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Here’s the deal: The best Oribe products smell ridiculously good, leave hair silky-soft, noticeably stronger, and are worth every bit of the splurge. Our favorite formulas from the luxury hair-care brand feature ingredients you probably already recognize from your skin-care routine, and it turns out they’re just as kind to your strands as they are to your face. We’re talking heavy hitters like glycerin, vitamin E, and luxe botanical oils. Whether you’re a curly cutie, pin-straight pretty, or any texture in between, Oribe products prioritize the health of your hair—and that’s a statement we stand behind.
Our Top Oribe Products
After countless hours of combing (ha) through and testing Oribe’s extensive lineup, we’ve compiled the end-all-be-all list of the best Oribe hair products to level up your hair-care routine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Best Overall: Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil
Why it’s worth it: Do us a favor and don’t say you’re anti-hair oil until you’ve tried the Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil. It’s light, restorative, protective, and hydrates like a charm, complete with a fantastic scent. Its formula reveals your hair’s shine and sleekness, even on the driest and most damaged days. The Côte D’azur fragrance (the brand’s signature) features notes of Calabrian bergamot, white butterfly jasmine, and sandalwood, creating a perfectly indulgent and luxurious vibe. All it takes is a few drops. And, of course, it’s a Best of Beauty winner. You can use the Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil on wet or dry hair, but we love how it scents damp hair right out of the shower.
“Oribe’s Gold Lust Hair Oil might be a splurge, but it’s absolutely worth it—it leaves my hair soft, shiny, and healthy, and the scent is unreal—think a high-end salon on the Upper East Side. Every time someone hugs me, they ask what perfume I’m wearing, and I get to say, “It’s just my hair oil!”
Key ingredients: Sandalwood extract, amur cork tree bark extract, barley extract, argan oil, jasmine oil, Oribe Signature Complex (watermelon, lychee, edelweiss flower)
Fragrance: Côte d’Azur
Best Leave-In: Supershine Moisturizing Cream
Why it’s worth it: Oribe’s Supershine Moisturizing Cream is the kind of leave-in that makes us immediately feel like we’ve boosted our hair-care routines. Not only does this formula tame frizzy hair, seal split ends, and work as a pseudo hair gloss, but it also protects against heat up to 450°F. Whether you pair it with heat-styling or just a good old-fashioned air-dry, your hair is going to emerge shinier than you found it. A soy protein biopolymer helps with frizz control while vitamin-rich moringa seed oil boosts shine and vibrancy for beautiful color.
“I have positively fried my hair with the addiction I have to blow-dry brushes, but this leave-in and heat protectant does an amazing job at letting me get away with it. I was curious to try this product after it was expert-recommended in another Allure story for damaged hair, and when I realized it was made for medium-to-thick and long hair, I was sold. My hair is thick, curly, and is currently past my shoulders, so I really spend time with my styling tools. I use this product when my hair is damp and before I apply heat since it offers up to 450-degree protection, along with another heat protectant (something like the Color Wow Dream Coat or the Oribe Balm D’Or Heat Styling Shield). It gives me volumized blowouts from the root and healthy bounce in the ends.
After styling, I use it to smooth down flyaways at my crown and restore moisture and shine to the ends. It’s not so greasy that I can’t apply it to my roots, and it’s a lightweight cream, so it doesn’t weigh down my fresh blowouts either. I also absolutely love that it smooths my cuticles out since, well, all of them are split.”
Key ingredients: soy protein biopolymer, moringa seed oil, Oribe Signature Complex
Fragrance: Côte d’Azur
Best Mousse: Grandiose Hair Plumping Mousse
Why it’s worth it: Body-boosting, fluffy-foamed, and never-crunchy, Oribe’s Grandiose Hair-Plumping Mousse is an editor favorite. The brand describes each pump of the mousse as a “pouf,” which we find to be quite accurate, given the product’s lightweight nature. (It won’t weigh down even fine hair.) You can expect bigger, better, and softer hair with every application, plus heat protection and strand repair. It works best when paired with heat, so bust out the blow-dryer and let the panthenol, glycerin, vitamin E, polymers, and Oribe Signature Complex get to work.
Tester feedback from contributing commerce editor Deanna Pai
“My fine yet wavy hair tends to get flat at the crown, so when I need a little more oomph, I go for this mousse, layering it on after leave-in conditioner. It has just the right amount of volumizing and definition to add some lift and shape my curls, respectively, but doesn’t feel crunchy—even when I layer it on for extra hold.”
Key ingredients: panthenol, glycerin, vitamin E, polymers, Oribe Signature Complex
Fragrance: Côte d’Azur
Best Hairspray: Superfine Strong Hairspray
Why it’s worth it: It’s not every day you meet a hairspray that actually adds shine instead of a cloudy, aerosol cast, which is why we love Oribe’s Superfine Strong Hold Hairspray. Doubling as a light hair perfume, this hairspray keeps styles in place while softening and strengthening with pro-vitamin B5, and imparting heat protection in the form of hydrolyzed wheat protein. Even though the whole operation feels lightweight, the hold is serious, which we can always get behind.
