Happy Heart

Clinique · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 2003

≈ $92 · 100ml · approx. retail

Cool cucumber and mandarin open onto a watery hyacinth heart with an earthy carrot-seed twist, drying down on blonde woods and sandalwood. A quieter, dewier reading of the Happy formula.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

SpringSummerDailyOffice

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

French · 48 in collection

In-house perfumer for Chanel since 2015, succeeding his father Jacques Polge. Oversees new creations and modern flankers of the house's classics.

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Christophe Laudamiel

French · 4 in collection

Christophe Laudamiel is a French master perfumer and chemist based in New York, trained at Procter & Gamble's perfumery school and seasoned at IFF alongside Carlos Benaim and Sophia Grojsman; co-founder of the DreamAir studio, he is known for avant-garde, boundary-pushing olfactory art as well as mainstream hits.

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