La Vie Est Belle Iris Absolu

Mostly cool, powdery and slightly rooty, closer to makeup than to a flower. Underneath that, juicy and ripe, like peach, berry or apple.

It opens on black currant, fig and orange blossom, moves through orange blossom and jasmine, and settles on iris, gourmand accord and patchouli.

• black currant: tart purple fruit with a green, faintly sulphurous edge. Often labelled cassis
• fig: green and milky at once: the leaf and the unripe fruit rather than the sweet dried version

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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