Valentino Valentina Assoluto

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

It opens on truffle, peach and bergamot, moves through madagascar vanilla, tuberose and italian jasmine, and settles on patchouli, oakmoss and cedar.

• peach: soft and sweet with a fuzzy edge, more like the skin than the juice
• 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.