Category: Floral Fruity

Notes: Tangerine, pear, black currant, rose, jasmine, tuberose, leather, patchouli

The Bottle: Pompous luxury in gold. This packaging rather insists upon itself, and does so without any particular flare. Harshly geometric, metallic, and dull, it even manages to exude a bit of a macho air. A bit cold, really. **

The Fragrance: Rather a sultry surprise, if one can get past the blazing, insistent tangerine that shoves immediately to the fore. Rather unusually for this scent category, the eventual dry-down is foxy and brazen, with the leather whipping the softer florals into shape. Tuberose continues to push through, softening the tangerine, which in turn is balanced out by a lightly spicy patchouli, and the warm, animalistic pulse of the leather. Excellent lasting power, but not for the faint of heart... or for those attempting to impress the in-laws. One might as well show up for Sunday brunch in a leopard-print bustier and stilettos... which, let me hasten to add, I have never done. Not even twice. ****