Since it's Chinese New Year and all, I decided to wear Serge Lutens's Mandarine Mandarin for my night out last night. Mandarine Mandarin was launched by Serge Lutens in 2006; like most of the Palais Royale Exclusives, it was created in collaboration with perfumer Christopher Sheldrake. The notes include Chinese orange, nutmeg, clove, candied mandarin orange peel, smoky tea, rock rose, labdanum, tonka bean, musk and ambergris: As the name suggests, self-consciously oriental. It opens on citrus, and for an instant is sparkling and juicy. And then, the citrus darkens into something more honeyed (think orange candy or crystallized peel, not fresh juice) and we move into an ambery liquer of spiced florals with a wisp of smoky tea running through the center. It sort of implodes with a dark sweetness, just the thing to wear on a sultry night. When others think fresh, I think indolic tuberose. I wore this with a navy silk shirt, dark jeans and brown plaited leather Hermes sandals.
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ReplyDeletedingo is possessed :P and you can become a perfumer if your nose can do all that deconstruction of ingredients. or a dog.
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