Rive Gauche

Mostly fizzy and clean, the effervescent quality that makes classic perfumes smell like perfume. Underneath that, creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full.

It opens on aldehydes, green notes and honeysuckle, moves through rose, iris and ylang-ylang, and settles on oakmoss, tahitian vetiver and musk.

• aldehydes: the fizzy, soapy sparkle that makes a classic perfume smell like perfume rather than like any one ingredient
• green notes: a general greenness rather than any one leaf or herb

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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