Prada · 2024

Paradoxe Virtual Flower

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Green bergamot over a clean, airy jasmine and neroli, settling onto soft musk and pear-like ambrette.

The drawn Paradoxe Virtual Flower bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Paradoxe Virtual Flower’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, bitter orange, jasmine, musk, ambrette, musk drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Paradoxe Virtual Flower, top notes: Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Paradoxe Virtual Flower, heart: Bitter orange, Jasmine, Musk

Dry-downwhat stays

Paradoxe Virtual Flower, dry-down: Musk, Ambrette

What’s inside it

What the label names

11 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 & lavender7 florals1 powder

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

Not for the smell9

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)A light stabiliserRed 33Violet 2Pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Limette 37Le Labo · shares bergamot, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), jasmine and cashmere knit$545 for 100 ml
My WayArmani · shares bergamot, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), jasmine and clean linen$174 for 90 ml · about the same as Paradoxe Virtual Flower’s $185
LibreYSL · shares bergamot, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), jasmine and cashmere knit$185 for 90 ml · about the same as Paradoxe Virtual Flower’s $185
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.