Mandarine Mandarin was launched by Serge Lutens last year; like most of the line, it was created in collaboration with perfumer Christopher Sheldrake. The notes include Chinese orange, nutmeg, clove, candied mandarin, orange peel, smoky tea, rock rose, labdanum, tonka bean, musk and ambergris.
Out of the last handful of releases from Serge Lutens, there has only been one I’ve been really dying to own, and that is the much maligned Miel de Bois. The rest (Borneo 1834, Cedre, Gris Clair, Chypre Rouge), well, it isn’t that I didn’t like them (ok, I didn’t like Borneo at all) so much as that I didn’t adore them enough to want a bottle. They have all been interesting, mind you, I just don’t adore any of them.
Mandarine Mandarin, happily or not (my wallet is certainly pleased) falls into that category…
