Oblique Play Givenchy for women and men
Perfume rating 4.09 out of 5 with 384 votes
Oblique Play by Givenchy is a Floral Fruity fragrance for women and men. Oblique Play was launched in 2000. Oblique Play was created by Jean Claude Delville and Pascal Gaurin. Top notes are Lemon, Bergamot and Gardenia; middle notes are Praline, White Pepper and Rose; base notes are Sandalwood and White Musk.
Oblique Play by Givenchy is a floral fruity fragrance for women and men. Oblique Play was launched in 2000. The noses behind this fragrance are Jean-Claude Delville and Pascal Gaurin. Top notes are gardenia, bergamot and lemon; middle notes are white pepper, rose and praline; base notes are sandalwood and white musk.
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Perfume longevity:3.10 out of5.
Perfume sillage:2.37 out of4.
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6opar
Play is a thrilling citrus powdery scent that made me smile, and had me raise my eyebrows in wonder how good it is and what it actually smelt of. Where was that wonderful powdery aura coming from? I gave up and looked at the notes. Hm, is it the rose-gardenia-sandalwood mix? Mystified, and thrilled, I surrendered myself to this beauty and my smile until my lips went numb. And yes, the hot pepper helped too.
Excellent longevity and the more the Play nears its end the likelier it gets to Rewind.
****(*)
Heartswell.
This was basically my first "real" perfume where my opinion counted! I was probably around 10 or 11 and the funky bottle was impressive as the perfume itself to me: sugary, fruity and delicious. I've had this bottle for over 10 years, stashed away, because I loved it too much. The first refill bottle isn't even finished yet.
Now smelling it in 2015, it's still the same. It's a fruity/citrusy sugarbomb alright, very young and girly, but still lovely and super bright. It borders on bitter orange zest (as a reviewer noted before me), but that bitterness dips away as the brightness of the sugary citrus takes over once more.
All in all, I still enjoy it even now and I kind of wish that I bought another one back then.
guillermostf
xixixipeople I think you smell burnt sugar maybe because is an old liquid. I remember the first time when i tried it, and it was very fresh and fruty! I've an old bottle and smells like burnt orange cake.
xixixipeople
I smell it like orange zest...orange peel..and burnt sugar..my mom doesnt like the burnt sugar..it sour..buti like it..
Erinka
Was my first and favorite perfume (I believe I was 11 or 12 when I bought it). Very sweet and citrus-y from what I remembered. My mother loved it on me, and so did everyone else. I wish it wasn't limited production though. I would love to once again be able to purchase it.
NNN
Oblique Play and I have a very special relationship -
It was my very first designer perfume.
My dad gave it to me when I was 11, and, since then, I became passioned for pefumes.
If my dad had given me another perfume instead of Oblique Play, maybe I wouldn't love perfumes so much.
Thank you, Givenchy.
passionata20
This was also quite sweet, like "Rewind", but in a more subtile way. Very calm nad not screaming sweet for me. But like all the others "oblique" series parfum it didn´t last long sadly on me, so i ran quite quickly out of it.
Cassiano
It hits on the skin in a strange way, resinous, smoky. The sensation I had was of a medicinal and sweet scent. For sure, it comes from the Praline note.
It has the same style of Gaultier² and Fleur du Male, which tends more to the female than the male smell, for a long time. That “medicinal-sweet” phase only gets better after about 1 hour from its application, when it starts to become calm and more appreciable.
I liked a lot, but it is a kind of fragrance that possesses few opportunities of being worn, which makes it another “scent on a corner” among the others inside a collection.
The quality is huge, like in all Givenchy.
kastehelmi
This is a feminine scent-one of my mother's favorites, she discovered it on a stranger...A delicate combination of citrus and praline with just a hint of musk and gardenia. It's very youthful-but versatile....I can imagine an older woman wearing this scent to feel fresh and innocent....maybe not innocent, but certainly fresh. Not too sweet, not too sour. This is well-named, it's a playful one!
Poor lasting power however, and not meant for me (I don't like wearing praline perfumes 9 times out of 10)
leopoldolsn
Play smells like a candy pot, very sweet.
minousdepoes
Lucky me, i own 3 little bottles of this delicious scent. For me much better than fast forward, wich is more musculine. This scent is sweet and a little sour, very crisp and unique. I can't compare it with another scent. Lovely!!!
more floral/fruity/cypre.
Eros
Similar to "Oblique Fast Forward" (which is best of this serie). Smells fresh, like fir + caramel. Very unusual. Not aggressive. Not sweet, a bit sharp.
Unfortunatelly, the production is stopped.
NNN
Oblique Play and I have a very special relationship -
It was my very first designer perfume.
My dad gave it to me when I was 11, and, since then, I became passioned for pefumes.
If my dad had given me another perfume instead of Oblique Play, maybe I wouldn't love perfumes so much.
Thank you, Givenchy.
Cassiano
It hits on the skin in a strange way, resinous, smoky. The sensation I had was of a medicinal and sweet scent. For sure, it comes from the Praline note.
It has the same style of Gaultier² and Fleur du Male, which tends more to the female than the male smell, for a long time. That “medicinal-sweet” phase only gets better after about 1 hour from its application, when it starts to become calm and more appreciable.
I liked a lot, but it is a kind of fragrance that possesses few opportunities of being worn, which makes it another “scent on a corner” among the others inside a collection.
The quality is huge, like in all Givenchy.
Heartswell.
This was basically my first "real" perfume where my opinion counted! I was probably around 10 or 11 and the funky bottle was impressive as the perfume itself to me: sugary, fruity and delicious. I've had this bottle for over 10 years, stashed away, because I loved it too much. The first refill bottle isn't even finished yet.
Now smelling it in 2015, it's still the same. It's a fruity/citrusy sugarbomb alright, very young and girly, but still lovely and super bright. It borders on bitter orange zest (as a reviewer noted before me), but that bitterness dips away as the brightness of the sugary citrus takes over once more.
All in all, I still enjoy it even now and I kind of wish that I bought another one back then.
6opar
Play is a thrilling citrus powdery scent that made me smile, and had me raise my eyebrows in wonder how good it is and what it actually smelt of. Where was that wonderful powdery aura coming from? I gave up and looked at the notes. Hm, is it the rose-gardenia-sandalwood mix? Mystified, and thrilled, I surrendered myself to this beauty and my smile until my lips went numb. And yes, the hot pepper helped too.
Excellent longevity and the more the Play nears its end the likelier it gets to Rewind.
****(*)
leopoldolsn
Play smells like a candy pot, very sweet.
kastehelmi
This is a feminine scent-one of my mother's favorites, she discovered it on a stranger...A delicate combination of citrus and praline with just a hint of musk and gardenia. It's very youthful-but versatile....I can imagine an older woman wearing this scent to feel fresh and innocent....maybe not innocent, but certainly fresh. Not too sweet, not too sour. This is well-named, it's a playful one!
Poor lasting power however, and not meant for me (I don't like wearing praline perfumes 9 times out of 10)
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