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Thespesia Grandiflora Painting

Picture of the flower Thespesia grandiflora in painted plant style with scientific accuracy

Nose: Christophe Laudamiel

notes: myrtle, pink pepper, ginger, water hyacinth, violet leaf; gardenia, rain notes, floral notes, ylang-ylang; boronia, mimosa, oakmoss, immortelle

Saskia opens with a glorious, shining white floral, which quickly goes rich and buttery with a honeyed touch.

There's a very faintly earthy-humid aura underneath the flowers, but mostly this is just pale-gold, dense, dreamy hothouse blooms.

Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel is usually known for experimental, futuristic scents that are more unusual than conventionally beautiful. But here he's playing it straight: a gorgeous white floral, which (according to Luca Turin; I wouldn't know) smells more like a real gardenia than any other perfume.

Nose: Bertrand Duchaufour

notes: jasmine, syringa, orange blossom, aldehydes, vanilla orchid, cyclamen, lily-of-the-valley, musk, incense, amber, woods, pink pepper, mandarin, sandalwood, red berries, lemon, bergamot

Queen of the Night opens as a canonical white floral: breathy, ethereal, elegant. Like many others, but they're all good in my book.

The floral has a particularly "watery" or "ozonic" quality, and within a few minutes that abstract air-and-water vibe predominates. (Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour mentions Helional and cyclamen aldehyde, chosen for their fresh, transparent effects.)

Queen of The Night is definitely an "aquatic floral", heavy on sleek synthetics and comparatively lighter on actual jasmine and orange blossom extracts. It's an aquatic floral done right, sheer and fresh but never harshly chemical. Kind of like a gentler L'Eau d'Issey. Or like the Ormonde Jayne florals, which have a similar transparent, liquid lightness.

The base is a sweet, clean floral nectar, making for a graceful soft landing.

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Saskia (eau de parfum) Grandiflora Nose: Christophe Laudamiel

Floral

From first impact to long-lingering afterglow this fragrance is the interpretive essence of the Grandiflora store itself. It reflects how it has been for Saskia Havekes, working her 25 years of floral magic surrounded by both the enduring and the ever-shifting redolence of nature’s most remarkable perfumes. The composer of this beautifully simple and intriguingly mysterious fragrance is Christophe Laudamiel. One of the world’s renowned parfumiers he brings wit and an iconoclastic intellect to the practice. He champions truth and transparency with arguably, an unsurpassed balance between its art and its science.