Coco of course, No5 perfume. No19, Y, Ivoire for Chypres. Fruit doesn't do it for me but here I smell a clôche of Melon and it is delicious. I mark this as Oscar de la Renta's Dominican Heritage. his fashion was full of frou frou and frille with breathtaking colours. this perfume is a worthy follow-up to the 'Oscar de la Renta' perfume. Gale Hayman's Beverly Hills was the apex of all the 1980s perfumes. Knowing, Paris but never Trésor of which I had the perfume ... then Nahéma, Gem, Creed's Fleur de Bulgarie. but that vacation in Italy was lovely due to the Savon Parfumée with the Amarige to close it in. a fabulous perfume !

Shop My Shelves Project #6: Strong, golden, sweet, spicy, potent floral. It takes me to a long walk on a sunny day when the wattle bushes are smothered in yellow. Extraordinarily beautiful. Verdict: KEEP

Caught a whiff of someone who was wearing the latest version of Volupte and my, oh my, it is not a 1:1 but it smells damn good. Really, really good. Cooler days and warmer evenings are where this baby shines. It is so nostalgic: I am just getting home on a fall afternoon and the lingering scent of my mom and her girlfriends yacking it up. I sneak upstairs to steal a cigarette and the scent is still there, somewhere in my parents' bedroom.. I open up the window to the outside and I puff away, dreaming of the day when I could be so cool as to do whatever it is these cool women were doing downstairs (evening cocktails and gossip, naturally).

I've been wearing this since it was released in 1992. The current reformulation is a beautiful cousin of the original and as far as reformulations of classics go, a very good close achievement. It is currently more melon forward and less deep base notes than the original (I have a vintage bottle I use sparingly and have compared side by side) but the Grojsman accord is in full bloom and you still get all the mimosa and ylang-ylang that make it so delicious. She's big and bold and juicy. Not for people who prefer gourmands or lolliwaters. You will be noticed and remembered. Probably don't overspray on hot days. It blooms on your skin.

I have the original perfume and it is a distant cousin of Tresor, both share the distinctive Grojsman signature powder/dry quality, delicate, classy and elegant, I haven't tried the reformulation but I'm pretty sure is not good (they never are dear) I wear it whenever I wanna feel my oats.

To me this, this smells like Baby Diamond and Rubies. I love it! More powder and not as loud as D&R. Perfect for a warm fall day!

VOLUPTÉ! She is beautiful and striking, a floral-green-yellow fragrance, elegant and voluptuous, just as her name suggests. However, she is not overwhelming, but rather gentle. She has a classic-retro character, although at the same time, I find her absolutely contemporary, ideal for a stroll on a spring afternoon, and why not, in autumn too. Volupté is of an intoxicating femininity, sweet and floral, with accords of tropical and creamy fruits, juicy fruits in the purest Sophia Grosjman style. Another perfume added to the list of great works by this talented perfumer. White, yellow, and violet flowers in all their splendor! Resting on a musky base, slightly woody and creamy. Simply wonderful! ✨💐✨

Picked this one up today and have been wearing it all day and it was a successful blind buy, but of course i am a vintage perfume lover so keep that in mind. I've never smelled the actual vintage formula and would be amazing to experience it but nevertheless this version is still magical, my bottle was made in 2024. The bottle looks like a jewel or an artifact from a distant world or reality, maybe even from the garden of Eden, buried away just to be found by future civilisations to experience bliss. Edit; Does anyone get a slight Samsara vibe from this? Maybe it's the sandalwood.

You had a bubble bath and ran through the rain into a bar. You hang up your leather jacket which is now full of sweet sweat. You can smell the damp carpet.

A mature scent I'd recommend for summer nights because it's a bit heavy for day wear. An odd combination of notes - the patchouli doesn't fit the composition of an otherwise aquatic floral. This is quite well-blended, as is typical of Sophia Grojsman's work. The beginning is rather harsh and medicinal, but given some time to dry down, it gets more pleasant. I don't get the comparisons here with Trésor 1990, as there is no peach in this and no patchouli in that. Mine is a vintage parfum.

I want to like this so bad. I typically love Oscar fragrances. I also adore 90s fragrances! I actually had this back in the day. I ordered it from fragrancenet on my “lifetime of perfumes” buying spree. This does not bring back a single memory. I feel this doesn’t smell at all as I remember. Perhaps a bad bottle? I get a sharp fruit in the top, carnation in the mid and a powdery musk with a touch of incense in the base. It’s not awful, but not good either. I can’t figure it out. I may just have to get another one just to see what the problem is. This just isn’t at all what I recall from the 90s. I’ll update if I get a sniff of a different bottle. I’m convinced this one isn’t right.

