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Fleur d'Orchidée
Orchid is a difficult thing to put in a bottle, since the flower itself has very little smell, and Karl Lagerfeld Fleur d'Orchidée Eau de Parfum 100ml gets around that by building an idea of it rather than a copy. Neroli and grapefruit open the fragrance, the neroli clean, bitter and faintly honeyed, the grapefruit sharp and pithy. It is a bright start and it does not last long. Pink pepper then arrives with a dry, rosy prickle that leads into the flowers, and jasmine supplies the heady, slightly animal sweetness that orchid cannot. The orchid itself reads as a soft, creamy, faintly powdery floral at the centre of the composition.
The base is drier than the top half would suggest. Tonka bean brings a mild, dusty sweetness, cedarwood a sharp, pencil like edge and patchouli an earthy depth, and between them they stop the flowers turning syrupy. Eight materials, a proper structure and a wear that moves from bright to powdery to dry over two or three hours. At eau de parfum strength it will see out a working day with moderate projection in the first hour and a close finish after that. It reads feminine, it is comfortable in any season and best in spring and autumn, and it is more of a daytime scent than an evening one. Emilie Coppermann is named as the perfumer, and the release is dated 2019.
Lagerfeld, KL, KL Homme, Lagerfeld Photo and Sun Moon Stars are the bottles most people picture when they hear the name of the German designer Karl Lagerfeld, who was creative director at Chloe and Fendi concurrently and took on Chanel from 1983. The label built on that name runs from Amsterdam and has its perfume made by outside licence partners.
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