Nina

With L'Air du Temps, the Nina Ricci perfume house entered the very exclusive circle of great perfumers as early as the 1950s. Over the years, Nina Ricci perfumes have evolved, and while they have retained their beautiful floral scents, they increasingly seek to appeal to a rather young audience. Nina is one of those perfumes that sets out to win over young women by telling them a beautiful scented story…

A charming enchanting gourmand composition signed by perfumers Olivier Cresp and Jacques Cavallier

The story of Nina by Nina Ricci reads like a fairy tale. A modern fairy tale in which the princess seeks surprise and temptation through a fragrance that is as gourmand as it is sensual, as sparkling as it is delicately floral. The house of Nina Ricci knows particularly well how to speak to young women, and it will prove this once again with Nina, then with the darker Luna.

To compose the scents of this enchanting perfume, Nina Ricci did not hesitate to turn to two great perfumers of the moment: Olivier Cresp, master of gourmand scents, and Jacques Cavallier, a lover of delicate flowers. Together, they composed Nina with their favorite scents, in particular Olivier Cresp's famous apple. A lively, sparkling apple that cannot help but recall one of the perfumer's earlier successes: Light Blue.

As for Jacques Cavallier, he added his touch of natural flowers to the brilliant gourmand accents of Olivier Cresp. Flowers are eternal, and Nina proves it beautifully! It is difficult to launch a major feminine fragrance without flowers, all the more so since they offer an extraordinarily rich palette. What other family can claim such olfactory abundance?

Nina, when candy apple becomes velvet…

Nina could be seen as a sort of L'Air du Temps that has crossed the decades to match as closely as possible the desires of today's young women. Thus, while floral scents remain, as we have seen, timeless symbols of femininity, gourmand scents, fully in tune with this new millennium, seem essential to win over young women.

And Nina plays beautifully on this blend between very feminine, rather traditional scents and far more indulgent accords, including green apple, the true star of Nina's heart. Peonies, roses and jasmine, traditional scents that nonetheless blend wonderfully with the lovely fruity, sugary modernity of the top, heart and base.

Indeed, the two perfumers did not hesitate to dust the pretty Nina bottle with a few invigorating citrus notes right from the entrance into this fantastical journey. Then praline and red fruits wrap around the precious light of the heart's flowers. Finally, the very sweet caramel and vanilla let themselves be beautifully enveloped in the soft, delicate depths of white musk.

With its flamboyant, candy-apple-shaped bottle and its sparkling, bold, sweet notes, Nina has for a decade charmed young women who are deceptively ingenuous, graceful and spontaneous.