Parfums de Marly · 2021 · Hamid Merati-Kashani and Nathalie Lorson

Oriana

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Mandarin, lemon and grapefruit over orange blossom and whipped cream, melting into marshmallow, praline and soft white musks.

Parfums de Marly says

You’ll smell mandarin, lemon, grapefruit, Orange Blossom, jasmine, chantilly, marshmallow, Ambrox, praline and White Musks.

More from Parfums de Marly’s description

It also mentions Italian bergamot, Orange blossom flower, Blackcurrant, Ambrette, Musk, Chantilly cream and Raspberry.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Oriana’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, lemon, grapefruit, orange blossom, jasmine, spun sugar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Oriana, top notes: Mandarin, Lemon, Grapefruit, Bergamot, Blackcurrant

Heartas it settles

Oriana, heart: Orange blossom, Jasmine, Chantilly, Chantilly cream, Raspberry

Dry-downwhat stays

Oriana, dry-down: Spun sugar, Cetalox (ambergris), Praline, White musks, Ambrette, Musk, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 powder

3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Paradoxe Virtual FlowerPrada · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), jasmine, clean linen, bergamot and 2 more$185 for 90 ml · about a third of Oriana’s $410
LibreYSL · shares mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), jasmine, ambergris and 2 more$185 for 90 ml · about a third of Oriana’s $410
Mediterranean HoneysuckleAERIN · shares mandarin, grapefruit, jasmine, ambergris and 2 more$35 for 50 ml · about a tenth of Oriana’s $410
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.