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Teint de Neige
Choosing between the strengths matters here, and Lorenzo Villoresi Teint de Neige Eau de Toilette is the easier of the two to live with day to day.
The composition is identical in spirit to its stronger sibling and simply arrives with rather less force behind it. Jasmine, rose and ylang ylang make a soft, blurred opening, sweet and slightly creamy, with no bright material anywhere to sharpen the edges of them. It smells less like a vase of flowers than like the memory of one. Heliotrope is the centre of the composition and the reason the bottle exists at all. It is powdery, sweet and a little medicinal, the smell of face powder and old sweet shops at once, and it is the most distinctive material in this house's entire catalogue. Tonka bean lies underneath with a dry sweetness that keeps a faint bitterness in play beneath the powder, and musk gives it warmth and keeps it close to the skin.
Six materials in all, no development to follow, and at toilette strength a gentler and considerably more manageable version of a scent that can otherwise fill a room on its own. Expect six or seven hours and a close, soft trail rather than a carrying one, which makes it usable in an office or a restaurant where the eau de parfum would simply be too much for everybody else. Dating from 2000, it suits cold weather, daytime and anybody who finds most modern perfumery too loud to enjoy. It reads unisex. Lorenzo Villoresi is an independent Italian house, in Florence since 1990, which also runs the Villoresi Museum in the city, and Teint de Neige remains the fragrance it is known for above all others.
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