Muguet D'Orsay
D'Orsay

A sweet, aldehydeic but not cloying floral, neither indolic like jasmine nor piercing like tuberose, but rather sitting somewhere between the two. It seems at once light in tone and heavy (or humid) in texture. It would be somewhat disingenuous to call this a soliflore, since muguet in perfumery is entirely synthetic. Without a reference, I have no idea how close this is to actual lily of the valley. In any case, it's pleasant in the abstract, but not really the sort of thing I would want to wear beyond the realm of exploration.

NOTE: Launched in 1923.