Fragrance Notes
Profound Orange Wood
Nathalie Lorson built Angel Schlesser Profound Orange Wood Eau de Toilette out of three materials, released it in 2020, and made no attempt to hide how few of them there are.
Bitter orange is the first and the loudest. It is the peel rather than the fruit, sharp and faintly medicinal, with none of the sweetness of the eating fruit. Petitgrain comes from the same tree but a different part of it, the twigs and leaves, and it is greener, drier and closer to the branch, so the two of them together read as one material seen from two angles. Patchouli is the counterweight, earthy and dark, with that damp cellar quality that keeps citrus from floating off. On skin the three of them stay in balance rather than taking turns. Three materials make a short composition, and this one behaves accordingly. There is very little arc to follow. The citrus loses a little of its bite after twenty minutes and the patchouli grows more obvious as it does, but that is the extent of the change, and anyone hoping to track a scent through a whole day will find this too simple. Anyone who wants a clean, bitter, slightly dirty citrus they can put on without ceremony will find it exactly right.
The light concentration keeps it close. Reckon on three or four hours before it needs refreshing, and treat it as a daytime scent for warm weather. It reads unisex and leans dry rather than sweet.
Behind it is a Madrid fashion label whose reputation rests on simplicity and clean lines, a founding member of ACME, the Spanish designers' body, and a regular on the Pasarela Cibeles schedule since 1988. Its fragrance arm began in 1999.
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