Givenchy
Givenchy
268 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Ripe pear flesh meets honeyed resin as the ambrette seed absolutes create an almost savory fruitiness, slightly fermented and entirely unexpected. The effect is creamy-textured despite being a top note—more akin to pear butter than fresh fruit.
The floral core emerges gradually, with orris butter coating the skin in a soft, powdery embrace whilst the rose essential cuts through with green brightness. For perhaps an hour, this remains genuinely lovely—creamy, powdered, gently sweet, with the stone fruit providing subtle contrast.
The cedar and blond woods surface from beneath, offering faint woody shadows, though the fragrance progressively dematerialises into an almost indolent musk and powder combo. By the fourth hour, you're chasing what's become a whisper.
Irrésistible Givenchy arrives as a deceptively gentle composition that belies its creamy, powder-dusted heart. The opening pear note is rendered unusually tactile by the dual ambrette seed absolutes—Ecuadorian and Peruvian varieties working in concert to create a resinous, almost honeyed quality that transforms simple stone fruit into something faintly animalic and skin-like. This is not a cheerful fruity fragrance; there's an earthy, slightly fermented undertone that signals sophistication.
The orris butter—both Moroccan and Chinese—forms the true backbone here, manifesting as a creamy, almost buttery floral mass that softens into powdery iris root. The rose essential provides a sharp, slightly green counterpoint, preventing the composition from becoming too saccharine. This marriage of orris and rose creates a distinctly feminine floral heart, though the ambrette base keeps it from reading as traditionally pretty.
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