Baiser Vole Lys Rose
EDP · 2014
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Note Profile
Pink lily is a soft floral note that interprets lily with a gently sweet character. It suggests delicate pink petals, softer and less narcotic than classic white lily, with a rosy, powdery warmth and a clean, waxy freshness.
Pink Lily smells floral with a smooth, petal-like character, keeping the recognisable lily signature while muting the narcotic, indolic weight of white lilies. A green, waxy freshness runs underneath, the same quality classic lily shares. A gentle powdery warmth sits behind that, with a faint spicy touch. Overall it reads more rose-adjacent and less overwhelming than white lilies.
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
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Pink Lily is usually built as an accord, a blend of several materials, rather than made from one.
In commercial perfumery, pink lily is generally a stylised accord rather than a direct, named natural extract, built from lily-type floral molecules, ionones and other floral synthetics to evoke the idea of pink lily petals. The 'pink' designation is an olfactory and visual cue rather than a strict botanical term, inspired by pink-flowering garden lilies and used to differentiate this softer character from more intense white lilies.
Perfumers place pink lily in the heart notes, where it forms the centre of feminine or unisex floral compositions. Pink lily is used when a lily impression is desired without the heavy, indolic facets of classic lily, making it suitable for fresh, romantic bouquets.
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