Parley For Women

Parley takes on Guerlain's 1969 classic Chamade, a green floral-oriental that is a genre unto itself. It opens sharp and crystalline - aldehydes, galbanum, bergamot and a cut-grass hyacinth alongside rose and jasmine - the assertive green lift the original is famous for. The heart turns powdery and floral with lily of the valley, lilac and a whisper of clove, before a warm base of benzoin, amber, sandalwood, Peru and Tolu balsams, vetiver and vanilla rounds it into a comforting drydown. As a budget interpretation it captures the distinctive green-into-powdery-floral arc, but renders it flatter and simpler than Guerlain's layered Guerlinade, losing some of the refinement and the strange, beautiful narcissus pollen nuance. A characterful, slightly retro feminine for those who love classic green florals.