Parfums De Marly Valaya

Mostly soft skin-like warmth, more the smell of clean skin than a scent of its own. Underneath that, bright and zesty, like fresh orange or lemon peel.

It opens on aldehydes, white peach and bergamot, moves through orange blossom, petalia and lily-of-the-valley, and settles on musk, ambroxan and akigalawood.

• aldehydes: the fizzy, soapy sparkle that makes a classic perfume smell like perfume rather than like any one ingredient
• 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.