FRAGRANCE | Pierre de Lune EDP by Giorgio Armani: Beauty in tenderness and simplicity

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Pierre de Lune is one of the handful of bottles I have from the Armani Privé Haute Couture Fragrance Collection. It's a scent that espouses tenderness and simplicity in conveying its beauty. It's not one to showcase some dizzying complexity or untold projection power but is rather one that works in a quietly dignified manner. It radiates instead of blasting. At least it appears that way to me.

The scent starts with plasticky violets together with a fleeting, citric sharpness. I know violets often have a powdery trait in perfumes but on my skin, they also emit this strange, plasticky accord. It's something I instantly recognize, most recently in Marc-Antoine Barrois's Ganymede and in Aree Le Doré's Agar de Noir, the latter being a really fantastic fragrance.

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There's a mild sweetness to the scent; just a touch and never overpowering. Soon, a gentle, powdery quality develops, which I'd attribute more to iris than the violets that are still very much around, by the way. The scent is later supported by a woody base that's just as mild as the purple florals. It becomes a tad more noticeable once the plasticky character of the violets fades. 

Although with a generally moderate projection, everything feels so soft and inoffensive and settles into a nice skin scent after a few hours. It's not necessarily fresh, though, but warm and nuzzle-inviting. That said, I don't see Pierre de Lune as a warm weather frag although it could still work. It can easily be worn by either sex but by conventional standards, the scales are tipped just a little in favor of the ladies. I know sometimes it's hard to justify a frag's price if the scent appears so simple, if it doesn't wow us with a bang, but if you can get past that, you probably can see better that there is beauty indeed in simplicity.

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