M de Bourbon (1997)
by Marina de Bourbon

Marina is a bourgeois who married into the house of Bourbon-Parma in 1960. Sort of like this fragrance, which is aristocratic on the outside and very petit-bourgeois inside, i.e.: the cardboard box is the best thing about this product, it's quite stylish and sets the tone for a luxury fragrance. The perfume however is a rather quotidian affair, and more late 80s than late 90s really. It's a quite synthetic citrus-aromatic wood with dark smoky-green notes and some tobacco. With a little more budget it could have been a nice one, but as it is, it oozes plastic-imitiation royal kitsch rather than true nobility.

28th June, 2009.