Gentlewoman

$125.00

Gentlewoman opens with bergamot and raspberry alongside iris, the fruit giving the composition's powdery beginning a tartness that keeps it from going purely retro. Romano Ricci's construction here is deliberately feminine but without the softness that word usually implies: the iris has an austere quality, the rose is present more as depth than fragrance, and ambrette in the base gives the composition a skin-like naturalness rather than a synthetic sweetness. Gentle and composed. The woman the name implies.

Why We Carry This

Gentlewoman demonstrates that iris can be handled with restraint rather than opulence and still produce something worth wearing. The ambrette base is an interesting choice, its musky naturalness giving the iris-rose heart a skin quality that sandalwood and cedar alone would not provide. Quietly accomplished.