Le Labo Lys 41

Mostly creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full. Underneath that, musky and skin-like, and at higher doses closer to sweat or fur. Divides people sharply.

It opens on tuberose, jasmine and lily, moves through lily, jasmine and tuberose, and settles on madagascar vanilla, musk and woodsy notes.

• tuberose: a big creamy white flower, buttery and close to overwhelming
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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