Magnolia Bliss

Five materials and three tiers, which the house sums up in three names: magnolia, plum, bergamot.

Bergamot, magnolia, plum

The bergamot opens, fresh and zesty. The magnolia and the plum occupy the middle, the flower held back by a fruit that is barely gourmand. Ambroxan and musk close the whole thing, the ambery musky base the house gives as its signature.

One plum, two names

The house’s English page and Wikiparfum name mirabelle plum; the house’s French page says reine-claude, the greengage. Both are plums, one yellow, the other green.

What circulates elsewhere

Longer lists add lemon, petitgrain, ginger, nectarine, freesia, peony, vanilla and tonka bean. None of these materials is assigned a tier by the house.

What the label declares

Eighteen entries: denatured alcohol, fragrance, water, three ultraviolet filters, eleven regulated allergens — limonene, linalool, hexyl cinnamal, hydroxycitronellal, citronellol, alpha-isomethyl ionone, citral, coumarin, geraniol, cinnamyl alcohol, eugenol — and one antioxidant.