Giorgio Armani launched the Armani Privé quartet in late 2004. It is the line’s first entry into the high end luxury fragrance market, and the perfumes have the packaging and price tag to match. According to Armani,
I wanted the perfumes to be close to the way perfumes were made in the past – just me working with perfumers to find fragrances that I believed in and liked, with no limit on the price of raw materials. (quoted in The Independent, 1/22/05)
Pierre de Lune, also known as Moonstone, features violet, green notes, cassie flower, iris and belambre, a synthetic with a woody-ambery odor. It starts, as promised, with sweet violet tinged with green notes. Once that calms, the cassie takes the stage…