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Avant Garde(2011)
Lanvin · Shyamala Maisondieu · Woody
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Created by Shyamala Maisondieu for Lanvin, Avant Garde opens on bergamot and spices, moves through a woods heart, and closes on amber, musk, and vetiver, its title signaling a deliberately modern, forward-looking masculine composition.
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This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic — discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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Avant Garde is a fragrance from Lanvin, released in 2011 and composed by Shyamala Maisondieu. It sits in the Woody family. It opens with Bergamot and Spice, moves into a heart of Woods, and settles into a base of Amber, Musk, and Vetiver.
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