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- DescriptionElegance personified.
Consider perfume a portrait of its wearer: the sound of her voice, her gaze, the way she plays cards. At once timeless and resonant with today, here is a scent that speaks of her innate sophistication. Charm that emanates from within, boldly depicted without; an expressive portrayal of modern grace.
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At the fore, an exuberant dose of Turkish rose — 400 flowers per 100ml bottle, no less. Beneath, a bed of patchouli heart imbued with sandalwood and frankincense. An accord of clove, blackcurrant and raspberry binds the perfume together for a final characterful brushstroke.
Lady, in profile. View Less - DetailsTop note: rose
Middle notes: blackcurrant; raspberry; clove
Base notes: patchouli; sandalwood; frankincense
100 ml / 3.4 fl. oz
50 ml / 1.7 fl. oz
30 ml / 1.0 fl. oz
10 ml / 0.3 fl. oz (Refill format for our iconic travel case available separately here)
Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Fragrance (Parfum), Water\Aqua\Eau, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Citronellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Cinnamal, Benzyl Benzoate, Eugenol, Linalool, Citral, Farnesol, Benzyl Alcohol
Please be aware that ingredient lists may change or vary from time to time. Please refer to the ingredient list on the product package you receive for the most up to date list of ingredients.Please be aware that ingredient lists may change or vary from time to time. Please refer to the ingredient list on the product package you receive for the most up to date list of ingredients.
"Portrait of a Lady is one of those perfumes that touch the sublime. A mixture of profound elegance and spectacular."
Frédéric Malle
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DOMINIQUE ROPION
Dominique Ropion is a daring perfectionist, a true inventor.
The risks he takes are invariably accompanied by a relentless pursuit of exact olfactory balance and flawless composition. His perfumes are like great architectural feats: in the same way that a bridge, whose seemingly miraculous suspension of weight is in fact a harnessing of counteracting forces, Dominique often balances excessive doses of powerful ingredients with meticulously-measured, subtler accords, until the composition holds up on its own.
A good perfume, he likes to say, must always appear obvious. This is master perfumer Dominique Ropion at his best: bold, inventive, yet immaculately precise. Magnetic, timeless - the portrait of a lady.
The Perfumer & Publisher
It has been thirty years since Dominique Ropion and Frédéric Malle, friends and collaborators, initiated a conversation about perfume. From this fruitful dialogue came several must-have opuses, infinitely modern classics, including Portrait Of A Lady, of course. The original sketch was ambitious: to reinvent the genus of amber perfume. They went beyond the limits of the reasonable, they dared to choose excess over restraint. Months of sketches to be faced with a masterpiece and finally compose this Portrait. The result is an unprecedented potion, almost too sublime to exist, inspiration in a bottle. They had created the perfume of all perfumes.
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