Valentino feminine from 2026, due to Dominique Ropion and Andrew Everett. Sources disagree on the architecture: the house's product page places tuberose in the top notes, its press release puts it in the heart, and Fragrantica opens on blood orange. All three, however, carry the same materials, tuberose, blood orange and sandalwood in the base. Floral gourmand woody for the house, oriental floral for Fragrantica.
Vendetta Donna rests on three named materials, and on an extraction process that the house foregrounds as much as the materials themselves. Dominique Ropion signs the formula with Andrew Everett.
A flower captured without being picked
The tuberose comes from Colombia and is not extracted in the usual sense of the term. Valentino and its parent company, L'Oréal, present it under the name Osmobloom: a so-called air-capture technology analyzes the molecules that the living flower exhales, without cutting it, to render its scent as it diffuses in the field. The launch press release states that the process targets the moment when the flower opens, at dawn.
Ropion has detailed his intention. Behind the whiteness and the sun-kissed accents, the flower carries, in his view, an ultra-narcotic character; he says he sought to amplify its milky tonalities, its skin-like texture and its depth, without taking anything away from the sun-kissed facet.
A nectar rather than a zest
The second pillar is not a citrus note in the sense of the classic pyramid, but a nectar accord drawn from Tarocco Rosso, an Italian red-pulp variety. The house describes it as sweet and syrupy, closer to concentrated juice than to peel.
Two French pages add a salty facet that the house mentions nowhere. Both could trace back to the same press kit, and this page does not retain the facet.
The wood, and the flowers left unnamed
Sandalwood anchors the composition. It is described as creamy and enveloping, tasked with anchoring the drydown in a depth the house wants intimate.
The launch communications also mention white flowers around the tuberose. None is named. For lack of an identifiable species, the pyramid does not carry one, just as with the woods in the masculine.
Three architectures for the same three materials
This is where the sources stop agreeing, and the divergence runs through the house's own communications.
Its official product page opens on tuberose, gives the blood orange accord for the heart and leaves sandalwood in the base. The press release of July 13, 2026, by contrast, places tuberose at the heart of the composition. Fragrantica, for its part, opens on blood orange, keeps tuberose at the center and sandalwood to finish.
All three versions carry exactly the same materials: it is not the formula that diverges, it is the way of telling it. This page follows the product page, the only one of the three to state a complete, tiered pyramid, and reports the other two readings here rather than suppressing either.
A French retailer, moreover, attributes to Valentino an order that Valentino publishes nowhere, giving blood orange as the opening note in the house's name. Copying a brand does not make a source; getting it wrong while copying it makes one even less.
Floral, gourmand, woody, or oriental
The house sums up its signature in three words: floral gourmand woody. Fragrantica ranks it among oriental florals. This page carries the floral family, with gourmand and woody as secondary families, which are the two axes the house itself declares.