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Wonderlust
Almond milk at the top of a fragrance is a signal, and in Michael Kors Wonderlust Eau de Parfum it tells you straight away that this is going to be soft rather than sharp. The scent came out in 2016. The opening is a strange and rather good trick. Bergamot and pink pepper do the bright, prickling work you would expect, while almond milk sits underneath them from the very first second, pale and creamy and faintly cereal like. Most perfumes take half an hour to get comfortable. This one is comfortable immediately.
The heart layers three different kinds of sweetness. Heliotrope is powdery and almondy, closer to a dusted cosmetic than to a flower. Sambac jasmine adds creamy, heady richness. Carnation is the one that gives it character, spicy and peppery and slightly dry, and it keeps the other two from blurring into one soft cloud.
Underneath, sandalwood brings its creamy smoothness, benzoin a sweet resinous warmth, and cashmeran that musky, blurred glow that holds on to fabric. The drydown is warm, powdery and very close to the skin.
Alexis Grugeon, Aurélien Guichard and Honorine Blanc are credited with it. Nine materials, moderate projection, good persistence, and it is as comfortable in a warm climate as in a cold one, which is rare for something this creamy. It suits daytime and travel and anyone who finds most florals too sharp. Two sprays is the right amount, and it holds on a scarf for days without ever turning sharp.
What began in 1981 as one designer's American label is now a luxury accessories and ready to wear business inside Capri Holdings, and the perfume carrying the name is made under licence, by a company that has not always been the same one.
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