Nuxe has bottled the smell of its Huile Prodigieuse, the dry oil that made its fortune: Prodigieux le parfum, composed in 2012 by Serge Majoullier, who was already responsible for the scent of the oil. Citrus and orange blossom open, a bouquet of rose, gardenia and magnolia takes over, coconut milk and vanilla close on a hot sand accord.
A solar floral built on short citrus, a white bouquet and a milky base: Prodigieux le parfum owes more to its cosmetic model than to a classic perfumery floral.
What the press kit declares
Bergamot, mandarin and orange blossom open. Rose, gardenia and magnolia form the bouquet. Coconut milk and vanilla close, with a mineral accord that Nuxe calls hot sand. Osmoz publishes the same tiers.
The hot sand accord
The house makes an argument of it and names it in each of its descriptions, without ever saying what it is made of. No raw material corresponds to it and it therefore does not enter the notes retained, where coconut milk and vanilla alone hold the base.
What stays outside
Denyse Beaulieu describes an accord of tiaré, frangipani and coconut, the one from the oil, which the magnolia makes more soapy. Neither tiaré nor frangipani is declared by the house: her judgment is reported here, and the notes do not move.
What the label declares
Twenty-one entries for the 50 ml bottle, among them a bitter orange peel essence, a rose geranium flower oil, vanillin and acetyl cedrene. The list carries the formula code N2205/D; the 30 ml format carries another.