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Douce Amère(2000)
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Douce Amère by Serge Lutens is a unique fragrance that combines sweet and bitter notes, creating a complex and intriguing scent experience. It features a blend of licorice, orange blossom, and vanilla, among other ingredients, to produce a distinctive and alluring aroma. This perfume is notable for its innovative use of contrasting flavors to craft a rich and captivating fragrance.
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This scent's vanilla note relies on vanillin, the compound that made vanilla affordable worldwide — first synthesized in 1874.
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Douce Amère is a fragrance from Shiseido / Serge Lutens, released in 2000. It opens with Orange and Lavender, moves into a heart of Licorice and Anise, and settles into a base of Vanilla and Tonka Bean.
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