Anais Anais
Fragrance notes
Character
Green, slightly bitter galbanum meets an armful of white flowers right at the start, lily, hyacinth and honeysuckle crowding in before the fragrance has even settled, with orange blossom and black currant adding brief sparks of sweetness underneath. It smells unmistakably like a certain era of floral perfumery, dense with flowers rather than built around one or two standouts.
Tuberose and jasmine deepen the heart, heady and dense in the way naturalistic florals from this period tend to be, while iris and carnation add a cool, slightly peppery counterpoint. The base is where things get interesting: oakmoss, leather and patchouli turn what started as a bouquet into something mossy and slightly animalic, a green, earthy floor under all that white flower.
It holds up reasonably well on skin, and the sillage stays within a small personal radius, easy to lose beyond that. Spring is clearly where it belongs, with summer a distant second and the colder seasons barely registering at all. Green notes bookend the whole experience, opening with galbanum and closing somewhere near oakmoss and vetiver, so the fragrance never fully leaves its garden origins behind, a full circle back to where it started.
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