Rue St Honore OUAI for women

It has a clean, soapy, light scent that is pleasant, but it does not last long at all. I couldn't smell it anymore within an hour of wearing it.

Lush Silky Underwear was my first and enduring thought. I like to very much. Decent longevity. Safe to wear. I didn’t expect extraordinary so this was what I expected. Much better than any Zara but still mainstream as anything.

Beautiful staying power and projection ( not too in your face, but present) / longevity on this- lasted pleasantly through a very smoky izakaya / grilling skewer dinner date. White and yellow florals with some chutzpah.

Unabashed white floral, super feminine gardenia scent. I like it! Agree with the reviews that it smells similar to Kai (although I slightly prefer Kai).

I thought this was a big tuberose scent but I am smelling the ylang I guess. It’s prominent.

It smells like the inside of a florist very similar to tocca florence but beastly performance.

It smells very green and flowery and a little sweet. It’s nice enough

Very realistic white florals. Soft and somewhat powdery. Reminded me of a gentle hand soap or lotion. Comfy, creamy and light. Sweet but not in a gourmand way. Simple nothing groundbreaking. Feminine, pretty and warm. Uncomplicated and approachable. It also reminded me of the store Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Like being suffocated by fleshy tropical flowers, in a good way! Also has a humid quality that reminds me of a hair salon. I like wearing this on hot, sultry, slow moving days.

Pretty white floral.

first scent i've ever tried that was an absolute scrubber. the scent experience is like being beaten violently over the head with a floral centerpiece from your grandmother's dining room

Slightly dirty white flower and prominent Ylang-ylang with a timid musk that can’t decide if it wants to be clean or animalic. Smells old to me, as in vintage old. An old item like a book or a coat that just stayed there collecting dust for years.......... yeah I don’t like it

creamy ylang bomb! showed this on a tester paper to my mum and she said 'Yep. That's ylang'. Mum grew up in the Philippines so she'd know, but I've never smelled real ylang so i'll try and describe Rue St Honore without saying 'ylang': it's a creamy, cloudy, waxy, almost coconutty white floral - in fact i was surprised to see this doesn't have coconut. It's just kind of heavy so I probably wouldn't wear this, but out of the four OUAI perfumes they had at my Sephora this was the best!

Bought OUAI matte pomade and was shocked by the smell of the product. Went on the website of theirs and was suprised to discover that their stuff contains different smells of the perfumes- matte pomades being Rue St Honore.
Also went on to buy the hand cream and eventually the perfume. Getting my hands on the perfume was little tricky.

Ylang-ylang and gardenia are really in harmony and suited together, but I can smell some tuberose, which is not listed in the notes. Looking forward to buying Melrose Place soon.

I read the notes before sampling this and was intrigued by everything but the ylang ylang. I love Samsara by Guerlain which does feature the note, but it’s supported by a good dose of sandalwood. This fragrance is so ylang forward and I can’t stand it. It beats all the other notes with a club and then dances on their corpses. It’s very headache inducing and entirely overdosed in this fragrance. If you like ylang, this is your scent. For me, it’s a scrubber.

It smells like tuberose and that's it. Maybe ylang ylang. Tuberose is not even in the listed notes. Is this gardenia I'm smelling?

Am I the only person here who smells lily of the valley instead of gardenia?? This reminds me so much of my first "real" perfume, Coty Muguet des Bois- it has decent staying power and sillage, too
...a real breath of fresh spring air-

This smells ok-strong gardenia scent. It's similar to Michael Kors Island 2005 blue bottle. It wasn't right for me then, and I still don't like it.

To the point, nice and soft gardenia. Nothing groundbreaking, but a really pleasant simple floral. It reminds me of a 90s bath bomb, a little nostalgic and comforting.

Rue St Honore is more of a tuberose than gardenia scent, but nonetheless it is very pretty, very pleasant… if not commonplace.

And that’s it’s main stumble: there are so many similar scents with better longevity. This perfume is in a category with very stiff competition as the market has been flooded with tuberose/gardenia scents over the last decade. There’s nothing here that separates Rue St Honore from its competition.

That said, I would not run and hide from anyone wearing it. But I would not be surprised to see this heavily discounted in the grey market—just wait a few years.

Another negative for me is that both places I sprayed this stung immediately upon application. And I don’t have sensitive skin. There’s so much alcohol in this juice that it takes several minutes for it to burn off. That’s never a good sign.

