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Fragrance notes
Character
Orange blossom and cactus flower open 212 on something bright and a touch green, and within minutes it widens into a genuinely large bouquet: lily, freesia, gardenia, jasmine, lily-of-the-valley, white camelia, rose and peony all crowd into the heart at once. Musk and sandalwood at the base give all that abundance a soft, powdery finish, smoothing the many flowers into a single whole rather than a garden left unweeded.
Mandarin orange threads brightness through the middle, and bergamot keeps the earliest minutes light before the white florals take over completely. This suits daytime settings that call for something polished, an office, a lunch meeting, somewhere you want to feel put together without smelling loud.
Longevity runs a fair, unremarkable course, holding through a normal stretch of activity. The sillage is a soft, close circle, caught by whoever stands beside you at a shared counter, not by anyone further off. The sheer number of notes here could easily have turned muddled, and it is a credit to the composition that it reads as one bouquet, not ten competing ones fighting for space.
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