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Oriana
Seven materials, three of them citrus and one of them the entire base: Parfums de Marly Oriana Eau de Parfum 75ml is a much simpler construction than the house usually attempts.
Mandarin orange, bergamot and grapefruit open together and the effect is deliberately juicy. The mandarin is sweet, the bergamot rounded, the grapefruit bitter enough to keep the three of them from turning into squash, and the first ten minutes are as bright as anything in the range. Raspberry and blackcurrant run the middle, and between them they are why this bottle sold. Raspberry is sweet and slightly jammy, blackcurrant sharper with that green, almost sulphurous bite behind its fruit, and orange blossom sits over the pair of them adding a clean white floral lift that keeps the whole thing from reading as a dessert.
Musk is the base, on its own, and that is a bold decision. It means the drydown is soft, close and skin like, with no spice, no earth and nothing dark to complicate it. What you smell on the way out is a quieter version of what you smelled going in. Hamid Merati-Kashani and Nathalie Lorson composed it together and it arrived in 2021. It is aimed at women, it suits warm weather and daytime particularly well, and it has the kind of easy sweetness that makes it an obvious first bottle from the house. Projection is good and longevity better than a composition this light suggests. Delina and Layton are the two scents that made this house, which Julien Sprecher opened in 2009. The eighteenth century dressing on the bottles is presentation and not history, and Parfums de Marly says as much itself.
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