Peony & Blush Suede Cologne

Jo Malone London released Peony & Blush Suede in September 2013, in its Cologne range. The British house, born in 1994 and taken over by Estée Lauder in 1999, does not sell eaux de parfum but Colognes, made to be worn alone or in layers.

A Cologne, in the sense the house gives the word

The word here designates neither a classic eau de Cologne nor a concentration from the usual referential: it is the name Jo Malone London gives to its range of fragrances, above which it places its Cologne Intense. Peony & Blush Suede came out in two sizes, 30 and 100 ml. The house offers four today, from 9 to 100 ml, and engraves the bottle at no charge.

A perfumer the house does not credit

Jo Malone London names no perfumer on its pages. Jessica, at Now Smell This, names the author: Christine Nagel, who would lead creation at Hermès from 2014. No second independent chain repeats that attribution: the field is left empty here, and the name is given only as the reading of Now Smell This.

What the house says about it

It speaks of charm itself, of voluptuous peonies, exquisitely fragile, flirting with the sharpness of red apple and the opulence of jasmine, rose and gillyflower, joined to the sensuality of brushed suede. It ranks it among its rich and floral scents and suggests layering it with Orange Blossom.

A whole line around the fragrance

The fragrance is only one piece of it: the house extends Peony & Blush Suede into a hand and body wash, a body crème, a scented candle, a diffuser, a room spray and a refill. Such is the Jo Malone London logic, where the scent dresses the home as much as the skin.