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L'Interdit
Givenchy L'Interdit Parfum is the strongest version of the house signature, and the one that treats the white flowers at its centre as the whole reason for its existence rather than a stage in a story.
Pear opens it and that is all the fruit you get, a single bright, crisp moment before the flowers arrive. When they do, they arrive in force. Orange blossom gives the clean, slightly bitter lift of a flowering tree, tuberose supplies the flesh, creamy and faintly rubbery and impossible to ignore, jasmine adds its heady, almost indolent depth, and mimosa brings something softer and quite unusual, a powdery, honeyed yellow warmth that rounds off the sharper edges of the other three. Patchouli and vetiver make the whole base, earth and root, dry and a little bitter, and they are what keep a bouquet this rich from becoming cloying.
At parfum strength the oil load is higher than in any eau de parfum, and the effect is not loudness so much as density. It sits on the skin like a weight, lasts well into the following morning on fabric, and needs one spray rather than three. Dabbed at the base of the throat it behaves better than sprayed across a jumper.
This is evening wear and cold weather wear, for women, and for anyone who already knows the L'Interdit accord and wants the undiluted form of it. The 2025 release is the most concentrated step the line has taken.
The name belongs to a Paris fashion house opened in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy, part of LVMH for years now, which runs its clothes and its perfumery as separate businesses under the same roof. L'Interdit has been the fragrance it is known for since the nineteen fifties.
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