L'Iris Eau de Parfum

Proud owner of the last, final bottle in the Art Nouveau purple label from Libertine AUS.

(Heavily discounted: $495 to $200 something, simply because I asked on time. Imagine that!)

Excellent service, as always.

Nostalgic impression of milk-like Edwardian dusting powders topped on the earthy sepals of a lonely iris bouquet of which ripe green saps seep from its stems into the lightly fresh spicy neroli / geranium / sichuan pepper vasewater that cusps the truffle-esque (ambergris?) dusty-earthy roots of the iris bouquet. The impression is also reminiscent of cold cream that the people of yesteryear would apply to cure one's ails or brighten one's self to consume-stricken complexion.

L'Iris by Santa Maria Novella, in my opinion, is more nuanced a representation of the Belle Epoque / Art Nouveau era stylings of the time than Quatro Pizzi by Casamorati: Pizzi is not too much a gourmand in sweetness, but a waxy, androgynous tuberose amplified with coconut husk, not milk.

L'Iris by Santa Maria Novella is rich in the depth it has to offer for what it presents, even if it remains a still life of itself the whole way through. It projects from the area of ​​spritz with good distance and longevity as I was able to breathe the gentle scent of L'Iris in my afternoon excursion within the city square. There, its strength lies as a perfume.

L'Iris also brings to mind an archaic beauty from the time of which it evokes: LT Piver's Florayme (1897?), with its descriptions of it earthy orris…