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Satine
Gardenia is the reason to try Lalique Satine Eau de Parfum 50ml, and it is a creamy, almost waxy gardenia rather than a fresh cut one.
Heliotrope, gardenia and jasmine all three appear at the opening and then all three carry straight on into the heart, which tells you something about how this is built: there is no handover from one stage to the next, just a single floral idea that thickens. The gardenia is lush and buttery, jasmine adds its indolic richness, and heliotrope powders both of them down with the warm pastry sweetness it always brings. Pink pepper is the only sharp thing in the arrangement and it works as a pinch of salt would.
Sweetness follows. Vanilla and tonka bean warm the flowers from underneath, the tonka closer to marzipan left out to dry than to anything sugary, and patchouli and sandalwood give the whole a soft earthiness and a creamy depth. Vetiver appears right at the end, rooty and a little bitter, and it is the one material stopping the dry down from becoming a dessert.
Nathalie Lorson composed it in 2013. It is a rich fragrance and it wears like one: long lasting, warm, with real presence in the first couple of hours, so one or two sprays will cover an evening. It suits cool weather, it suits dressing up, and it reads clearly feminine. A 50ml bottle is the correct quantity for something this concentrated in character, since a scent like this is used sparingly whether you intend to or not.
Lalique has existed since 1888, when the jeweller Rene Lalique turned to glass and made his name with Art Nouveau and then Art Deco work. The company designed perfume bottles for other firms from 1907, took its first such commission from Coty, and only entered perfumery under its own label in 1992.
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