Le Parfum
Six materials, one unmistakable idea, and a great deal of presence: Elie Saab Le Parfum Eau de Parfum 90ml is a short composition that behaves like a large one.
The idea behind it is white flowers at full volume. African orange blossom leads, clean and bright with a bitter edge and a warm syrupy undertone, and jasmine comes up behind it with weight and sweetness. There is no fruit and no spice in the opening at all, which is unusual for a feminine launch and is the reason this one reads as grown up rather than merely pretty. Anyone who finds white flowers too much will find this too much. Underneath, white honey thickens the sweetness, rose adds depth from below, patchouli brings earth and a damp darkness that keeps the flowers from floating, and virginia cedar supplies a dry sharp structure. That base is the reason it lasts as long as it does, and the reason the flowers never collapse into soap halfway through the afternoon.
Francis Kurkdjian composed it, and it arrived in 2011 as the very first fragrance the house released. At 90ml this is the size most people end up buying, and given the projection a bottle lasts a long time: two sprays in the evening is plenty, and the trail stays on a coat for days afterwards. A light hand is not optional with this one. It is a cold weather and evening perfume, firmly feminine, and far better suited to dinner and to occasions than to a shared office. Nobody at the next desk will thank you for it. Elie Saab is a Lebanese couture house founded in Beirut in 1982 by its then eighteen year old designer, known for gowns and bridal wear, and its fragrances are made under licence.
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