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Le Parfum Lumière
Three white flowers in the heart and a warm resinous base: Elie Saab Le Parfum Lumière Eau de Parfum is the fullest and most tropical reading of the house's signature idea.
Orange blossom and ylang ylang open it together, the first clean and honeyed, the second waxy and sweet with a banana like richness, and mandarin orange keeps the start bright. Then the flowers arrive in force. Sambac jasmine is heady and night scented, tuberose dense and almost rubbery, gardenia buttery and soft, and the three of them make a heart that is unapologetically heavy. Patchouli, musk and amber finish it, earthy, skin warm and resinous in turn, holding the bouquet down rather than letting it float away. Francis Kurkdjian composed it and it was launched in 2021. This is a seven hour fragrance with serious projection in the first two, and it is a one spray perfume in a warm room. Used sparingly it is beautiful; used generously it fills a space and keeps filling it after you have left the room. Evenings and cold weather suit it best, as do occasions rather than ordinary Tuesdays, and it is wasted on a hot afternoon. It is aimed at women and belongs to the same dressed up register as the gowns the house is known for. Anyone who wears the original and wants more of everything will understand this one immediately.
Elie Saab founded that couture house in Beirut in 1982 when he was eighteen, and built it on evening wear, bridal gowns and red carpet dressing. Its perfumes are licensed out, and the Le Parfum family they produced is now large enough to cover everything from this to the lightest daytime version.
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