@mlleghoul best review I've ever read, you made my day, thank you! Got to sniff this ASAP.

i usually wouldn't call myself a floral girl, i like mine mixed with a bit of sweetness, a bit of warmth. but i absolutely LOVE gardenia, and everything else in this perfume now. i got a sample of this and went and bought more lol. i love this scent so much, it's so soft, with the perfect hint of flower sweetness, maybe even a bit creamy. i need a full bottle of this as soon as i get paid lol.

Love this floral, there's a note that I can't quite put my finger on. I get the honey suckle & white floral, there's a bit of sweetness that smells almost like a roll of sweet tarts (but not citrusy or sour)? Idk but it's nice

This smells like honeysuckle and indolic tuberose. It’s a no for me. A slightly rotten floral, creamy scent.

didnt like this it smelled somewhere between coconut and clean laundry?

I really love this one except it turns super harsh on my skin. There's a similar scent that lingers which reminds me of birthday candles, and on my skin it turns to something similar to that and hairspray, or a combination of bug spray and sunscreen. Ends up making me smell like summer camp. Which I like, but it's not full bottle worthy for me.

I'd love to drown myself in this, if only my skin chemistry worked with it!

A must have for Gardenia lovers, and I am one of them! This is such a realistic gardenia flower. It even embodies the faint scent of the fresh cut stems along with the slightly powdery feel of the fresh petals. I smell like a beautiful bouquet of freshly cut gardenia flowers. ❤❤❤... As an added bonus I tried layering this with Monoi body lotion by Sephora, amazing Gardenia goodness!

This is my perfect gardenia. Often times, they're too sharp, too green, too bitter, too sweet, too creamy, too overwhelmed by other notes - this is the perfect FRESH gardenia scent. The holy grail for those searching for a gardenia that smells more like the actual flower. I've tried so many gardenia scents, from low to the highest of high end. Who knew this low/mid-price scent would accomplish what so many others did not? I prepared myself to be disappointed, but am in love.
The violet and ylang-ylang add a floral-creaminess and calm down any tendency towards sharpness or bitterness. I think the ylang-ylang is doing the real heavy lifting here - my skin LOVES ylang-ylang and it will elevate almost any note to something a bit creamier. I'm not getting any muskiness on my skin.
Beautiful and natural gardenia. Love it.

Beautifully uncomplicated gardenia scent. Ever so slightly musky with thankfully no sweetness. Sits close to the skin. Doesn't last quite as long as I wish it would; about 4 hours in the summer heat. A little overpriced at $60 for 1.7 oz.

OUAI is such an approachable brand, all scents I've tried, including this one, smell modern but not edgy. No matter what the notes are, people always compliment, Ahh! Smells so nice!

Although I normally find white-floral musky scents to be very pleasant, this perfume was just... awful. I found it to be overpoweringly sickly sweet with a horrid undercurrent of decay. Smelled like rotting flowers.

On a positive note, for a more low-end perfume, I must say that the packaging is very nice and features a magnetized cap.

Rue St Honore from Ouai is giving me some real idyllic springtime wisteria-draped cottagecore Crabtree & Evelyn Gunne Sax tradwife YouTube influencer exploited by their alt-right faschy podcaster husband for their perceived domesticity, femininity and purity vibes. Is this a field of violets and daisies and gingham picnic daydream or an escapist nostalgia-trap weaponized by Neo-Nazis? Maybe I am overthinking it, but there is something about this quaint floral garden fragrance that feels wildly wrong and deeply uncomfortable and makes me desperately itchy to stage an intervention for someone.

this blend of florals create a beautiful scent that reminds me of a fresh bouquet of white flowers. i love that the notes are simple, uncomplicated. i always feel so fresh and clean after applying this perfume.

Hmmm, I can't make up my mind...I kind of like it but I'm not sure. It's much to floral for me but there is something...On me it smells mostly of a gardenia musk and it's strong so a little goes a long way. Yesterday when I got it I sprayed my right wrist and seven hours later I still could smell it. My husband loves it on me. Will keep it for now.....

Hm, I am strongly hesitating, if I like it... Or not...

