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Elite Moonlit Silk
Saphir Elite Moonlit Silk Eau de Parfum 100ml is the classical shape of a feminine fragrance done plainly and without any attempt at novelty.
It opens on bergamot and pink pepper, which is a brisk and rather dry pairing. The bergamot is clean and bitter, the pink pepper crackles over the top of it with a light prickling sharpness, and the two of them keep the first ten minutes from being sweet. It is a short opening and it is meant to be. The heart is a proper bouquet. Jasmine is rich and white with a faintly animal warmth beneath, rose is deep and full with a green bitterness in the stem, and ylang ylang is the sweetest and fullest of the three, heady enough to tie the others together. These three flowers have been used in combination for a century because they flatter each other, and there is no reason to apologise for reaching for them again.
The base is warm and uncomplicated. Amber gives depth and a soft enveloping quality, vanilla adds straightforward sweetness, and white musk smooths the whole thing down onto the skin. Nine materials, arranged in three clean stages, with no attempt made to disguise the fact that this is a shape thousands of fragrances have used before it.
At this concentration it has the power to carry an evening, projecting for the first hour or so and then staying within reach for several more. It is aimed at women, it suits any season and it is as comfortable at a dinner as at an office. The 100ml size is the one to buy if florals of this kind are what you tend to wear anyway. Saphir is entirely Spanish owned, has made perfume since 1940 and keeps all its manufacturing in Spain.
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