Gold

Puredistance · Parfum / Extrait · 2019

≈ $325 · 60ml · approx. retail

Gold, created by Antoine Lie and launched in 2019, is an oriental-chypre with a spiced citrus opening leading into a labdanum-cinnamon heart and a dark, resinous base of myrrh, styrax, vanilla and castoreum. It was later succeeded within the Magnificent XII Collection and moved to the Private Collection.

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

Perfumer

Antoine Lie

French · 27 in collection

Antoine Lie is a French perfumer, born in Strasbourg, who spent nearly three decades at Givaudan, IFF, and Takasago before going independent in 2018 to found ALOE in Paris. He is equally at home with commercial blockbusters and provocative avant-garde niche creations.

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