Oxygene Woman
There is a milk note in Lanvin Oxygene Woman Eau de Parfum 75ml, and it is the entire reason this fragrance is worth your attention.
Milk in perfumery is a soft, slightly sweet, faintly powdery smell, closer to warm skin or to the top of a rice pudding than to anything from a bottle, and it is rare because it is difficult to make interesting. Here it sits in the middle with gardenia and rose, the gardenia creamy and white and a little waxy, the rose soft and dusty, and the three together produce something that feels less like a bouquet than like clean bedding.
A single material sits at the top, bergamot, and its job is brief: a few minutes of bitter citrus to stop the opening from being too comfortable. At the other end, musk extends that soft skin quality and iris adds a cool, grey powderiness that gives the whole thing a slight austerity it would otherwise lack.
Six materials in all, so this behaves as a short composition and is better for it. Alberto Morillas composed it in 2000. Expect six hours or so, worn close to the skin rather than broadcast, which fits a fragrance this intimate in character. It reads feminine and quiet, it is comfortable whatever the weather, and it suits the office, sleep, convalescence and anyone who has never found a perfume that was not too much. Those who want to be noticed should look elsewhere, and those who do not will find few better options at this price.
The house was founded by the milliner Jeanne Lanvin, whose Paris hat shop opened in 1889 and who had moved into dressmaking by the 1890s. Its most famous perfume, Arpege, was made for her daughter Marguerite in 1927. Fragrance and fashion have been separate businesses since 1964, and the clothing house joined the Chinese owned Lanvin Group in 2018.
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