Vintage Gardenia was released last year to celebrate the Jo Malone brand’s 10th anniversary. The fragrance notes include gardenia, tuberose, cardamom, incense, myrrh, and sandalwood.
Vintage Gardenia starts with, obviously, gardenia, but just as Chanel Gardenia starts true to its name and ends up mostly jasmine, so the Jo Malone version goes, but in this case tuberose is the main floral note. It is a big, lush, tuberose only for a very short time, after that, it is very restrained…