Antonia

Puredistance · Parfum / Extrait · 2010

≈ $325 · 60ml · approx. retail

Antonia, released in 2010, is a floral-powdery composition by Annie Buzantian built around jasmine, ylang-ylang and orris root, cut with a green galbanum-ivy facet before drying down into vetiver and vanilla. It was long part of the Magnificent XII Collection before being replaced by Papilio in 2023 and moved to the Private Collection.

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

Annie Buzantian

American · 16 in collection

Annie Buzantian is an American master perfumer (born to an Armenian family in Romania and long based in New York) who joined Firmenich in 1972 as its first perfumer trainee and became its first female Master Perfumer in 1988. A Fragrance Foundation lifetime-achievement honoree, she is known for crisp green and floral signatures.

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