Florentine Iris
Ermenegildo Zegna · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2012
≈ $195 · 125ml · approx. retail
The floral entry in the Essenze collection, built around three facets of iris layered with jasmine and violet over a clean white-musk base. The composition leans soft and powdery, a contrast to the woodier and spicier fragrances elsewhere in the line.
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French · 20 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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Frank Voelkl is a German-born, New York-based senior perfumer at Firmenich (now dsm-firmenich) who trained at ISIPCA in France. He is best known for his long collaboration with Le Labo, most famously composing the cult unisex woody musk Santal 33.
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IFF perfumer known for bold, modern compositions.
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