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Vanilla OrchidFlora Gorgeous Orchid
Two materials, and both of them vanilla: Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid Eau de Parfum is the simplest thing in the Flora range by a wide margin, and whether that is a virtue depends entirely on how much you like vanilla.
Vanilla leads, and it is the sweet, creamy, familiar reading of the material rather than the smoky or boozy kind. Vanilla orchid sits behind it and shifts the picture slightly: the orchid is the plant the pod comes from, and in perfumery it is used to suggest the flower rather than the cured bean, which means something greener, lighter and a little more floral than vanilla alone. The gap between the two is where the whole fragrance lives.
That makes it a short composition and it should be judged as one. There is no development, no top that burns off, no base that arrives later. You smell it, you know within a minute whether you want it, and it stays broadly that way until it fades. For a lot of buyers that is exactly right, and for anyone who enjoys following a scent through an evening it will feel thin.
In wear it sits close rather than projecting, which is unusual for a sweet eau de parfum and makes it easier to wear to work than its sweetness suggests. Six hours or so is typical. It is pitched at women, it is comfortable all year, and it comes into its own in cold weather when sweet materials hold better on the skin. Marie Salamagne is the perfumer.
Gucci has been a Florentine name since 1921, when Guccio Gucci began with luggage and trunks before the house expanded into equestrian pieces, loafers and clothing. Kering owns it today, and Gucci fragrance has always been made under licence.
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