“As the name says, the nozzle of this sleek can dispenses a featherweight, fine mist of hairspray that makes distributing it evenly across my waves a breeze. I use it to keep my heat-styled waves bouncy and intact without any crunchiness or stickiness.”
Key ingredients: pro-vitamin B5, hydrolyzed wheat protein, Oribe signature complex
Fragrance: Côte d’Azur
Best Tool: Italian Resin Flat Brush
Why it’s worth it: It isn’t every day we drop $100 on a hairbrush, but as evidenced by its 2023 Best of Beauty Award seal, the Oribe Italian Resin Flat Brush is worth the dough. This stunner is made of boar bristles, rounded nylon pins, a 97% natural rubber cushion, and a custom-designed Italian resin handle that will look like a movie prop on your vanity. The result? Smooth, shiny hair without your usual breakage while detangling. For the best results, clean the brush regularly. Do so by carefully rinsing the brush, shaking it to remove excess water, and letting it air-dry.
“If you have ultralong hair that’s prone to frizz, this is your new secret weapon. After blow-drying and curling my hair on wash days, I give my ends a few swipes with the Oribe Italian Resin Flat Brush to brush out my curls before hitting them with a finishing spray. Be careful to not tug too tight or your curls will morph into very loose waves. Between washes, I use it to help tame my flyaways by giving the bristles a spritz or two of a flexible hairspray and brushing just at my roots.”
Material: boar bristles, Italian resin, rounded nylon pins
Best Shampoo: Gold Lust Repair & Restore Shampoo
Why it’s worth it: Gentle, nourishing, and all kinds of decadent, Oribe’s Gold Lust Repair & Restore Shampoo is a keeper (and a re-purchaser). Infused with hair-loving ingredients like biotin, plant collagen, caffeine, and niacinamide, and fragranced with the brand’s signature scent: Cote D’azur. The shampoo penetrates the hair cuticle, strengthening from the root down, adding up to healthier, shinier, and more resilient strands. It pairs beautifully with the Gold Lust Repair & Restore Conditioner.
“Before I tried the Gold Lust Shampoo, I was scared the scent would be too strong. (The bottle is pretty dramatic looking—can you blame me?) But all it took was one wash to assuage my fears. This stuff smells amazing, feels lightweight post-shower, and leaves my hair feeling legit so soft. In the shower, it smells stronger than it is after drying off, so if you’re overpowered at first, just know that the scent will fade just the right amount. “
Key ingredients: biotin, plant collagen, caffeine, niacinamide
Fragrance: Côte D’azur
More Oribe products to consider
- Blondes on the hunt for a Best of Beauty-winning toner, look no further than the Oribe Bright Blonde Radiance & Repair Treatment. This brassiness-buster includes a mélange of coconut, olive, and watermelon seed oils as well as shea butter and lavender extract. It works in 60 seconds, and the results speak for themselves.
- For curly hair types who want a bit of extra nourishment and shape, grab a jar of Oribe’s Curl Gelée For Shine & Definition. In addition to defining curls, you’ll get a hydrating dose of butters (murumu, mango, cocoa) and oils (macadamia seed, apricot) to nourish and soften, adding a sweet bounce to your ‘do.
- Top off your style with luxury, lasting hold with the Oribe Thick Dry Finishing Spray. “If you’re after that bombshell, straight-from-the-salon blowout, this finishing spray is a must-have for thin hair because it gives you instant volume the second you put it on,” says hairstylist Katelyn Ellsworth, founder of The Roslyn in San Diego. “Don’t even get me started on the scent—it’s the best, just like every Oribe product.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet the experts
- Katelyn Ellsworth, hairstylist and founder of The Roslyn based in San Diego
How we test and review products
We always enlist a range of testers for our makeup vertical, but hair-care products and tools are another story. While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind. Many are created in order to address a concern (dandruff, breakage, brittleness) or to work most effectively for a specific hair type (4C curls, wavy hair, gray hair). You wouldn’t want to pick up a purple shampoo that’s only been reviewed by someone with, say, auburn hair, or a diffuser that’s never been tested by anyone with curls—right?
For our review of the best Oribe products, we enlisted the help of multiple editors, writers, contributors, and hair experts—many of whom want shinier, healthier-looking hair. Testers considered performance across four primary categories: efficacy, texture and experience, fragrance, and packaging. For more on what’s involved in our reporting, check out our complete reviews process and methodology page.
Our staff and testers
A beauty product is a personal purchase. You might be searching for a face cream to address persistent dryness or a new nail product to add to your Sunday self-care routine; you may simply be browsing around for the latest launches to hit the hair market. No matter what you seek or your individual needs and concerns, Allure wants to ensure that you love anything we recommend in our stories. We believe that having a diverse team of writers and editors—in addition to the wide range of outside testers and industry experts we regularly call upon—is essential to reaching that goal.
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