I love wearing this so much, it’s gorgeous. I love the powdery and mimosa scent. It’s strong (at least at first) with even a tiny bit of product. I couldn’t pick up on the citrus notes, maybe because I’m using an older (but almost unused) bottle, but the yellow flowers are still noticeable and maybe some of the other fruits

I have the cute little vintage mini parfum of Volupté and it’s beautiful. The emerald cap caught my eye. It smelt like a tiny honeypot of pollen so I bought it. Although it’s peachy-powdery, it’s not as bold or peachy-blush-pink as Tresor as it’s more of a yellowed mimosa-peach like Poeme or Charlie Gold but with a little boozy-fruity base of Gloria Vanderbilt. The only let-down is the melon note which gives an aquatic/watery, almost metallic feel when combined with the freesia. Volupté isn’t green, I believe the green variation of Volupté is found in the reformulated modern edition. It’s actually very yellow and only greened from the rind of the melon. Volupté isn’t too vintage/mature either - yes it’s a powdery floral but with only a tiny nuance of that typical vintage boozy-amber base. The dry-down is a powdery, metallic, watery, dusty floral. It’s very nice and worth trying but I can’t vouch for the modern version.

Just a quick comparison with Trésor. Tresor on me smells like sweet rotten peaches, it really doesn't work with my chemistry. On my mum, it smells so much better. On the other hand, Volupté is warm, yellow and rich floral with nice woodsy base, which I would definitely wear during spring and enjoy it immensely. I could never wear Trésor due to respect to other'a sense of smell (and mine, too..). I'm a bit sad that all perfumes I smell are sweet gourmands, Baccarat Rouge dupes and even Chloe's. But almost no 90s florals here. It would be refreshing.

I finally found the perfume DNA in the 90s that i was looking for a long time. I purchased 20+ 90s perfume looking for this DNA and i tried Lancome Tresor but it's too peachy. When I was young in the Philippines growing up i smelt this at my foster parent's house. She own loads of perfume from Brunei and I remember I used to smell her perfume bottles. It was soo luxurious all of her perfume. Out of all this is the DNA that captured my heart. When I was 13 they sent us back in the orphanage because we're about to get adopted. I remember i was in High School in the Philippines and in the orphanage I gotten my very first allowance and it was 100 Philippines Pesos. I have to make that last for a whole month. I save up 3 months worth of this perfume from Sarah Lee catalog (Philippines version of Avon) and i bought this perfume. It smells hust like Oscar Dela Renta Volupté. A week after I gotten it one of the next neighbor orphans stole it and when I report it she broke it. She actually figure if she can't use it she'll just broke the bottle and mix it with the mop water. I have 400+ perfume now and nothing really compared to this perfume. The memory, my first hard earn money, the very first allowance, and my very first perfume. Although I didn't get the chance to enjoy it back then I can finally enjoy it now. The coincidence is that 2004 our orphanage was hosting a program where they'll send orphans kids like my siblings and I to USA to visit a family for summer. The summer we visit USA the host family took us to garage sale and I found a lotion that smells like it called Moonlight Path by Bath & Body Works and it was use. They gave us $10 and I literally spent it on that halfway use lotion. While we were here in Louisiana it has so many memory because we got adopted by the same host family. This DNA scent reminds me of so many memories of 2003-2007.

I detect the similarities with Tresor but this is slightly fruiter. Whereas with Tresor, is more floral and refined. The longevity is very good. Lasts a good 6 to 8 hours. The bottle is very beautiful with a unique twist cap.

I got this today from fragancenet and smells nothing like Tresor, it smells like a cheap strong perfume, weird not nice. I'm dissapointed

The citrus top notes have gone off, but my vintage bottle is otherwise intact. Calone, watery violets, fuzzy fruit skin, soft rose, talcum powder iris, a massive bouquet of yellow flowers, heliotrope, sweet musks, '90s amber base. The heliotrope seems to be the heart of this perfume, it asserts itself as the scent progresses. ...I can already tell this perfume is a bit too formless and sweet for my liking. For my yellow flower + amber fix, I much prefer Timeless from Avon. Volupte smells great. The drydown is dynamic and well composed. I consider this perfume impressive, especially at the relatively low prices it sells for. Grojsman famously does a lot with a little, and Nicholas Calderone is the unsung talent behind many of Lauder's orchestral fumes. Volupté shares the same basic structure as Tresor, but it doesn't have the transcendent flourishes that make Trésor such a monumentally grand, sweeping experience. ...Lancome representatives keep Tresor situated on the countertop for a reason, it's one of the most popular perfumes worldwide. If you are willing to invest a bit more, I'd steer you toward vintage YSL Paris or Trésor. Having said this, if you prefer yellow flowers, you will probably like Volupté.

