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Red Apple
Redcurrant
Modern Princess
Six materials, arranged in three clean pairs, make up Lanvin Modern Princess Eau de Parfum, and the simplicity is the appeal rather than a shortcoming. It starts on red apple, crisp and sweet and immediately recognisable, with redcurrant beside it for a tart, slightly green bite that keeps the apple from reading as confectionery. The middle is floral and brief: freesia peppery and bright, jasmine fuller and sweeter, the two of them acting as a hinge between the fruit and what follows. What follows is the part that sells it. Vanilla orchid is softer and greener than plain vanilla, sweet but with a faint fresh edge to it, and white musk gives the whole thing a laundered, close to the skin cleanliness. Together they turn a fruity opening into something warm and comfortable that stays put.
Christophe Raynaud composed it, in 2016, and the structure is easy to follow on skin from the first minute to the last, which is rarer than it sounds. Expect five or six hours of wear with modest projection, which suits the kind of fragrance this is: it is not intended to announce anything. It reads young and feminine, it works all year but is happiest in spring and autumn, and it is a safe gift, which matters for a scent at this price. Anyone who finds heavy perfume uncomfortable to wear will get on with this one immediately.
Lanvin was founded in Paris in 1889 by Jeanne Lanvin, a milliner who was making dresses within a few years, and its best known scent remains Arpege from 1927. Perfumery split off into its own firm in 1964, and the couture house came under the Chinese backed Lanvin Group in 2018.
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