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La Fenice Pour Femme
Almond blossom is the material that gives The Merchant of Venice La Fenice Pour Femme Eau de Parfum 100ml its particular softness, and it is a rare thing to find at the centre of a fragrance.
The opening is gentle. Hawthorn has a faintly bitter, honeyed, slightly almond scented character that sets the tone immediately, and mandarin orange brightens it with a sweet peel note rather than a sharp one. There is no citrus bite here and no attempt at freshness.
The heart is powdery and pale. Almond blossom is delicate and slightly milky, nothing like the marzipan sweetness of the nut. Heliotrope reinforces that powder with a sweet, faintly vanilla like quality, and tuberose adds the only real weight, creamy and a touch rubbery, which keeps the composition from floating away.
The close is warm and quiet. Tonka bean brings a soft, dusty sweetness, vanilla rounds it, and cedarwood draws a dry line underneath so the finish is not purely sweet. Eight materials, and it behaves like a comfort fragrance rather than a statement one. Nothing in it is difficult and nothing in it is loud.
It dates from 2016 and lasts seven to nine hours with gentle projection, sitting close to the skin after the first hour. That makes it suitable for an office, for daytime and for cold weather, when powdery fragrances are at their best. It reads as feminine, and it would suit somebody who finds most modern florals too sharp. The brand is an Italian artistic perfumery label from Venice, begun in 2013 by Marco Vidal as a cultural project, and operated by the Vidal family company Mavive, and it takes the name of the city's opera house for this one.
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