This is my second review! We moved house last year and I came home from hospital with a new baby into our new home. I am still unpacking lol. I could not find my bottle of Volupte anywhere. It was annoying me greatly. Yesterday I walked into the garage and found it. Yay! When I spray it on it smells like joy in a bottle. So happy! I get yellow flowers and images of walking though fields of daffodils. It also weirdly conjures images of early 90s dancing and short skirts with leggings and waistcoats and big hair. As much I adore Tresor, Volupte suits me better. It is affordable and I think it smells rich too. It last a long time. I could still smell it on my skin in the morning after spraying it on the day before. This is a win for me and a blind buy that I've fallen in love with. I think it's a year round fragrance but especially wonderful in Spring. I am enjoying trying fragrances from the 80s and 90s. I'm not really into the newest offerings of fruity fragrances. It's interesting to observe the changes in fragrances over the decades.

Charming powdery floral. Very feminine, elegant and timeless. It is true that it is similar to Tresor, but Tresor is peachy, while Volupté is very mimosa. They share the powdery feel. Volupté is also similar to Champs-Élysées by Guerlain in the way the flowers sound, but the Guerlain is not powdery. Now, wearing Volupté on a cold though sunny November day does not affect its performance. It is a joyous powdery mimosa, with freesia, carnation, cyclamen osmanthus and a bit of incense. Possibly there is heliotrope and sandalwood. The fragrance projects well for 6 hours and feels optimistic. Mimosa dominates making the scent sunny and pollen-heavy. It is a happy flower that performs perfectly in any weather. The scent is also similar to Amouage Love Mimosa.

I'm not a fan of fruity scents, so I'm glad to say the melon note increases the opulence of this. I love big bold golden fragrances; I grew up in the 80s with the huge turn-your-head bombs, and I dress in a very dramatic way, so they still suit me now. My 1st impression of Volupté is that it's luscious, and I can imagine using it daily. It's superb value for money for those who want to create a lasting impression.

Was given this by a family member in a bag of stuff they were giving away. Tested it and me, my bf, my cat..we all hate it. Bad. Just bad. Idk if the formula went rancid, or what. But it smells like screeching unripe flowers in the worst way. Way too green for me. I get 0 melon, 0 vanilla or tuberose, 0 jasmine. Honestly half the notes don't even seem correct. It's very older woman smelling, but like cheap, poor formula with weird elderly soap and big spray gross flowers. I had to wash this off after 5 mins and I can still smell it on the back of my hand where I tested it. I'm gonna have to use rubbing alcohol on my hand or something to get this off, I'd rather smell that than this. Genuinely don't know where people get tropical, sweet or sugary notes from? I have NONE of those.

Volupte by Oscar de la Renta is a very sweet floral summery fragrance almost tropical, light and airy. Reminds me very much of the original Paris but richer and sensual. The first blast is very strong, whoosh straight up your nose but the dry down is gorgeous. Needs time to appreciate the full beauty of this fragrance. A favourite and worn by HRH Princess Margaret, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II sister. For anyone enjoying Peter Jackson Netflix Drama "The Crown" this is the fragrance she was wearing. Princess Margaret was friends with Oscar de la Renta. High quality, smells expensive but can be purchased for a very reasonable price online. Another fabulous addition to my perfume collection. I love it. ❤️

@girl1000 the funny thing is that companies don't need to comply to IFRA, they don't have any legal authority. Some companies do so in order to seem more "safe" and "clean". My personal theory I share with a few other perfumers, is that IFRA wants to copy right specific scents and formulation and sell them so that other companies need to buy their specific formula for perfumes.

I wore this in the 90s and loved it. I tried it again a few years ago, and it was unrecognizable. I’m certain it’s been reformulated. Such a shame. It was stunningly beautiful. It could also be had for a good price even back then, if you knew where to shop. I have to give de la Renta credit for ensuring his perfumes have always been accessible to everyone. I think there must more to the ubiquitous issue of reformulations than IFRA. I don’t know exactly what, perhaps supply chain is part of it, perhaps rising costs. But more and more, I feel as though globalist elites are telling us to smell like nothing and be happy, and to identify as nothing more than part of the collective Borg. Strange days.

This is lovely but this is such a mature scent. I wish you guys would have pointed that out so I wouldn't have gotten my hopes up too high. I can't wear this, it smells like something someone 20 years my senior should wear (I'm in my 30's).

I have already reviewed this perfume (spoiler alert: I love it), but for those who have one or the other, please note this is an exact dupe of tresor. I cannot tell them apart. If you have one, you don’t need the other!

The heady mimosa and melon in Volupte remind me of Champs-Elysees by Guerlain. Both have a very sunny personality!

This was gifted to me in the 90s in tropical Cairns (Australia). It was just too much... cloying with an annoying bitter note. Perhaps the mimosa turned on me in the humidity I love the smell of wattle trees so - I dunno. I just couldn't do it .. still can't