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Lily Of Valencia by Brandy Designs Eau de Parfum 100ml
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Fragrance Notes
The first impression, and usually the lightest part of the fragrance. These notes evaporate first, which is how a fragrance is built to open.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
The main body of the scent, emerging as the top notes fade. It shapes how the fragrance smells once it settles on skin.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Heavier molecules that evaporate slowly, like woods, musk, amber and oud. They are there from the start, and they are what remains once the rest has faded.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Product Details
TL;DR
- Gourmand floral, jasmine opening into salted caramel
- Best for: cooler weather, casual wear
Lily Of Valencia opens on jasmine alone, then moves into a salted caramel heart, sweet with a distinct savoury edge running through it. Vanilla carries the base, closing the scent on a soft, rounded gourmand note rather than a sharp or purely floral finish.
What Does Lily Of Valencia Smell Like?
Lily Of Valencia is built from a short, deliberate list of notes, and that simplicity is part of its character. It opens on jasmine by itself, without any citrus or green note to lighten it, so the first impression is a fairly rich, slightly heady floral rather than a fresh one. From there, the composition moves into a caramel and salt heart, a pairing that has become familiar in gourmand perfumery for the way the salt cuts through caramel's sweetness and stops it from feeling cloying; here it gives the middle a rounded, almost edible warmth with a savoury edge running underneath, closer to salted caramel confectionery than to a straightforward sugary accord. The base is vanilla alone, which keeps the dry-down simple and consistent with the sweetness established in the heart, rather than introducing a new direction. Because each stage is built from so few notes, the transitions are easy to follow: a single floral note gives way to a sweet-salty accord, which in turn settles into a single sweet base note, with nothing competing for attention at any stage. It reads as a deliberately pared-back structure rather than an unfinished one, letting each note carry its own section of the wear.
How Does It Develop Through the Day?
In the opening minutes, jasmine sits on its own, giving a clean but noticeably rich floral impression with no citrus or green top to soften it. As that settles, caramel and salt begin to take over, and the shift from a purely floral opening to a sweet, salted gourmand heart is one of the more distinct changes in the scent's development, since there is no overlap note bridging the two stages. This caramel-salt phase tends to last through the middle part of wear, reading as warm and comforting rather than sharp, with the salt keeping the sweetness in check rather than letting it dominate, so the middle stretch never tips into something purely sugary. Later, the vanilla base takes over fully, and the scent narrows to a single soft, sweet note close to the skin, calmer and quieter than the caramel-salt stage that preceded it. Because the whole composition rests on so few notes, the later hours read as understated rather than faded, a natural conclusion to a scent that was never built to be complex, and the vanilla itself stays soft throughout rather than deepening into anything darker or spiced.
Is It for Men or Women?
Lily Of Valencia defaults to unisex. Jasmine and a sweet, salted caramel-vanilla structure do not, on their own, require a strictly feminine reading in the way a heavier floral bouquet might, and with no vote data confirming a decisive gender lean, it is presented as wearable by anyone.
Who It's For
Lily Of Valencia suits anyone who wants a simple, sweet gourmand scent without a long, complicated note list. The jasmine opening keeps it recognisably floral, and the salted caramel and vanilla that follow make it an easy, comforting option for cooler days or casual wear.
- Brand
- Brandy Designs
- Concentration
- Eau de Parfum
- Size
- 100ml
- Barcode
- 7426968203421
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Brandy Designs is a perfume brand from the United Arab Emirates, and we're its sole South African distributor.
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