Parfums de Marly · 2025

Valaya Exclusif

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Almond, bergamot and mandarin over orange blossom and white flowers, settling into powdery white musk, sandalwood and vanilla.

Parfums de Marly says

You’ll smell almond, bergamot, mandarin, Orange Blossom, White Flowers, White Musks, Akigalawood, sandalwood and vanilla.

More from Parfums de Marly’s description

It also mentions Powdery notes.

The house’s page

The drawn Valaya Exclusif bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Valaya Exclusif’s scent picture, a draft: almond, bergamot, mandarin, orange blossom, white flowers, white musks drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Valaya Exclusif, top notes: Almond, Bergamot, Mandarin

Heartas it settles

Valaya Exclusif, heart: Orange blossom, White flowers

Dry-downwhat stays

Valaya Exclusif, dry-down: White musks, Akigalawood (oud), Sandalwood, Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

4 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 & lavender1 sweet

Herbs & lavender1

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

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

ImpadiaBDK Parfums · shares bergamot, mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), agarwood and 2 more$290 for 100 ml · about half of Valaya Exclusif’s $430
ValayaParfums de Marly · shares bergamot, mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), clean linen and 2 more$410 for 75 ml · about the same as Valaya Exclusif’s $430
Musc RavageurFrédéric Malle · shares bergamot, mandarin, clean linen, sandalwood and 1 more$410 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.