Nina Rose
Nina Rose Eau de Toilette is a white floral built on citrus, and it is one of the lighter and more polite things Nina Ricci makes.
Lemon and bergamot open it together, the lemon bright and simple, the bergamot bitterer and more complex, and pear sits between them with a soft, slightly grainy sweetness that stops the citrus from being austere. The middle is the best part: orange blossom, neroli and jasmine, which is three flowers from a similar part of the palette used to slightly different ends, the orange blossom honeyed, the neroli green and faintly soapy, the jasmine warmer and fuller. Musk and cedarwood finish it quietly, giving a clean, dry base that holds the flowers in place without adding weight.
It is Olivier Cresp's work and it dates from 2020. Eight materials and a conventional structure, well judged for the price, with nothing in it that needs explaining. Being an eau de toilette it is light, lasting three or four hours with a modest reach, and it is the better choice in heat, where the sweeter bottles in the range become heavy going. Daytime, spring and summer, and a wearer who wants flowers rather than confectionery. It is also a useful bottle for anybody who finds most of this line too sweet, since there is nothing dessert like in it at all. Against its siblings it is the cleanest and the least demanding.
Nothing this house has released since has eclipsed L'Air du Temps, which appeared in 1948, and that is as true of the Nina bottles as of anything else on the shelf. The company was founded in Paris in 1932, went into perfume in 1941, and has been owned by Puig since 1998.
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