“It’s not easy to describe iris’ smell as such, but if you smell a fragrance without it, and then with it, you understand immediatel y what it does. It adds a creamy powderiness. It brings a physical dimension to a fragrance. I have had a long-standi ng love affair with iris. Every Escentric fragrance has an iris notesomewhere in there. To me, iris is luxury. The iris pallida abso lue I’ve used here is one of the most expensive ingredients in perfumery. You can find iris extracts for way less than that. But they do not have the great and subtle beauty of this absolue. It’s radical to put this much in a fragrance. The sillage i s fantastic. This is a bomb, but a subtle bomb.” Geza Schoen