Pleasures, signed by Estée Lauder in 1995, opens with a bright green top note lifted by sweet spices. The floral heart sits alongside an anise facet, and the base brings together woods and animalic materials.
The green note, green and fresh, and freesia, bright and jasmine-like, occupy the top alongside pink pepper, spicy and sweet: the vegetal freshness sits close to the spicy sweetness.
Lily of the valley, green and fresh, peony, tender and rosy, and lilac, floral and anise-like, come together in the heart; the greenness of the lily of the valley stands apart from the tenderness of the peony.
In the base, musk, woody and animalic, cedar, evoking pencil shavings and resin, and sandalwood, velvety and warm, meet: the woodiness of the musk stands apart from the velvetiness of the sandalwood.