Seychelles - 472

No. 472 takes its inspiration from The White Company's Seychelles, a fragrance built around the feeling of a warm Indian Ocean breeze. The opening leans hard on coconut and bergamot, which is the right call - it's an easy, convincing match for the original's creamy-citrus first impression. The heart brings in tiare flower to stand in for the exotic floral warmth The White Company layers with green jasmine, though here it comes across simpler and less nuanced, more a single sweet floral note than a blended tropical accord. Amber and vanilla close things out, echoing the original's buttery, amber-vanilla finish, but the dupe's dry-down is noticeably lighter and shorter-lived, settling into a faint sweet musk rather than holding the original's slow, warm sillage. It's a fair, inexpensive way to capture the holiday mood of Seychelles for a casual day out, but don't expect it to project or last much beyond an afternoon.