Vendor: Nicolai Parfumeur Createur
Caravansérail Intense
spiced plum coffee, warm vanilla amber

bright lemon peel with green herbs, dry spice
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Think bright lemon peel with green herbs, dry spice: that is Nicolai Parfumeur Createur Cedrat Intense. It opens with citron, lemon and lemon petitgrain, moves into black pepper, chamomile and pink pepper and settles on musk, oakmoss and opoponax absolute. It reads unisex.
This eau de parfum is best in spring and summer and is a daytime scent. Reach for it for casual days. Released in 2007.
In the community's experience it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
Around $115.
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Nicolai Parfumeur Createur is the Paris niche house founded by Patricia de Nicolaï, great-granddaughter of Pierre Guerlain, from the founding Guerlain family. The identity is French classical perfumery in an independent frame. Browse 41 Nicolai Parfumeur Createur perfumes on Scendira, from roughly $63 to $761. Start with Nicolai New York Intense, Nicolai Patchouli Intense or Nicolai Fig Tea if you want what people actually talk about.
For Nicolai New York Intense (Eau de Parfum, 2014), expect zesty lemon tea with thyme, spicy and woody: lemon and bergamot up top, oakmoss, musk and styrax underneath. Nicolai Patchouli Intense (Eau de Parfum, 2009) comes across as earthy patchouli with lavender, rose and cinnamon warmth, with lavender and orange absolute at the start and patchouli, musk and amber at the base. Nicolai Fig Tea (Eau de Parfum, 2007) reads as sunny jasmine tea, minty citrus and soft woods, opening on osmanthus and orange oil and drying down to mate, guaiac wood and amber.
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It smells like bright lemon peel with green herbs, dry spice. It opens with citron, lemon and lemon petitgrain, moves into black pepper, chamomile and pink pepper and settles on musk, oakmoss and opoponax absolute.
In the community's experience it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in spring and summer. It is a daytime scent. It suits casual days.
It reads unisex.
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