Paradigme Le Parfum

Prada presents this fragrance from base to top, and on Le Parfum the house names no top note at all. The reading therefore begins with the base: Peru balsam, benzoin and guaiac wood. The first is vanillic and smoky, the second a sweet resin, the third a dry, almost tarry smoke. The three move in the same direction and occupy most of the sillage.

At the heart, the vanilla is described as leathery. The nuance matters: this is not the sweet, milky vanilla of gourmand fragrances, but a vanilla drawn toward tobacco and skin, darker, which naturally pairs with the benzoin in the base. It is this note that gives the fragrance its density.

The geranium accompanies it, and it is this note that signs the line. Prada describes it as reinvented with candied floral facets, where the 2025 Eau de Parfum doubled the material to draw out a green rose. The ordinary geranium of men's perfumery is green and mentholated; this one is sweetened. Set against the leathery vanilla, it produces what the house calls a gourmand geranium.

What remains is the amplifier. Prada names Amberever the material tasked with diffusion and longevity. It does not enter the pyramid of this page, for lack of an entry in our raw materials nomenclature — but it is attested by the house, and naming it here is more honest than omitting it. A bergamot top note also circulates, on a single source: it has not been retained.