Montale Paris Orchid Powder

Mostly sugary and rounded, closer to dessert than to fruit. Underneath that, sunny honeyed flowers like mimosa and ylang-ylang.

It opens on calabrian mandarin, coconut and orchid, moves through coconut, orchid and white flowers, and settles on coconut and sugar.

• coconut: creamy and sweet, with a suncream quality
• orchid: soft and lightly creamy. More an idea than a smell, since most orchids barely scent at all, so what you smell is a perfumer's invention

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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