Indonesian Oud
Ermenegildo Zegna · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2012
≈ $195 · 125ml · approx. retail
An oriental-woody entry in the Essenze collection that opens on the house's signature Calabrian bergamot before a rose-and-amber heart settles into a smoky agarwood base. It brought a Western-house interpretation of oud to Zegna's fragrance wardrobe in 2012.
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French · 39 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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