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This Is Her! Undressed
Salt is the material that makes Zadig and Voltaire This Is Her! Undressed Eau de Parfum worth a sniff, and Sidonie Lancesseur built the 2023 composition around what it does to the flowers.
Orange blossom and ginger open it. The orange blossom is honeyed and slightly soapy, clean in the way white flowers are when they are handled lightly, and ginger beside it is dry and fizzing rather than hot, giving the top a snap that keeps the floral from going sweet.
The heart is where it earns its name. Ylang ylang is creamy, rich and a little tropical, the sort of flower that can easily become too much, and salt is the answer to that. Salt in perfumery is not seasoning. It reads as mineral, slightly damp and faintly skin like, and it hollows out the middle of the scent so the ylang ylang feels bare rather than dressed.
Musk, sandalwood and benzoin close it. Musk is clean and warm, sandalwood milky and smooth, benzoin resinous with a soft balsamic sweetness, and the three together bring the composition back to something comfortable against skin.
It is lighter than the original it sits next to in the range, and it is the one to try if the original was too warm for you. At eau de parfum strength it lasts a working day and stays reasonably close. Warm weather suits it, as do daytimes, and it reads feminine without being sugary. That is a narrower brief than it sounds.
The label is French, founded in Paris in 1997 as a ready to wear house. Its perfume is licensed rather than made in house, and the licence has been held since 2014 by Beaute Prestige International, which is part of Shiseido.
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