{"product_id":"frederic-malle-carnal-flower-eau-de-parfum-eng213254","title":"Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrédéric Malle Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum is one of the loudest tuberose compositions in modern perfumery, and a good part of its reputation rests on how much of the flower is actually in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominique Ropion composed it in 2005, and the construction is unusual. Eucalyptus and galbanum come first, cold and camphorous and bitter green, with melon and bergamot giving a watery brightness behind them, and that icy opening exists only to make the flower that follows feel hotter than it is. Tuberose then arrives with no restraint at all: creamy, rubbery, faintly mentholated, more like a living flower in a closed room than anything prettified. Coconut sits with it and does something clever, adding a milky skin warmth rather than a holiday sweetness. Jasmine, ylang ylang and orange blossom thicken the floral centre, and white musk and amber underneath keep it close to the body for hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eau de parfum strength it is generous. Projection in the first hour is considerable, so one or two sprays is the sensible dose, and the drydown stays legible on skin well into the next day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wears better in warm weather than its weight suggests, because the green and camphorous opening cuts through heat, and it is worn by men as well as women despite the obvious floral centre. Dinner, evenings and anywhere you are happy to be noticed suit it; a small office does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrédéric Malle founded his Paris house in 2000 and built it on a simple idea: commission a named perfumer, credit them on the bottle, and present the result as an authored work rather than as something designed by committee. Ropion, Maurice Roucel, Carlos Benaim and Annick Menardo have all worked under that arrangement, and Malle himself comes from a family long involved in perfumery. The Estee Lauder Companies bought the house in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frédéric Malle","offers":[{"title":"50ml","offer_id":53298179277127,"sku":"ENG213254","price":264.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"30ml","offer_id":54497973174599,"sku":"ENG50458808","price":202.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"100ml","offer_id":54497974026567,"sku":"ENG213255","price":374.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/aGplSTAwSEUveG9QTVNsQVlUT254SDhtb2ZjWTR0eUxvckc3dXFIdHJFZDRvUmFKMXVTK2NPbVFWVkNBQVJHMw2.jpg?v=1770557547","url":"https:\/\/thescentvault.ie\/products\/frederic-malle-carnal-flower-eau-de-parfum-eng213254","provider":"The Scent Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}