Portrait of a Lady EDP

With Portrait of a Lady, Frédéric Malle and perfumer Dominique Ropion mark a new stage in the great timeline of perfumery. With this immoderate rose, magnified by woody tones, amber and incense, the designers are redrawing the contours of the cypress, an olfactory family synonymous with the finest eras of 20th-century perfumery. Their play of light and shadow, their elegance and extreme refinement. From this expert craftsmanship, there emerges a splendour created to outlast time.

Portrait of a Lady is named after the novel by Henry James from the 1881. The perfume deals with rose note and spices in a new, modern way that varies between the oriental and chypre theme with patchouli, natural and intense, dominating the heart of the composition. Portrait of a Lady is a modern, elegant and unusual expression of the Victorian novel, its heroine, Isabel Archer, her fate and the quest for freedom. She smells of dark roses, mystical and intense.

Perfume concentration: EDP.

Country of origin: France.

Nose behind: Dominique Ropion.

Top notes: Rose, clove, raspberry, black currant, cinnamon, red rerries.

Heart notes: Turkish rose, patchouli, incense, sandalwood, ylang-ylang.

Base notes: Incense, sandalwood, musk, benzoin, amber, cedar, ambergris, vanilla.