Valentino Valentina Poudre

Mostly soft and dusty, somewhere between face powder and clean laundry. Underneath that, smells like food: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, bakery.

It opens on powdery notes and ambrette (musk mallow), moves through iris and tuberose, and settles on vanilla, sandalwood and tonka bean.

• ambrette (musk mallow): a plant-derived musk: soft, warm, slightly pear-like. The botanical answer to animal musk
• iris: cool and powdery with a rooty edge. Closer to makeup or clean laundry than to a flower

It lasts well and carries into a room.

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