Muguet Blanc. Van Cleef & Arpels.

Perfumer: Antoine Maisondieu.

Countains lemon, green notes, neroli, lilial, pear, peony, jasmine, vetiver, white musk, white cedar and amber.

"Muguet Blanc" explores with the lilial, a molecule that represent lily of the valley in a softer electric nuance, a new lily of the valley, (note that I adore) in a clean, ozonic, very cold, delicate, lightl, green and pure way.
It forms part of the painfully expensive "Collection extraordinaire".

"M.B" opens clean, slightly citrusy and green, so crisp yet airy that could be a very well blended air freshener. It is clean. So clean.
This version of Muguet is the best I have ever tried. Exactly the same as the fab "Soda" from Comme des Garçons. Glorious perfection.

The floral bouquet is frosty, fragile but intense and powerful at the same time. It really amazes me the extreme coldness of the whole formula and its airy, ozonic undertone.

The drydown remains clean with musk and transparent woods.

This fragrance is intense but in a transparent- chemical way.
It's wonderfully heady and it will surround you beautifully but lifeless.
It represented to me scented images of a chemical icy softener industrial scent as the air after the rain in a garden.
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Bois d'Iris. Van Cleef & Arpels.

Perfumer: Emilie Copperman.

Notes of myrhh, iris, labdanum, driftwood, ambergris, vetiver, frankincense, vanilla and amber.

"Bois d’Iris" is one of two unisex fragrances from the Van Cleef's "Collection extraordinaire" being the other Cologne Noire.

This is without the shadow of the doubt a must try for iris fans.
Bois d’Iris would bring along the scent of wood from a totally different unexpected angle as it tries to replicate the scent of driftwood on the seashore.

It is an atypical and charming blend of woods with a vibrant, salty ambergris and iris. There's not the same "Dior Homme's" oversweet lipstick iris in here.
You will get an elegant podwery Iris note, (and I can't believe I am writting this as a formal hater of the Iris note).

It is a salty woody iris perfume.


"Dois D'Iris" starts as a citrus-like scent plus sweet-peppery iris. Nice, intoxicating, slightly hypnotic and with a lovely spicy quality.

It develops sweeter and vanillic but not overly sweet with a dry, smoky wood accent.

The dry down is powdery, but not massively feminine.
The amber melts with the salty ambergris but the main notes remaining in the juice are a glorious smoky driftwood and iris still.


Soft and even velvety, "Bois d'Iris" has a special character and is an intimate scent. Even it has a remarkable feminine floral character, It doesn’t mean men wouldn’t be able to wear it.
Be prepare to pay a large ammount of money. It's awfully expensive.
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