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Indian Tuberose
Fleurs d'Oranger
Three materials repeat between the top and the middle of Serge Lutens Fleurs d'Oranger Eau de Parfum, and that repetition is the point: this is a white floral built to arrive all at once and stay put.
Orange blossom is the subject. It is clean and slightly bitter, the soap and citrus peel side of the flower rather than the honeyed side, and it is reinforced in both stages so it never thins out. Jasmine sits with it, warmer and headier, and white rose adds a cool, transparent, almost watery lift that keeps the pair from getting heavy.
Indian tuberose is the material that makes it serious. Tuberose is thick, creamy and faintly rubbery, with a green edge and an almost narcotic quality in quantity, and it gives the heart a weight the other flowers do not have. If white florals are not for you, this is where you will know. Tuberose is also the reason the scent carries so far in heat, when thinner white flowers simply disappear.
The base is quieter than the flowers suggest: amber warm and resinous, vanilla soft, musk clean, cedarwood dry, and patchouli adding a little earth beneath all of it. Expect seven hours or so, strong in the first hour and close to the skin after that. Warm weather suits it, daytime more than evening, and it reads as feminine though it is worn widely by men in hot countries. The perfumer was Christopher Sheldrake and the fragrance dates from 2003.
Serge Lutens is the house and the man. A designer, a photographer and an art director by training, he began working with Shiseido in 1980 and composed a scent for the company in 1981, and the Paris line that bears his name grew out of that arrangement.
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