Mandarin

Exquisite! Deep, complex beeswax-infused mandarin which manages to capture the bitterness and sharp sweetness of mandarin blossoms and juice, trailing a sweep of aromatics and warm balsamic spices. A blossoming mandarin tree is one of the most delicious, uplifting scents I've ever encountered in nature. This manages to capture that experience, although this is even better. There is a beautiful night-scented jasmine - heady and narcotic - with cinnamon leaf, a tarry depth from birch leaf and a warm sandalwood note throughout. I'm so happy to have found this masterpiece. It's one of the loveliest perfumes I've encountered. Distillation: mandarin blossom trailing a sweep of spices heady masterpiece

I mourn this scent. I fell in love with it when I was in my twenties and too poor to afford a bottle. I kept a silver sample packet of it for as long as I could even when it was empty so I could still smell it. And years later when I could afford a bottle, I found that the designer had passed away and production of this fragrance had stopped. I found a rare bottle online, but time has taken its toll and robbed it of its magnificence as it sometimes does with perfumes. I wish it was still in production, it was one of the best citrus-floral perfumes ever produced!