Floating Piece For Women

Floating Piece chases Iceberg Twice, that easy floral-aquatic from the mid-nineties. It opens bright and a little green with bergamot, lemon and a soft peach, a whisper of basil and galbanum giving it a fresh-cut lift. The heart is a transparent bouquet - dewy lily of the valley, rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang threaded with powdery orris root - the kind of limpid floral that drifts rather than announces. The drydown settles onto a soft, slightly powdery base of musk, blonde woods, amber and a touch of oakmoss for a clean trail. Where the original is light and airy with moderate four-to-six-hour wear, this dupe renders the flowers a touch flatter and more synthetic, and gives up some of the powdery refinement of the orris, sitting closer to the skin after a couple of hours. It is still a pretty, unfussy spring-and-summer floral - a recognisable, easygoing budget stand-in for Iceberg Women, gentler in projection.