Valentino Valentina

Mostly creamy heady flowers like jasmine and gardenia, rich and full. Underneath that, soil and roots, like a forest floor after rain.

It opens on truffle and bergamot, moves through strawberry, jasmine and tuberose, and settles on vanille, amber and virginia cedar.

• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does
• 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 an average amount of time and sits close to the skin after the first hour.

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