About This Scent
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Key Notes
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Pepe Rosa
- Damascus Rose
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Vaniglia
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Muschio Bianco
- Notes
- Pepe Rosa, Damascus Rose, Vaniglia, Muschio Bianco
- Longevity
- Long Lasting
- Sillage
- Strong
- Brand
- Kenzo
- Launch date
- 2000
Buying scent in a set rather than on its own has an obvious advantage when the fragrance is already familiar, and the Flower by Kenzo Gift Set is about as familiar as a modern rose gets.
Inside are the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 75ml body lotion and a 10ml spray. The formula is short: pink pepper, damascus rose, vanilla and white musk, built as a single accord rather than a pyramid. In wear that means the fragrance announces itself immediately and then holds that shape for hours, fading in volume instead of changing character. There is a certain honesty to that, and it makes the scent very easy to live with.
Pink pepper gives the first few minutes their dry sparkle and then disappears. Damascus rose follows as the body of the scent, soft and powdery, with none of the green sharpness that puts people off rose fragrance in the first place. Vanilla supplies a gentle sweetness underneath, enough to warm the flower without turning it into a dessert, and white musk smooths the edges so that the whole thing sits quietly against the skin for five or six hours.
It reads feminine, works all year round and leans towards daytime, and the person it suits best is the one who wants to smell pleasant rather than noticed. As a present it is hard to get wrong, which cannot be said of most perfume. Alberto Morillas composed it, and the brevity of the list is clearly a decision rather than a shortcut.
The house dates from 1970, when the designer Kenzo Takada set up in Paris and opened his jungle themed boutique in the Galerie Vivienne, trading on colour and pattern. Today it belongs to LVMH, which runs Kenzo Parfums as part of its own perfume business rather than handing the scents to a licensee.
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