I blind-bought the perfume, together with North Bondi and Melrose Place. NB and MP was of 10 ml, and Rue St. Honoré was only 50ml. It sounds so French... So I thought I can't go wrong. I use Ouai hair care products. Well, some. And I know Jen Atkin put some good smells in those products.
However, on the paper where I sprayed the perfume, nothing significant happened during the whole process of opening - heart - base. I felt a strong dislike because of that sharp green violet. I love violet as a flower, but noone seems to cope with violets in fragrances, they always mess up that note 😒. My overall impression of the perfume was - it smells like a vintage violet-powder puff, mixed with some dirty, earthy mushrooms. And some bananas and coconut. So I started to think that I have to sell the perfume somehow.

On the other hand, my Dad smelled this by chance when he was near me - I have already sprayed the fragrance on my wrists. He complimented me immediately.

For me, this perfume of the 3 ones I purchased, symbolizes the cold winter. When I sniff it, I always get the image of the elegant, shiny snow with lots of beautiful coniferous trees. I know it has tropical flowers in it 🤭, but still.

Edit:
I tested it with Jo Malone: Myrrh and Tonka. What you get is green vanilla leather. I know this sounds crazy, but that is it. And it is very interesting.

STILL. Those violets completely ruin the beauty of the white flowers. Rue St. Honoré - you leave !!!

Similar to Acqua Di Gioia Light but powdery and sweeter with the Ylang Ylang and not woody. Honeysuckle Banana Gardenia type of fragrance with a musky dry down. Great for spring and for summer nights. I find it soft and relaxing to wear for bed. I wish it came in a 100ml.

This is a creamy white floral scent. The note that sticks out to me the most is gardenia. It’s a musky, sweet gardenia scent. Perfect for summertime. Although nothing original or unique, I already own about a dozen similar scents, it’s still nice to have as I’m a huge white floral fan. The projection power is nice, it definitely radiates, still testing longevity.

I wanted to try this since so many people had voted it reminded them of Kai Kai, which I own and love. But the only thing I find that they have in common is that they contain gardenia.

Rue St Honore opens up with gardenia and ylang making it much more yellow and sweet than Kai. It stays fairly linear for an hour or so before going in to a very dry musk on my skin. It's the kind of cool dryness, like musk on a paper, that I personally don't like. I'd say the drydown is 90% musk and 10% mixed between gardenia and the coolness from violet (although I'd like to say perhaps orris root even though it's not among the notes).

Kai is compared to this scent more white florals and greener. It is also more linear and definitely the one I prefer.

You know when a fragrance just makes you feel more like yourself? Like this is how you're supposed to smell in the world? This is that for me. This is what I've been looking for since I graduated from the sweet juvenile scents I used to love. I've never found anything that's quite right, but I'm so glad I took the risk and blind bought this perfume based on the fact that it was supposed to smell like a hair oil I enjoy.
On the Sephora website, a lot of people are comparing this as an exact dupe of J.Lo glow. That was a fragrance I've worn and gone back to many times since it launched when I was in highschool. This has a similar sort of feel, but it's definitely not the same.
This is creamy, dreamy, soft, and a bit sweet to me. It smells like gardenia whipped cream, if that could ever be a thing. Where the J.Lo glow certainly smells of white flowers, it has more of a clean or soapy tone to me, where this Ouai fragrance is much more creamy, without even a hint of powderiness. I don't get a lot of violet, it's definitely white flowers for me, but in the best way. I'm in love. I feel like this is what I've been looking for my entire adult life.
Silage is moderate, I think it stays close to the body, but it's not weak. Lasting power is strong on the skin, even stronger on clothes and hair.

Agree on the similarity to Kai. Kai is maybe a little sweeter in the drydown though.

I like Ouai hair products, so I was interested to see this limited edition line of fragrances on Sephora's website. Two of them were already sold out, and of the two remaining, I decided to buy this one based on the notes. VERY happy with this blind buy. I agree with others who have said here and on the Sephora site that it smells like Kai. The ylang note distinguishes it from Kai, though. Rue St. Honore is beachy and gorgeous! I'm glad I got a bottle when I had the chance.

Definitely a strong floral fragrance. I do not get much of the violent note or much sweetness.
It's very nice though, like inhaling a garden of gardenias on a warm spring day.

Moderate sillage and moderate to longer lasting longevity.

If you love florals, especially gardenias, this is an easy blind buy. If you are looking for a sweet violet scent, I'd do a sample first.

It's definitely a less sweet gardenia. Compared to aerin's gardenia, this one seems much colder and less sweet.

clean, crisp gardenia. I spray this on myself SEVERAL times a day - the staying power is almost non existent. but it is so very fresh and pleasant - distinct similarity here to KAI.