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Mostly creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full. Underneath that, sugary and rounded, closer to dessert than to fruit.

It opens on pear and bergamot, moves through tuberose, orange blossom and jasmine sambac, and settles on patchouli, vanilla and ambroxan.

• pear: light watery sweetness with a green crispness
• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does

It lasts well and carries into a room.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.