Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Man

Goes from Johnny-on-the-Spot to James Bond circa '65, complete with smoking jacket.



The word on the strasse is that crooner and pop video lounge lizard Bryan Ferry is an Ormonde Man man. If only I could disguise myself as one of his album cover glamazons and get close enough to smell him myself.

As it happens, I have been close enough to the Bryatollah to smell his cologne, but I was so excited, any breathing, much less smelling, was temporarily suspended. This was at a Philip Treacy fashion show in London years back. As thrilled as I was to witness Kate Moss walking the runway in Philip's fantasy hats, I was beyond a-fuzzed to see Byran Ferry sitting in the front row just across from me! How perfect a scenario was that? Bryan Ferry! At a fashion show! With models! Probably shopping for his next heartbreak!

I barely waited for the final model to horse-stomp off the catwalk before I barreled across it to force myself on my art-pop hero. A mutual friend kindly introduced us. Bryan fixed his intense gaze on the middle distance somewhere beyond the top of my head.

“Ah yes,” he murmured, “I’m a distant admirer....”

At first I was pleased - had he seen a TV show I’d hosted? But then - hey, WAIT a minute! What was with this “distant” jazz? As Bryan drifted off in the swarm of flashbulbs and fabulosity, I felt a creeping humiliation. Did Bryan Ferry just diss me? Then I relaxed. Ferry was just too smooth for me to take any real offense. Face it, even the guy’s back-handed compliments are classy. Just like Ormonde Man.

Ormonde Man is available from OrmondeJayne.com starting at appx $108 for 50ml

9 comments:

  1. Video is grand. Indeed, the experience of having to "get through a bad spell" to arrive at a happy period in a fragrance...what strange calculus we sometimes put ourselves through in order to achieve scentual satisfaction.

    The story about La Ferry is even better. LOL!

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  2. "Strange Calculus" - sounds like the title of a Bryan Ferry song!

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  3. Hi Katie, love your videos and I am very fond of Ormond Jayne fragrances, although sometimes I think they all have the same smell in the end...
    signature? lack of imagination? I wonder...
    But the quality of the raw materials are explendid!

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  4. I agree that there is a certain sameyness in OJ's line, owing to a definite signature accord that asserts itself in the drydown. It's more pronounced in the woodsier scents.

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  5. I think your videos are amazing and I am linking you in my space.
    best fragrance wishes Simone

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  6. Not sure about this one Katie. I had my son by this for Father's day. I got it yesterday and still can't decide if I like it. I get some weird Keri lotion smell from it. I love oud so its not that. This one might take awhile for me to get my head around. Oh if you got to meet Bryan Ferry you are so lucky. That is one Dapper dude! Got to see him with Roxy Music a few years back, Great show!

    Cheers!

    Gojira

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  7. Gojira, what a treat to see Roxy in concert! I've heard rumblings of a reunion - would love that.

    I'm not familiar with the Keri lotion smell, but it doesn't sound like something you'd want to encounter in your fancy fragrance.

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  8. Katie,

    I have given it a fair trial and sadly it fails. I really thought I would like it after reading it's notes. But it does that funky turn that I can't handle. It probably has more to do with my love of all things Montale and not the scent itself. Instead of getting that debonair man, I get Pee Wee Herman in a movie theater.

    Cheers!

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  9. Ow! Harsh, Gojira! Well, you gave it an honest shot. You'll find many takers for Ormonde Man in eBay, though.

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