Romance
Ralph Lauren · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 1998
≈ $95 · 100ml · approx. retail
A romantic floral by Harry Fremont built on rose, freesia and lily over a musky, mossy woody base. It won the Fragrance Foundation Fragrance of the Year award for women's prestige in 1999 and remains one of Ralph Lauren's best-known women's pillars.
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French · 15 in collection
Harry Fremont is a French master perfumer at Firmenich, born in Cannes and trained at ISIPCA, who received The Fragrance Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. With hundreds of fragrances to his name, he co-created Calvin Klein's genre-defining CK One and composed the bestselling Ralph Lauren Romance.
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