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Irrésistible Rose Velvet
Two different roses in one formula is an unusual thing to do, and it is what makes Givenchy Irrésistible Rose Velvet Eau de Parfum worth smelling even if the original already sits on your shelf.
Pink pepper starts it with a dry, rosy prickle that points straight at where the scent is going. Blackcurrant arrives tart and a little green, the berry caught before it sweetens, and neroli lifts the pair with a clean, honeyed brightness. Then the heart does its double act. The rose itself supplies the deep, jammy, recognisable petal richness, while musk rose, a lighter and far more transparent flower, opens the whole thing outwards and keeps it from sitting heavily on the chest. Patchouli is the only material underneath, earthy and faintly sweet and a touch damp, and it is what gives the scent its grip on skin.
There is not a long story to follow here. The structure makes its point inside the first fifteen minutes and then holds it, which suits a rose, since roses do not benefit from being made complicated.
In wear it is richer than the original and considerably darker than the toilette, which places it as the evening choice within the family. Expect seven or eight hours, a confident first hour, then a close rosy warmth that people have to come near you to catch properly.
Autumn and winter flatter it, and so do dinners, theatres and nights out. It is aimed at women. Anne Flipo, Fanny Bal and Dominique Ropion signed it in 2022. As for the house, it opened in Paris in 1952 under Hubert de Givenchy, belongs to LVMH, and runs its clothing and its perfumery as two quite separate concerns.
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