Nina: A candy apple just waiting to be bitten into! How to follow up on the house’s bestseller L’Air du Temps, the Nina Ricci fragrance of gentle, romantic women? The answer was to keep offering them the same dreamlike, romantic world while modernizing the fragrances
It was in 1932 that Nina Ricci founded her fashion house in the heart of Paris, embodying French elegance around the world ever since. Her secret? Crafting perfectly cut garments from the finest fabrics, giving rise to collections that were always highly feminine and refined. It was by following this very same philosophy that Nina Ricci went on to create her first perfumes. In 2006, the house gave birth to the eau de toilette Nina, a fairy-tale escape designed for women of the twenty-first century. Regarded as an olfactory fairy tale, this fragrance has won a great many devotees around the world. Here is our review of it.
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Nina, a heroine in an enchanted world
If Nina enjoys such success, it is because it is an eau de toilette with a world entirely its own. Both visually and olfactorily, Nina has the power to reveal the magic dormant in every woman. Its beauty is at once innocent, while its smile is enticing and its gaze captivating. Nina seems to draw its source from a novel beginning with once upon a time. It tells us a story, real or imagined... No matter! It is ideally designed to invite daydreaming and bring positive energy into everyday life.
Nina Ricci’s fragrance, a deliciously floral and fruity nectar
On the scent side, Nina plunges us into a true surge of gourmand indulgence. Everything begins with the vivid freshness of Calabrian lemon paired with a sharper lime. These two citrus notes make the senses sparkle and open the way to a sweeter, more gourmand note of sugared praline. This is joined by peony and candy apple. Thus, Nina takes us back to our childhood memories and evokes the delightful sensation felt when marveling at a funfair. Wonderfully romantic, this fragrance is lit up with white musk. Gradually, cedar comes in to structure the whole, giving this juice a more mysterious, enigmatic side. All the facets of femininity are thus enchantingly evoked. Nina is a fragrance meant for a dreamy city woman. Synonymous with beauty and poetry, this elixir plunges us headlong into a dreamlike world.
Nina and its iconic apple-shaped bottle
That said, it would be incomplete to talk about the fragrance Nina without mentioning its apple-shaped bottle. It draws inspiration from the forbidden fruit and suggests that this fragrance is infinitely tempting. Colored a soft pink, the Nina apple is meant to be very feminine. At its top sits a scattering of silver-lacquered leaves, for a more modern, shimmering effect. The result is a visual that condenses temptation and lightness. Do not be fooled by its apparent softness—in reality, the Nina apple holds a most powerful, fantastical force, one that has been winning women’s hearts since 2006.