Gentleman Reserve Privee

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Gentleman Reserve Privee

Givenchy · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 2022

≈ $97 · approx. retail

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A luxurious, boozy fragrance where a fleeting bergamot opening gives way to a whiskey accord and powdery iris paired with roasted chestnut, deepening into warm amber and wood.

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

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Perfumer

Olivier Cresp

French · 102 in collection

A Grasse-raised master perfumer at Firmenich and 2018 Fragrance Foundation Lifetime Achievement honoree, Olivier Cresp is one of the most influential noses of his generation, responsible for the genre-defining Mugler Angel and a string of bestsellers.

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Nathalie Lorson

French · 80 in collection

Born in Grasse and now a master perfumer at Firmenich (dsm-firmenich), Nathalie Lorson trained at the Roure Bertrand Dupont school and is celebrated for rich, sensual blockbusters, most famously co-creating YSL Black Opium, for which she won the 2015 Prix International du Parfum.

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